Korean Job Discussion Forums

[elavndrc]

Hi everyone!

It's been a really long time since I've visited ESLCAFE. I am a former native teacher for GEPIK. Three years have gone by since I was last in Korea but I'm ready to move back. My experience teaching middle school was not the greatest - my school was great, my students were great - but as with many public school years, my class didn't count for anything and that itself makes my lessons essentially useless to my students/co-teachers. I became the clown that was asked to play games with my students and show them movies when they didn't have exams. On the contrary, my experience living in Korea was awesome and I made amazing friends. I only left because of a sick family member at the end of my 2nd year.

Upon my return to the states, I was hired as an experienced associate for one of the big 4 accounting firms. Nothing I do now is related to teaching or editing but I'm ready to give up on this career and go back to Korea.

I don't want to do teaching in the public sector anymore but am looking for something non-teaching related.

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to find a job or if there any available positions that you may know of. I've been scouring pretty every site out there for applicable positions but as I am not of Korean descent and am not high up on the corporate ladder it's proving quite difficult. I've applied to a lot of positions with no luck so far.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

[maximmm]

[peachKitten713]

Ok, I'll put my 2 cents in since there haven't been any other replies yet.

I think most of the job offers out there are going to be for English instructors. Now if you have a high level of Korean and/or can do something specific really well, like having skills in computer science or something, that could open up more opportunities for you.
I'm assuming you want to work legally and have your visa sponsored.

I have seen ads for waiters/workers in restaurants on Craigslist, but I don't think they would sponsor your visa or you would want to do that.

Off the top of my head, maybe you could find a job doing editing/helping write textbooks or something...

But anything is possible, so I would just continue to do your research and keep your head up!

[elavndrc]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Options:

1- You find work with a local corporation that has offices in Korea, then apply for a posting / transfer to Korea. For this you typically will not need a very high level of Korean language proficiency and may not even require any proficiency...but that would be surprising.

2- If you have sufficiently high Korean language skills, apply with Korean companies that hire someone with qualifications you have. Such jobs could include editing-proof reading if you have the proper background.

3- Create your own job by investing in something in Korea (a small school. a study room, consulting...or whatever else). This would require decent Korean language proficiency as well.

For option 1 your work visa would be provided by the company, for option 2 as well but for option 3 you would likely require a residency visa (F) or an investors visa.

[_doug]

Oh well, this is my case actually.
I started working in the company which is very big in Korea, and then every year I do 1 or 2 business trip for like 2 months each.
Actually I might be transfered one day if I really want and work for it, but I don't feel like that, I just had enough of my korean experience

[Paddycakes]

Generally speaking, to work in professional non-teaching or ESL related job like editing you'd better have very specialist skills and extensive experience that the Koreans (or your multi national) can't source locally.

If you're interested in non-professional jobs, you can stick to English Education or maybe try acting or becoming some kind of entertainer, but I think most of those guys are Russian.

And why would you want to work for a Korean company anyway? Do you have a thing for Korean corporate work culture? Well, the Room Salons after work I guess are a real perk of the job...

[elavndrc]

[Who's Your Daddy?]

[wishfullthinkng]

what's your area of expertise? accounting? maybe if you say a bit about what you excel at then someone here might have something or know someone who does.

i know i'm looking for people with cad/reverse engineering/3d printing experience here in korea.

[elavndrc]

[elavndrc]

[PatrickGHBusan]

[Malislamusrex]

You answered your own question here. A Korean company is not going to import a employee who works in general IT. If you had 15 years of financial accounting experience, a PhD, ACA/CPA/ACCA and an MBA, you could send your CV to Korea you'd walk into any accounting company.

[elavndrc]