Best piece of advice I can give to any teacher in Korea or coming to Korea is to avoid hagwons altogether. If you do work for a hagwon check out a position the same way you'd check out a used car.
If you have time to look for a job, take more time and look for public schools jobs. If you can't start one right away and must wait until the start of the new semester or school year, consider doing that.
I know of a couple who finished two years of teaching in public schools. They taught only about four classes a day, and over the two years they managed to work out about four months vacation. They likely requested to not have winter camp, and to use vacation time at the end so they could leave earlier.
School or university teachers sometimes experience "horror stories" at work but it's a lot less often than hagwon teachers. Black lists and blogs of bad times teaching in Korea may become a thing of the past.
It's a little sad to post this. Hagwons could be so much better than they are. If they were well managed and had certain standards to follow, it would mean a lot.
