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Top ’90s Supermodels – Supermodels List
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“Enter the Era of Elegance,” read the cover line of Harper’s BAZAAR‘s September 1992 issue, and it was models who represented this credo. From ’80s powerhouses like Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Cindy Crawford to newcomers like Kate Moss, Alek Wek, and Jenny Shimizu, these diverse beauties superseded the close, esoteric confines, stepping off the runway and onto the global stage.
A quote from Evangelista describes their ascendancy best. “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day,” she famously quipped in 1990. Ahead, we’ve rounded up the top names that made bank, attracted headlines, and fully exemplified ’90s supermodels with a capital S.
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Undereye Fillers
Inspite of her general youthful look, new mom Nicole Gist could not very shake her snooze-deprived look. So immediately after consulting a couple of pals, she booked an appointment for undereye filler. “You can feel a material getting injected, but the procedure by itself is not distressing,” suggests Gist, who had only slight swelling publish-course of action. “After a handful of times, I seemed as if I had been acquiring the eight hrs of snooze that I could never ever get again.”
Judging from the latest uptick in noninvasive eye treatment plans, Gist is not the only a single sensation (and hunting) a small much more snooze-deprived in the COVID-19 period. “Tear trough fillers have been on the increase in my business,” suggests Michelle German, a board-licensed physician assistant dependent in Washington, DC. Undereye fillers, generally made of hyaluronic acid, develop volume beneath the lower lids to lower hollows and dim circles. Juvéderm, which has been made use of off-label to deal with the undereye space for yrs, is up for Food and drug administration acceptance for the tear trough, which would make it the initial filler in the U.S. with that designation.
The treatment sounds cringe-y (and the world-wide-web provides a rabbit gap of video clips not for the faint of coronary heart, but it’s not as complicated as it may well appear at 1st glance. Most injectors begin with numbing cream, then use a cannula procedure that calls for only a single puncture web-site.
The cannula—a blunt, ultrathin tube—glides by means of the skin, eradicating the require for numerous needle pricks. It is inserted over the cheekbone and guided from just beneath the tear duct together the crescent beneath the eye, with filler distributed along the way, points out Brooklyn-based mostly oculofacial plastic surgeon Chaneve Jeanniton, MD. When the gel-like material is pushed in, people might really feel a uninteresting strain. As for any telltale signals, “Bruises are unusual with this procedure,” Jeanniton suggests. Limit liquor for two times ahead of and after remedy, she advises, and keep away from exercising for two times and facials for two months afterward. Results past 9 to 12 months or far more.
Movie star make-up artist and American Splendor Star mentor Sir John begun acquiring undereye filler four a long time in the past and suggests the effects are match-shifting. It’s now a frequent element of his natural beauty routine (charges array from $750 to $3,000, dependent on the amount of money of filler and the injector). His advice? Trust your doctor. “Listen, you never want to skimp on your face,” he says. “Don’t Groupon something, and spend a lot more funds on undertaking a lot less.”
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The Best Fashion Newsletters For Every Kind of Reader
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I have long maintained that the worst thing you can do to me is send me an email. But lately, I’ve had to revise that stance to “maybe some emails are good.” Between Molly Young’s books newsletter Read Like the Wind, Hunter Harris’s fun-sized pop culture musings in Hung Up, and Delia Cai’s media dispatches in Deez Links, my inbox feels like it hasn’t since the mid-2000’s—something I actually want to dive into because it might contain a missive from a friend. (I still have friends. They just text me now.)
And of late, there’s been a welcome influx of fashion in my inbox to go along with the existing fiction recommendations, close readings of Haim lyrics, and dose of media gossip. First up is Blackbird Spyplane, from journalist Jonah Weiner and Apple talent scout Erin Wylie, which has scored interviews with human grails from Lorde to Jerry Seinfeld to Phoebe Bridgers and bills itself as ground zero for “‘unbeatable recon’ on dope under-the-radar joints.” Then there’s writer Kitty Guo’s Worn In, Worn Out (“Cool & Conscious Curations from a Gen Z Shopaholic.”) Writer, digital creator, and co-founder of 2BG Consulting Chrissy Rutherford’s Fwd Joy, which doles out astrological wisdom along with coverage of books and mental health, plus occasional fashion and beauty recommendations. Fashion scholar Kimberly Jenkins’s Fashion and Race newsletter, an accessible look at fashion history through a decolonized lens. Writer and model Inês Fressynet’s Slow Fashion Weekly, which promises to “wean you off fast fashion for good.” And GQ staff writer Rachel Tashjian’s Opulent Tips newsletter isn’t in my inbox (it’s invite-only, and I’m still waiting on my invite [taps watch]) but I regularly see tantalizing screenshots of it on other people’s Instagram stories.
