Korean Job Discussion Forums

[dakdungchim]

Hi, everyone,

Is there an MOE-sponsored university job supersitesite, like I've seen in some other Asian countries? One with, say, all the university jobs in one place?

Dakdungchim

[Pak Yu Man]

Like this?

[HapKi]

Or this-
http://www.internationaleducationmedia.com/korea/universities.htm

or this-
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-colleges-and-universities-in-south-korea

[PRagic]

Great links. I seem to recall some tool on here advertising an 'employment pack' for Korean universities. With those websites on hand, what more do you need?

[dakdungchim]

Thanks a lot, Yu-man and Hapki. Not exactly what I was looking for. I was looking more for something like higheredjobs.com in Korean. A list of vacancies--not a list of universities. University/Departmental websites are not always up to date on hiring vacancies. I found a Korean University job on Dave's Cafe before.

Hapki, did you ever hear of the 2 types of hapkido? One's tkd-based, and one's basically aikido?

Thanks,

Dakdungchim

[PRagic]

You can also check out the Chronicle of Higher Education on-line. Korean universities post there at times, but only for Ph.D. positions. Don't know what your background it, but you might give it a go.

[dakdungchim]

Thanks, PR,

I've seen the chronicle ads. Believe it or not, I have a good university job in another country. I taught in Korea before, but I heard the Korean economy was booming, etc. . . The nighbors flowers always smell better, I guess. Anyway, you always need an escape plan.

Thanks,

Dakdungchim

[dakdungchim]

One of the things that making me think was Aristotle's post.

"If you want to get paid go to Korea or Japan. If you want to learn real Chinese, go Shanghai and make more money teaching English than you will anywhere on Taiwan. If you want to have a pleasant experience teaching overseas go to Thailand."

But, compared to my old Korean job, I have 12 weeks more vacation, work 5 less hours per week, have decent teaching times, and make $600-$700 US more. Of course I try transalate that to Korean. Makes me wonder about Shanghai, too.

dakdungchim

[HapKi]

[dakdungchim]

HapKi,

I have no clue. That's why I asked. ;0 I assumed with a name like Hapki, you must be pretty high up and know a lot about hapkido.

An old Korean friend told me there were 2 majors kinds/schools. I think the names were, like, Kyogi and Yodul, or something like that. He said one (the TKD-type) was all over the place, and one (the aikido-type) was rather rare. (This was played out when I watched the Hapkido Championships on ROK TV before. Most of the hapkidoists were doing high-flying kicks, but one American school was doing, basically, aikido.)

Long before meeting him, I had begun taking hapkido classes for a short time, but I quickly found out that the one I found wasn't aikido-based and jumped ship. They did some joint-locks and rolling and tumbling, but only one day a week. It didn't fit my schedule, and I couldn't justify paying what I did for only one day of the instruction I was looking for.

One of my Western friends was really good at hapkido. He's a policeman in Canada now. If I make it back to the ROK, unless someone pointed me straight to aikido-type hapkido, I'd probably go straight to judo. Kicks just arent my speed--a body-type issue, I guess.

Dakdungchim

[noguri]

The closest thing to higheredjobs.com in Korea is really the Korean version of chronicle.com

It is www.kyosu.net

Since I don't know Korean, I have a Korean read the jobs advertisements to me. Sometimes they lead to university websites that post the ad in English.

[PRagic]

dakdungchim, where do you work now? Sounds interesting. More money and nicer? Hmmm.

[genezorm]

what kind of people use "uber" to describe something?

is it a cool word now? and has it been accepted into the english vernacular?