Korean Job Discussion Forums

[tfunk]

I've met a number of Koreans who have spent time working/living abroad in English speaking countries for the purpose of learning English.

In my experience, they speak English very well and are comfortable relating to Western people.

Is there a term, in English or Korea, for these people?

(Yes, it seems like an odd question)

[Ginormousaurus]

유학생 is a person who is studying abroad.

[VanIslander]

Is there a word, in English or Korean, for these people?

Yeah.... rich.

[Bloopity Bloop]

[climber159]

외국인 (Waygookin)

[Cheonmunka]

It does take money but you can make a comparison. NZ for a year of public elementary and decent living would be about 22 million all up. Compare that to fees of the so called foreign middle schools and high schools and private elementary schools here and you can see that study abroad, in a way, isn't that expensive. Also, for the year parents aren't having to pay for food etc for one of their kids. It's a few million a year for feeding a child. A few million for hakwon fees as well.

So, a good 12 to 15 million (maybe more) for child to study here at a foreign language school. Or 22 million for overseas.

One thing that parents don't think of that does happen is that kids on returning here can be held back a year due to their studies of math, hanja, 국어, science etc. I know of a child losing a year and being kept back a grade that way.

[Teelo]

[Kurtz]

They are not all rich, several pay for stuff on their backs.

From a NZ newspaper.

FUNDING EXPENSIVE LIFESTYLES

Suzie, a Korean student, went into sex work on a classmate's suggestion after her parents returned home. Her $180-a-week wage for working in a grocery shop failed to cover her bills.

She earned about $2000 a week working from a Glenfield house she shared with two Chinese student prostitutes.

Her clientele were mainly Pakeha, she said, who told her they preferred Asian women because they were cheaper and "prepared to do more".

Dora, 21, says she became a sex worker after her parents stopped her monthly allowance of some $3000 in an effort to persuade her back to Shanghai.

A business student who had let her studies lapse, she initially worked as a supermarket shelf-stacker but decided that $10-an-hour jobs wouldn't support her lifestyle, which included dining out daily because she couldn't cook, bar-hopping and shopping.

Neither woman had told her parents. But both spoke to journalist Lincoln Tan, of iball.

Mr Tan said he was surprised how important money was to the women - and how many were prepared to take health risks for more money.

They were not hard up, he said: "It's more because they want to. They want the lifestyle they have been used to back in their own country.

"Money is status. Money is who you are. That's why the temptation to get into sex work is so high."

[tomoyopop]

In case you can't read Korean (the question has been answered though):

유학생

Yoo-hak-seng

[Teelo]

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

[drkalbi]

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