Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Malislamusrex]

There is a perception women will stay at home and secretly cry about problems and very easy to control. Also they have got the added bonus of boobs.

[Firearcher]

Its sexism at its finest. Judge an entire gender based upon the actions of a few.

Since a man invented the light bulb which lights the classrooms you would think they'd be after men.

Cherry Pick

[Soldier]

You may have missed the social revolution.

[schwa]

I've seen schools get burned by difficult male teachers, so they lean toward hiring women.

I've seen other schools get burned by difficult female teachers, so they lean toward hiring men.

Sometimes a school has a run of luck with good teachers of one sex or the other & want to keep it going.

Sometimes they discriminate in their ads because in Korea there isnt really anything preventing that.

[Weigookin74]

Because they're a bunch of sexist racist a h0les.

[Mr Lee's Monkey]

Anybody who wants to work at a school where the Canadian man and his Korean wife owner treat women like crap and men like little gods, let me know. There are some places that insist on females and don't necessarily treat them well.

[nautilus]

[World Traveler]

[Privateer]

Because Koreans aren't threatened by Western women, and they may also fantasize about them. Korean men, that is: they're the ones in charge here.

[earthquakez]

Well, I'm going to go in to bat for the ladies and say as a man that I don't think the females have it that great even with all these job adverts wanting them.

As another poster pointed out, a fair proportion of the jobs are for females who don't have E-2 visas. How many western women who originally qualified for E-2 visas do you know that are married to Korean men as opposed to foreign men in the same position who end up getting married to a native Korean and can work at jobs denied to E-2 visa holders?

Far more western male English teachers marry Koreans and get the benefits of the earning power this gives. I've never met a western women married to a Korean man who came here on an E-2 visa and then could get the better F visa jobs. I know they must exist but they're outnumbered by western men on F visas.

I know that there are western women who are of mature age, have cvs that stand out compared to many of both younger female native speakers, younger male native speakers and older male native speakers. Again, not getting married to a Korean damn well limits what they can do since E-2 visas generally don't offer challenging jobs suited to those kinds of people.

Two years ago I met a nice woman in Seoul for the weekend who could have taught Korean business people anywhere including Samsung, LG, could have taught Koreans at city hall, govt ministries etc. She'd worked in research, editing etc in her own country as well as some years in Asia teaching at interesting places. But on the E-2 it was well nigh impossible. Those kinds of jobs are part time jobs designed for F visa holders.

She told me she just enjoys teaching in Asia and that's why she's here. But she was also a bit frustrated by the limits of the E-2. I can identify, and I think as a woman she isn't privileged to have mediocre hagwon jobs of the kind regularly advertised as being for females. Men do have more options in Korea.

[World Traveler]

I spend loads of time searching job ads. Here are two true statements:
1)The f-visa is much better than an e-2 visa.
2)Females have an advantage over males (and a huge one at that).
F-4 women can really clean up. I've seen it happen. So can E-2 women. At the very least they are in a stronger position of bargaining leverage than E-2 men.
I see ads like this on a daily basis:

[Moondoggy]

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[misher]

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