Korean Job Discussion Forums

[takethree]

I know we're primarily an ESL crowd here, but I'm wondering if anyone has ideas about places to find TV/Media jobs in Seoul? I've got 7 years producing and writing television and I'd love to move to Seoul for a change of pace.

I assume it's all about who you know, just how it is here in LA...so, who do you know?

I understand that companies typically don't hire foreigners over Koreans, but I feel like there must be opportunities for native English speakers (who are learning Korean), perhaps as teachers in high schools/unis.

Thoughts?

[PRagic]

You have two options here, Arirang TV and Radio, or eFM, an English language radio show. There is also an educational network, EBS, but that would be so excrutiatingly painful of an experience for you that it's best to just put that out of your mind from the get-go.

Arirang gives preference to Kyopo as they can get the visa without sponsorship. I don't think they produce their own shows outside of documentaries, and even those are outsourced for the most part.

The radio station does employ a few foreigners.

The content at both of these places is very low level. There are people on air here simply because, well, they're here. They'd never get on the air back in N. American or Europe. Having said this, it is a step up to at least have some dedicated broadcasts in English that aren't the same repetitive English teaching drivel that has been cranked out for decades here.

The long and short of it? If you have a decent job in LA, stay there. Fly on over for a vacation if you have a burning desire to experience Korea, but don't seek work in your market segment over here.

[jjajangmyun]

What pragic says.

Arirang is known around here as sort of a joke of a network in that its hard to take them seriously.

If you want to rack up some solid work exp that will help your career, hustle ur ass off to make it in LA.

[Zyzyfer]

In my (to be fair, kind of limited) experience with the whole TV thing over here, it just does not really pay all that well in general.

[Ralph Winfield]

[PRagic]

eFM has that girl who used to do Heart-to-Heart, that interview show on Arirang. She's good. And I believe that Susan MacDonald now has a show on Arirang. She's always been a class act. Two exceptions? Maybe some know of others?

[Ralph Winfield]

There might be some more nice foreigners on the radio and on TV. Sure hope so because my Korean-American friend claimed that that Canadian guy at eFM used to sell dope to students and even boasted about desiring fellatio from one of his 13 year old students at their hogwon and worked illegally on the weekends at one of the most famous clubs in Hongdae. Sure did not help give foreign teachers a good rep.

[takethree]

Thanks for the advice. I thought that might be the case, good to hear it from you guys. Appreciate the input.

[Yaya]

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