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Don Mario
Joined: 28 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject: Can my girlfriend get a job, fit into Korea? |
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I am a Canadian guy, been living and teaching here
3 years now. My Mexican national girlfriend I left
behind wants to be with me. She has a Fine Arts
degree and is billingual. Would she be able to get
a job in S. Korea? Would accomodations be available
for a couple, or do I need to married and prove it?
Any suggestions? DM |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| She wouldn't get a visa to teach English because she's not a native of the 7 English-speaking countries. |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
Location: Somewhere
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it would be rather difficult for her to get a job 'legally' here. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I've seen jobs seeking Spanish speakers, you may want to start there. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: Can my girlfriend get a job, fit into Korea? |
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| Don Mario wrote: |
I am a Canadian guy, been living and teaching here
3 years now. My Mexican national girlfriend I left
behind wants to be with me. She has a Fine Arts
degree and is billingual. Would she be able to get
a job in S. Korea? Would accomodations be available
for a couple, or do I need to married and prove it?
Any suggestions? DM |
I'll say this. I remember seeing Peruvians and other Hispanics selling trinkets on the street. I no longer see them in Seoul, meaning perhaps immigration has come down hard on them.
She won't be able to get an E-2 visa to teach English because she is a Mexican national (right?). I'm also thinking that demand for Spanish is a far cry from that for English, so getting a place to give her a visa might prove tough. |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Well I donllt know what most of them do here but I have met a lot f Mexicans in Haebangchan when I lived there.
There are several Spansih / Mexican / Taco restaurants, so maybe they were employed there...
What you could do is get her to fly with you, enter on a toursit visa, frequent Itaewon and HBC, meet and talk to and befriend fellow Mexicans and find out what they're doing in Korea and see if she can get job through them. |
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Wai Mian
Joined: 03 Sep 2010
Location: WE DIDNT
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I knew of a few native Spanish speakers who got teaching gigs but they usually paid pretty low, around 11 or 12k an hour. Still, it's something. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Can my girlfriend get a job, fit into Korea? |
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| Don Mario wrote: |
I am a Canadian guy, been living and teaching here
3 years now. My Mexican national girlfriend I left
behind wants to be with me. She has a Fine Arts
degree and is billingual. Would she be able to get
a job in S. Korea? Would accommodations be available
for a couple, or do I need to married and prove it?
Any suggestions? DM |
If you are not married she will have difficulty coming here.
She will be limited to stays of 90 days or less, may be denied repeated stays, and will be required to show onward passage and proof of funds for her stay.
http://www.timaticweb.com/cgi-bin/tim_website_client.cgi?SpecData=1&VISA=&page=visa&NA=MX&AR=00&PASSTYPES=PASS&DE=KR&user=DL&subuser=DELTAB2C
She would NOT be able to legally work (except perhaps on a Spanish E2).
Can she stay with you in your school supplied accommodation = yes.
Suggestions (not necessarily tongue in cheek) = marry the girl and make your life easier as expats or leave her behind and let her go. Most places will not let you take her with you (visa wise) for long term stays unless you are married.
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Man on Street
Joined: 28 Aug 2010
Location: In the Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I've met a few Hispanics who teach Spanish here. Given the number of Koreans I've met who even know the word "taco," though, I think the amount of Spanish teachers here are very few and far between. |
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Troglodyte
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Try to make a deal with your school (or another one) to get her a visa to teach Spanish. Even if she doesn't really teach, she might be able to get a visa that way.
But if you haven't been together for 3 years.... maybe you might want to just let her come over as a tourist. Don't Mexicans get 90 days (renewable with a visit to Japan)? |
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DeMayonnaise
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I know a Russian girl who speaks near perfect English and has found hogwon jobs. Maybe your gf can get one, though she'll have a lot more luck in the countryside than in Seoul. |
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0ju
Joined: 30 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| PM Okibum, maybe she can give you some advice. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| I know a Russian girl who speaks near perfect English and has found hogwon jobs. Maybe your gf can get one, though she'll have a lot more luck in the countryside than in Seoul. |
I've met non-native foreigners who have also done that. In all the cases I've personally known about, the teacher lied about their nationality. Whether the school suspected the truth or not, I can't say for sure. I've definitely met some hogwan owners and teachers who spoke so little English that they wouldn't have known. Those aside there are shady hogwan owners who won't care as long as the teacher understands that the students mustn't find out.
Those that I met were doing it in Busan and Seoul. I'd recommend against doing it in the countryside or a small city because the key to succeeding at it is working a few classes at many different schools. None will hire her full time under those conditions.
She might get a few Spanish tutoring classes in Seoul, but it would likely be minimal as there are already a lot of Spanish speakers in Seoul.
Really, it would be easier for her to get a Spanish E2 visa. Are you working at a hogwan? If so, I'm sure that if you offered to pay the costs and your school got some free classes out of it, you could come to an understanding with them. Are you re-signing soon? It's a potential negotiation point. Don't expect them to actually hire her for real though. |
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naturegirl321
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Location: Home sweet home
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| She could live in Korea as a student. |
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