Korean Job Discussion Forums

[silkhighway]

[silkhighway]

[happiness]

I have had a couple real nice suits made here and not too pricey, HK. har!


just go to the Gap and get a couple pair of khakis and a button down shirt and a sweater. thats good enough.

[northway]

[methdxman]

As a general rule, it's impossible to overdress as a guy.

Just see what other teachers do at your school and dress slightly better.

A nice jacket + shirt + tie + jeans can do wonders.

[minos]

If possible, get it made here...much cheaper than the states.

Yes, you need a Suit....especially if you want to switch jobs here....

Apparently few foreigners wear suits to interviews here

[cyui]

I am sorry but I don't think wearing a suit is automatically going to make you a better teacher or going to make the students' automatically wanna come to your class.

ESL just isn't as prrofessional as some of it's everday suit-wearing counterparts,whose salery can match thier dresscode. I think it highly innaporate in an industry where you are making such little pay; having to use contionous tedious and mundane talk , feeling endlesy tired,and worn out from all the screaming and mounds of planning( versus sitting at a desk doing office tasks' or going to a courtroom and ,thus feeling/looking good from being able to use your brain without all the extra effort).

You feel effortless because that is just what it is. In turn, you don't 'dress the part" because it not the way.

[Carbon]

[minos]

[sirius black]

[southernman]

[quote="silkhighway"]

[RMNC]

This is for men.

Show up at the airport wearing slacks and belt, dress shoes, an oxford shirt (tucked in you slob) and a blazer. No tie needed.

For your first day, leave out the blazer. Repeat ad nauseum for the rest of your career. The only exception is if you're forced to wear a tie or you teach Kindergarten, in which case any apparel is OK.

Essentially, just go with business casual. You'll still look better and put off a better image than 90% of the ESL teachers in Korea by tucking in your shirt.

[ontheway]

Bring your suit if you have one.

If you have any social skills at all you will be invited to Korean weddings, first birthday parties, business meetings and luncheons, solnal and chuseok gatherings, (and hopefully not, but also funerals) and other social events where you'll want to dress properly.

[cyui]

I am sorry but you don't need that much knowledge or ability to teach ESL.

Yeah, it can make you feel like you look great, but what happens' when you take off your suit and put on sweats'? You're still the same person.

My ex tried this as a trick to get me. He though that by wearing a suit, it would make in a difference in how I felt or change the kind of guy he was. Yes, he was Korean, so appreantly they think the same way about the suit.

This isn't an editing article, so nickpick all you want, doesn't matter one bit to me. Really could care less.

[lonestarteacher]