Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jajdude]

After Korea wears thins or runs out, where will you go? I'm thinking I may try to get back into Canadian life. But I wonder if I can do so. I'll try. Or else it could be another country in Asia. I have grown pretty tired of Korea. I think I'm just tired of the way this place crowds around you as if it were a really important place, just because it is all Koreans all the time. All thinking "Dae Han Min Guk." etc....

Don't you think, esp. those of you like me who have been here several years, that the Koreans just overestimate the importance of their country a bit? Hell, they seem to understand nothing else, except "Bushee" bad.. and we all know Japanese are all bad!

This crap just grows on you after a while. That's why many people after 2,3,4 plus years in Korea wanna get out.

Some stay so long. But the middle schoolers exhibit all the symptoms we despise. Ignorance and xenophobia are not to be overcome in this place!

Seriously that is my belief. The place is too itself to be anything else.

So I doubt I will ever be happy here. Time to go. Still almost 8 months on the deal. YAY

[Real Reality]

jajdude wrote,
"That's why many people after 2, 3, 4 plus years in Korea wanna get out."

Yes. Most people want to leave after a few years. Of course, even Koreans want to leave Korea. Have you heard about the "birth abroad packages" and "emigration packages"?

Birth trips abroad have become a trend of sorts. There are even package tours expressly to help with birth trips abroad. If those above "middle class" in the social class ladder don't want their children to inherit their citizenship, then you wouldn't be wrong to say that in the market of nationalities, "Korean" is one product that has lost its competitiveness.

A home shopping network offers "emigration packages" and gets sold out, while "emigration fairs" are standing room only. What keeps people patient and planted is the belief that though things may be difficult today, tomorrow things are going to be better. If people believe that today's a trial and tomorrow you'll only be more drained, then the "escape Korea syndrome" will be unstoppable.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200309/200309210026.html

[Zed]

I don't have a definite plan but I think it may be time to move on in the near future. I'm not going home for quite a while. I may be tempted to stay in Korea until the Masters is finished just to avoid potential problems involved in changing countries mid-course.

If I do move before then I would think that Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey or Vietnam would be my likely choices.

After the Masters I would consider doing a stint in the middle east but the political climate would definitely be a factor. And, it would only be a stint. Go in, make some big bills and get out.

[katydid]

A BIG BIG maybe: Japan for a year.

[Kristsoy]

going home for sure, tried of asia and ESL. want a job in canada and or a real house with grass and a stuff. I'd never raise kids in korea or anywhere else in asia. I hope I can find a job in canada, im sure i will.

[dutchman]

Seattle, early 2005

[crazylemongirl]

I would love to go to london and study at the London school of Economics.

But at the moment it's either over to canberra to the Australian national university or Kingston to study at queens.

[rapier]

I'd love to teach/work in Argentina, France(again), Holland(again), and maybe japan for a year each.

however I'm still weighing up a lot of different factors in my head such as money, convenience, and potential hassles. Sometimes korea is "better the devil you know".
Knowing my usual form, I'll probably decide spontaneously at the last minute...

[Tiger Beer]

Well, I�ll stay here in Spain (and possibly Summer in Austria) until I get this graduate degree.

I am definetely thinking of the next place after this place though.. strongly considering either Colombia or Cambodia or Thailand.. remote possibility of back in the US if the debt is too high to deal with..

[phaedrus]

Today I am thinking adventure, and Tibet studying would be fun.

Probably school in Canada.

[ryleeys]

Washington DC

[Arthur Fonzerelli]

Pakistan or Yemen.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[Tiger Beer]

[VanIslander]

I must scold myself monthly for seriously entertaining the thought of teaching in:

Ecuador
Sri Lanka
Mongolia

I suspect I'll indulge myself in a three-month working vacation helping teach children in one of those places. But they don't exactly fit into my other future plans.

After that, back to Canada.