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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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 Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:25 am Post subject: Thinking of returning |
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I'm debating right now whether to return to the Land of the Morning Calm and am wondering what the general climate is given the recession. I haven't really paid attention to the board since I left so is there a general consensus or anything new I should be aware of? I left in 9/07, has much changed since then?
Any info or links to previous threads that might have covered this would be appreciated.
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| There're still jobs. Come on back to your home away from home. Only thing that's changed is the won is very weak so pay is only about 2/3rds of what it was up until last October according to historical financial data. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Robot_Teacher wrote: |
| There're still jobs. Come on back to your home away from home. Only thing that's changed is the won is very weak so pay is only about 2/3rds of what it was up until last October according to historical financial data. |
So the pay is actually down or I'll only see the reduction when I go to transfer money home? For instance, if I was making 2.0 mil in '07 will I only be making 1.5 now or still the same (approx)?
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:42 am Post subject: |
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You can easily make 2.3 to 2.5 these days.
The Korean won has fallen to about 1500/dollar. It was below 1000/dollar range when you left.
You will now need all kinds of additional documents to work here: a Criminal Background check and a health check up in Korea.
The Korean economy is way down and falling. Many schools are losing students and cutting back.
There has been a recent influx of resumes from unemployed financial and legal workers to teach here. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| ontheway wrote: |
You can easily make 2.3 to 2.5 these days.
The Korean won has fallen to about 1500/dollar. It was below 1000/dollar range when you left.
You will now need all kinds of additional documents to work here: a Criminal Background check and a health check up in Korea.
The Korean economy is way down and falling. Many schools are losing students and cutting back.
There has been a recent influx of resumes from unemployed financial and legal workers to teach here. |
I did a background check at the beginning of my last contract so that's no big deal. Would I be getting a health check up here and submitting the results or is it from a doc in Korea? I read a little bit about the AIDS scare they're drumming up about foreigners but I didn't read the full thread to see what the final verdict was. It's been finalized, then?
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asams
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| you have to fill out a health statement in the US then when you get to Korea you have a health check. This is required to get your ARC. It seems like they're concerned with AIDs and tuberculosis (TB). If you're free of those you're good to go. |
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