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Lieflike
Joined: 11 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:45 am Post subject: Jobs With American Companies in Korea... |
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Anyone have any experience working with American/Canadian companies located in Korea?
Seems this would be an ideal scenario for a foreigner who loves Korea but is tired of teaching jobs. I'm American, married to a Korean woman, living in the states, but would love to work with an American company in Korea. I know my wife would like to go back as well. I did the teaching thing for a while a couple years ago, but would prefer something different. And nothing against Korean companies, but I don't think I could handle the chaos of working for Koreans.
Thoughts? |
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OCOKA Dude
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| So, in other words, you want to have your cake and eat it to. (Have all the benefits of home while living in Korea.) Btw, what's wrong with living and working in the U.S.? Most Koreans would give an arm and a leg to have that opportunity. How's the job market in your career field and what part of the country are you in? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Btw, what's wrong with living and working in the U.S.? Most Koreans would give an arm and a leg to have that opportunity. |
Yeah, that's a question I often ask when I see teachers pleased to be in Korea earning 24,000 USD a year.
If that is better than they could get in USA I guess there is the answer.
As to this chap wanting to live and work in Korea with an American company, why do you object to that? There are many US ex-pats here, completely unrelated with the US military or teaching. Just to list a few companies, there are Bechtel, Pasrons, Hanmi Parsons, banks, insurance companies, etc etc. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| OCOKA Dude wrote: |
| So, in other words, you want to have your cake and eat it to. (Have all the benefits of home while living in Korea.) Btw, what's wrong with living and working in the U.S.? Most Koreans would give an arm and a leg to have that opportunity. How's the job market in your career field and what part of the country are you in? |
Well, lots of people who work for Canadian or American companies would enjoy a transfer to some place exotic like Korea or Italy. Is that a cake and eat it too situation? Not really. It's just wanting to do what most ESL teachers are doing: taking a year or two out of their life to live some place different. The advantage is working for an international company as an expat means bigger bucks, housing allowances, and all kinds of great benefits. So you wouldn't chase the extra dollar?
If you're in Korea, getting a job outside of ESL teaching I would say is hard unless you have a special skill like software development, engineering, accounting, etc. If your skill is you know your way around an English keyboard, well, the market for that skill is pretty saturated. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Does the "company must prove that no Korean can do this job" rule apply to these companies before an American can get this type of job in Korea?
Seems to make the pickins' for the number of jobs available to expats quite slim. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
Does the "company must prove that no Korean can do this job" rule apply to these companies before an American can get this type of job in Korea?
Seems to make the pickins' for the number of jobs available to expats quite slim. |
Yeah, it seems that most expats I know or have met who are working outside the teaching or military fields here are upper-level managers, sent over to keep the Korean branches in line for the US head office. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| the foriegners I do know here that are working in foreign-run companies worked for the same company back home and were transfered here. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| the foriegners I do know here that are working in foreign-run companies worked for the same company back home and were transfered here. |
Ditto. |
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Lieflike
Joined: 11 Jul 2005
Location: My pod at work.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| the foriegners I do know here that are working in foreign-run companies worked for the same company back home and were transfered here. |
Yeah, that'd be an ideal way to do it.
OCAKA you're right... I want my cake and to eat it would also be nice! I love the States but I get bored easily. Moved too many times in my life and now I'm accustomed to change. I crave it. Need it.
There's always the option of a large Korean company that has ties to the States like Samsung or Hyundai... but other than going through the process of being transferred over there by working here first, there must be another way?? |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: |
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http://www.goinglobal.com/countries/korea/korea_employment.asp
A quick Google search on job prospects turns up this gem of info.
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| Foreign exchange dealers, stockbrokers, fund managers, insurance brokers, securities analysts, and insurance specialists can find employment in the the financial sectors. In the IT sector, IT system consultants, information system analysts, Web designers, Internet consultants, webmasters, network specialists, programmers, and database administrators are needed. For knowledge-based businesses, microelectronics specialists, robotic specialists, marketers, merchandisers, e-book designers, and Kimchi specialists are needed. |
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Naruto
Joined: 07 Jul 2005
Location: Irvine, CA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| Just live near K-town in LA. It's like being in Korea. I have friends who can't speak any English (because they live in Ktown) although they've lived here 10 years. :p |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Naruto wrote: |
| Just live near K-town in LA. It's like being in Korea. I have friends who can't speak any English (because they live in Ktown) although they've lived here 10 years. :p |
My gf went to NY and said she didn't like Korea-town, because all of the restaurants were "old style" retaurants. Makes me wonder if a Korean could make money opening some newer-styled things there. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
| Naruto wrote: |
| Just live near K-town in LA. It's like being in Korea. I have friends who can't speak any English (because they live in Ktown) although they've lived here 10 years. :p |
My gf went to NY and said she didn't like Korea-town, because all of the restaurants were "old style" retaurants. Makes me wonder if a Korean could make money opening some newer-styled things there. |
One of my friends in Toronto was part of a traditional Lithuanian dance group. They worked very very hard to preserve the old ways. No one had actually been back to the motherland for a long long time given it was under Soviet rule. After the fall of the Berlin wall et al, they hosted this dance group straight outta Lithuania. They were anxious to see how well they had preserved the ancient dance moves. Much to their surprise, the dance group, behind the iron curtain, had done everything to add modern, western steps to their traditional dance.
Yeah, sometimes people in the new country work crazy hard to keep to the old ways without realizing the odl country has changed. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
| Naruto wrote: |
| Just live near K-town in LA. It's like being in Korea. I have friends who can't speak any English (because they live in Ktown) although they've lived here 10 years. :p |
My gf went to NY and said she didn't like Korea-town, because all of the restaurants were "old style" retaurants. Makes me wonder if a Korean could make money opening some newer-styled things there. |
They have those too in other parts of LA (and NYC and other large cities). |
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chance2005
Joined: 03 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Lieflike"]
| Derrek wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| the foriegners I do know here that are working in foreign-run companies worked for the same company back home and were transfered here. |
Yeah, that'd be an ideal way to do it.
OCAKA you're right... I want my cake and to eat it would also be nice! I love the States but I get bored easily. Moved too many times in my life and now I'm accustomed to change. I crave it. Need it.
There's always the option of a large Korean company that has ties to the States like Samsung or Hyundai... but other than going through the process of being transferred over there by working here first, there must be another way?? |
You have to put in your time in the U.S. before a company will send you abroad to work in or manage a branch office. The other way is if you speak Korean fluently and you get a job as an assistant to an American/European branch office manager. The other way is if you get a job at a Korean company in the U.S., work several years and constantly nag your Korean boss to send you to Korea because you love it there so much. Basically if you work for an American company, there is no guarantee they would send you to Korea, if they sent you anywhere at all. If you work for a Korean company, if they send you anywhere it would most definitely be Korea. |
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