Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Zackback]

If it ever happens is there some kind of list somewhere we can sign up to teach once North Korea is free?
I think they would want the best teachers to go there that exemplify......ya know decent qualities and stuff like that.
I wasn't thinking about this for awhile (about 2 minutes) and I realized I want to be first on the list of teachers to go there. I think about 95% (or more) of the North Koreans have never met a foreigner. It would be perfect if I was the first one they ever met in their entire life. They would never forget me.

[young_clinton]

Every ESL teacher and their mother and dog would want to teach in North Korea if it opens up. Why would their be a list to teach in North Korea?

[young_clinton]

Every backpacker also

[schwa]

[northway]

Other pros:

1) They dig pot.

2) They really dig the chubby moon faces up north, so there would be slimmer competition for the true hotties.

[FDNY]

You would NEVER, EVER, NEVER get laid. And if you did I wouldn't even want to think of the consequences. You think South Koreans throw hissy fits when they see us with their women. North Koreans are MUCH worse. Have you read The Cleanest Race, by Brian Myers?

[Nolos]

lol at the lames who couldn't even get laid in S Korea want to sign up to be first to get rejected in N. Korea, too. You would be shot on sight if you were seen with a Korean women.

[northway]

I was assuming some regime change, dudes.

[jvalmer]

If North Korean opened up, it won't be on their own. Probably only by some kind of unification (with the Chinese on side) with the south. And foreign English teachers are probably way down on their list. I can see them allowing a bunch of gyopos in.

As for a white looking foreigner, your best bet is opening some kind of hostel. That is if foreigners will be even allowed to own property for the first 20-some years after some kind of unification. They'd probably even restrict South Koreans from property ownership for some time too.

And as someone mentioned before, good luck getting with a local, you might be lynched be the girl. Only proper Koreans for North Korean girls for at least a generation after the North opens up. Why marry a foreigner when there are so many, just a rich, South Korean men south of the border who can actually hold a conversation with their dialect speaking parents.

[Paddycakes]

[Fox]

I would definitely consider living up in an opened North Korea. Not for the women, but for the quiet countryside life.

[northway]

You guys are taking this way too seriously. It's a Zackback thread, just enjoy it!

[Deja]

[jvalmer]

[Steelrails]

I'd say the government would have to be very wary about things.

I think far too many people would go there with their own agendas on things other than teaching English and you'd end up with Instead of 1 tyrant indoctrinating them with 1 agenda, they'd get 1000 different people trying to indoctrinate with 1000 different agendas. Too many people would have the mentality of "Look at these poor little backwards people, they need guidance. My guidance. It's my duty as an educator and world citizen." Who knows what crap they'd fill their heads with?

On the other hand, the NK kids might get shocked at the discipline measures in SK schools. Allegedly, schools in NK have a strict anti-corporal punishment policy. Probably some byproduct of Marxist-Leninist views on things.

Anyways, I'd consider it because it would be a chance to do something truly groundbreaking and would undoubtedly be the adventure of a lifetime. From a professional standpoint, to go into a place that has in all likelihood had close to ZERO English exposure, something incredibly unique, and to teach English there would certainly present enticing challenges.