Korean Job Discussion Forums

saint_moi · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:01 am Post subject: My Air-Fare Poll:

So, what I'm learning is that schools refuse to pay for any part of your flight to Korea if you are joining their school from inside Korea. The reason being that they are paying "extra" by sending you to Japan as well because your E-2 was not processed before you came.

Is the wool being pulled over my eyes here? Prospective employer refused to reimburse any ticket as it costs to have me flown out on a visa run. After locking horns for an hour, the best offer was 500k portion of a one-way ticket reimbursed.

What are your thoughts? I'm not interested in being greedy. A one-way ticket reimbursed seemed fair to me, regardless of whether I'm already in Korea or not.

(and the bonus question: how much was your flight to Korea. Mine was 1.6 return. Is this an outrageous price?)

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

flew myself

i came on a 3 month holiday and left my dad in charge of my nursery...

2 years later i'm still here and he is still there Rolling Eyes

good ol dad Wink

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

flew myself...
found a good job(well not to bad)...
The employer paid the E2 and visa run

discostar23 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Location: getting the hell out of dodge

My employer paid both but I think because it was a new school they really didn't know any better

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I could answer yes to every question in your poll. One for each of my 3 contracts.

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Yeah, like Zed, I've done most depending on contract.

blah · Joined: 08 May 2003 Location: Ulsan, Korea

I flew in from the Philippines and negotiated that they pay two return tickets -- one for me and one for my wife. I reasoned that they would not spend any less to fly one person from North America. They actually wired me the cash to buy the tickets. It would have been easy to take the money and run but, gosh darn it all, I just couldn��t live with myself. They never asked for the return portion of the tickets either. I think the total came to about 1.5 mil.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

My first year, I flew over on my own dollar to meet a few directors face-to-face and check out their schools and apartments. I got reimbursed for my round-trip ticket after I came back from the visa run. I would do it the same if I had to do it all over again for the first time.