You manage to get them up to 300,000 won and 150,000 won for the doctors and the local class, respectively, and agree to teach them.

The class with the doctors is great. You get driven out through the mountains to a small hot springs resort town three times a week. They feed you lunch and are eager to discuss the lessons, which are mostly free talking. So, it basically amounts to getting paid $300 a month to have lunch with, and talk to, friends.

The class at the other school is another story altogether. It is awful. The number of students in the class varies from 2-12 throughout your time teaching it and you never know beforehand how many will show up. The textbook chosen is ancient and absolutely terrible. Those students who do show up don't talk and it is a frustrating struggle every night to get through the class. Despite this, you decide to see it through, as the extra cash is coming in handy.

Soon enough, you realize that you have been in Korea for six months. It went by pretty quickly.

Along with this realization comes the additional realization that, of the five times pay day has rolled around, only once have you been paid on time. You've been paid in full every time, just never all of it at the same time or on time.

Pay day number six arrives and you feel it is time something is done about this, should the pattern continue. You walk into the owners office and, unsurprisingly, he informs you that he doesn't have it all for you but will before the end of the week. You:

sigh, and accept the partial payment, knowing that you will be paid in full, eventually.

tell him, in exasperation, that he must pay you on time, every time, from now on or you will hold him in breech of contract.