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fxz903
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
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 Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: If it weren't for the money...? |
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| I was just wondering, now that most of you have spent some time in Korea, how many would teach here as opposed to anywhere else in the world if it wouldn't make you that much money? |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: Re: If it weren't for the money...? |
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| I was just wondering, now that most of you have spent some time in Korea, how many would teach here as opposed to anywhere else in the world if it wouldn't make you that much money? |
Teach?! Back home I would qualify for welfare. This salary gives me the opportunity to save as much as I would back home as a teacher, but as a Level 3 Technologist, I've made five times this.
Honestly, I'm just here for the food. Tomorrow is samgyapsal day. |
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fxz903
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| I see. I was under the impression that most people came to Korea to make money through teaching. Thing is, I've heard some unpleasant stories, what with a friend of mine ranting for half an hour on the phone about what a hell-hole it is for foreigners. Just wanted to know what other people thought. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| fxz903 wrote: |
| I see. I was under the impression that most people came to Korea to make money through teaching. Thing is, I've heard some unpleasant stories, what with a friend of mine ranting for half an hour on the phone about what a hell-hole it is for foreigners. Just wanted to know what other people thought. |
Oh, your friend is in Seoul... Yeah... umm.. Tomorrow is samgyapsal day, PM me for details. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: |
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I don't get why anyone would go to Korea for the money anymore. I was helping a friend of a friend review contracts because she wanted to go over. I got curious because wages seemed to have gone up a bit. Once the exchange rate got factored in, this chick would be making $550CAD LESS than I was back in 2002.
You can make the same money working at a call center these days. Is the samgyupsal really that good? |
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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: |
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You can make the same money working at a call center these days. |
Would you honestly want to be working at a call center though? |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| You can make the same money working at a call center these days. Is the samgyupsal really that good? |
Yes, I'm afraid it's just that good. |
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pootle
Joined: 05 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:53 am Post subject: If it weren't for the money...? |
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I'm here to attempt to understand Korean life/culture/doings - call it what you will. The only way to know a place is to live and work in it. The money is okay because I move Won to GB Sterling, and it's not so bad if you hit it at the right time and don't panic.
I like teaching but it's not a long-term career for me. I'll be going somewhere else to so something else in March. |
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mheartley
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| If the money you could earn/save in Japan, China, and Korea was more or less the same, of the three I would be least enthusiastic about teaching in Korea, by a considerable margin. |
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Kimbop
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| xCustomx wrote: |
Would you honestly want to be working at a call center though? |
Would you honestly want to be paid 1300 bucks a month to be foreign, show up at work, and babysit students? |
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MUOhio82
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
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