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Mashimaro
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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: non-teaching jobs.. how to find them |
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RACETRAITOR
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Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: non-teaching jobs.. how to find them |
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| Yeah, here's one: know someone. |
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dulouz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you a Russian girl? |
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itaewonguy
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what you dont love teaching? I find that so hard to believe!!  |
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sistersarah
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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i found out over the last year that non-teaching jobs aren't all they're cracked up to be....
i'm considering returning to teaching. the hours are much better.
but, i found my non-teaching job on englishspectrum a year ago, surprisingly. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: |
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They are out there.
However you need relevant experience and often decent Korean language skills.
I have been doing consulting by contract for a few years here. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Most on this board would object to the hours. Rare is it for a non-teaching job to demand less than 50 hours a week and unless with a foreign company, the annual leave is usually 2 weeks - but you are not expected to take it all. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| Rare is it for a non-teaching job to demand less than 50 hours a week and unless with a foreign company, the annual leave is usually 2 weeks - but you are not expected to take it all |
Hey that sounds suspiciously like most private sector jobs back home.... |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
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| Rare is it for a non-teaching job to demand less than 50 hours a week and unless with a foreign company, the annual leave is usually 2 weeks - but you are not expected to take it all |
Hey that sounds suspiciously like most private sector jobs back home.... |
Yes, it does a bit H doesn't it. I suppose that's what the private sector is all about. I've been in it for over 30 years so I speak with feeling.
But at least where I come from, the annual holidays are 5 weeks (and can be sold back to the company if you don't take 'em all). |
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Son Deureo!
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| The English dailies are often looking for copy editors, the Korea Times in particular always seems to be running ads for it. I know someone who was a copy editor here (not for the Korea Times), and it sounded like a pretty decent part time job, something like 1.5 million won for four or five hours of work per day and a visa, plus the chance to do freelance reporting and writing for extra cash. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| But at least where I come from, the annual holidays are 5 weeks (and can be sold back to the company if you don't take 'em all). |
Wow...not bad.
Where I come from the private sector jobs have 2 weeks of annual leave that you cannot always take, overtime gallore, dog eat dog work environment and limited benefits.....
5 weeks...you must be from France!  |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Got mine through a friend who *happens* to be a recruiter. I feel so dirty about using this person expressly for that purpose. 
Agree with others that the work is a bit more demanding.
There's non-teaching jobs occasionally listed on the job board here. I thought I saw one the other day. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
Got mine through a friend who *happens* to be a recruiter. I feel so dirty about using this person expressly for that purpose.
Agree with others that the work is a bit more demanding.
There's non-teaching jobs occasionally listed on the job board here. I thought I saw one the other day. |
Yeah I saw the ad for a proofreader, but they said they would prefer an F2 visa holder which I am not. Sounded alright actually but ideally I want a job where I can continue to use and improve my korean. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| ideally I want a job where I can continue to use and improve my korean. |
Ever think of applying for a Foreign Service job for your country's government?
That might lead to what you want.
Or you can do some consulting (I do) if you have the skills and experience and it will help you improve your Korean big time... |
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Gladiator
Joined: 23 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: Jobs |
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Unless you have some kind of specialist skill (usually technical or scientific) that Korean Inc. needs you'll have difficulty getting visa sponsorship approval from the Korean Ministry of Justice. Simple as that.
Alternatively, if you a LAWYER it seems you will always have scope to be allowed to enter a Korean law firm. Don't exactly know what dispensations are made for lawyers from the west here or why they are made but that seems to be the case (think of Geoffrey Jones/Robert Holley at Kim & Chang etc.)
Posters mentioned the jobs that come up with the Eng. speaking press here and they would satisfy someone I suppose who wanted to build up journalism experience but expect long hours, average pay (that probably doesn't match a University Eng. teaching post), little or no credit given for the work you do and absolutely miserly vacation allocations. I know a guy who worked for Yonhap news agency. He covered sports, got to interview the likes of Hiddink, Vierra etc. but the flipside was one week only of vacation per year. That's the news business I suppose.
I don't want to be a damp squib to the Korean language linguists out there but proficiency in Korean language skills definitely isn't the sole criterion Korea Immigration will tick positive when considering a visa approval for anything other than an E2 teaching visa. |
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