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  •  Date of update:2020-03-23

Foreign Employee Qualification

Foreigners shall meet the following qualifications:

1.Be 20 (twenty) years old or above.

2.Be graduated from colleges or above. If foreigners have not obtained bachelor‘s degrees, they shall have qualification certificates for language teaching.

3.The language to be taught by the foreign teacher is the official language used in the country specified in the passport of the teacher.

4.Their weekly working hours in teaching-related work shall be no less than 14 (fourteen) hours. When the foreigner is hired by 2 (two) and more employers, their weekly working hours in teaching-related work for each of the employers shall not be less than 6 (six) hours. Their total weekly working hours in teaching-related work shall not exceed 32 (thirty-two) hours.

※Foreigners related laws and regulations refers to the Article 42 in the “Qualifications and Criteria Standards for foreigners undertaking the jobs specified under Article 46.1.1 to 46.1.6 of the Employment Service Act.”