Korean Job Discussion Forums

[blurgalurgalurga]

I am supposed to extend my contract (which finishes Jan 6th) for seven weeks, and then start the new job at a Uni in early March.
I wonder...
...will I be able to extend, without any further submissions of notarized diplomas and whatnot?
...will I be able to get the E2 for the Uni job processed while I am still working to the end of the contract I'm currently on?
...will I have to go home to get an interview at the Korean Consulate, and a notarized copy of my diploma?
...if the answers don't please me, will I just say 'f*** it' and go work somewhere else?
I really don't want to take a month off, and go spend all my hard-earned in Canada, where I won't even be safe visiting my friend's apartments, in case the sidestream from their Vansterdam cigarettes make a Ross Rebagliatti (remember him?) out of me.

[Young FRANKenstein]

If they allow me to renew in Korea, but require all my documents again, including police checks and whatnot: doesn't affect me because I have all that stuff already

If I don't renew, but they allow new visas to be processed in Japan: again, doesn't affect me because I was going to do that anyway.

If they require a trip home to get the visa / renew the visa / have an interview / whatever: I go to Japan and don't bother coming back... just stay and work there. I already have a decent network of contacts over there, and getting a job would take less than a week.

So, if Korea keeps it simple, I'll stay.
If they're dumb enough to make it a hassle, I'll leave.
No skin off my ass either way.

[reactionary]

i'm done at this school at the end of my contract.

if i need police checks and a visit to the korean embassy, well, that means i will be very picky about any korean position i consider....and i'll be applying to jobs in taiwan and japan this time around. korea's just not worth jumping through any hoops for.

[mumblebee]

I'm going to Cambodia for 3 months of volunteer work. I was hoping to get my visa for a public school job in Cambodia. Don't know what the hell I will do now, there is no time (or money) for me to go home first.

[bassexpander]

More of these for my F2:

[Optimus Prime]

I doubt I'll be able to find an American that knows what "Apostille" a document means. I sure didn't know until someone provided a link, and even after reading the wiki link, I still don't know what it means.

So I guess I'll be teaching in SE Asia or China next year...or I may hang around teaching my butt off illegally doing privates or several illegal jobs to cash in on the shortfall of teachers, and then split when I feel like it.

[Optimus Prime]

[lucas_p]

[Optimus Prime]

[lucas_p]

Yup, just another case of me going to bed and not giving another thought to it, I guess, until something should come up. Worries me a bit, though.

I can use a Jedi mind trick on them or something:

"We need a medical check, police check, etc."

"These aren't the droids.....err, I mean, you don't need to see my medical or police records." *Waves hand*

"We don't need to see his medical or police records."

Hmm, yeah, no worries.

[bacasper]

[sojourner1]

Slow me down and be a big head ache.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[traxxe]

I have three misdermeanors on my record. None of them drug or sex related. Hot check when I was seventeen. Driving with a suspended license and criminal tresspass (climbed a graintower drunk) in college.

So I'm not sure if I can stay anymore.

[pocariboy73]