Korean Job Discussion Forums

[kiwiduncan]

I'm planning to return to Korea from the UK after summer and then another university job in the new year. That means I may well be in Korea from late October to late February with a lot of free time on my hands but little desire to dip into my savings or do risky privates.

Does anyone have any experience of doing short-term volunteer work with some quiet little rural school or something? I'd happily teach for two or three hours a day in exchange for lodging and a food stipend. Then I'll have loads of time for Korean study, biking and uni job interviews.

Any ideas of who to contact? I've looked at the 'volunteer' websites on the internet but they always take the piss and require people to pay to volunteer.

Other options would be wwoofing, a three month home-stay or short-term student visa. Does anyone have experience with this?

Cheers,

Duncan

[spliff]

This gets my vote for wonkiest post of the year...congratulations!

[kiwiduncan]

so anyway, does anyone have any volunteering or home-stay experience in Korea that they would care to share?

Cheers,

Duncan

[doc_ido]

I've done a bit of WWOOFing - but they have downsized a lot in recent months and there are only about twenty farms in the entire country that take foreigners. Still, if you can speak Korean it'll get you a long way. Some places don't take people after November, and they'll work you much harder than 2-3 hours a day (though you do tend to get weekends off). www.wwoofkorea.com I believe.

[GoldMember]

Volunteering in Korea is ILLEGAL!
Don't do it.
If you really want to volunteer, join a church group here and go to Afghanistan. It's all the rage.

[mountainous]

yeah try a church group

is volunteering seriously ILLEGAL here? omg, that is too much

[in_seoul_2003]

Whatever you do don't sign up here (Hwasung Baby Home):

http://www.yheesun.com/

A couple of snippets from Ron Fowler:

am almost finished eating the Bibimbab and notice that their is a curly hair mixed in with the been sprouts of the dish. I pick it out as Korea is not known for requiring hair nets on cooks and chefs. Finish the dish as I was very hungry, pay and leave the restaurant. Shortly after leaving the restaurant I realized that I had in fact visited the restaurant in past treks twice and I had found a hair in the dish twice!

That's when I realized that the hair wasn't that from the head of any human. If was a hair from the private parts of a human! Pubic Hair!

There are numerous other events which took place during the last few hours of the trek but I think this Pubic Hair example is an sickening enough example of how a country treats people who make a stand to better the lives of it's citizens. I was called, ' Korea's indispensable asset by the Australian Ambassador ' recommended for the Seoul Honorary Citizens award twice which was signed by the top executives of the Bank of Korea. Yet, some sicking side of within the country just continues to harass my everyday life by repeating!


Another:

EMAIL SENT to Presidential Candidate Mr. Lee Myungbak! 5:15pm

Shattered Phone Booths:

Greetings,

Well, as if Ms. Lee bitching isn't enough of a show of more bs. She says that I'm giving her a hard time.

I left to go trekking again this morning. It appears that someone didn't like my comments again last evening as they shattered the glass in both phone booths outside the Sangwangshimni Subway station and switched the breakfast time at Mac Donalds from ending at 11:00am til 10:00am.

Same thing happened before.

Last nights comments weren't anti nor pro American or anything else other than common sense to the situation from my point of view.

I liked the example today: The big John Deer tractor followed by the little guy on the scooter. A replay as in the past. Stayed in the Same motel and found about 40-50 Japanese porno on it as well as the sex channels playing the Japanese porno as well.

This is not my complaint other than steps should be taken to prevent it from getting to minors. ' Common Sense! '

More Common Sense 103 U.S. Congress persons have no business in standing up against or for the situation when Koreans are so much in love with the Japanese pornographic materials.

NO?

Ron

[Bibbitybop]

Volunteering is NOT illegal, and I wish the mods would make a sticky about it or include it in the FAQs.

Volunteering without registering with immigration is illegal, but you can go here and register:

http://www.immigration.go.kr/HP/IMM80/imm_04/imm_0404/sm9.jsp

[Real Reality]

Volunteering Isn't So Simple in Korea
By Carli Brosseau, Korea Times (January 9, 2007)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/news_view.asp?newsIdx=3051302

[kiwiduncan]

Interest comments, cheers. As it happens. I've just arranged the ideal job for me starting next month, so I no longer need to investigate any full time volunteering options. I'll still look into some kind of wwoofing or related stuff for the future though.

Thanks, Duncan

[OiGirl]