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If it weren't for the money...?
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fxz903



Joined: 18 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:54 am    Post subject: If it weren't for the money...? Reply with quote

I was just wondering, now that most of you have spent some time in Korea, how many would teach here as opposed to anywhere else in the world if it wouldn't make you that much money?
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Straphanger



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:06 am    Post subject: Re: If it weren't for the money...? Reply with quote

fxz903 wrote:
I was just wondering, now that most of you have spent some time in Korea, how many would teach here as opposed to anywhere else in the world if it wouldn't make you that much money?

Teach?! Back home I would qualify for welfare. This salary gives me the opportunity to save as much as I would back home as a teacher, but as a Level 3 Technologist, I've made five times this.

Honestly, I'm just here for the food. Tomorrow is samgyapsal day.
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fxz903



Joined: 18 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see. I was under the impression that most people came to Korea to make money through teaching. Thing is, I've heard some unpleasant stories, what with a friend of mine ranting for half an hour on the phone about what a hell-hole it is for foreigners. Just wanted to know what other people thought.
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Straphanger



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fxz903 wrote:
I see. I was under the impression that most people came to Korea to make money through teaching. Thing is, I've heard some unpleasant stories, what with a friend of mine ranting for half an hour on the phone about what a hell-hole it is for foreigners. Just wanted to know what other people thought.

Oh, your friend is in Seoul... Yeah... umm.. Tomorrow is samgyapsal day, PM me for details.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't get why anyone would go to Korea for the money anymore. I was helping a friend of a friend review contracts because she wanted to go over. I got curious because wages seemed to have gone up a bit. Once the exchange rate got factored in, this chick would be making $550CAD LESS than I was back in 2002.

You can make the same money working at a call center these days. Is the samgyupsal really that good?
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xCustomx



Joined: 06 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peppermint wrote:


You can make the same money working at a call center these days.


Would you honestly want to be working at a call center though?
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Straphanger



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peppermint wrote:
You can make the same money working at a call center these days. Is the samgyupsal really that good?

Yes, I'm afraid it's just that good.
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pootle



Joined: 05 May 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:53 am    Post subject: If it weren't for the money...? Reply with quote

I'm here to attempt to understand Korean life/culture/doings - call it what you will. The only way to know a place is to live and work in it. The money is okay because I move Won to GB Sterling, and it's not so bad if you hit it at the right time and don't panic.

I like teaching but it's not a long-term career for me. I'll be going somewhere else to so something else in March.
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mheartley



Joined: 18 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the money you could earn/save in Japan, China, and Korea was more or less the same, of the three I would be least enthusiastic about teaching in Korea, by a considerable margin.
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Kimbop



Joined: 31 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

xCustomx wrote:

Would you honestly want to be working at a call center though?


Would you honestly want to be paid 1300 bucks a month to be foreign, show up at work, and babysit students?
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MUOhio82



Joined: 25 Apr 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Um, we don't really make all that much money here....

Wait, why are we here again? Oh yea, I came here for culture. Wait...
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Css



Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im also here for the samgyupsal...

id be here if i earnt nothing.
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

2.3 million won= $1,800 American.

Health Insurance payments are negated by pension.

Rent is free. ($500 min. at home)

No taxes (or 4% at the most) (20% of your pay)

no need to have a car. (save $250/month on car and gas)

therefore, no need to have car insurance. (save $100/month)

Folks, you don't make what your job pays you. You make what your job pays you, plus what you don't pay in taxes, rent, car, insurance, gas.

There's a reason why anyone who isn't an alcoholic or terrible with money, can come to Korea and save $10,000/year, or pay off student loans.

So the exchange blows, it will recover within 6 months - year.

Oh, and you don't have to commute and work for 10 hours a day here.
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ldh2222



Joined: 12 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

blaseblasphemener wrote:
2.3 million won= $1,800 American.


More like $1,500US..
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Mr-Dokdo



Joined: 16 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:00 pm    Post subject: Re: If it weren't for the money...? Reply with quote

fxz903 wrote:
I was just wondering, now that most of you have spent some time in Korea, how many would teach here as opposed to anywhere else in the world if it wouldn't make you that much money?


And just who is teaching in Korea? As far as I can tell, it's pretty much a paid vacation, although I will be the first to admit that the paymasters suck big timne.
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