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lleonard88
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Hi, I am new to the forum and just wanted a bit of advice. Me and my friend are both finishing our degrees over the next year and are looking to make the move to SK for the hiring season of January 2017. My question is being that we have not finished our degree's yet, how early should we start contacting recruiters? Also, we would want to live together. Not necessarily work together but definitely live together. Are they accommodating for only couples, or would they do that for two friends as well?
Thanks, and I apologize if this has been answered a million times. |
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Overture1928
Joined: 12 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Getting Started |
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| lleonard88 wrote: |
Hi, I am new to the forum and just wanted a bit of advice. Me and my friend are both finishing our degrees over the next year and are looking to make the move to SK for the hiring season of January 2017. My question is being that we have not finished our degree's yet, how early should we start contacting recruiters? Also, we would want to live together. Not necessarily work together but definitely live together. Are they accommodating for only couples, or would they do that for two friends as well?
Thanks, and I apologize if this has been answered a million times. |
You guys might be better off finding separate jobs and ask the school to give you money for a housing deposit so you can just put that money together and find your own place. I would also advise saving your pennies encase they don't want to do that. Housing is expensive in Korea, generally at least $10,000 (10,000,000원) for a housing deposit. |
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pmwhittier
Joined: 03 Nov 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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"Me and my friend are both finishing our degrees over the next year..."
If you're planning on coming to Korea to teach English, make sure that you tighten up your grammar first. "My friend and I" for starters.
Yes, this question has been asked many, many, many times.
And the answers are always the same.
Once you have your documents in hand and you are ready to leave, contact recruiters. They won't help you until all your documents are ready.
Most hagwons give single housing. Some do shared housing. It depends on the school, the director, and really just how the owner of the school feels that day. There is no way to predict this. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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"Me and my friend are both finishing our degrees over the next year..."
If you're planning on coming to Korea to teach English, make sure that you tighten up your grammar first. "My friend and I" for starters. |
Funny, you corrected him on this, which is standard in spoken English and not really worth picking someone up on IMO, but didn't say anything about this.
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To me that sounds much more bizarre. Unless it's a US English thing. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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[quote="edwardcatflap"]
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To me that sounds much more bizarre. Unless it's a US English thing. |
Perhaps just a case of a missing comma...
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| My question is being that we have not finished our degree's yet, how early should we start contacting recruiters? |
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My question is, being that we have not finished our degree's yet, how early should we start contacting recruiters?
OP:
And as stated above, NOTHING will happen before you have ALL of your documentation ready; meaning you need your parchment in your hot little hands, your certified true copy of your degree made and apostilled, your police check done and an apostille affixed to it.
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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Perhaps just a case of a missing comma...
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Oh yeah, didn't notice |
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tardisrider
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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lleonard88
Joined: 18 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for all of your grammar points guys! I really appreciate it! |
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Whitegirlinasia
Joined: 09 Jan 2014
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| Don't bother with Korea. Go to Japan. Korea is a brutal place to live, and bad bosses are the rule, not the exception. |
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JohnML
Joined: 05 Jul 2015
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| Don't bother with Korea. Go to Japan. Korea is a brutal place to live, and bad bosses are the rule, not the exception. |
That's not true at all. My boss gave me a free apartment, it even has a mattress in the toilet where I can sleep when i'm not teaching English. |
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