Korean Job Discussion Forums

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

I have met a few people who left in less than 2 months. If the job is total crap I can understand it. Some barely give it a chance though. A girl showed up about 10 days ago. She's leaving, back to Canada in a few days. She said, "I never appreciated Canada so much until I got here." I think she knew as soon as she got through Incheon airport that she wanted out. ( "Whoops. Guess I made an error in judgement.")

Have you met any people so easily turned off or overwhelmed so quickly by Korea?

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

Someone has ran away from every school I've worked for in Korea. But, never have I met anyone ready to go in 10 days.

numazawa · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: The Concrete Barnyard

I have to say, I'm drunk. But even so, I don't have much sympathy for that particular species of dumb. "Oops, wrong country. Wish I'd asked to look at the menu." Right. Excuse me, I need another drink.

stevenisi · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

I knew a guy who left the same weekend. Said Korea was more humid than he thought and flew to Taiwan (screwing his school in the process).

numazawa · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: The Concrete Barnyard

DaeguKid · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

We had an English girl who got here on a Thursday, cried her face off, quit on Friday, left on Tuesday. She came for money. My take is give Korea a month, if you still hate it as much as you did the first few days here, its not for you.
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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Korea's the wrong choice for most of you. You just can't bear to admit this to yourselves.

I'm enjoying the ride, though.

westonw · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Omungwelume, Namibia

yeah, you have to give a new place at least a month to be giving it even somewhat of a chance. this is the 2nd time i've lived abroad and for me the first few weeks are such a sensory overload home doesn't even cross my mind much. but i guess some peole just aren't cut out for living outside of their element.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

i like it here but it's less than optimum. it's a nice choice over canada because canada is dull as paint. i'll be moving on soon enough.

gmat · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

uber: where are you going? You always seemed to be walking around with some fine K-girls in Apgu Smile

bosintang · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: Re: Korea: Wrong choice for some

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I've known three examples of people who left early.

1) A really aggressive vegan dude who lost 20 pounds in 2 months. He was always picking fights. Once he was outside the 7-11 in Hongdae talking with some other foreigner about how all white girls in this country are prostitutes. One white girl walked by and he stabbed a finger in her chest and said "*beep*!" She turned out to be a soldier and had a lot of friends backing her up. I wish my friends didn't defuse the situation.

2) The lead singer of the band Drowningman. He came here, started talking about how he was going to be a long-termer in his first week, got addicted to painkillers, borrowed money from my friends, and left after a couple months.

3) An 18-year-old girl who worked with me at my first job. Our boss hated her because she was young, had a tattoo, and smoked. She left on her one-month anniversary at my advice.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

jay-shi · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: On tour

Korea is wrong for some.

Some are wrong for Korea.

I've seen the good and the bad , employee and employer wise.

It's dealt with on a case to case basis, I think.