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bloodorange
Joined: 04 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: Anyone Working Here as a Model??? |
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i am wondering if there are any foreigners working here in seoul as a regular model...
i'm interested in hearing how one can enter into the korean modelling industry (for example Daniel Henney) and the comparisons to Can/US's
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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You can't legally work as a model or actor on an E-2 visa. You can do the work, but you have to do it for free.
Apparently immigration checks up on it. |
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browneyedgirl
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone Working Here as a Model??? |
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| bloodorange wrote: |
i am wondering if there are any foreigners working here in seoul as a regular model...
i'm interested in hearing how one can enter into the korean modelling industry (for example Daniel Henney) and the comparisons to Can/US's
much appreciated, |
Most agencies don't keep their models in one place long term (except for Hong Kong, London, France and Japan). You usually either stay in a country for a few days or a few months and then get sent out to a new place. I do know of a model who worked in Korea, but now she's in Hong Kong. I think her agency only kept her in S. Korea for two months (PM me and I�ll send you her way to ask questions about modeling in Asia).
If you are Caucasian, Hong Kong has more opportunities, so tell your agency that HK is your preference, and then get your agency to send you to Korea when your portfolio is stronger. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I stripped for Susan Macdonald on EBS. Does that count? |
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Papa Smurf
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
You can't legally work as a model or actor on an E-2 visa. You can do the work, but you have to do it for free.
Apparently immigration checks up on it. |
maybe you can. i think you can get a letter of release from your boss. i was once asked to do an ad but it fell through. i was going to be paid and was told by the agent to ask my boss to fill out some paper work. However, it never got to that point so who knows? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| I usually get about 2 calls a month, but I can't be bothered. They always move production dates and that screws up my schedule. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| Papa Smurf wrote: |
| crossmr wrote: |
You can't legally work as a model or actor on an E-2 visa. You can do the work, but you have to do it for free.
Apparently immigration checks up on it. |
maybe you can. i think you can get a letter of release from your boss. i was once asked to do an ad but it fell through. i was going to be paid and was told by the agent to ask my boss to fill out some paper work. However, it never got to that point so who knows? |
My understanding is only if you were to get another visa. On an F2 you can work at anything you want, but an E2 you're limited to a single job at a single school regardless of what your boss says. Now I believe you can talk to immigration about working outside the scope of your sojourn, but I'm not sure what that entails. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't all E2 teachers hired basically on as models? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't all E2 teachers hired basically on as models? |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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I walk around with a camera crew photographing me in various situations, like buying kimchi, eating kimichi, slinging kimich at hostile monkeys, boiling kmichi to make a sort of stew, and building a house out of kimchi.
However, I'm way too sexy for all of this so I think the pilot is doomed. But food network spinoff is is in the works. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Aren't all E2 teachers hired basically on as models? |
Yes, I feel like a monitored, stared at, watched, observed, and overly photographed zoo animal. I'm a model to demonstrate only one of the many various examples of Western man to the local Koreans. I wish they'd act right and be real. I wish they'd think of me as a real human and be more comfortable, but they're so uptight and I'm tiring of the nonsense. Just talk if you can; don't be shy or daftly scared you're inferior to me. I'm not here to prove myself nor compete, but just to exchange knowledge. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Aren't all E2 teachers hired basically on as models? |
Do you tell people that you worked as a model in the years you spent in Korea? That is funny.. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| sojourner1 wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Aren't all E2 teachers hired basically on as models? |
Yes, I feel like a monitored, stared at, watched, observed, and overly photographed zoo animal. I'm a model to demonstrate only one of the many various examples of Western man to the local Koreans. I wish they'd act right and be real. I wish they'd think of me as a real human and be more comfortable, but they're so uptight and I'm tiring of the nonsense. Just talk if you can; don't be shy or daftly scared you're inferior to me. I'm not here to prove myself nor compete, but just to exchange knowledge. |
Well put. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Aren't all E2 teachers hired basically on as models? |
Do you tell people that you worked as a model in the years you spent in Korea? That is funny.. |
If I'm charitable I say in the hagwon environment we're mostly there to teach kids that foreigners don't have fangs and won't eat them. They can make mistakes and we won't laugh or shoot them.
If I'm not charitable, I say we're just dancing bears.
Of course, there's more to it than that. If you make the effort, you can get emotional and career rewards. But at the end of the day, if you operate on auto pilot in the class, you bring "dancing bear" to the classroom and Koreans seem happy to pay for the factory default settings. |
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Genius
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| i don't think there's any models here |
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