Korean Job Discussion Forums

[martinpil]

HI

I have been looking for a position teaching just adults or corporate english but all i see is lists of elementary and high school jobs. Where are the adults and corporate jobs> i saw one, YBM but she does not hire first timers who have not yet got their first visa for some reason 9something to do with the amount of time and eefort it takes) There must be full time jobs in companies surely,no?

[hwarangi]

There are full-time, in-house, business English teaching jobs in big companies like LG, Samsung etc... Most of them like you to have a business background; Masters (pref. MBA); and experience in Korea. A lot of those companies have corporate training centres outside Seoul, in places like Yongin. If you keep your eyes open, you may be able to find one, especially if you're willing to live outside Seoul. Otherwise apart from YBM, there is Wall Street Institute. I haven't heard anything good about Pagoda.

[John_ESL_White]

They're all split shift city. YBM is the worse with no housing and no housing allowance; just key money.

They low balled an F-2 I knew at 2.6 with no housing allowance and a split shift. They do hire first timers and those out of the country. It's just a bad job.


If you visit the main adult haggy in Seoul for YBM, you'll see nothing but young kids, fresh out of uni walking the halls. It's strictly a first timers' position or a position for a 2nd year guy who was stuck in a terrible crapwon the first year.... terrible enough for him/her to take a pay cut and work a nasty split and pay rent.

[sojourner1]

But we want a 9 to 5 job working in a corporate office in a lucrative industry talking to business executives all day that carries all the perks to put that international business degree to its' real intended use. Opportunities based on the stuff they teach in university is a far fetched dream for most as there are not that many of those traditional styled jobs. They teach you the CEO logic, accounting, fiscal management, Asian business culture, doing business across borders, things like letters of credit for international business deals, and all this high level stuff no employer needs you to do today as it's all been done to death by predecessors during the 80's and 90's and these are low declining times. For now, the relationships, translations, and deals have already been done in our modern scope of business so they don't need newbies right now. However, there are many young aspiring Korean career people who would be glad to talk with you to gain experience and knowledge, but that mostly comes in the form of a hagwon or private lessons instead of offering a really good job to the teacher. Young Korean adults too are worried that there won't be enough good jobs in the money and technology like they so seek upon college graduation.

I think being bilingual would help tremendously in getting a high level job like this. It truly requires country specific knowledge and to be there at the right time. For example, 10 to 20 years ago would had made you an international business executive had you come here speaking Chinese and Korean as well as understanding both finance and technical manufacturing processes, because you'd be teaching the Chinese and Koreans how to build the stuff they were to export to America which involved a great deal of translation of design and business plans as well as cultural exchange to make it work like the way it did.