Call it nostalgia for fashion blogs, the fact that super-long Instagram captions won’t scratch the itch, or simply burnout from the constant flow of sameness online. But it feels like a looser, bloggier era of homegrown fashion writing has been unleashed, one that has some ‘90s and 2000s antecedents. (Blackbird Spyplane’s Weiner believes his work “definitely resonates with people who miss earlier, stranger, more idiosyncratic eras of the internet.”) And don’t discount the power of intimacy in a socially distanced age. Something that feels like an email from a friend, even if it’s actually coming from a fashion writer you’ve developed a cozily parasocial relationship with, is the warm hug so many of us need right now. “We took a winter break for three weeks,” says Jenkins, “and when we came back, people were like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so glad you’re back.’…It’s like a friend that you haven’t seen in a while.”
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie tells me that fashion has not been a huge focus for the company thus far. In general, he says, they don’t recruit writers by topic, but instead look for “people who seem like they have the kind of motor for this publishing model.” For newsletter writers, “intensity of devotion is what matters. It doesn’t matter if it’s a huge audience or a relatively small audience, if they’ve got people who show up for them.”
“I don’t think Substack has invented a magic new thing,” he qualifies. But, he says, it is “helping to undo some of the dynamics in the media ecosystem that have given rise to a mass homogenization through Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and the like, that can now be more effectively pushed back against in the same way that was happening in the glory days of blogging.” Once, the next logical step for bloggers was to join a legacy media outlet and assume their audience would follow, or to become influencers and prioritize glossy visuals. Now, it might be to go beyond what McKenzie calls that “self-sustaining” route. He predicts a return to “the golden days of blogging when there were peer-to-peer recommendations and blog rolls. You’re not playing to game an attention algorithm. You’re playing to get nerdy and weird with your most devoted readers.”
Lately, people who write about the weird corners of fashion, as opposed to the trending topic du jour, are the ones gaining traction. For Weiner—whose particular cul-de-sac has become more of a multi-lane boulevard, with Blackbird Spyplane sitting at the top of Substack’s “style” charts—it’s also a chance to inhabit a persona that an early-aughts editor might have termed “voicey.” As compared with the feature writing he does for the New York Times Magazine and other outlets, Weiner calls his newsletter narration “a heightened and hyperbolic version of myself…it strikes a balance between dumb and funny that I get a kick out of.” He particularly appreciates getting to “point this over-the-top voice at knottier questions about aesthetics and politics and ethics,” whether he’s talking about subversively re-appropriating cop gear for an ACAB world or prying apart the distinction between “cool” and “depressing” bootleg fashion.
For Tashjian, Opulent Tips started as a lark. “Most of my friends have gotten an email from me with the subject, ‘WOW: YOU SHOULD BUY THISI!!!’ and a link to some rad thing I found on eBay or Etsy,” she explains, “so I thought, ‘Why not touch even more lives?!’” Rather than opt for a mainstream platform, she simply sends her newsletter out the old-school way, from her email. “Starting a Substack can have real ‘some personal news!’ energy and I love my job at GQ, so I wanted it to be very clear it was a side project by avoiding a platform,” she says of that choice. “I’m also very anti-establishment…GQ is probably the only place I’ve ever worked where I just believe in everything we do like I believe in God and Yohji Yamamoto.” Her tip line maintains a charmingly stream-of-consciousness feeling, in part because she writes most of it hours before sending it out, based on notes she’s jotted down over the course of her week. She’s particularly interested in turning her audience on to lesser-known brands she loves, like Chopova Lowena and Ottolinger. “It’s kind of like if you’re in an art gallery and you say, ‘I wouldn’t want that in my house!!’ she says. “Well, that’s not a valid critique of art, really, but it’s a nice observation. In the newsletter I’m talking about the art that would look great over my sofa.”
Writer Kitty Guo has taken a similar approach, using Worn In, Worn Out to spotlight cool, arcane indie labels that she loves, many of them eco-friendly. “I hope this doesn’t sound really egotistical,” she says, “but people were always asking me, ‘Where’d you get your earrings?’ or ‘Those overalls are so cool.’” She started writing when “I was, like, mourning the death of my journalism career, which is super dramatic, but I had decided that the media world was a bit too unstable for me.” The newsletter became “a way for me to just make sure that I kept writing” without the pressure that might come from a larger publication. (“Anything goes because it’s only me.”) Thanks to a bump from a mention in the media newsletter Study Hall, she now has about 1100 subscribers and a 50 percent open rate. She is not using affiliate links, in part because she mostly features smaller designers, but the project has helped her attract attention from online publications which have commissioned her writing. The newsletter has, she says, become a “calling card” to give editors a feel for her voice and her work.
Chrissy Rutherford, who is a former fashion editor turned digital creator and consultant, initially thought about another common pivot–to podcasting–but opted for a newsletter instead. “I noticed a while ago that a lot of my followers thought that if you want to work in fashion or any particular area, you have to live and breathe that one topic,” she says. “I wanted to show them that it’s okay to be passionate about multiple things.” For her, those include mental health, astrology, and books, not just fashion, though she brings a magazine editor’s sensibility to the edit. And for those who still crave a podcast feeling, she records an audio interview with a guest each month.
