Can you teach English in south korea if you have a Dutch passport?

I have a question, I was born in Holland but I have lived in Ireland since I was two but my partents never applied for Irish citizenship, my native language is English but I have read somewhere that you can't teach English if you dont have a passport from an English speaking country is this true? As I would really love to go over to South korea and teach English. 3 of my friends have gone over already and are loving it and I would love to join them please help

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The correct answer is no. Only citizens (passport holders) of native English speaking countries are eligible. Which are listed as U.K, Ireland, U.S.A, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

However, I have known several Dutch, Swedish and Danish people who have been teaching here over the years. Whether they had another type of visa (which I don't know much about) or were teaching here illegally I can't say.

Ironically I also met a Filippino teaching English at a university, and although her English was good, she certainly wasn't a native speaker, but still held a job legally. I guess she either held a passport from one of the above or maybe married to a Korean.

I guess there is no chance of you getting an Irish passport? Probably a lengthy and difficult process if Ireland is anything like the U.K.

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There is more to this than the reply mentioned above.  First off, can you teach English with your current status?  Sure, if you have a University degree and someone offers to hire you.  HOWEVER, in order to obtain an E2 visa (for English teachers) from immigration, you'd have to be a passport holding citizen of one of the nations listed by Elske.

So in conclusion, yes you can teach but you aren't going to able to obtain an E2 visa.  But if you were to find a way to obtain a residential status of sojourn (ie spouse of Korean national, foreign investor, Korean heritage, etc.) then you could teach or do whatever you want.

I realize this may be nitpicking, but I wanted to provide some accuracy for the original poster. 

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I could be wrong about this, but isn't the official language of Holland English now. I thought the government had changed it to English. Not trying to be funny. I could have sworn that I read that somewhere , unless it was an April Fool's joke. Must have been, it's still Dutch, and English is second. Hmmmm!

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Michaelldee? What you say is correct, but is it legal?

I know there is a working holiday visa available here (H1), I was also once granted a C-4 Visa (temporary working visa) as I was working a camp after my current E-2 ended and didn't have a new sponsor. But, a quick look on the Internet indicates it's for those involved in the 'arts', so they either changed the rules or made an exception in my case.

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It seems like I have seen more than one case of someone here from Eastern Europe teaching English. 

Yesterday I did meet someone in the subway here from France but teaching French.  So remember there is a demand for other languages it is just not as great as it is for English, but look around and you may find that as well.

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As others have said, you can't legally teach English here. You might find some hogwons that are willing to hire you, especially if you lie about your nationality, but it would be completely under the table. I've met non-native English speakers who did that. Some of them did it for years.

You CAN get a teaching job in Taiwan, with a visa. They aren't so picky about who they give a visa to.

 

 

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Can't you work for EPIK if you have a foreign passport if you've had seven or more consecutive years in education (including university) in one of the seven English speaking countries? Or is that route only open for Koreans that have studied overseas?

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I have a slightly different question. (I hope its relevant to this string of posts). I've been doing some preliminary research on teaching English in Korea and I came across one website where I found this answer in their FAQs: 

"I was born in France (Italy, Norway, Taiwan, etc.) but I speak excellent English. Will I have trouble finding a job?

Sorry to say that it doesn't matter how good your English is, if you don't at least have a passport from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, or South Africa, you're out of luck."

My situation is this: I am a native english speaker. (Native speaker is defined as one's first language) In fact English is the only language I can speak flunetly, even though I've studied German and French. I am a US citizen. I grew up in Chicago and just recently moved to LA. However, in my passport the country of birth is listed as Czechoslovakia since I was born there while my father was serving at the US embassy. I've spent maybe 6 months at most in that country before my family moved back to the US. Now, you can imagine that that questions made me worry a bit. Will this be a problem in getting a job in Korea?