Korean Job Discussion Forums

boogiet · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

If you were getting ready to move on to somewhere new in Asia, where would you head?
I'm thinking of hopefully saving SOME money, but maybe more important would be getting some language acquisition. I did okay here, but I would really like to be able to converse comfortably in a given language.
Is tagalog practically feasible (given that many speak english in the Philippines)? What about Vietnamese?
Is Thailand just so much more fly than other countries that it doesn't matter the language? I've heard it's the most fun and warm.
Is Japan a fun party country? Were any Indian languages possible for you to pick up?
Help me out, then you'll have a friend in a cool place!
BT

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

much of China is just too polluted, but surely some southerly less industrialized cities might fit the bill for 6-12 months

much of Thailand is just too bloody hot and humid to take in more than 1-3 month stints

much of the Philippines and India just doesn't need to import native English speaking teachers

much of Indonesia is dangerous for a multitude of reasons

much of Japan is just too expensive or urban yet formal, uptight for my tastes (having travelled there a half dozen times), though I keep hearing good things about Hokkaido

much of the jobs in Vietnam require a headache of paperwork I hear these days

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I'd be tempted by the central asian -stans, Mongolia, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea or Siberia. For a year or a half.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

And Japan may have a teacher surplus, since the NOVA mess began recently.

soviet_man · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul

Russia

There is demand in the far east (Vladivostok and Sakhalin) with small private english schools.

Wages are low, but so too are the working hours and there is in theory, more free time in Russia than a typical school in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and perhaps most other places in Asia.

as-ian · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Location: Busan, South Korea

pavement burns · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Location: Pocheon, Kyonggido Korea

Put enough years in here, upgrade credentials and these two would be attractive:

(Singapore) MOE http://www.moe.gov.sg/teach/
(Hong Kong) NET Scheme http://www.emb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=262&langno=1

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

sojourner1 · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

smashjack · Joined: 25 Jun 2007

I would personally head to Taiwan... You make as much if not more money in Taiwan and not everyone's as uptight as in Korea... The girls even get tattoos here... Seems like a right of passage. The weather's gorgeous there too. Hope this helps!!!

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Japan, Taiwan, California, Hawaii or the Philippines are some of the places I was thinking of going next.

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

Go to Taiwan, it's great and they aren't all uptight.