Some newsletter writers are using the editorial freedom afforded them not to channel a gonzo voice, promote smaller brands, or pursue niche interests, but to dispense critical takes on an industry that often shies away from critique. Slow Fashion Weekly’s Inês Fressynet has released “issues” touching on everything from how to spot greenwashing to tips for secondhand shopping online. “I wanted to get my writing out as quickly as possible” to an audience of people already interested in the topic, she says. “You’re not fighting constantly to get people’s attention.” She feels able to weigh in on what she wants to write about, and she has more leeway to delve into an industry that has “been hidden behind a curtain of glamour and catwalks,” for her small but loyal audience of 400.
For Jenkins, who created the Fashion and Race Database to, as its mission statement says, “challenge mis-representation within the fashion system,” the Fashion and Race newsletter is a way to highlight stories from that larger project while cutting out the noise that comes with social media. The newsletter is “a very stripped-down way of writing a letter to my community,” she says. “It’s like a mini digital magazine.” Past issues have highlighted a story on contemporary Native fashion and an op-ed about the problem with all-Black runway casting. Without a social media component, Jenkins says, she doesn’t have to be concerned about trolls or “randos bursting in and insulting the things that I have to say.” Even better, “I don’t have to worry about trying to pitch myself to other larger publications to ask if I can use their space or their stage to have these conversations. I can just do all this on my own, and I’ve got a following that’s growing.”
Though their subscriber bases range from the massive (Weiner says, “our circulation is enormous and it includes a staggering number of powerful people;” it also boasts a paid tier) to the small-batch (a few hundred subscribers for Tashjian: “I can’t be bought. I make no money from this and I hope to God I never do!!!”) the reward comes more from creating a community of loyal readers who are engaged, and not in the cheesy, likes-to-followers-ratio sense. Jenkins measures her audience in influence: “There’s a veteran journalist who just started following us,” as well as “a successful museum curator,” a stylist whose work was seen on the most recent Golden Globes red carpet, and “a famous singer.” For these writers, even better than a massive platform or a following of boldface names is the trust that audiences will follow them down the garden path of their particular passions. “I’m so interested in what no one is paying attention to,” says Tashjian. “One of my guiding questions over the past year, in my work and life, has been: ‘How do I become more niche?’ I wonder if others are feeling the same way.”
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The Battle Of Choosing To Take Antidepressants
“I have two young ones at household, a new position, my partner is about to toss himself out a window, and you want me to decide on up shells on the seaside? All I did was brush my teeth these days.”
This is what ran through Julia’s* head when a mate proposed they go sea kayaking final spring, just as COVID-19 had begun raging in and all around her northeastern suburb and she, like so several place of work workers, was doing work from dwelling.
Days would pass when the 46-year-previous law firm at a big-town regulation firm could not keep in mind the last time she showered. She skipped her hour-extended commute home–her time to decompress. With a doing work partner, a nightmare manager, and a (extremely slowly and gradually) potty-schooling toddler, Julia uncovered her workdays filled with distractions she couldn’t block out.
Known for her calm and emphasis, Julia now faced 9-to-5s marked by periodic sobbing, snapping at her young children, and “moving like a sloth to sign off on a one electronic mail.” At one level, it acquired so bad that Julia truly questioned if a scenario of COVID and time absent in a clinic bed would be the lesser of two evils. All the when, a probable answer was sitting down, like a socially distanced friend, 6 ft absent: Lexapro, an antidepressant she had been prescribed but could not deliver herself to use. “It’s been staring at me from my desk, saying ‘Take me,’ ” she suggests of her ongoing ambivalence to treatment.
A widespread SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor), Lexapro allows raise serotonin—the “happy” chemical—in the brain. It is amongst a class of remedies whose recognition rose from mid-February to mid-March 2020 when antidepressant prescriptions increased almost 19 %. By June, somewhere around 40 per cent of grownup girls in the U.S. noted symptoms of despair or stress, a big soar from the similar time period in 2019, according to a lately concluded study conducted by the Census Bureau and the Nationwide Centre for Health Figures.
In typical instances, these stats would shock. But the coronavirus ushered in a colossal cluster of melancholy triggers: uncertainty, isolation, decline, and economic troubles. And ladies, lucky us, are faring even worse than adult males: We’ve lost extra employment and taken on a lot more homeschooling, and we’re displaying much more symptoms of melancholy.
Individuals who under no circumstances felt frustrated are dealing with it for the initial time. Some others with current melancholy are reaching new breaking details. And some who viewed as themselves anti-antidepressants are instantly asking yourself if a tablet may well be the remedy.
