First, let’s analyze similar phrases as well that people use in order to find great resources on “teaching in korea.”  A phrase very similar to teaching in korea is “teach english in korea.”  It’s probably closer to what people in native English speaking countries are looking for in terms of the jobs they might find in South Korea, Japan and China.  Approximately, half the number (3600 to be exact) searched for the phrase in January.  Higher than that though are “jobs in korea” and “teach in korea.”   The latter of these two phrases is second to “teaching in korea” at 5400 searches in January.  “Jobs in korea” though has less searches this past January (4400), but this “jobs” related search phrase is equal in terms of average search volume over the course of history with “teaching in korea.”

Some lesser searched phrases where the amount searched are much less beyond these 4 other phrases above are:

• jobs in south korea – 880
• teach in south korea – 720
• teach english in south korea – 590
• teaching jobs in korea – 480
• esl jobs in korea – 140
• english teaching jobs in korea  – 140
• teach esl in korea – 91

(the number behind the phrase represents the number of times it was searched in January 2009; interesting note is that searches with higher averages failed to even have some inventory in January 2009 & so they were not included [for now].  I’ll included them at the bottom.)

Second, let’s analyze the trending of these phrases and “teaching in korea” over it’s history that google.com tracks.  You can see from the following graph that as of 2008, the number of search queries have stablized for the most part and people are consistently looking for websites based off this search term:

teaching in korea

Most of the people are typing the phrase from South Korea according to Google Trends.  Surprisingly for me, the second highest country to be searching for the phrase is not the United States or Canada which I believe represents the home country for the majority of the teachers of native English language in South Korea.  It happens to be instead South Africa.  Third place is not as surprising given the number of resumes I see from Filippino candidates at my company.  New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Thailand, the United States and the United Kingdom round off the top 10.  In terms of cities that rank highest in searching for “teaching in korea”, we have again South Korea as number 1 with Seoul.  Instead of a South African city as #2, we have Halifax, Canada placing second.  Auckland, New Zealand is 3rd, with Ottawa, CA, Toronto, CA, Vancouver, CA, Dublin, Ireland, Seattle, WA, USA, Sydney, Australia and Montreal, CA filling in the rest of the 10 highest searching cities for “teaching in korea.”

“Teach english in korea” has very little data in the Google Trends labs:

Teach english in korea

The”jobs in korea” search trends look very similar to the “teaching in korea” trends – don’t they?

teaching in korea

Finally, for our graphical pleasure today, we round off these trends with “teach in korea” which Google Labs appear to have less data on “teaching in korea” and “jobs in korea”, but definitely a bit more than “Teach english in korea.”  I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that four word keyword searches have been rising, but traditionally have been a lot less than 3 word searches as Matt McGee mentions here.

Phrases that failed to register enough inventory in January 2009 on Google’s Keyword (External) Tool are:

• teach in korea summer
• english jobs in korea
• jobs in korea for foreigners
• teach spanish in korea
• teacher in korea
• teachers in korea
• teach abroad in korea
• to teach in korea
• teach in korea without
• teach in korea for
• speaking jobs in korea
• non teaching jobs in korea
• teach english in korea job
• want to teach in korea
• teach in korea 6 months
• teaching jobs in south korea
• to teach in south korea
• teaching jobs in seoul korea
• teach in korea 6
• teach in korea with
• teach in korea blog
• t teach in korea
• don t teach in korea
• i teach in korea
• can i teach in korea
• english speaking jobs in korea
• government jobs in south korea
• government jobs in korea
• why teach in korea
• to teach english in korea
• talk teach english in korea
• teach english in korea for
• teach english in korea no
• teach english in korea without
• english teaching jobs in south korea
• teach english in korea salary
• teach english in korea summer
• teach english in korea for 6 months
• teach esl in south korea
• should i teach in korea
• teach and learn in korea
• jobs for americans in korea
• esl jobs in south korea
• teach english in korea with
• why teach english in korea
• teach english in korea blog
• how to teach english in korea
• i teach english in korea
• teach english in korea 6
• teach english in korea without a degree
• teach english in korea no degree
• jobs for americans in south korea
• contract jobs in korea
• talk teach and learn in korea