Pros
Flat provided was decent Teaching Colleagues were fantastic people and very supportive Area of Mokdong is nice
Cons
The management is rather draconian but also extremely disorganised at the same time, your lessons will change at the last minute or even part way through a lesson yet you can be chastised for not being prepared enough for your lessons. Communication is poorly set up and it all has to go through a messenger group chat which just adds to the chaos. The entire logistics of the company is once again, chaotic, few back ups of things exist so if something goes missing or if something goes wrong, all hell breaks loose and occassionally you will have to take the blame even if it is not really your own fault. I have been called at home out of working hours with management yelling and verbally abusing me down the phone, only to be made to come into work out of hours to be yelled at once again for a problem that was caused by poor logistics, this issue was solved within 10 minutes anyway so it is not uncommon for mountains to be made out of molehills. Management is somewhat Orwellian, if you displease management in any way (which is surprisingly easy to do) then you have a black mark next to your name and you are placed under heavy scrutiny due to the fact that management plays favourites a lot which is not constructive to a teaching environment. Any small slip up you make is then seen as a huge transgression, however what the management needs to realise is that placing teachers under such stress and pressure will in fact cause more mistakes to happen rather than prevent them. The management seems to be more concerned with image of the company rather than the education of the students, this is why there are a few 4-5 star reviews up here, I am 100% certain these are reviews that some employees have been forced to write as they definitely do not reflect what happens in the day to day life at WILS. One review seems to imply that we are being unfair, but I think asking to be treated with some basic decency is not an unfair thing to ask for. Teaching in Korea is no small task at any institution, it can no doubt be very grueling, but WILS language school definitely accuentuates this issue. A lot of the teachers are constantly very stressed and incredibly demotivated, which is a huge shame as they are incredibly talented and also lovely people. Continuing on from the opening statement of my previous point, there were oppurtunities where I could speak with parents and let them know what I wanted to do or try in the classroom to benefit their child's learning but I was heavily discouraged from this. I also felt that sometimes the welfare of the children are not considered, one of my private students clearly suffered from autism yet before I was given classes with the child I was told he just had adhd and 'behavioural problems'. Despite the fact I have a little bit of experience of working with children with special needs, my suggestions were ignored and also criticised. Instead of adjusting his classes to suit his learning needs better, the management's solution was instead to make me pile more and more work on him. In my opinion this is borderline child abuse and is quite upsetting to be privy to. Payment is highly unreliable, if you are on the salaried contract, you are worked like a slave that does not reflect the work you put in, the hourly contract attempts to give you as few teaching hours as possible yet you are expected to be around all day which leads to very poor wages. To anyone who thinks that this is the norm for teaching in Korean hagwons, it is definitely not the case. When I was trying to acquire my final wages the management launched into a very aggressive tirade against me and even slammed the door on my body. It capped off a rather unpleasant experience all round at WILS.