Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Manuel]

[fusionbarnone]

I really hope everything works out for you.

I think you should look at your work experience and skill sets more closely. You must target each industry you apply for.

If you've worked in the food service industry for example, you could apply to hotel chains as a trainer and interpreter. If you are serious about working in Korea(which you seem to be) look more closely into what you can do as all experience is skill transferable, don't undersell yourself. Yahoo has a resume facility that includes entries for most positions so you can use this for a multiple position template. Than, pitch/sell yourself to those industries with a German speaking representative.

And I agree, the world welcomes Koreans but Koreans do not welcome the world. It is seriously one-sided and propped up by xenophobic policies both official and official it seems. My father once told me the same thing; "only go to Korea as a tourist as they are tough employers". But I'm glad I did. It made me a better businessman.

Keep trying and don't settle for scraps. if you do, you will end up working like a dog getting robbed at every juncture of your employment.

As far as degrees are concerned, checkout degreeinfo.com, degreeboard.com for information about acquiring acceptable degrees in the shortest time, transferring credits, etc, from a US university.

[Manuel]

Thanks for the tip, but I'd better forget Korea.

The only why I wanted to work for 6 months or so was to spend more time with my gilr-friend. I treated her to visit me so long as I am in Germany, but he parents put her under so a strong pressure that she had to give it up.

Now she wants me to come to Korea that she introduced me to her family.But what does she expect from me? I asked her why her parents are just opposing everything? She said just because you are not a Korean.

If that's the only reason what can I do better in Korea? It is impossible for me to become a Korean. Her family never met me and already hates me. Just because I'm not a Korean. To go to Korea with all the risk to an intolerant society will not help me.

It's like going to the black panters and saying we're all humans let's be friends! If she is not willing to defend me or taking at least a little risk for me Korea is not worthy for me to go there again.

At the moment I'm working for Eagle Global Logistics. They are quite big number in the US for air and sea cargo ( transportation of containers ).EGL has 5 offices in South-Korea, but they won't help to work there, because it is too troublesome for them to get me this stupid working visa which is limited on just 3 months. Then they have to do all the paper work again. Besides all that the salary is quite low. If I take a part-time job in Germany I would earn more.

Besides all that I don't want to live in Germany. Why everyone is pushing me to a German company. They won't hire me anyway and I never would work for a German company.

I got offers to work for the Taipei Mission in Seoul or Oversea Chinese Association, but even them can't help to get me a visa.

The only thing I found was a Taekwondo school which teaches foreign kids in Taekwondo. They would pay me 80 000 Won a month ( including food and recommondation ). That would be a contract of 6 years. The school would make the big money and I would end up as their cheap slave.

I'll go back on study. Japanese + managment ...to spend half of the study time is part of it. So I'll go to Japan. I can visit her from Japan. Compared to Korea the conditions are excellent. The work and credits from university and companies there are full accepted.

If I will go to Korea I'll go there as a tourist...Korea still has many intresting things like a different view of Asia's history, its own culture and I think beautiful landscape.