Julia is one particular of them. However a therapy individual for years, she experienced usually resisted antidepressants, even at the urging of her therapist and standard practitioner. “It’s partially the stigma, partly that I sense I should not will need a drug,” she points out. Additionally, she provides, “I really do not want to be on this things permanently.”
Tragically, a perilous misunderstanding persists: that people need to be strong more than enough to thrust via psychological sickness. “I listen to the total weakness factor all the time—‘It’s a crutch, I’m offering in, if I have been just stronger’—from actually complex persons,” claims Jane Erb, MD, the psychiatric director of Behavioral Health Integration in Major Care at Brigham and Women’s Clinic in Boston and an assistant professor at Harvard Professional medical University. “But our bodies weren’t created for extended-expression uncertainty. When you worry individuals out for extensive periods of time, there are discernible brain alterations.” For one particular, a bounce in the tension hormone cortisol, which can hurt your brain (imagine: Godzilla stomping by Tokyo), leaving irritation that can direct to all varieties of wellbeing challenges.
And a New Agey social media earth does not assistance, either, encouraging detoxing and magic dusts to support “cure” serious professional medical disorders. In other terms, we blame ourselves when celery juice doesn’t wash down the sads.
When COVID strike, Suzanne,* a 25-yr-previous advocacy coordinator, observed herself shuffling all over the house, obtaining missing in little art jobs, and sliding into bed at bizarre several hours. “I was not able to keep my lifestyle alongside one another devoid of the external buildings of a operate schedule or social life,” she claims. Suzanne was confident she could “willpower my way out of it” with a no-napping coverage, discuss remedy, and self-compassion practices. When this yielded little improvement, she and her health care provider ultimately landed on a Lexapro/stimulant blend. Her approach is to just take antidepressants brief-expression, which, for some, can be an solution for what is termed “situational despair.” Though antidepressants are not addictive, so it is safe to use them for minimal intervals of want, professionals warn in opposition to starting and halting treatment haphazardly. You usually have to taper up—meaning you won’t strike a therapeutic dose (the position where you notice a variance) proper away—and it can just take up to 8 months before you feel appreciably greater. Not to mention that the to start with or second drug you attempt will not essentially do the trick. Even for an isolated time period of melancholy, remedy guidelines suggest continuing a program for six to nine months, Erb claims. At that stage, you are going to need to taper off the medication slowly but surely, below the treatment of your health practitioner, to stay away from “antidepressant discontinuation syndrome,” which can bring about head aches, nausea, dizziness, or tingling and may perhaps have an effect on about 20 percent of clients.
Low libido—one of the most talked-about aspect effects—causes some to flat-out avoid medicine. All-around 40 percent of gals on antidepressants experienced sexual dysfunction, in accordance to a 2016 meta-examination posted in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Own chemistry arrives into play, but a analyze released in the Postgraduate Professional medical Journal identified that some serotonin-linked meds may perhaps be far more possible to dampen motivation or stall orgasms. Bupropion (a norepinephrine-dopamine re-uptake inhibitor and the generic title for Wellbutrin, among the a couple other individuals) is, in Erb’s knowledge, “devoid of sexual facet outcomes.” Bupropion also tends to interact well with other antidepressants, many authorities agreed, if you want aid with sexual issues and your doctor advises that you increase another prescription.
Weight gain is a different popular problem with antidepressants. Some reports, like a single revealed in 2006 in the Journal of Scientific Psychology, show that mirtazapine—often an substitute to prescription drugs with more pronounced sexual side effects—is affiliated with higher body weight get, according to Erb, as it may perhaps interrupt some satiety alerts. Other prescription drugs joined to weight obtain when used lengthy term include things like fluoxetine (a single of its manufacturer names is the OG SSRI Prozac), as properly as classics like paroxetine (Paxil is one brand name identify) and sertraline (promoted as Zoloft), according to a selection of experiments, which includes a 2018 research in the British Medical Journal and a 2016 analyze in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Other meds normally do not mess with your metabolic process, and bupropion has even been connected with body weight loss in some sufferers when blended with an exercising and diet plan software. But it’s also not for absolutely everyone, “because it’s tremendous stimulating, like being on 5 espressos at as soon as,” Erb states. That is a deal-breaker for certain people with generalized stress problem, PTSD, stress attacks, or seizures. It also can throw off your electrolyte harmony if you have an lively feeding on disorder, Erb claims. And it’s feasible it could destabilize temper in those with some types of bipolar disorder.
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Navigating the waters of prescription varieties and their side outcomes isn’t meant to be carried out by itself. With direction and watchful monitoring by an seasoned physician, even so, these medicines can be a lifeline. Not to mention, of training course, that recognizing the big difference amongst regular, daily crappiness and actual melancholy involves a professional medical degree. Erb cites the illustration of how a single might feel following a loved one’s dying. “You would not typically leap to an antidepressant correct absent,” she claims. “But if the unhappiness or inability to emphasis starts off impacting how you function and messing with your sleep—or if you commence considering about not heading on—it may well be time to contemplate treatment.”
