Korean Job Discussion Forums

ScottyG · Joined: 09 Jun 2006

The days of 4-5000 RMB salaries are gradually fading in not so communist China. Some teacher earn over 15,000. More to do culturally...cheaper costs of living....a more worthwhile language to learn...girls that don't have a curfew...lots of opportunities for travel.....China is looking good. Any thoughts from people who have switched or are pondering it?

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

Find me a decent job in China that will pay 15,000 yuan a month for a relatively inexperienced teacher like myself, and I would be sure to take it once my contract here is completed.

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject:

Is that who I think it sounds like?

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

what would it take for me to switch to china?
money. uncensored interent. free tibet, yeah, that'd be good too. but, thats a long way off, so in the meantime; if the money's there,
so am i.

poet13 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

more money than here.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

If the Chinese developed an alphabet like Hangul, I might consider it. I like in Korea language fluency (maybe that's a bad use of the word... lets say language survival fluency) is way, way easier with Hangul than having to learn hundreds of Chinese characters.

Trumpcard · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

In Dongguan, Guangdong Provence (fastest growing city in China) there are teachers who regularly earn +20000RMB per month and live in large apartments (by Western standards). O feel however, that one's quality of life is 10 times higher in Korea than in China and 10 times higher in Japan than in Korea.

poet13 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:50 am Post subject:

And what qualifications do they have to earn that money?

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

Trumpcard · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

the ESL industry in China is a little backward. The people I met making the big money had no qualifications and get driven via company car to clients' addresses and teach using New Interchange Intro.

Defining and measuring quality of life and standard of living has always been contentious. Personally speaking, quality of life for me is access to clean, efficient transportation, clean environment, access to cheap and diverse foods, decent housing, overall happiness, general easiness of living - living as hassle free as possible.

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

Pollution is terrible in China and dealing with water shortages for daily use wouldn't be desirable.

plato's republic · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Location: Ancient Greece

The only thing that would get me to move to China would be bucketloads of cash and a job in Beijing or Shanghai, otherwise I'll just stick with what I've got here. China is filthy, the language seems nigh on impossible to learn and it takes almost a full day to travel anywhere in the country, that's if you can get train/plane/bus tickets in the first place.

Yikes! · Joined: 15 Oct 2004

Trumpcard · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

poker player · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Location: On the river

Good lord. Chinese women are hot.\ and don't have the Korean attitude What else do you need?