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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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 Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:22 am Post subject: Finding a job on Jeju Island |
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| My Korean wife wants to move back to Korea, but only to Jeju. I was told that she has to move back to Korea before I can apply for a F-2 visa. Would it be a good idea to fly to Korea and apply for a F-2 visa there and then move to Jeju and look for a job? Or should I set one up before hand? It seems like finding an ESL job is a bit more difficult than it was about two years ago. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:23 am Post subject: |
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You can get a 90 day F-2 visa at a consulate in your home country. In Canada the cost is around $35.00.
I am guessing you pay to get the visa extended once in Korea... |
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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Mr. Pink wrote: |
You can get a 90 day F-2 visa at a consulate in your home country. In Canada the cost is around $35.00.
I am guessing you pay to get the visa extended once in Korea... |
The Korean immigration woman told me since my wife currently lives in America, she would have to move to Korea before I could get a F-2 visa. |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Jeju is incredibly competitive. A recruiter I spoke with who deals solely in the area told me his agency only places about 1/10 interviews. Experience will get you far but availability will get you farther. I think if you can interview in person, you will succeed and it's worth the extra effort.
PS. I'm jealous! |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| DorkothyParker wrote: |
Jeju is incredibly competitive. A recruiter I spoke with who deals solely in the area told me his agency only places about 1/10 interviews. Experience will get you far but availability will get you farther. I think if you can interview in person, you will succeed and it's worth the extra effort.
PS. I'm jealous! |
1/10 success rate?
Does this mean Jeju has the best teachers in Korea?
Or perhaps the most attractive, depending on the "interview" process.. |
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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: |
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So I was looking for new Jejue positions and I can't find any noin public school ones past May.
What are my chances of flying out there and finding one in person within two weeks? I say two weeks because hotels cost at least 40,000 won a night, if i'm not mistaken. |
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n�fara
Joined: 14 Jul 2007
Location: The Island
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| DorkothyParker wrote: |
| Jeju is incredibly competitive. A recruiter I spoke with who deals solely in the area told me his agency only places about 1/10 interviews. |
Is that just for the hagwon jobs? I'm not sure if the EPIK positions are so difficult to get, unless there are heaps more people wanting to come here than previously.
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| Experience will get you far but availability will get you farther. I think if you can interview in person, you will succeed and it's worth the extra effort. |
This might very well be true. On Jeju, sometimes the jobs offers might be advertised locally in the hopes of finding someone already here. It's easier to hire someone on the ground rather than someone from overseas, but that's often the case in other places as well. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
| DorkothyParker wrote: |
| Jeju is incredibly competitive. A recruiter I spoke with who deals solely in the area told me his agency only places about 1/10 interviews... |
1/10 success rate?
Does this mean Jeju has the best teachers in Korea?
Or perhaps the most attractive, depending on the "interview" process.. |
Indeed, the best looking waygooks, and likely the youngest on average (so probably not as educated or experienced as elsewhere) and a higher percentage of Americans and of female teachers hired is a good bet. |
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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| So how smart is it to move to Korea with no job with $700 in hand? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| kentucker4 wrote: |
| So how smart is it to move to Korea with no job with $700 in hand? |
just bring a tent
until october the beaches of Jeju are places to stay, have cheap local bus service
could be done if one is focused and determined - but with the wife? |
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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I would be too sweaty and filthy to interview. |
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Countrygirl
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| kentucker4 wrote: |
| I would be too sweaty and filthy to interview. |
Go to the sauna, princess. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Go to the sauna, princess. |
 I'd say go to the jim-jjil-bang after sacrificing a virgin to Hallasan. Of course, this won't keep bigfoot, in the quise of a 'stone grandfather', from molesting the OP with a little plastic palm tree while he's asleep dreaming about Hawaii and mandarin oranges.  |
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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| Countrygirl wrote: |
| kentucker4 wrote: |
| I would be too sweaty and filthy to interview. |
Go to the sauna, princess. |
Thanks for the advice Tarzan. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| kentucker4 wrote: |
| Countrygirl wrote: |
| kentucker4 wrote: |
| I would be too sweaty and filthy to interview. |
Go to the sauna, princess. |
Thanks for the advice Tarzan. |
This isn't bad advice at all, actually. But he doesn't mean use the sauna, he means sleep there. You may already know this, but most jjimjjilbangs and saunas have communal sleeping rooms. It would probably cost you around W5000-7000 per night.
I'm not sure how available these are on Cheju-do, but in Seoul you could stay at a goshiwon for 200,000-300,000 per month to stay in basically a closet with a desk and a bed or a hasook-jip for 300,000-400,000 which would generally also include 2 Korean meals a day. Either of these would be a much more cost-effective option than staying in a love motel while you look for work.
As for your question of whether it's a good idea to show up in Korea with no job and $700 in your pocket, the answer is probably not. You could probably find a job before your money ran out, but since you'd have to wait about 5 weeks for your first paycheck, you'd be in pretty dire straits. You're probably better off getting yourself set up with a job before you go to Korea. But if you really have no other choice but to show up in Korea and start looking for work, you may eventually find the advice from this thread helpful:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=23709&highlight=tofu+anchovies
Good luck Kentucker, it sounds like you'll need it. |
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