Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jamiemexi]

Just curious...

Lots of people are teaching overseas, most of my friends are concerned if S. Korea is going into a war. Is that something to be afraid of? Say if you're over there teaching and there's a war? How do the teachers get shipped back to their country?

[Ramen]

[questionmark]

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[egrog1717]

[tanklor1]

Yes! No one should come here at all. We're all booking flights out to either China,Japan or Taiwan.

We have no intentions of protecting our jobs because of the failing world economy by telling new teachers about the North Korean propaganda that we are forced to deal with on the day-to-day basis and not about the awesome opportunity that these jobs present to us.

So, you shouldn't come over here, not even if a "School" offers you a job with a free apartment. It's really a North Korean labor camp opened on sewing Nike tennis shoes.

[jamiemexi]

Good information. THANK YOU!

[Steve_Rogers2008]

all things being equal, it's probably be safer to be near Busan than Seoul... but if worse comes to worse, and you do get taken prisoner, just gie 'em name, rank and serial number.....


and learn to say, "You cannot win. You have little Cha-chis.... not giant American Cha-chis.....


all the better if you can relay that directly to Kim jong-il

[Ramen]

[Kaypea]

A lot of people think that the "OMG war time!" talk was pre-election propaganda to make people vote for the Grand Party, and people did.

[hari seldon]

[fergalreid]

[hari seldon]

[AsiaESLbound]

It would come unexpected even though we all knew there was a situation brewing for quite some time. I wouldn't think a sea of fire is coming to a Korea near you anytime soon, but I could be dead wrong about that. No one expected civil war to erupt in Bangkok, Thailand, but it did. No one expected riots to happen in Greece practically shutting down tourism. Few expected America to bum rush Iraq at the beginning the war. No one expected WW1, WW2, Korean War, nor Vietnam, but they all happened and lots of people unnecessarily died over stupidity. Well, you get my point. There may or may not be a war. I know one thing. No one is going to say, "There's going to be a war. Would you like a free safe passage home?" One also would expect the kind Koreans to not harm you if a war was ensuing in their country, but I wouldn't count on that. One would also expect it's easy to hide, but you'd be surprised how there's nowhere to hide in a place like Korea. Especially so since you'd look so visible like an albino deer in the forest. Hard to say if it's going to happen, but the majority on this board feel the risk isn't even worth discussing. Get ready to get ostracized....

[hari seldon]

[ajuma]

As long as NK and SK don't face each other in the World Cup, I think we're safe!