Some experts propose trying psychotherapy prior to supplements. “The knowledge is very obvious based mostly on hundreds of reports that for mild melancholy, psychotherapy is both the desired intervention or equivalent to medicine,” says Kathleen Pike, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Columbia College Irving Health-related Middle and the scientific adviser to the Maybelline Brave Together plan, an initiative designed to crack the stigma all around younger ladies in search of psychological well being help and support fund solutions. That claimed, she acknowledges treatment is not realistic or obtainable for every person.
To wit, even though Sue Varma, MD, a board-accredited psychiatrist and scientific assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone Overall health, thinks the benefits of therapy can previous for a longer time and direct to structural mind adjustments, “medication will work quicker for many people today,” she claims.
For Suzanne, the advocacy coordinator, treatment was not sufficient. “I wished to be in a position to sleep on a normal schedule, remain purposeful all through a lengthier period of isolation, and come to feel like a successful coworker. I was not capable to do that on my personal.” Medication is holding her afloat. In the meantime, as of press time, Julia has not started off Lexapro. “If 1 good matter arrives out of COVID,” Suzanne claims, “I hope it’s that we’re gentler with just about every other, our brains, and our vastly varying [mental health] requirements.”
Editor’s note: This post is not supposed to present health-related guidance. Always seek the advice of a medical professional or other certified healthcare expert before getting any prescription medicines.
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How To Get a Job Teaching English in South Korea
Teaching English in South Korea will change your life. You’ll be immersed in a fascinating culture. You’ll discover new and exciting opportunities for travel. You’ll learn about Korea, and you’ll learn about yourself.
You’ll certainly make decent money when you teach English in Korea — to travel with, to pay off a student loan, or to save and bring home so you can begin yet another exciting endeavor.
You might even enter into a lifelong career. Some people teach in South Korea for one year and never teach again. Others use teaching English in Korea as a starting point for teaching in other countries and at different types of schools.
That’s how it was for me. My first job after graduating from university was at an English teaching job at a Korean hagwon — a private kindergarten and after-school academy for elementary, middle, and high school students.
For me, it wasn’t only a fun and financially rewarding adventure, but it set me on a career path that led to teaching in four countries and many different types of schools, including universities.
Note: if you’re interested in teaching Korean students, but aren’t keen to move to South Korea, have a look at this article: Teach English to Korean Students Online (7 Companies That Pay). If you’d like to teach Chinese students online and earn $22- $26/hour, consider Magic Ears, or VIPKID.
Teaching English in South Korea isn’t for everyone. But whether you love it or hate it, it’ll be a year you never forget.
Why Teach English in South Korea?
I often ask my university students what they want to do after they graduate. By far, the two most common answers are to find a job and to travel the world.
Teaching English in South Korea ticks both of these boxes. It’s hard to find a job when you’re fresh out of university and don’t have experience, especially if you have a liberal arts degree in something like English (like I do).
Fortunately, many English teaching jobs in Korea don’t require experience, and it doesn’t matter what your bachelor’s degree is in, only that you have one.
Salaries are good, and because most contracts include housing and airfare, you’re able to explore a distant part of the world while saving money at the same time.
Also, it’s a good way to try out teaching if you’re not sure that you’ll like it or be any good at it. Teaching children in Korea at a hagwon doesn’t require expert knowledge of English grammar or teaching techniques, just enthusiasm, an open mind, and a whole lot of patience.
You can learn how to be a teacher on the job, and you can teach yourself grammar as it becomes necessary. (Children usually need much more speaking practice than grammar explanations anyway.)
If you find that after one year, teaching really isn’t for you, you’re free to leave and try something else.
On the other hand, if you really enjoy teaching, you can sign up for another year. And there’s always the possibility to find another job in a different type of school, perhaps in another part of South Korea or even another part of the world.
Later on, in order to have access to better jobs, you can get a TEFL/TESL certificate, which is a requirement for many better English teaching jobs, or get a master’s degree in education, which is a typical requirement for university teaching jobs.
And of course, there’s more to the experience of teaching English in South Korea than the job itself.
Travel in Asia
If you’ve ever dreamed of the white sand beaches of Thailand, the nighttime neon alleyways of Japan, or the towering scroll-painting mountains of China, then teaching in Korea means that you’re only a short flight away.
Some English teaching jobs in Korea offer long vacations, such as up to four months a year (two months twice a year) at universities.
Hagwons usually only offer two one-week holidays a year, but once your contract is over, you can spend some of your hard-earned savings on a long journey in any part of Asia — or the world — you choose.
Domestic Travel
Besides other countries in Asia, South Korea itself is a tremendous place to travel in. You can get to any corner of the country by bus or high-speed train, which means that each weekend holds the possibility of adventure. There’s also some excellent hiking in South Korea as well.
