During the time I worked at this hagwon, there was a period when they were short of teachers. One of the hagwons teachers happened to be in a bar one night where he ran into a teacher who was willing to teach there for a time. While we worked together, I got to know this person a little and found out they didn't have a degree, and were living in Korea on a tourist visa. Hiring a teacher living in Korea on a tourist visa was illegal.
On another occasion one teacher returned home for a while due to a family emergency. The hagwon had one of their former teachers who was working elsewhere cover for this teacher. Working at more than one job on a teaching visa was illegal, at least it was then. Neither of these fill-in teachers were of Korean descent. At that time teachers born in Korea could get a different visa which allowed employment at any number of jobs.
In addition to this, during my period of employment I worked with some young Korean-American and Korean-Canadian teachers. None of them had yet finished their degrees. There was even one, maybe two teachers who had never enrolled in college. And another had dropped out as I recall. One of them couldn't speak English fluently.
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