The Korean school year is opposite of the American school year. It runs from March-December/January instead of August/September-May/June. Their vacations are switched too. Summer vacation is 1 month and winter vacation is 2 months. Well, winter vacations is strange actually. You have 4 weeks in January and 2-3 weeks in February. For some odd reason, they have one or two weeks of school (depending on the school) in the middle of February.
My school only has one bizarre week of school. So, essentially there are 5 weeks of Winter vacation, 1 week of school, and 2 weeks of Spring vacation.
HOWEVER, this is only true for students and Korean teachers. Native English teachers (like myself) are typically forced to teach at least 3 weeks of Winter vacation English camp and then take your 10 days paid vacation. Then, many of us (including myself) are forced to “deskwarm” during Spring break. Basically, I will be sitting at my desk in an empty school for two weeks… doing nothing productive. They are paying me to sit here.
Some people are lucky though. Some Native English (aka Guest English) teachers are told to “work from home.” It all depends on the principal and your main co-teacher.
Oh, Korea…
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