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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: Need to go to uni to become a flight attendant in Korea? |
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As the sole waygook at my school it's pretty much up to me to help students who need to do English introductions for their university or college interviews (interesting to see some suddenly really concerned about their English pronunciations). Anyways, I've just had the second student come along who's 'dream' is to become a flight attendent, one wishing to get into a uni and the other a technical college. These are students who've been through my school's academic, not vocational, programme. I'm just wondering why you'd (or your parents) would put you through three years of high school hell and then have to go to university to become a flight attendant. I'd be interested to know from anyone who knows a Korean flight attendent what qualifications they needed.
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:06 am Post subject: |
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Can't help with the flight attendant thingy. But, I also have a student who whenever she sees me tells me her "dream" is to be a flight attendant.
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| i taught at Beijing Language & Culture University for a year -- my students were foreigners (Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc) who were learning Chinese and wanted to study English in their spare time. a few of the Japanese girls were planning on becoming flight attendants after graduation. maybe that makes sense, though, since it's a language university... dunno. |
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simpleminds
Joined: 04 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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To become a Korean air flight attendant, she must go to a technical college. (Inha) Out of 10,000 applicants, 180 are selected for Inha. Out of the 180, about half are chosen.
To become an Asiana flight attendant, she must go to a four year uni. (I've forgotten the name.)
Don't know about the other airlines.
For KA, she has to be beautiful, with pale skin, oval eyes, an oval face, and rake-thin. If not, she hasn't a chance in hell. Her brains and personality are irrelivant.
I'm not so sure about Asiana's stipulations, but they value brains and personality more than KA.
Ay least, that has been my experience. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| simpleminds wrote: |
To become a Korean air flight attendant, she must go to a technical college. (Inha) Out of 10,000 applicants, 180 are selected.
To become an Asiana flight attendant, she must go to a four year uni. (I've forgotten the name.)
Don't know about the other airlines.
For KA, she has to be beautiful, with pale skin, oval eyes, an oval face, and rake-thin. If not, she hasn't a chance in hell. Her brains and personality are irrelivant.
I'm not so sure about Asiana's stipulations, but they value brains and personality more than KA.
Ay least, that has been my experience. |
Interesting. My one wants to go to Insa and the other Honsae (or is it Honso - Hon____ anyways) for a four-year programme.
The second does have rather pale skin but is rather borderline on the others. |
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travelx
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| I have a student whose mother is a flight attendant for KA. I asked her today what her mother was like and she said "scary", wonder if her ma learnt that in a tertiary institution! |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| simpleminds wrote: |
For KA, she has to be beautiful, with pale skin, oval eyes, an oval face, and rake-thin. If not, she hasn't a chance in hell. Her brains and personality are irrelivant.
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That's the big reason there. Being selected to be a flight attendant is like getting an official endorsement that you are one of the prettiest girls in Korea. I knew a girl at my first school and that was her dream also. I could never understand it until later, when she was listing all the physical requirements they levy on applicants (she was 2cm too short and joked about getting leg-lengthening surgery.) Coming from a background that had only known Air Canada up until then, "beauty" was never something I equated with flight attendants. |
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rokgryphon
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| They also get paid much more than their peers in other jobs as a starting salary (can be as high as 3 mil a month). They also get a chance to travel the world for free, and believe it or not, can open doors to some great opportunities just through networking with colleagues and passengers. I don't think they have to go to one of the mentioned institutions though; I believe their degree can be from anywhere. There are also age cut offs for both airlines too from what I have heard. 24 for Asiana and 25 for Korean Air. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: |
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I have a Korean friend who is a flight attendant and another who is trying. My friend who is an FA did not go to university so couldn't get a job with Korean Air or Asiana. She circumvented that problem by getting a job with an overseas airline and she wants to move back to a Korean airline after she gets a couple of years of experience.
My other friend is older than the cutoff and is also trying to get a job with an overseas airline.
It's not easy. Many, many interviews and almost all of them in English. From what I understand any 4 year Korean degree (or equivalent) is required, but from any university, and there are height requirements and an age cutoff. Beauty is perhaps the most important factor after the minimum requirements. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| That's pretty rough. Finish school at 18, go to school for 4 years, then you have two years to "make it" as a flight attendant? How long can a KA or Asiana girl work before she is deemed unfit for the hallowed aisles? |
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bombenhagen
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Location: NL
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| simpleminds wrote: |
To become a Korean air flight attendant, she must go to a technical college. (Inha) Out of 10,000 applicants, 180 are selected for Inha. Out of the 180, about half are chosen.
To become an Asiana flight attendant, she must go to a four year uni. (I've forgotten the name.)
Don't know about the other airlines.
For KA, she has to be beautiful, with pale skin, oval eyes, an oval face, and rake-thin. If not, she hasn't a chance in hell. Her brains and personality are irrelivant.
I'm not so sure about Asiana's stipulations, but they value brains and personality more than KA.
Ay least, that has been my experience. |
Good greif. All you need to work as a flight attendant with Air Canada is some French and a nice rack. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Good greif. All you need to work as a flight attendant with Air Canada is some French and a nice rack. |
No... they provide the rack. It's called the overhead bin and your bags better fit or else, pal.
The French requirement would be pretty much it, although the ability to "glare menacingly" will definitely help you get short listed.
Getting on the plane home at Incheon will always be remembered as one of the saddest days of my life. All the gorgeous stewardesses from Cathay Pacific, Asiana, JAL, etc. kept gliding by. Then the whole scene was destroyed by the*clomp* *clomp* *clomp* of the flight attendants from Air Canada... an old crow and a young nancy. *sigh* Welcome home. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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(OP, fix the thread title. NOW.)
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| Getting on the plane home at Incheon will always be remembered as one of the saddest days of my life. All the gorgeous stewardesses from Cathay Pacific, Asiana, JAL, etc. kept gliding by. Then the whole scene was destroyed by the*clomp* *clomp* *clomp* of the flight attendants from Air Canada... an old crow and a young nancy. *sigh* Welcome home. |
Can't the airline do anything about that? Doesn't Air Canada listen to their customers? Or indeed, to their shareholders??!  How long can Western airlines keep this up, this giving passengers exactly what they don't want? Is the West so de-wierised anymore that it can't save itself? |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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I've seen jobs posted on 'Dave's' for English instructors at a certain K flight attendant 'university'... too bad it would be unethical to date your students. 
As for Air Canada flight attendants, they're easy to spot in any airport anywhere in the world - usually an aging, bedraggled caucasian hag with an 'attitude', or a guy that didn't want to become a hair dresser (or who doesn't have the talent to become a haute coture fashion designer).  |
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John Henry
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Please tell her Quiche is not pronounced "Ghee-shi"
Nothing ends my vacation worse than being woken up at five in te morning to be asked if I want "ghee-shi bre-pas-tuh".
Damm good quiche tho. |
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