Add to this the numerous Korean holidays that you’ll receive as days off from work, and you can see a good deal of the country in short trips. Teaching in South Korea makes this possible. Not to mention, there are numerous things to do in Seoul to keep you busy.
Culture
When you teach English in Korea, you won’t only be teaching, but also learning. Korean culture is ancient, multifaceted, and full of surprises.
In your free time, you can practice tae kwon do, learn a traditional musical instrument, or study the Korean language. (I did all three of these when I was in Korea, but only the first two with any real success.)
Basically, living and teaching in South Korea is a lot of fun. The country has friendly people, remarkable food, bustling nightlife, and leisure activities like sweating in saunas and singing karaoke in small private rooms called norebong.
You might even be able to engage in all of these activities within the same large building where your hagwon is located, meaning you can go straight from work to the restaurant, to the all-night norebong, and finally to the all-night sauna.
Types of Schools to Find Teaching Jobs in Korea
The types of schools where you can teach English in Korea include private English academies (called hagwons), public and private grade schools, and universities.
Hagwons
These small, after-school academies are a big business in Korea. Nearly all Korean schoolchildren visit one or more hagwons during the week to study martial arts, a musical instrument, math, English, or practically anything else you can imagine.
I worked at an English hagwon in South Korea, and it was a wonderful experience. Monday to Friday, I taught kindergarten during the day and early afternoon, and then I taught elementary, middle, and high school students later in the afternoon, once their regular schools had gotten out.
These are some of the most common and available teaching jobs in South Korea. They’re the best option for people without teaching experience. For many hagwons, only a bachelor’s degree is necessary — not even a TESL certificate.
The pay is good, but the hours are long and sometimes inconvenient, with classes often scheduled on weekends or early in the morning and late in the evening.
Hagwons typically provide furnished housing and two one-week vacations per year, plus all the Korean holidays. Contracts are almost always for one year, with the possibility for renewal based on performance.
Kids or Adults?
Most hagwons are for kids, although it’s possible to teach English in Korea to adults as well.
The market for these classes is somewhat in decline, due to the growing importance of Mandarin Chinese lessons, but there are still many schools around South Korea that hire foreigners to teach English to adults.
These classes are usually attended by businesspeople, so they’re almost always early in the morning or late the evening, held before or after the long Korean workday. Most offer classes on Saturday mornings too.
Besides this and another obvious difference — the maturity level of the students — an important difference is the level of expertise necessary.
Although it may not be a formal requirement, you’ll definitely need to know advanced grammar to teach adults. Many of them have already spent years studying English and know more about grammar than native speakers.
Because of that, previous teaching experience is often required for working at hagwons for adults. They also typically pay slightly more than regular hagwons.
Public and Private Grade Schools
Teaching English in South Korea at elementary, middle, and high schools is a bit of a step up to teaching at hagwons.
The hours are shorter (usually closer to 20 hours a week, compared to more than 30 and up to 40 at a hagwon), the pay and benefits are better, and there’s more vacation time, often around three weeks, twice a year.
More often than not, these schools require a bachelor’s degree in education or a teaching certificate, a TEFL/TESL certificate, and some prior teaching experience.
If you don’t have all of these but want to eventually work at a grade school, a good strategy is to first get a job at a hagwon and then look for a new job once your contract is over and you have the experience on your resume.
Public and private grade schools also offer the possibility for qualified and experienced teachers to teach a subject other than English. You could teach history, music, or even sports — all in English, of course.
Universities
University jobs are the best teaching jobs in Korea. The hours are lower (10-18 hours on average) and vacations are long (around two months, twice a year).
The pay is normally less than at hagwons or other schools, but this is reflected by the lower number of working hours.
University students are more mature and interested in English than their younger counterparts, and you could end up teaching more advanced and stimulating subjects, possibly in departments outside of the foreign language or English department.
Universities have much higher requirements than other schools where you can teach English in Korea. You’ll probably need a master’s degree in education, English, or some other relevant field, or even a PHD for certain positions. Experience is also necessary, such as two or three years of teaching at the university level.
Because of these requirements and because of such favorable job conditions, university jobs are some of the most difficult teaching jobs in Korea to get.
Private Tutoring
Teaching private lessons is officially illegal in Korea, but widely done by foreigners. Your best bet is to talk to other teachers at your school to find out where they find students and how much they charge per hour.
Grade schools and universities almost definitely won’t care if you teach private lessons on the side.
The main concern of the hagwons is that you don’t take business away from them. Be ethical: Don’t poach students from your school, and don’t steal their materials.
Finally, if you’re interested in learning Korean, you can do a language exchange, when you teach English for half the lesson and study Korean during the other half.
Qualifications to Teach English in South Korea
Requirements for teaching English in South Korea vary according to the type of school.
You can get a better idea of what’s required by looking online for English teaching jobs in Korea. Most job descriptions list the requirements, along with the salary and other details about the job, such as working hours.
