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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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 Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:15 am Post subject: |
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One thing to keep in mind about China is airfare and apartment costs. I paid for my flight from the USA to China and was paying for my apartment too. My salary was 12,000 RMB. Overall, I prefer Korea's compensation package because of the apartment and airfare incentives.
For someone fresh out of university with student loan debt or little cash, the Korean perks of airfare and apartment would be even more valuable.
Chinese universities appear to provide apartments, but their salaries appear to be in the 4500-6500 RMB range. A person would really have to love China to work for that. |
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creeper1
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| EZE wrote: |
One thing to keep in mind about China is airfare and apartment costs. I paid for my flight from the USA to China and was paying for my apartment too. My salary was 12,000 RMB. Overall, I prefer Korea's compensation package because of the apartment and airfare incentives.
For someone fresh out of university with student loan debt or little cash, the Korean perks of airfare and apartment would be even more valuable. |
I agree 100%
Choose Korea for cash and China for poison.
In China you get poisoned
- through the air.
- through drinking the water (thousands of pig carcasses dumped in Shanghai river recently don't ask me what happened)
- through the food (melanime in milk anyone?)
- diseases (there is huge avain flu scare here)
In Korea you get cash and a hell of a lot of it
- I was easily able to save $12000 us dollars and had a whale of a time.
- posters such as "captain Korea" mention they find it relatively easy to make 6 million won a month.
So there you have it. Into poison - go to China. Into cash - go to Korea. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| EZE wrote: |
| Chinese universities appear to provide apartments, but their salaries appear to be in the 4500-6500 RMB range. A person would really have to love China to work for that. |
Yes, but the diffenence is (in 2013), university jobs in China (with their low working hours) are easy to get. University jobs in Korea are not easy to get. (Not anymore.) Teaching adults is way better than teaching kids. Teaching jobs in Korea are mostly teaching kids. (90% is the figure I heard, and I would tend to agree. Hell, maybe it's even higher than 90% now.)
About making 6 million a month- not going to happen unless you have the F visa. (Unless you are high roller fustiancorduroy. He's the only exception I can think of. And he graduated from a top ranked university and published several textbooks. Did you?) |
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rockbilly
Joined: 19 Mar 2013
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:00 am Post subject: Wo bu yao Zhongguo! |
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Even universities in China won't pay you if they don't want to.
My first and last jobs in China--over the course of four+ years, were at state universities. Uni job #1 just plain wouldn't pay in full come one fine month when they were either broke or in a bad mood--everyone suffered, not just me. Another uni job wouldn't surrender my passport until I threatened dialing up the US embassy in Beijing and embroiling them in a diplomatic incident--selfsame state-run uni wouldn't grant me a release letter even at the end of a contract which I'd finished in full, and honorably. Yet another state-run Chinese uni cheated me out of pay on an outright pack of lies . . .
Folks, I went to China in a spirit of goodwill. Look what happened!
Don't let it happen to you.
P.S. I'm back in Korea now. Never thought I'd say it either, but thank God almighty! Thank you, God! |
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