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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Puerto Rico also goes by the title of Commonwealth. |
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HardyandTiny
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Puerto Rico also goes by the title of Commonwealth. |
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blah
Joined: 08 May 2003
Location: Ulsan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| You can get an island for free in the Phillippines if you know where to look. |
Highly unlikely.
I lived in the Philippines for two years, and am married to a Filipina.
My experience is that people who have spent a few months in the Philippines really only know the country from the point of view of a tourist. Much of what they report only scratched the surface of the truth. Be skeptical of what you have been told.
Nothing in the Philippines is free.
Insurgent forces, gangs, or pirates that will eventually kidnap you for ransom, or kill you for what you have in your pocket inhabit or eventually pass through any land that appears free.
If you are not married to a Filipino citizen and are not a permanent resident, you may not hold title to land or own a business of any kind.
Be very careful before you decide to do business in the Philippines. Most foreigners end up packing up and leaving because of money lost to theft, extortion, and many other forms of corruption. The ones who do well usually already have a lot of money, and can afford all the payoffs necessary to survive the business culture there.
Korea is a well-oiled machine compared to the Philippines. |
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Skarp
Joined: 22 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmn...
Saipan - I doubt it. People want to go to teh home country. There is no cache in going to a place no-one has heard of. Many want to meet a marriage partner and emigrate (even if they don't tell their parents this) or just have sexual and other freedoms impossible in Korea. I fear Saipan would be a boring place to work and study.
Maybe it would be great but you'd have to convince enough peopel and that'd cost a lot of money. If you had that kind of money you'd be better off doing someting else with it....
The EFL industry is dying all over teh UK and they tell me NZ and OZ are in trouble. Maybe the US is getting cheaper cos of the dollar rate but it has teh reputation for being dangerous ( and is culturally quite a dull place except in hot spots like SF or NY. - again reputation is everything.)
I'd love to co-own a school as part of a cooperative - not to make a fortune but to do something useful and to get a fairer rewwrd for my work and talent...
I;m not sure it's feasible in Korea though - the competition is fierce and would fight dirty.
Skarp |
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HardyandTiny
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:47 am Post subject: |
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Let's see how the Guam University program pans out and if the Korean government decides to shift some of its overseas English program dollars to a closer location. There's a chance that all of the immigration and illegal alien problems caused in conjunction with the Australian program may make Guam an attractive alternative for overseas English language learning.
It's just marketing. Koreans might bite. |
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HardyandTiny
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, it's certainly possible but there's a bunch of regluations concering foreigners setting up businesses and the info I've come across says that you need 50 million won as a kind of security deposit. As always, money talks. |
Right
That's why it's better to go to a place outside of Korea and Japan but just close enough to make it seem like they're not at home and not away far from home.
Honestly, there are thousands of young people out of work and surviving and living in their parent's house...they're doing nothing.
Offer them an English course in Guam or Saipan-it's an English vacation for the upper middle class. You get them away-but not too far away- and it's related to education-everybody's happy!
We'll see what happens.
I'm sitting on it now for 3 months and watching. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Great thread.
I've long thought about it with the Philippines. Tons of Koreans already there.. as well as Japanese and Taiwanese. Many go to study English from Filipinos.. how much better that would be to study with native speakers in the PI already. |
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John Henry
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="The King of Kwangju"]
| HardyandTiny wrote: |
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You can get an island for free in the Phillippines if you know where to look. |
SAY WHAT!!!??? How does one do that??? |
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