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Originally Posted by CoronaOrCoors
Hello everyone. I am currectly living in the U.S. and married to a Korean woman. We are thinking of making a move to Seoul in about 1 year from now. Anybody here have experience with private English language tutoring and building a customer base.I hear private tutors make ~50usd/hr. It would be a great side hustle to do like 10-15hrs per week along with some PLO cash Speaking of PLO, I can just download the clients and start playing right away? How do deposits/withdrawals/taxes on gambling work there?
Tutoring is possible but it's not easy. It's not like the late 90s where any white face could command $50 an hour. Do you have a uni degree? Do you have experience? Do you actually know how to teach? is your class worth $50 an hour? It's not like you're going to step of the plane and people will just start throwing money at you. I know some people that build up good schedules of private tutoring classes and make decent money but they are good at what they do, the work ****ing hard, and they hustle.
There's also a large element of luck involved. You might find one student who recommends you to all their friends and you might quickly build a network. Or you might have to struggle and claw and advertise multiple times just to get a single student that quits after a month and leads to nothing.
Is your wife Korean a Korean citizen? if so you can get an F6 spousal visa which makes it legal for you to work anywhere (most people on work visas are restricted to working in a single work place) which gives you some advantage. You can make your own ads and post them around apartment buildings or I've heard there may be some aps you can use but I don't know what they are.
But basically if you don't have an exceptional skill set or an exceptional work ethic I wouldn't count on making money this way. It should be pretty easy to get part-time work teaching kids in an academy but here you should be expecting pay more in the $20-$25 range (and I see advertised jobs offering much less).
As for online poker it's what Stars calls a "grey market". Deposit/withdrawal from a Korean bank is next to impossible so your best bets are Crypto or Skrill. Gambling is illegal here so, no tax and you probably don't want to brag to much about your online winnings. That said Stars and other sites do operate here (although Party doesn't).
There are also casinos open to foreign passport holders that have poker rooms, as well as underground Korean games that seem to go through waves of strong illegality to mild illegality. At the moment we seem to be going through a period of mild illegality with rooms operating quite openly but masquerading as non-cash gambling businesses.