Korean Job Discussion Forums

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[Ilsanman]

If you are spending over 2 million a month, you either have a family, live in Dogok Dong, or I don't know what kind of luxury life you are living.

To each their own.

[Mashimaro]

I've heard of at least one non-teaching poster who blows all those salaries out of the water

[PRagic]

This board has been enlightening to say the least, and has made me seriously rethink my other posts addressing salary issues and employment conditions at learning institutions here in Korea (worst of the worst university jobs/who needs these jobs, anyway?).

It seems that one of the reasons that people are increasingly taking university jobs for crap salaries is that they can make it up on the 'outside'. I think it's too bad that qualified people don't make earning a better salary at their primary jobs a priority rather than fishing for 50K/hour jobs in the gray market. 6.5 million a month? And most of it earned on the fly? Blast.

Here we are in a country that bosts one of the highest ex-pat costs of living in the known world, yet salaries are going downhill, and contact hours are on the rise. Tension on the ROK is dissuading some from coming over, housing costs are soaring, and the word on the street is that Singapore and Hong Kong are more professionally vibrant places to park over the long or short term. Market forces, or a collective shrug?

[Milwaukiedave]

[Jasobang]

I posted to get a response, to see what would happen, to......well troll I guess. I know the situation in Korea and how much can be made, I've had my share of good months. I threw out those numbers because I know they are possible.

Whether I make 6.2, 8.2, 4.2 or even 2.2 wasn't the point. I thought most would have figured all that out with my one reply in four pages, well two now.

[Cheonmunka]

Well, you say you make 3.2 or so from teaching and 2.5 from some unspecified family job. In that case I would say you have some extraordinary luck. I would say that is nothing to do with how you marketed yourself, nor what special skills you have rather I would say, in all the traditional terms of the phrase, you married well.

For whoever says that anyone who spends more than 2 million must be living in Dogok-Dong and in luxury, hahaha.
My family budget, household budget, is 2.4 million a month. That includes no savings. Mortgage for a house we have (not in K) is 700K month. Special savings we make per month are 400K. We already paid chonsei so no rent from that figure.
Most people with school-age children experience the same kind of budget.

[Cheonmunka]

[Real Reality]

[Cheonmunka]

Some things are worth translating and sending to Chosen Ilbo. These reports written in English seem a waste of time. Who but foreigners read them?

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[Jasobang]

Cheonmunka, I never said I was working for the family. Family-related meant spending time with my family, not making money. So no, I didn't marry well. Everything I have, I have worked for myself.

In case you or anyone else still don't get it, I pulled those numbers out of thin air, well with a little common knowledge. Please stop quoting me on the numbers. Although they are surely possible, they are not accurate as far as my income level, personally. I was, as you say, merely trolling.

BTW, you're spot on about the monthly budget. We are usually within the 2.5~3.0 range as probably most others with dependents are concerned.

[Ilsanman]

Well 700,000 of investment can hardly be called a cost of living. It's savings. A house not in Korea is an investment.

I also asked if he has a family. If you have one, that's standard to spend a whack.

I can live on 1.0 million (my fiancee and I) with being careful, and 1.5 with not being careful. 2 million or more, I'd have to be buying furniture, with satellite TV, frequenting TGIF's, and so on.