Korean Job Discussion Forums

spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

i heard that teachers whose major is english can get an e-1 visa. could someone please tell me the requirements for getting an e-1 visa?

thanks in advance!

artyom · Joined: 28 Jul 2007

e-1 visa is for professors

check this link from the korean embassy in the UK, it lists what all of the visas are

http://www.koreanembassy.org.uk/engsub2_1.html

spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

ph.d or d.ed only then?

thanks for your quick advice bro

cheers

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

What business school are you thinking of? I've never seen a university business program here staffed with MBAs.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

At my university almost all the management lecturers had PhDs. In the accounting department only one had a PhD most only had a Master's.

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

What university? Good one? I did some grad classes at Yonsei, and the business profs were ALL Harvard and Wharton School Ph.D.s. The other diciplines involved were also Ph.D.s from top schools in their fields (international studies, socio-economics...).

In my Ph.D. program in the U.S., none of the Master's/Ph.D. classes were taught by anything but Ph.D.s, and no undergrad classes were taught by anyone who wasn't at least ABD.

Even when I was an international business/econ undergrad, the lowest ranking instructor we had was ABD, and they only taught recitations/accounting labs.

The long and short of it is that if I were a student looking to pick up an MBA, there is no way I would spend a dime on a place where I would be taught by MBAs. The oposing case would be advanced seminars taught by MBAs with serious real-world experience (e.g. municipal leasing, or a former Fortune 500 CEO/CFO). These days, however, with competition for teaching slots as tight as it is, the profs. that I had for most of the advanced MBA classes had real-world experience (most were working for a TNC or consultants) and they had the Ph.D. to boot.

StephannieK · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Location: Gyeongbuk-do

I've got an MA & am listed as E-1, but at last uni was listed as E-2. A friend with MA was listed as E-1 at a uni in Hongsong, but ...

ups & downs... boils down to how the school has the position listed on paperwork with immigration.

Not all uni's bring you in as E-1, yet some do. And you dont have to have a PhD to get it either... I know several in the uni system with MA/MS & E-1 status.

Dont get all excited tho thinking this is a way to avoid that crim check... uni's carry their own special brand of microscoping you....

legalquestions · Joined: 25 Mar 2007

In law schools, Juris Doctorates (typically 3-4 years beyond the Bachelor's degree), plus passing the three and one half day long bar examination (at least in my case).

But a lot of the Korean law school professors here have some other type of doctorate (not the aforementioned JD), and most have never passed a bar exam or practiced law.

The system will probably begin to change over the next couple of years, however.