Korean Job Discussion Forums

[sarbonn]

I posted earlier about how we stopped getting paid some weeks ago, and the boss keeps promising to pay everyone. And promising. And promising.

He made some kind of business deal with some other big name business guy a few days ago that was supposed to mean everyone was going to get paid. Still, no one, including the KTs have been paid.

I tried to talk to him yesterday but he was on the phone (all day). The second time I tried to go talk to him, he seemed to have slipped out the back entrance (even his secretary didn't see him go out). Hasn't been back today, when I came in to talk to him again. I've been trying to find out what exactly is going on because I've been receiving offers from other schools (one public and one decent private school), but obviously I can't do anything without a letter of release. Getting the paperwork together seems like it's going to take forever without the LOR, so I'm starting to think that maybe it's time to find some other place to go.

So, with the recession/depression in mind, I figure that some places are better than others. I'm wondering where others would go if they were faced with the same sort of choice. I've been looking at US cities and thinking of just booking a flight to one of those and taking my chances on getting a job after I land (yeah, taking a chance, but working for free is getting on my nerves). I figure there have to be other countries that might be worth the effort as well, but kind of new to the international exploration sort of thing (did it back while in the Army, but that was a long time ago and there was always an umbilical cord attached).

I really wish things would have worked out (and who knows...it still might), but unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be the case.

[jinks]

Why not give Japan a shot?
Easy and cheap to get to (from here)
Plenty of info about jobs etc. online
Reasonably well paid
Gotta be better than working for free
'Nothing ventured nothing gained'
And if it doesn't work out, then you can easily come back to a better job (than your current one) in Korea.

[sarbonn]

Ideally, I'd love to work in Japan. I've been sending out responses to a number of different advertisements, but generally I don't seem to get a response, or they respond and say they'll get back to me. My credentials are decent, so there's no problem there.

When I put my resume/cv on work or play, or here, I seem to get about 10,000 immediate calls for South Korean jobs, but nothing for anywhere else. I even posted my resume today, stating "anywhere but South Korea" and the first call I received was for a private school in South Korea.

It would be great to find a recruiter for Japan, but haven't been so successful so far. Kind of running out of time, too. If things don't improve soon, and I don't have an alternative, I'm probably going to have to fly myself back to the states, destitute and homeless. At least until I can get myself back on my feet again.

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

Lot's of Kimberlies jump off the bridge into the Han, I guess they can't swim.

[sarbonn]

[RokofKangnam]

A buddy of mine back in the states called me the other day asking about work in the ROK. He says the economy in his area has gone down the crapper and he can't even find a burger flipping job.

I've always heard it's easier to find work in Japan in-country - pick an area and go looking.

[maingman]

Taiwan or China.. IMO

[losing_touch]

I will make the jump to Taiwan, China, or Dubai when my contract is completed.

[oskinny1]

They seem to need someone pretty quickly.

http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/index.cgi?read=19252

[John_ESL_White]

[Teelo]

*cough* cost of living

[John_ESL_White]

[maingman]

home sick>

[oskinny1]

[littlelisa]

I'd go to China. That's my backup plan.