Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Derrek]

Who has left Korea, and is finished teaching, but still finds it interesting to peek around here and read what's going on?

I suppose I will a little bit when I finally leave this place.

[JacktheCat]

Off-hand, I'd say around a third of the people on this board no long work\live in Korea.

You should've made this a poll.

[desultude]

I'm here now, but I imagine I would be on the board for a while if I went elsewhere. It's a link to the familiar while adjusting to a new environment. After a while, though, I would hope the new place would be engaging enough to keep me away from here.

If I were planning to return to Korea, however, I would be here a lot.

[julian_w]

yeah,
i confess,
i still miss the gloriously noisy, noisey, stinky place,
and that's nearly 2 years after having got the hell out.

Yeah, it's good to be home (in Poneke, the capital, NZ)...

Money's ok - making enough to survive comfortably here without really trying very hard, and enjoying life okay. Catching up with old friends and making new and contacts with good people into stuff i'm into...

But geesh it's slow here... and having gone and met a K-babe right here at home, and now that she's gone back to her home... so yeah, now I'm officially 'researching' for when I get back there sometime next month.

Heh.

[waterbaby]

I left Korea over a year ago yet I still find myself drawn here on the odd occassion. I really miss living in Korea ... so this board is like my pseudo-korea. Pathetic, eh? I've been stopping by a lot more lately as I've had a bit of extra time on my hands and I've been really homesick for Korea - trouble is, this board just exacerbates it!

I never want to teach again, but I wouldn't mind living in Korea again for a while doing something different. Wish it was easier for us foreigners to do non-E2 stuff in Korea... even those of us with F2s. *sigh*

When you've also got a bit of history (cyber or otherwise) with a lot of posters here, it's also a way of keeping in touch with what everyone's up to and I often exchange PMs.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I left Korea in January. I knew I'd want to stay on the board for a time while my life here got up and running.

After about two months I had to confront the issue that I don't really want to be here. I want to be there. Or at least somewhere that isn't here.

This board also fills the need to be able to communicate. No one here has any idea of what life as an ex-pat is like. I don't feel I have anything much to contribute to a conversation on the office politics of a construction job.

[VanIslander]

Bulsajo.

[Gollum]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[captain kirk]

I went back to my dumhead country a couple of months ago. I say dumhead country as an amusing generalization based on a few odd encounters which were shocking. Young people, in their twenties, acting like they were middle aged conservative so as to nudge themselves into the power structure and not be left on the fringe, which is understandable. Still, out of the mouths of babes uttered nailed down conservative claptrap? It's shocking. But it's how they avoid being unemployed where jobs are scarce, many have college degrees.
And, bored out of their friggin skulls, invent all kinds of squabbles to spice up life. Discriminating on any minor point, or what sure looks minor to me, with things being so washed over, bland, conservative and in the running to be acceptable, nice, politically correct to get ahead. In a land of lots of part time jobs, ugh.
I mean, isn't this living? Here in Korea where so much is possible and unknown, or where worlds/cultures meet? I was never so bored by the bland unlivability of politeness/politically correctness feeding on itself with invented squabbles to buck the doldrums as back home. Not to mention the fronts of racism between white colonists and first nations, or immigrants.
Here one is left alone to live as they like.

Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind

[Deconstructor]

I left Korea a few years ago, but I'm still interested as to what goes on there. I might go back one day. Who knows? I'm still teaching, often Koreans, back home. They still wholeheartedly molest the English language.

I didn't think it was worth staying in Korea for more than a year since there are so many other places one could teach, especially Europe where I ended up.

[Tiger Beer]

[lookingtoteach]

After I left Korea, I stayed away from the board for about four months because I wanted nothing to do with the country and I wanted to forget my time there, or so I thought. I then realized that my time spent in Korea, though it was short, changed me in a way that I couldn't fit in with my less-traveled Maritime friends whose lives centered around the smallness of where we live. So, I returned to the board to start getting tips on how to return and stay sane, and so I could keep up-to-date on the country's going-ons.

[maestro74]

I left last June but I still like to read about what's going on. I read the online editions of the Ilbos and Korea times and Harald most days. And I also still chat with my Korean friends. I do miss many parts of Korea but I am also glad I wasn't there for the last months.

[waterbaby]