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Stan Rogers
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andrewchon
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Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| He's on his way out anyway. I feel sorry for the graduates with no job or even prospect of a job, though. The status anxiety will eat them alive and it's a long way to climb out of that hole. I wonder, what will be Korea's equivalent of 'Avenue Q'? |
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Seoulman69
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| The average starting annual salary for a new hire at a conglomerate this year was 34.6 million won, or 54 percent more than at a small- or medium-sized business, according to an April survey by online employment agency JobKorea. |
The starting salary at the cheobols is pretty much the same as the average ESL teachers salary. The managers at the conglomerates must be making good coin. |
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viciousdinosaur
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| The average starting annual salary for a new hire at a conglomerate this year was 34.6 million won, or 54 percent more than at a small- or medium-sized business, according to an April survey by online employment agency JobKorea. |
The starting salary at the cheobols is pretty much the same as the average ESL teachers salary. The managers at the conglomerates must be making good coin. |
They do earn well, but they earn every penny. They worked hard. All day, weekends, no vacation, whatever, it's 24/7 work. There really is no easy job in Korea. That's the point. That's why their economy is taking jobs from back home. Wait, scratch that, there is one truly awesome job in Korea--Hagwon owner. If you own a successful chain hagwon, OMG, money. My boss rolls in a Mercedes. |
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jackson7
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: Kim Jong Il's Future Fireball
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Or alternatively put in the time for a master's in the field and then enjoy the comfortable pay, low hours, long vacation, and good benefits in the university sector. If you'd like the absolute best gigs, though, go all the way for a doctorate, publish and present along the way, and land yourself a tenure-track gig that pays much more than one could make at Western universities, but with more job security. Professors are some of the happiest people in Korea, when they're not being asked to learn and then lecture in English in order to keep their jobs, that is.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't envy any Korean, even the rich ones. |
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ovid
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| Wow that sucks.. but the "work now, study later" seems like sound advice. Imagine all that crap you have to go through: top grades, little/no free time during the week, studying, and then end up unemployed with no job prospects. |
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