Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mamaille]

I just want to be close to everything. I hate traveling too much for entertainment. I'm fron NYC so I like to be in the city.

I'm sure I can get a better contract if I was already there but being my first time doing this, I need to have some security and have a job waiting for me. Plus, I don't want to pay for my own ticket there and worry about running out of money. I think I found a job wiht a good contract. One of the teachers kind of wrote it over and he sent it to me to used as mine. I'll post it here to get some feedback before signing. I'll see how that goes.

[jinju]

What you dont get is that Seoul is not like NYC. What do you mean close to everything? There are literally several areas in Seoul that have "everything" in terms of entertainment and they are pretty far from each other. Kangnam is one area, the CBD is another, then you have the university areas all over the city like Hongdae/Sinchon/Ewha or places like Itaewon. There is no one major area for entertainment, its all over the city, really decentralized. If you are in one area, say Kangnam then you are far from Hongdae, etc. Its totally not like NYC where you have the surrounding boroughs with nothing to offer and Manhattan as the entertainment hub.

As far as the contract, listen, as a nwbie what can you realistically expect especially if you are going to look for a job over the internet and never actually see the school before getting hired? You can luck out but really, it will all be luck. You might have to take your chances and hope for the best. Then next contract you will be here so you can do some real job hunting then.

[ScottyG]

coming to seoul on your own is the fun part if you ask me. and i never ran out of money, because i always ended up doing PT/temp work for various recruiters whom were trying to get me to sign FT positions. In fact it was tempting just to keep things like this. Yes it is illegal blah blah blah, but anyone who has worked in Seoul long enough and taken ten seconds to explore outside the norm of hakwon knows that PT greases the ESL wheels in Seoul. The chance of getting caught is slim, and immig has its hot targets and cold targets. Some teachers have NEVER worked legally, even if they do have a proper degree. I knew some guys pulling in 4-5 mill a month.

[mack the knife]

To answer the original post:

You avoid Korea like the plague.




Game. Set. Match.

[Homer]