Most jobs require that you’re from an English-speaking country. Some, mostly universities and grade schools, specify that they only accept teachers from seven countries: the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
For all jobs, from hagwons to universities, you’ll need:
Bachelor’s Degree
For hagwons, it doesn’t matter what your degree is in, as long as it’s a bachelor’s degree.
For all other jobs, a degree in education, English, or something else that’s relevant is probably necessary. Of course, a master’s degree is even better, and if you have one, you’ll probably get paid more.
Universities often require a master’s degree and sometimes a PHD. For obvious reasons, university teaching jobs in South Korea that require a PHD are some of the best positions at the most prestigious schools.
You’ll need your original degree and original transcript. You may need them to be apostilled by your local government. Apostilles are internationally recognized certifications of documents. They’re typically cheap and easy to get.
Or, you may need them notarized by a Korean consulate in your country. But don’t worry about apostilles or notarized copies just yet. Your future employer will tell you exactly what you need.
TESL/TEFL Certificate
Before you start a TESL/TEFL program, you should check the requirements of some jobs that interest you. In many cases, especially in hagwons, a TESL/TEFL certificate isn’t required but only preferred. This means that for many new teachers, doing a course actually isn’t necessary.
TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), or something similar like TESOL are all more or less the same thing. The certification courses, however, are not.
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Therefore, before signing up for a course, check some job listings to see what specific type of TEFL they’re looking for, if it’s even necessary at all.
Besides English grammar and related topics like pronunciation, in these courses you’ll learn about teaching English, but not nearly as much as you’ll learn while on the job.
You can always get a TESL/TEFL certificate later, once you’ve decided that you like teaching English in South Korea and want to move to a better school.
Criminal Background Check
Usually, not hagwons, but other types of schools may request a certificate of no criminal record.
My advice for this is the same as for apostilles or notarizations of your university degree: Wait until the school that wants to hire you provides you with details about what they need.
How Much Do English Teachers in South Korea Make?
Hagwons pay around 2 to 2.4 million Korean won per month ($1,800 – 2,100 USD), with most paying 2.1 or 2.2 million won.
Grade schools pay from 2 to 3 million Korean won per month ($1,800 – 2,700 USD), depending on the number of hours and the teacher’s qualifications. This pay range is larger than at hagwons because the hours and benefits vary more.
Universities pay around 2 million Korean won per month ($1,800 USD), possibly more, especially if the contract is for more than 16 hours a week. In general, universities have fewer hours and consequently pay less than other schools, although certain jobs occasionally come up that are very well paid.
Check job descriptions carefully to see if they include housing, airfare reimbursement, insurance, and paid vacations.
Some jobs don’t provide housing, and these always pay more, sometimes double the salary of a similar school that does provide housing. But unless you’re prepared to live in a hotel, or buy all new furniture for an apartment, you’ll need a job with housing.
As with anywhere, you can expect schools in big cities (especially Seoul, Incheon, and Busan) and in fancy neighborhoods in big cities (Gangnam, etc.) to pay more than schools in small towns.
When comparing different jobs, don’t simply look at the amount you’ll earn, but also at the number of working hours.
A lower number of working hours is generally better than a higher amount of pay. You can use your free time to make better money teaching private lessons, or simply have more time to enjoy the country, study Korean, or find remote work online.
How to Find English Teaching Jobs in Korea
Nowadays, by far the most common way to find a teaching job in South Korea is on the internet.
You can find seemingly countless jobs online in all parts of the country and in many different kinds of schools. South Korea has been recruiting foreign teachers for several decades, making it one of the most common places for people to find teaching jobs abroad.
For many years, Dave’s ESL Cafe has been the first stop for people seeking English teaching jobs abroad, not only in South Korea, but practically anywhere in the world.
Another good website that has a much more professional webpage is the KOTESOL association website. Their job board has many more university jobs than hagwons, in contrast to Dave’s ESL Cafe.
And of course, you can simply Google “English teaching jobs in South Korea” and see what you come up with.
Hagwons hire all year round. For grade schools and universities, keep in mind that you must go through the hiring process and move to Korea before the semester starts in late August or early September and late February or early March. You should begin your job search several months beforehand.
There are fundamentally two ways to get hired — either from a recruiter or directly from the school.
There’s nothing wrong with a recruiter but read your contract carefully. Did your recruiter simply introduce you to the school, or is your contract with the recruiting agency?
Also, be wary of any recruiting website offering services that you have to pay for.
Whatever you do, compare many different schools. Don’t accept your first offer. Trust me, if one school wants to hire you, chances are that all of them want to hire you.
Is Teaching English in South Korea a Good Idea?
I got my English teaching job in South Korea the old-fashioned way: from a classified ad in a newspaper. Remember those?
I met a recruiter at my university’s student union, we talked for about an hour, and I signed up.
I knew next to nothing about Korea, and certainly nothing about teaching. The first few months were hard work, but I got lucky. I worked for good people who treated me with kindness and respect.
