Korean Job Discussion Forums

[big_fella1]

I left Korea this year for only 1 reason. In Korea I was always a foreigner even though I had permanent residency. In Australia my Korean wife has permanent residency and for all day to day dealings she is Australian. Perhaps there's a lesson there.[/quote]

[PigeonFart]

True. You'd always be a foreigner no matter how long you lived here or how perfect your Korean ability is. People just have to accept that. If you accept that very early on then it won't bother you so much. Just exploit what both Korea and Australia offer and you can make the 2 places your home over the long term. Best of luck to you both.

[Chaparrastique]

A lot of anti-Asian xenophobia in Oz.

Probably not so bad in the cities.

[basic69isokay]

You got out at the right time.
Like leaving a party before the police arrive.
Good work.
Are you able to find work back home to support your wife?
How's she finding it living in a foreign country?

[Who's Your Daddy?]

My wife's biggest difficulty in moving to Canada is the Korean/foreigner divide in her own head. She's treated like everyone else here, but I notice it's still in her head. She sort of has difficulty internalizing that race isn't significant.

[SHGator428]

I left because it became a stale (although comfortable and familiar) existence. If I wanted that kind of life, I could either move back home or try somewhere else.

[CentralCali]

[jvalmer]

[CentralCali]

[Cave Dweller]

Betty Osborne's case was sad. The Pas is a shithole or racial divide. I know white guys from there who left and said they'd never go back, lest be murdered for the colour of their skin.

I used to have sympathy for the first nations cases. I lost it somewhere along the way when the government completely opened their wallet to them and nothing ever changed.

[crescent]

Living in Korea is like living in a 2 dimensional world.
My wife and I are quite happy to have left it. I say 'quite' because the cost of setting up a new life has been more of a shock than we thought, but for once we both feel like all our senses are engaged again.

I'm so proud of my wife, who I thought was a very timid, shy woman. She's broken out of her shell and has already made a few very good friends from Peru, Iraq,, and Korea, and she's also been able to find a part time job on her own. Her English skills have gone from low intermediate to advanced in 6 months and now she's talking about going back to school to become a pharmacy assistant. She was impressed to learn that there are government grants available for her tuition and a ton of free language and training programs .

If she were still in Korea, she'd still be tugging the line as an Art hogwan teacher in an industry almost extinct, trapped by the suffocating degree of ageism, sexism and classism that pervades.

Oh, and then there's the freedom to chill out and smoke a jay whenever the hell we want.

[basic69isokay]

[Yaya]

[Sister Ray]

[Lucas]