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		| star32569 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 11:06 pm    Post subject: Looking for a job on tourist visa |   |  
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				| I am having trouble securing a job because of a poor reference and want to take my chances in person. Does anyone have experience looking once in Korea. I will be staying with my boyfriend while I look. |  | 
	
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		| ttompatz 
 
  
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 Location: Kwangju, South Korea
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:00 am    Post subject: Re: Looking for a job on tourist visa |   |  
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	  | star32569 wrote: |  
	  | I am having trouble securing a job because of a poor reference and want to take my chances in person. Does anyone have experience looking once in Korea. I will be staying with my boyfriend while I look. |  
 If you are willing to lose the airfare to Korea then give it a shot.
 (employers won't pay for it if you are here - they still have the visa run to pay for_.
 
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		| trueblue 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:29 am    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | If you are willing to lose the airfare to Korea then give it a shot. (employers won't pay for it if you are here - they still have the visa run to pay for_.
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 Spot on.
 
 But, as we know, first impressions and appearance go a long way...as well as "the gift of gab".
 
 If you want it....make it happen.
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		| northway 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2014 6:44 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I did it in 2009 for my first job due to a cancelled TESOL class in Taiwan and it worked out okay.  That was a different world though. |  | 
	
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