Many people I met in Korea weren’t so lucky. They worked at disorganized schools, were given bad hours, or weren’t paid on time. They were miserable and wished they hadn’t come.
Other people I met were miserable even though they did work at good schools. They didn’t like teaching, they didn’t like the food, and they weren’t interested in exploring the country.
It’s not only the situation you find yourself in that determines whether your time will be positive or not. It’s also your attitude.
Do you want to teach English in Korea to try something new and have an adventure, or do you want to teach English in Korea to get away from something, or because you have nowhere else to go?
Thinking about that question is a fundamental first step before you embark on a new life, and the answer will tell you whether deciding to teach English in Korea is a good idea or not.
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Meghan Markle’s Veja Sneakers Are 30 Percent Off Right Now
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Summer 2021 Makeup Ideas and Trends, According to Sir John and More
After what feels like an eternity of quarantine skincare, and minimal zoom-meeting makeup, this summer promises a much-needed return to bold, fun makeup.
There’s nothing like warmer weather to make you want to go out and look your best, and these 8 makeup trends are on standby to give you the ultimate summer glam. We spoke to top makeup experts including L’Oréal Paris US Makeup Artist & Creative Director Sir John, Garnier Beauty Consultant Millie Morales and Urban Decay Global Makeup Artist Steve Kassajikian who shared their predictions for this summer’s top makeup trends.
“I’m trying to be optimistic and hopeful that by the summer, mask mandates may be lifted and we may not be required to wear one at all times. If this is the case, it’s going to be a serious summer of statement lips,” Sir John tells ELLE.
Along with statement lips, pastel eyes and bold brows are poised to be some of the most popular makeup trends this summer.
In the spirit of optimism and looking forward to warmer, brighter days, below is your expert guide to this summer’s hottest trends.
Foolproof Fresh Skin
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The no-makeup-makeup look isn’t going anywhere, if anything it’s getting an update. Be prepared to see lots of minimal makeup that highlights natural skin this summer. “It’s all about lightweight base makeup and next to nothing skin, which is always great for warm weather and mask-wearing,” says Sir John.
Graphic & Colorful Eyes
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Since the normalization of face masks last spring, it’s been all about the eyes. As the temperature rises, eyeshadow looks will only get brighter and more elaborate. For Makeup Forever Pro Artist & Educator, Eddie Duyos, this means adding texture to your eye looks by adding pop art washes of color across the lid with two multi-texture liners.
Playful Lips
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All hail the bright and playful lip! Soft nudes and browns are taking a backseat this summer as vibrant coral and pastel hues come out to play. “Colors like bright pinks, bold reds, popping corals are a sure win for the season, says Duyos. “Matte or very high pigmented formulas that are longwear is what to look for when it comes to color and texture”
Bold Brows
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If there’s ever been a time to let your brows grow it’s now. Big brows are not new but this summer you can look to the trend to play up fun eyeshadow looks. “Defined eyebrows make your face stand out and give you a youthful look,” says Morales.
Natural Falsies
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Staying on trend with the natural look, falsies are the perfect way to enhance your natural beauty. For a super undetectable look, long wispy lash extensions lift the eyes for a defined face, while dramatic lash strips make your eyes a focal point while wearing light coverage makeup.
Tie-Dye and Pastel Eyes
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Tie-dye and pasteles make an appearance every summer, usually in fashion trends but incorporating the trend into your makeup just makes sense. This look can seem very complex and overwhelming but Urban Decay Global Makeup Artist, Steve Kassajikian shares the easiest way to go about it. “Apply the shadow stick directly on the eyes then buff it out to blend; You can use them as a base or transition shade,” he says. “Then apply powder shadows on top to create depth (you can apply with fingers on the lid for high color payoff). Then finish off with duo-chrome or shimmer shades on the inner corner to brighten the eyes.
No More Black Eyeliner
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It’s time to give that Mac Blacktrack a well-deserved break and jump headfirst into colored liners. “I think we’ll be seeing a lot of colorful liners too in Aqua and blue shades”, says Sir John.”I love this look and recommend colorful eyeliner for a subtle pop of color, especially if you’re not ready to fully commit to a bright, bold shadow.”
Beachy Glow
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No summer is complete without a classic, bronzy beach glow face. To achieve the perfect beachy glow, Glow-bal Makeup Artist Nam Vo recommends applying a tinted Cream highlighter. “This isn’t the season for smokey eyes and all this heavy contour. This is the season for effortless beauty,” he says. The key to the beach glow is a good bronzer which Vo suggests wearing on your cheekbones, neck, and collarbone. For the base of a glowy look, Vo recommends going for a light coverage formula to get that sheer, almost wet shine.
“It’s the time to let our skin breathe and be light and natural. We will probably still be in our facemasks, so this light and sheer makeup is the way to go,” says Vo.
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