Korean Job Discussion Forums

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject:

Had a friend working at a factory in Incheon. She was paid 1.3 million per month, and had to pay for her own place. She worked long hours -- 6 days a week.

Hard work. Little pay.

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

Difficult things are worth making an effort for. If you want the opportunities that a degree can create for you then get off your behind and do what it takes to get it done. Doesn't your country have student loans?

Don't make excuses. It's your life, and if you always take the path of least resistance then you will generally get a small return on the small amount of effort you put in.

I learned that the hard way. I didn't get of by backside until I was 30. I finally got p!ssed off enough with my situation do do something about it. I wish you all the best, and promise you: If you do the work then the rewards will come. It's called delayed gratification. I know it's an alien concept to anyone under 35, but it works.

mj roach · Joined: 16 Mar 2003

OP - If you are qualified, you might consider teaching Chinese in Korea. Don't know what the requirements are, but there is growing market.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Get a student loan and go to school. You can even go to a university in Korea if you want. I hear they're easy. That would be a sensible thing to do.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Oh why didn't I think of this first... JOIN THE U.S. ARMY!

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

aaronuk · Joined: 06 Feb 2006

Thanks to all those with actual advice, thats what I came here for. Not to be criticised.

I have lived in UK all my life. I was an A grade student with good GCSE and A level grades, eventhough I had to balance work and study I coped. That was until my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago, I had to give up study to look after him full time.

Now that he has passed away, I want to leave the country and travel. He was my only family.

So to all you who come to forums to criticise people and make nastly comments please keep to yourselves.

Thanks again for all those who are giving advice.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

justagirl · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Cheonan/Portland

Well, if you choose to go to Korea, don't get a job teaching English. For one, it's illegal for you, as you don't have a degree. Confused

Second, as mentioned before by another poster, it'll be very difficult, as you're ethnically Chinese and Koreans desire to learn English from "white faces." Crying or Very sad

And finally, not to be rude, but you would probably be considered lacking in English ability. I think that might be difficult to handle. It would be for me, if I were in your shoes.

I think the people that gave advice of a factory job were more in tune with what you could do in Korea, but I don't know why someone would want to work in a Korean factory.

I went to an International church that had a lot of foreigners working in factories, and they were working 6-day weeks, LONG days, get very little respect from the Korean overlords, and were a little over 1,000,000 won a month. That really isn't much. It's enough to live on, but not enough to do much saving, traveling, or anything else. You would be paying your rent, eating very cheap food, and maybe have enough money to go to a movie once a month. It wouldn't be anything I'd ever recommend to anyone, unless they were flat broke, and were extremely desperate.

I do hope you find something that works for you. Keep searching. You might find a position that isn't teaching or factory work! Good luck

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

Just stay home and get a job. It isn't really that hard and try to finish a degree. I know it sucks but that's what many of us did. Finishing school was difficult..we had no money, tution was expensive...etc.
This sounds like an easy place to make money and sometimes it is, but it isn't a charity. We work for the money and we are paid for our ability to teach English. Some are better than others and they usually make more money.
You have no qualifications to work here. Do not come to work in a factory because in a short time you will be unhappy with it. Get a job at home.

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

I must protest at some of the vitriolic responses (Col Brandon, Mindmetoo); "no-one wants to hear your sad story" was particularly harsh. It probably is true, but it's also rude. Many times in life, one avoids saying true things because of decency. It's true that none of us really give a *beep* about people dying of starvation, but no-one would ever say it, because it's cruel.

That said, OP they are right in the sense that you need a degree to do worthwhile work here. It is a case of finish your degree or forget it - that much is true.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Summary of options:
1) Get a student loan and enroll in a university in Korea.
2) Marry a Korean girl.
3) Get a fake degree (or kill mindmetoo and steal his identity) and work illegally.
4) Join the U.S. Army. You don't have to be a US citizen.
5) Work for some multinational company and get yourself transferred to Korea.

plato's republic · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Location: Ancient Greece

How's he going to work for a multinational company without a degree Joe?

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea