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tiddles · Joined: 25 Aug 2009

Online work is easy to get, even if you have no experience.

Can you write well? Can you hustle? Willing to churn out 500 word articles on payday loans for $5 for a few months while you build some contacts and a portfolio?

There you go.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

My insistence on what exactly? Listen, bub. I gave absolutely no advice on this thread. I corrected a couple of details you posted, and you're blowing it up into something else. Stop giving in to your insecurities. Go back and read exactly what i wrote.
Then, say you're sorry. It's not that hard. Bonus points!

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

This is getting silly. I didn't say to go back and SELECTIVELY read what YOU wrote. I said go back and read what I wrote. From the beginning. I think then you'll see who was talking out of their arse.

Things will clear up. Try it. Or just go on derailing the thread.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Weigookin74 · Joined: 26 Oct 2009

Your wife would have to make a really high income to make it worth it. If she's making 4 million won a month with free housing, it'll be worth it for you to come over and not work. The odd side teaching job might be helpful. You could do online teaching for people in North America just like you would back home.

As for the other things, there's no skilled trades here. ANyone can do these jobs. The final work has to be inspected by a 4 year degree engineer. Depends on what type of contruction or expertise you have. I know there are a few who build western sytle homes here and might have use for some type of "specialist" especially someone who does or knows something the locals don't. Not impossible, but highly unlikely. You won't find the answer here however.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

Look, there very well may be (I don't know and, honestly, I'm really not interested in finding out one way or the other) tons of work available for laying flooring. The thing is, if you:

are not Korean or Korean ethnicity,
are not employed already in that field with a firm that has an office in Korea,
or
do not speak Korean

there simply is no legal way for you to get employed in that field in South Korea. Advice to pick up the odd tutoring gig or work under the table is very bad advice. Get caught doing that and not only will you end up deported but your spouse may very well lose her job and visa also. And this brand-new and not unforeseen situation will not be cheap. You will pay before you are allowed to leave the country.

As another poster said, Korea isn't Kansas. You want to work in Korea? Get the documantation (diploma) that will qualify you for employment there. Don't want to do that? Go live somewhere else.

I believe CC's point is that the OP's situation (i.e., his skill set of not speaking Korean, not having diploma) makes it not possible for him to "walk off the plane and find a job in his current field."

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

Ok, since you need the hand-holding, here we go...
I am not taking issue with the obvious level of difficulty the man has getting a job in his trade. That has been well explained. Anything you think I said in that regard is sadly, your own concoction. All I did was clearly state, contrary to your post, that foreign construction firms are numerous here, especially in residential construction, and that wages offered are much higher in comparison to wages in the west. Just because your friend doesn't pay well, doesn't mean he is in the majority regarding the industry as a whole.
I didn't say it would be easy to get a job. I said the opposite. Couldn't see that, could you?

Now, to add, you are also wrong in regard to the possible visas a foreign skilled worker can get, in addition to a 'training' visa. How does that sit with you?

So, in summary:

1. You thought you knew something, but didn't.
2. I corrected you. (first post I made)
3. Your ego made an entirely new argument, and can't let go of it.

You, sir, were the one talking out of your ass in regard to those two points. Those were the only two points I objected to and claim have a 'wealth of information' on. I claimed nothing else.The rest of this is the work of your imagination and insecurity.

Now, the question is: why on earth can't you just recognize that you were wrong on 2 minor points instead of inventing all this drama? Your posts have been hilarious on this thread. I'm sure you have more. It all depends on how much you want to be 'the man".

Lynns · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Location: Korea

If she's working at one of the legitimate international schools (not a Korean-owned hagwon, but an accredited K-12 foreign school) they hire trailing spouses for a lot of campus jobs--clerical, facility management, administrative, support staff. It's very common at the big schools, and they procure the required visas. Almost sure you would have to be actually married though.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Crescent, by all means then, name them. List them. Show this guy all of the job advertisements for flooring work for foreigners in Korea.

Show us the wealth of opportunity Korea holds for foreigners in the residential flooring industry.

Because so far, you've shown jack.

You talk about hilarity in regards to my posts... fine, prove me wrong. Prove CentralCali, Tomm, and a host of others how easy it is for this guy to land his flooring job here.

Face it, you've been talking out of your as this whole thread. You called me out on... what exactly? That foreign construction workers get paid lower wages here? That it'd be near impossible for him to walk into a job here?

No, you had to create some elaborate path of him finding a placement in his home country to try to coincide with his SO's work here. It's you who had to concoct something to make your premise even possible.

So, most of the people on this thread are cautioning him. Saying that he simply can't come here and pick up construction work. Many are also saying to be wary of illegal teaching, and that his ideas of "online work" seem... not that thought out.

He can listen to all of those words of caution.

OR, he can listen to you.

And to listen to you, all he has to do is find a company that will fly a flooring guy half way around the world, to a place where he doesn't speak the language, so that he can install residential floors.

So, where are these jobs offers? I've asked you NUMEROUS times to back this up - where are the job offers for this guy? I mean, you've got the whole world wide web at your finger tips, and you're obvious claims of knowledge in the local industry - where's your hook up for him? Where's your help for this guy??

No where.

Exactly where your point and posts are in this thread.