Korean Job Discussion Forums

[tomwaits]

Hey:

Good old Miss Polly.

NH? Anyway I'm good but can't shake ROK outta me and want to come back---seems a common thing eh?

Doubt they will let me be legal so I could do the tourist thing....That must be tough these days though.

[joe_doufu]

Try:
Taiwan
Japan
China
Thailand
Kuwait
Poland
Mexico
France
Russia
Iraq
Rwanda

Somebody is hiring English teachers in a nicer place than Korea.

[frankly speaking]

I hate to try this again but I need to find out if I am unable to come back. I am not in Korea and have no idea of how to contact immigration. So if someone has a phone number or email that would be more useful. Just telling me to contact immigration is not help. If I was able to contact them directly, I wouldn't have needed help. Thanks if someone can direct me to a web page or phone number. Thank you.

[chronicpride]

You can call Seoul Immigration at 02-2650-6221, but I'd be really surprised if you got anywhere with it.

And I don't know how a recruiter is going to know that kind of info, either. Do you really think that a recruiter actually took the time to pre-emptively solicit immigration for visa eligibity for every prospective name in their inbox or on job websites, before they even email the teacher to see if they are interested in what they are peddling? We're talking about the same recruiters who only care about warm bodies that say 'yes', regardless if you are toting around a fake degree. To my knowledge, there hasn't been any website that had a listing of blacklisted teachers for about 3 years, and that was on a recruiter site. It's since disappeared and when it was active, it wasn't reflecting teachers who were offically blacklisted by immigration. Just the unsubstantiated grinding of axes about ex-teachers, just like what teachers do about ex-schools and recruiters.

I'm assuming that in your outgoing solicitations to look for jobs, that you made some reference to the circumstances involving your last job, and they sent an automatic response of that you can't come back, which translates to "we're not sure if you can get an E2, but we don't want to waste our time in pitching you to our clients and risk the embarrassment of finding out during the visa process that you are ineligible, and we would rather use that time recruiting a teacher who doesn't have a dicey history of employment over here."

[Shooter McGavin]

If your experience before was so bad, why would you want to jump through hoops to come back? I mean, it sounds like you're going to another hagwon... why?

[Captain Corea]

[Bee Positive]

[bellum99]

=== Nice advice you just gave. What about the school that is hiring him? If he comes to Korea and can't get a visa then the school is hurt because they paid for his ticket and expected a teacher. Great advice.... Why should he come to Korea if he isn't sure about employment status? This kind of thing gives us a bad reputation and schools may stop offering the flight money upfront. Many new teachers need the fight paid upfront (or returned early)to come here and this kind of thing hurts that system. Don't give people this kind of advice because it doesn't help him or the school and actually may encourage him to do what you said.

[Bee Positive]

[bellum99]

I agree with you. In the end it is up to the individual.

(I heard if you go to a different province when you come back, you have a higher chance of slipping back into the system.)

[seoulmon]

Hay Frankly Speaking,

Sounds like you worry too much. Koreans are terrible unorganized, I doubt they kept track of you.

About the recruiter: Recruiters are loosers. See the 3 billion or so posts on DAVE's.

In the end, what do you do if no one in Korean wants to hire you? Take it as a sign. You were never ment to go to Korea. Make the hop over to Japan.