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kerstentw
Joined: 03 Jul 2011
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 Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:36 pm Post subject: The blind F-4 leap questions |
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| I recently procured an F-4 Visa from the Consulate in LA. Along with the visa, I am also holding a 100hr TEFL certification as well as a BA in English Literature. I have started talking to some friends who have taught in Korea and they have recommended that I just go to Korea and seek employment in country sight unseen. I was wondering what the forum's thoughts on this were. Likewise, I have some specific questions: What documents should I bring to do this? Which documents should I have apostilled in the US before going over? what should I do when I first get there in order to get hired ASAP? Likewise, is this even a feasible thing to do in the first place? (I ask this because I have no idea just how the in country hiring process goes.) |
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bamboosoup
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: The blind F-4 leap questions |
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| kerstentw wrote: |
| I recently procured an F-4 Visa from the Consulate in LA. Along with the visa, I am also holding a 100hr TEFL certification as well as a BA in English Literature. I have started talking to some friends who have taught in Korea and they have recommended that I just go to Korea and seek employment in country sight unseen. I was wondering what the forum's thoughts on this were. Likewise, I have some specific questions: What documents should I bring to do this? Which documents should I have apostilled in the US before going over? what should I do when I first get there in order to get hired ASAP? Likewise, is this even a feasible thing to do in the first place? (I ask this because I have no idea just how the in country hiring process goes.) |
hey,
I'm not positive if this is the answer ur lookin for....
From personal experience, I can tell ya that having an F-4 visa is good AND bad. I've noticed more and more that job listings, compared to 4yrs ago, are asking specifically for ONLY E-2 and F-2 visas, basically non-korean blood. It's foolish because I have friends who are gyopo but are on E-2's because they were thought they'd have a better chance and when they went to apply for jobs, they got turned down based on how they look, Korean. The English degree and TEFL will definitely help u...BUT, look, I know adopted Koreans who've been living with "white" parents in the USA since they were a few months old and have "white" names...as soon as they see the picture (since Koreans ask for resumes with a picture attached), the hakwon wants nothing to do with them cuz they want VISIBLY foreign teachers.
This is a portion of an all too common job listing I found for a public elem school position:
Salary E-2 : 2.7-M(2.4+housing or allowance(300,000won))
F-4: 2.6(2.3M + housing allowance(300,000won)
F-2 visa: 2.8-3.0M ( NO housing)
The good thing about F-4 visas is that u don't need a letter of release if u should decide to quit/get fired all of a sudden, just be like cya! and get a different job asap. Also, there are SOME listings that ask for F-4's who are already in Korea, specifically, cuz u dont' have to go thru the visa process again and/or bilingual skills.
i believe u need to get ur university degree notarized and I know EPIK is requiring a sort of new thing this yr, a notarized FBI background check?
hope this is what u were lookin for, if not don't worry about it~  |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:18 am Post subject: |
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i came to here without a job for reasons other than working and used korea as a home base to travel around the world for my first five months. i then decided to work at a hagwon to try and learn some more korean and meet more korean people. they hired me the day of my first interview. once i realized how much of a joke that hagwon was and that i was fulfilling neither of my objectives, i quit and just got a corporate job.
i'm on an f4 and both jobs were quite easy to get and i didn't have either of them before i got here. ymmv. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:34 am Post subject: |
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We all started knowing jack about how things work in Korea, but if you are THAT unsure ...
Find out if you have relatives in Korea.
If you do, go to Korea and visit them. Tell them you're looking for work teaching english. Your relatives will find a job for you. It won't be a 2.0 mil+housing+... job but it'll get you stared. |
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