looking888 wrote:Head hunters (job placement agencies) of the target country can sometimes help you find a permanent teaching job; and depending on the quality of the head hunters, the quality (salary and atc.) of teaching jobs can vary.
Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea probably need foreigners to teach English because many people in these countries do not learn enough English during their pre-university education although these countries have higher standards than Southeast Asia.
Yes but to get a job worth doing you will need a degree a certificate in teaching English as a foreign language and several years experience not to mention the competition for available places. I doubt that there is any truth in the statement
'they do not learn enough English during their pre-university education', more probably they don't get enough practice using English.
People in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, and the Phillipines adopt English as the second language; so most of them know some English. Hence, there is less opportunity to teach English in these countries because people learn English since elementary school.
JW
Not entirely true, there is still scope for teaching English in Thailand and quite possibly in the other countries you least albeit at a different level in for example Singapore.