Originally Posted by
yimke
If you are going to do this route, especially with the chinese/koreans, get your time in as fast as possible and get out. Work 6 days a week. Some people have no clue what they are getting themselves into with the foreign market.
It's definitely not "that" bad. I would say that it's not a job for someone with a short fuse. It requires a lot of patience, but I ended up really liking most of the Chinese students I worked with.
After a few years of teaching them I did start to feel burnt out though. I never got that feeling with American students.