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[The Floating World]

Foriengers can't have majority shares in business here.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[The Floating World]

What you quoted in NO WAY proves that foriegners can have 51% or higher shares.

And you will not find anything either, because it is the law.

Get over it.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[The Floating World]

I wasn't talking about loans. Just give up.

[TheUrbanMyth]

And here they are allowed to hold up to 55% of Korean companies. That change took place nearly 14 years ago.

[TheUrbanMyth]

Ever heard of Samsung?

[Died By Bear]

OF COURSE America has opportunities - plenty of them. Too many people stay in Korea end up making excuses for why they stay, (way too many of them) . Silly.

Here's a case in point:


After nearly 40 years in public education, Patrick Godwin spends his retirement days running a horse farm east of Sacramento, Calif., with his daughter.

His departure from the workaday world is likely to be long and relatively free of financial concerns, after he retired last July at age 59 with a pension paying $174,308 a year for the rest of his life............


http://www.cnbc.com/id/45625234

[nzbradly78]

To the OP:

I left Korea this summer but didn't go home. I was fortunate to be able to find a job in Europe that, while similar to the one I had in Korea, has a lot of better perks (and some minuses of course) such as:

Living in a village rather than a huge city. My school is in the city, but I had a choice to where I wanted to live which wasn't necessarily available in Daegu, even though I had my own apartment.

The pay is about the same, but food and other necessities are much cheaper here both in real dollars and PPP.

Its easy to travel around and I have 10 weeks of holiday (not quite as good as in NZ, but not bad)

There are opportunities for professional development and management roles.

The staff, both managerial and teaching are both transparent and professional.

The students don't care if they're wrong when they speak or write, but they give it a go. That was the most frustrating part of teaching in Korea was having students so afraid of making a mistake they took the easy way out or just kept quiet.

The minuses are of course taxes are higher and higher transport costs and more work than I had to do in Korea, but with kids I think where I am now is the best place we can be.


The point of the post is to get a job before you go. Its too risky I think anywhere to drop your bags and hit the pavement. If you are interested in looking for international schools and don't mind ponying up some money to join the sites, the databases do a lot of the work for you. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the site on this board, but PM me and I'll send you the link. Or Google, that's how I found it.


Either way, best of luck to you!

[TheUrbanMyth]

[brento1138]

Questions for the OP:

1) What career would you like to go into when you get back home?

2) What degree did you get from university?

3) Are you qualified to work in the job of your dreams?

If 1-3 do not match up perfectly, then I suggest getting more education to go into the career or profession you like most. Even if it means being poor for a while. Most people back home worked hard to get to where they are, if they have found success. And working hard usually means having very little cash, investing it all (plus getting student loans) in education... and getting very little return in the short-term. But long-term is what counts.

I agree with you: it's tough to leave Korea. It's cushy. It's nice. I've got a bunch of great friends here too. I prefer the big city to the smallish city. Seoul (for me) is much more fun than Vancouver, honestly. I even like ESL teaching... but not enough to do it for life.

That's why I'm going back home, doing a very expensive year of school, and I'll graduate with a very specific diploma in the field I want to be in (with a university degree in a related field to back me up). I'll have to fight and scrape to get anywhere, or even get hired. I've even set up a side business which may or may not do well. The job field I am entering is extremely competitive and I will be lucky if I get a job in some horribly cold northern Canadian city where I know nobody. But I've decided this is what I have to do.

Sometimes taking the harder, more difficult route is best because it leads to greater gains in the future. Although living in Korea as an ESL teacher forever is tempting (seriously... I could stay here for good) there are just some things in life that I want to do which Korea cannot do for me. Besides, as much as I like Korea, home is home... and what we can do back there sometimes can be more than we can do here.

[v88]

Brento,

1,2,3) I'm trained to be an urban planner / designer. I have all the paper work and I enjoy it, but have always hated the idea of slaving for a job (hence my retreat to Asia and Canadian ski resorts).

For me spending my early 20's studying without a life and working tirelessly toward a career kind of soured my ideas about life.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=111528158907801

Now I question that to some degree, especially as my job and life here are turning into the same thing sort of.

[brento1138]

[PatrickGHBusan]

[bcjinseoul]

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