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DB I agree with your Plan - Teachers Discussion
I have advised a lot of people to do what you suggest, going over to Korea on a tourist visa and then looking around for prospects. This does not work in some Arabic countries as they do not offer tourist visas. They just started in Kuwait last year. The other reason why our advise is dismissed is that most new ESL teachers want something they feel is certain, a fixed address. They are terrified of flying into a country, like China or Korea, speaking none of the language and looking for a cheap place to stay and looking for a school. That's daunting.
The second part about coming on a tourist visa is that you still have to leave the country to get the work visa. In Korea you just take the short trip to Japan but this too to has to be paid and you enter another foreign language, Japanese. Daunting again.
No, we are not obliged to stay with a school that provides very poor or deceptive living conditions even if they do pay for the flight. Consider the contract broken.
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