Korean Job Discussion Forums

[allovertheplace]

Just wondering, what do you say about your experience in korea once you go home? This is not a value judgement at all.

But seriously, Ive been out at bars in Toronto and standing outside I'll meet 3 or 4 people who taught in Korea. Apparently, this is not a 'special' experience.

So what do you say on resumes, and how do you avoid rolling your own eyes when you say I was a teacher?

[Summer Wine]

Honestly, I don't know.

I first came in 2001 and now its 2010. I also may never go home, I may end up seeking a life in a different country or if Korea keeps on changing at the rate it is, then who knows I may stay longer.

I have no hard set plans. I am enjoying life one day at a time and at the moment my life is here. Where it will be next?

Though I am ok with that.

[Yaya]

I am home (in Asia, that is).

[sulperman]

[jonpurdy]

[Bloopity Bloop]

FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.

OH YEAH, IT'S CAUSE THE FOOD IS SO DAMN GOOD!!!!

[grant_steves]

[Kaypea]

I guess a lot of people won't have had "special" experiences then, just because they've taught in Korea. A lot of English speaking people are getting really familiar with Korea and Korean culture then, which is good for Korea.

When you meet people who've taught in Korea, and you're all drunk, do you start singing and dancing like the Wondergirls?

[redaxe]

[machoman]

[nathanrutledge]

I get bored. Everything closes early, there are only a few different foreign restaurants, all my friends have stayed the same, ugh. What a waste. Even my family is never all together anymore; my sister is in college, my brother is in the Navy, it's just a big waste of time and I think "When is my flight leaving again?"

[Skyblue]

Valuable intercultural communication skills.

Hopefully some language skills.

[wiganer]

[oldfatfarang]

"Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town"


( My Little Town - Paul Simon)

[take a rest]

I didn't really come here to be 'special'-- if there is one profound, cosmic truth in the universe, it is that life doesn't have to be a competition to see who can live the most awesome life-- and not even really awesome, just awesome according to some vague set of standards probably originally defined by some horrible cokehead copywriter at an ad agency in the 1980s.

And when I go home, mostly I just think that everything seems really vulgar. From the transparently fake smiles of the people in the bookstores to the meaningless 'thank yous' to the PDA to the advertising to the assorted characters on the streets and in the shopping malls, it all just strikes me as hideously aggressive, unnecessarily edgy and completely devoid of humility.

I've been in Asia too long, I think.