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daeguowl
Joined: 06 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul
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To work in a Korean hair salon you'd probably be being paid around 1.2-1.5 million a month and be working 11am - 9pm 6 days a week. Some only offer two Sundays off a month.
I'm also not sure whether they'd recognise your US license, in which case you might need to take the Korean Hairdressers Test as well |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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To the OP, if you didn't open your own salon in Itaewon or some other area that is expat heavy, you'd need to speak fluent Korean AND know what Koreans like. As in you'd need to make guys look like a member from Super Junior and the sort, but oh well, a salon could use your foreigness to attract customers in the beginning but it could wear thin.
The non-teaching opportunities in Korea for expats who can't speak Korean and lack a marketable skill are marginal at best. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Why would I need to be fluent in Korean? I am an overseas marketing manager. My job is to speak to foreign buyers and distributors. |
Foreigners make up like 1 or 2% of the population here. You're talking about entering a service business that relies heavily on loyalty, and with a transient target demographic and how picky people are about their hair, banking on foreign customers is risky to say the least. If you had a bilingual Korean stylist/partner who worked with you and could cater to the local clientele then I'd say go for it. |
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