Korean Job Discussion Forums

[kurosyn]

Hey forum, this is my first topic. So:

Me and my girlfriend are interested in living and working in Korea for about a year as it is our dream to live and see what Asia is like for no longer than 2yrs.

My GF, according to your forum, can acquire a job in Korea because she has a degree in English Linguistics but is not a Native Speaker.

I, on the other hand, am a Native Speaker but I don't have a University Degree or never went to University for that matter. I worked for large corporations as a Technology Advisor & Technology Specialist in Corporate enviornments full-time.

Part-time (or as an extra source of income) from 2002-2009 I worked as an English Teacher, mainly Business English for private individuals and companies. Since 2009, I opened up my own company providing Speech & Language services in English. Mainly I teach corporations or private individuals HOW to speak, use their tone of voice, eye contact, the whole package in terms of "Speech" during negotiations and conference meetings as well as in business environments and improve their english in General English and Business English in several areas including Financial & Technological Business English.

Is it possible for someone like me to get a job in Korea without a University degree? I am 26yo. If necessary I can obtain reccomendations from companies like: Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Orange/TPsa Polska, Deutsche Bank, Sephora, and other companies to prove my competence in English as a Teacher.

[Slowmotion]

Short answer: No you can't get a teaching job.

[Chaucer]

Were you to show up in Korea you might both be able to find something. Illegal, but becoming more common these days. You would have to do visa runs and explain why you were here. Non degree-qualifications mean nothing--you'd both have to look the part of foreign teachers.

[ttompatz]

Short answers:

You cannot legally work as a teacher in Korea.

Even if your G/F can manage to find a job (unlikely, but not completely impossible, since she is not a native speaker) and get a work visa, you cannot get one as her dependent since you are not married.

This means that YOU will be making flights to Japan every 90 days and hoping that they let you back in since you have no job, no legal form of support, and no legal reason for residence.

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[interestedinhanguk]

China

[Hotwire]

I knew a Polish guy who got a job as a teacher with full e2 sponsorshitp, so it's not impossible for the gf.

For the op - why not try to get a job that relates to your business experience and earn more than we shmucks do!

[northway]

[PRagic]

Sounds like a lot of experience teaching basic international business communication and international organizational behaviour. Valuable stuff, and companies do outsource for those lessons here, but the teachers are mostly MBAs or above. On top of this, these are standard courses now for anyone in business school here in Korea.