I currently work at Topia in Jukjeon. There are many campuses, so judging them all by a review of a single campus isn't very accurate. Don't forget, there are corporate-owned Topias and privately-owned Topias. The corporate ones are focused in Seoul, so if you work at one outside of Seoul/Gyeonggi-do, most likely you work for someone who just bought the name. I work at a corporate-sponsored campus in Jukjeon.

First, Topia books your plane ticket for about 10 days before you start teaching. The first week you're here you'll have corporate training at the main branch in Gangnam. The training sucks, plain and simple. The people at my campus laugh at it and every semester plead with them not to waste our new teachers' time with it. Very boring, but you gotta go, whatever.

I teach at the Jukjeon campus in Yongin-si. It started January 2009, and I started March 2009. As of the summer of 2009 it is still the newest Topia campus. The area is nice and growing. Because we are a larger campus, we can be somewhat picky with who we allow to attend, so the quality of our students is higher, at least from what I hear from my friends.

We have 5 different levels of abilities, from phonics to mastery, and three different age-groups within that, between 3rd grade to 6th grade. Other campuses differ with the age groups, but the ability levels remain the same.

The leaders at my campus are all very concerned with the students and our quality of teaching, which is nice. However, I feel I rarely get praised, and when I make a mistake they tell me. They are usually good about telling me in a decent enough way, but a little praise would go a long way.

Because we usually teach for 6.5 hours straight, they sometimes provide us with a meal that we can quickly eat on our 15 and 5 minute breaks.

Contracts are usually for 30 teaching hours/week, but they try to give you between 26-28 so you can have some breaks throughout the week, to make it easier.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd definitely work at Topia again, even with their warts. I'm not likely to get a better working situation, and there are lots worse.

There's lots of stuff I could say, but it's only about my campus, and it'll all change in a few years when the leadership has changed, I'm sure. Just remember, taking everything you read (including mine) with a grain of salt.