By Christie Belfiore
If someone had told me a year ago that I would be residing and teaching in a small residential town in South Korea, I would have told them they were mistaken.
Having previously worked at an educational magazine, I’ve read about many international teaching experiences, but they mainly focussed on teaching and classroom topics, not the day-to-day details of living and working abroad. Now having completed one month of teaching at a private English-immersion “Hogwon” (Korean for a private for-profit academy), I’d like to share practical, real-world, words of wisdom that I wish were given to me when I decided to uproot my life and deposit it in South Korea for a year.


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