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[Real Reality]

Average Annual Salary
It was found out that the average annual salary of executive directors of the top 100 companies in Korea last year based on revenue was 441.4 million won, and that of salaried workers was 44.2 million won. It was Samsung Electronics that provided the highest annual salary per employee: 71.3 million won.
SK Gas (67 million won),
S-Oil (65.9 million won),
E1 (65.6 million won),
SK Corporation (64.2 million won),
Hanwha Chemical Corporation (61 million won), and
LG Petrochemical (58.9 million won).
by Sang-Soo Kim, Donga.com (April 27, 2005)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2005042855498

[Saxiif]

Looks like a better ratio that back home.

[TECO]

WOW!

That's pretty good coin.

TEFL'ing is okay but doesn't even come close.

When I lived in Tokyo, I'd see foreigners near Hiroo and Rappongi driving Porches and Ferraris - that's because they were making Y2,000,000 a month.

I dated J-girls who had gone out with some of these MBA exec. types and they were living in houses that cost Y400,000 per month in rent - of course paid by the company.

I met a young Canadian Lawyer in Tokyo at the gym and he said he was starting out at Y700,000 per month with housing - I'm guessing his housing was also pretty nice.

These foreign dudes in Lotus Land are living Bling, Bling lifestyles - I'd read once in a while where these guys would O.D. on Coke or something.

Too much coin to know what to do with.

[Saxiif]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mindmetoo]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

RR has a job because his university/hogwon makes good money off him, which is the case w/ just about every foreign instructor in Korea. He doesn't need to feel so indebted to Korea that he can't have a discussion about working conditions and Korean laws.

Are his posts one sided? Sure, But so is what most recruiters , hogwon directors and head teachers have to say.

Would salaries be higher if Korean employment laws were different is a valid question.

[weatherman]

[weatherman]