Requirements to teach in South Korea require native English speakers to have a Bachelor Degree and TESOL Certificate. One benefit to teaching in South Korea, is it’s the world’s first country to bring high-speed fiber-optic broadband internet access to every primary and secondary school nation-wide, and has the fastest Internet download speeds in the world. Using this infrastructure, the country has developed Digital Textbooks, which will be distributed for free to every primary and secondary school nation-wide by 2013.
Full time teacher openings in South Korea usually provide a salary of 1.9-2.5m won per month, visa sponsorship, airfare, housing, health insurance, and paid vacations.