Korean Job Discussion Forums

[PatrickGHBusan]

Janny we never had an argument sorry..unless you mean when you were using one of your other accounts...

As for "killing you with kindness", that is your interpretation of things I suppose. I do tend to wish people good luck in whatever they do and I do mean it. I have no idea why that would offend you or one of your other accounts.

[PatrickGHBusan]

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[IPayInCash]

Damn that page 9 was brutal. Talk about a beatdown. Like a pack of hungry pit bulls left alone with a quadriplegic toddler. lol

Poor Steelrails is back to the drawing board, combining posts from different posters to argue another point that has nothing to do with the OP. Poor guy. You cant win them all. And in his case... literally.

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[Steelrails]

I think there is one thing we are failing to consider in this whole "salaryman" debate and looking at working hours- The majority of Korean workers are not office workers, and even of office workers, you still have ones in lower levels that are half office/half services and tend not to do the whole grind.

Odds are the people we see filling up the restaurants from 6-8 are nurses, bank clerks, real estate agents, and other guys with suits and ties, but perhaps not too high on the totem pole.

My personal experience with office workers is limited to some friends from high school and church back in the States who have since moved back to Seoul, people in my hometown, and cities in Gyeongnam. While they all pull the occasional work till 10, they don't do it habitually. 6ish is about the norm.

And where I'm from, EMart DOES close at 10.

[Captain Corea]

I can see that working hours/patterns would vary from California, to Ohio, to NYC. In Canada, we often think that ppl in Vancouver golf every afternoon, and TO ppl put in too many hours. I'm guessing that there is variation in hours in Korea too. SR, if Gyeongnam is your area, please leave room for the possibility that Seoul is a different beast. Different work environments. Different store and restaurant hours.

You can continue to argue if ya like, that's you're call. I'm guessing ppl in this thread aren't going to sway your opinion. But most know me as a fairly honest poster on here - and I'm telling ya honestly - with all of my experience in korean offices, your feelings on work hours there don't match up. At least not in Seoul.

[atwood]

Maybe E-mart in your area closes at 10 but of the store hours listed on the E-Mart website, all close at 12, or in the case of the stores on Jeju-do, 11. But the hours for the stores not in major metropolitan areas aren't given, so maybe. And I wouldn't line a bird cage with that crap about only parts of the store being open.

You finally admit you have little personal experience but then you go right back to making wild-assed crazy guesses and trying to pass them off as objective.

I see real estate offices open late at night. Nurses work all kinds of hours. What about eyeglass shops? Those guys and gals work crazy hours. 24 hour McDonald's and Lotteria and BK will probably stay open longer to compete. Night markets, seven-day work weeks, GS25s and more.

So your examples ain't so good. Why not just stop with your own personal experience and not extrapolate from it a bunch of assumptions?

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