It’s doubtful Rodgers01 would qualify. Most overseas positions posted have a bunch of strings attached that boil down to “you’re already here because we’re not paying to ship you in.” That’s pretty much par for the course for most non-career level jobs on overseas bases. They just wait until someone transfers in from another base with the skills they need.
I thought I had read that Korea changed the rules a few years ago - if you did not have a teacher’s degree, you could not teach ESL there. This was due to many complaints about poor quality ESL teachers. A case last year involved a (Korean) company who thought they could ignore the rules, and the unqualified Canadian who was working for them was arrested, held for several weeks and deported, IIRC.
Beware of local companies that claim the visa process is simpler than the rules claim.
OTOH, one of my in-law relatives spent 2 years in Korea doing ESL after graduating from teachers’ college and she loved it.
It sems half the workers at western Canadian ski resorts are Australian, so there must be some form of work visa that is not difficult to get here. The Australia/NZ visa has the restrictions it does to discourage it being used as an excuse to get cheap labour; it’s so you can wander the country and finance your travels, rather than to get a permanent job in one place for the whole term. I imagine most touristy jobs are seasonal. (And down under’s seasons are opposite from ours).
This is not the case. What has changed is the rules were changed to require a criminal background check and a medical check, unless one is of Korean ethnicity working for a private academy (aka hagweon).
There’s a working holidaymaker arrangement still in effect among Canada and other Commonwealth countries; this may explain the number of Australians in British Columbia. Do they look under thirty?
Be aware that you may need an actual four-year university degree, not just a college diploma, for teaching Englsh overseas. This tripped me up; I have only a three-year technologist’s diploma. So, the guy with electronics experience can’t teach English to electronics people, but the guy with a literature degree can. Bwuh?