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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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 Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:59 pm Post subject: Uni jobs in Seoul and environs |
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I am currently working at a lower-tier university in relatively rural Gangwondo. I have a great gig with good benefits (3k/m+3d/w+5m vac), but I'm looking at moving to Seoul for a variety of reasons. My question: what kind of job can I expect to get with my experience and qualifications in and around Seoul? What's the best case scenario? I am loath to give up my position for something that is at least comparable.
My specs:
32y/o
BA + MA in Applied Linguistics + PGC in Linguistics
Currently working toward a PhD in Linguistics at a Korean uni.
10 y in Korea, in my 7th year teaching at the uni level.
Good refs.
Any informed input would be most welcome. |
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languistic
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| languistic wrote: |
| Your propensity for shameless self-promotion aside, of course. |
I admit, there is a certain amount of self-promotion evident in my original post. Sorry if I come across as the arrogant git that I am, however, I am looking toward making a move to Seoul and would be interested to hear if there are comparable or better compensation packages available in Seoul and, if there are, what kind of competition I'm looking at for those types of jobs. I thought therefore it to be best to actually give some rudimentary data about myself; post such as this one tend to die quickly if there isn't sufficient information to work with.
Anyway, any info is much appreciated... |
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languistic
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| What do you need to know? You are clearly qualified for any position in the country, now you have to time your Uni search right. On paper, you are a forerunner, but who knows? |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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10 yr in Korea, 7 at Uni level and you don't know the job market in Seoul?  |
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zappadelta
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| red_devil wrote: |
| 10 yr in Korea, 7 at Uni level and you don't know the job market in Seoul? |
Good call |
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livinginkorea
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
Location: Korea, South of the border
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:45 am Post subject: |
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With your experience and education, I say:
Best case - faculty position - 4~5 months, 12 hours, 3-day week, small no. of Ss per class, own office, teaching subjects other than conversational English, a lot of control of the material to be taught and can choose your own syllabus/textbooks, can influence department policy, assistants to photocopy stuff and do general stuff, better overtime pay, better perks and pay to be hitting above 3.5 per month. Some unis just outside of Seoul also give housing allowance too.
Worse case - general English department / unigwon - less holidays, could have to do camps, more hours (15 plus a week), large no. of Ss per class, less pay (around 2.5~3 I am guessing), less overtime pay, with no housing allowance, office sharing with a dozen co-workering with one printer, teaching 1st year students who for the most part don't want to be there, various majors and levels lumped together, virtually no say in the textbook/syllabus or in the department policy itself.
These are not for all unis but you did mention best case  |
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KoreanAmbition
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:07 am Post subject: |
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I also think you will see a definite difference between your situation before you finish your PhD and after you finish it.
Of course, before, you will get tons of chances at things, but once it's complete you'll be in a different league.
Just my opinion. |
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| red_devil wrote: |
| 10 yr in Korea, 7 at Uni level and you don't know the job market in Seoul? |
Not very well. I've lived mostly in pretty rural areas in Gangwon, Gyeongsangbukdo and Gyeongsangnamdo. I'm prefer living in the countryside, rather than the city and hadn't considered moving to Seoul until recently. Also, I don't have a particularly large network of contacts, which is why I rely on Dave's for a lot of my info.
In any case, I've received a lot of good info via PMs. Thanks for those, they were much appreciated. |
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| KoreanAmbition wrote: |
I also think you will see a definite difference between your situation before you finish your PhD and after you finish it.
Of course, before, you will get tons of chances at things, but once it's complete you'll be in a different league.
Just my opinion. |
I am hoping this is true. Currently, however, I'm doing the course work component, and I don't expect any extra doors to open because of this. Maybe once I've completed the course work and have completed my research...
Thanks for all your very helpful comments KA. |
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