Korean Job Discussion Forums

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

I was born abroad, my parents started sending me on annual visit to family from different cities by myself from the age of 6.

During weekends my father liked nothing better than go for random drives through the countryside to see how far he could get with the fuel gauge on empty (as luck would have it we never ran out of gas) and had a job that required working long stints away from home.

So I think I was bred with a 'travel bug.' How about you?

Kimchi Cowboy · Joined: 17 Sep 2006

Travellers are born. Expats are bred.

Laughing

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

ella · Joined: 17 Apr 2006

Everyone in my family has a sense of adventure and likes to travel. My mother says it's the Viking blood in our Irish ancestry.

Lizara · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

My parents don't like to travel and we never went anywhere... but I've been dreaming about travelling around the world since as far back as I can remember, and now that I'm all grown up and stuff, I'm loving the chance to finally do it.

So, in my case, I'd say I was born a traveller.

aldershot · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

i took LSD once and ended up in a place my mind called "kohreeah".

actually, jack kerouac made me drop outta highschool twice. once to travel to san francisco, another to travel to peru. came back, graduated, dropped outta university to go to indonesia twice... eventually graduated university and then i took that bad acid...

Corky · Joined: 06 Jan 2004

It's in our genes. Hopefully we'll make the jump to populate another planet before too long. I wouldn't mind trying out Mars before I died. I don't think they're going to need any English teachers though.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Definitely inbred.

coldcrush · Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Location: melbourne.... Posts: 1

Does 'noticing hot foreign women' count as "bred"?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I think I caught the travel bug when I was 14 and read "Mutiny on the Bounty". At that point I'd never been more than 100 miles from home and suddenly...sailing the 7 Seas, a tropical island, exotic Polynesian girl on the beach. HAD to see it. Never thought I would get to, but I did.

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

bixlerscott · Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Location: Near Wonju, South Korea

No one in my circle of reletives travels nor approves of me traveling. They think I am crazy for getting on planes and even contemplating working for a foreign employer in a very alien place, but hey, I am adventurous, couragious, curious, and do not see a place for me to be happy, fat, and comfortable back in the US of A. They can keep that hostile business culture they got back there. No fun at home.
I love the art, music, culture, and pure energy experience of being out there far far away from the USA... I cannot wait to realize my dreams of being in all these far flung places like The Great Wall of China, Bali, or actually seeing a megacity (Hong Kong) that simply does not exist anywhere in the USA. I am so thrilled to have seen many hi rises go up in the matter of 2 weeks here Changwon, ROK. They waste no time in getting opportunities going on and I am very inspired. On the other hand, it takes forever in the USA to get opportunity going on becuase of so much fat politician types and so damned much in-fighting and so darned much fear present. For an example, It took them 4 1/2 years to build 8 miles of commuter train line in Saint Louis for a whopping $580 million. Might take the Koreans only 1 week for less than $100 million I am thinking with how enterprising and motivated they are to make it happen. They are such entrepreneurs like I never have seen before who actually put people to WORK. They do not waste much time. Go figure as to why they are winning in the global market and America is not. The Asian people have alot to teach us Americans........ I hope to be a greater part involved with all this opportunity development in the coming years for much more than a 25,000,000 won a year teaching job as opportunity for young professionals just is not happening at home, it's just a bunch of rich people getting richer off the financial markets or a business that their parents put them into. Not to mention, boat loads of over educated underpaid folks jockying for a job that actually pays more than $10/hour and actually provides health care benfits due to todays American business world being led by corrupt executives who take all out of corrupt greed. I refuse to be used and fleeced by those fat corrupt fucks. It's hostile. Period. I am inspired by what I see in Korea and hope to keep traveling without going broke....

fadedgirl · Joined: 26 Nov 2006

I've always been a traveller...
my mom moved from Thailand to the States
my dad moved from Hungary to the States...
since the age of like 5, my mom has been taking my sister and I back to Thailand to visit the family. My dad took us to Hungary only twice since he's not very close to his family.
It was just a natural step for me...

Svetlana · Joined: 22 Jan 2007

When I was 13, a modeling scout approached my mother and asked if I had an agent and would be interested in doing test shots. She was a big player in the fashion scene and got me a bunch of contracts in Paris and New York over my summer and winter holidays until I was 16 and could start traveling alone. I had never been anywhere overseas before that. So, I guess I am a bred traveler. After I turned 16, I traveled about 20 weeks of the year to different shoots all over the world.

PimpofKorea · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:18 am Post subject:

Anybody that have regular parents that never left their country? My grandparents and parents...never left the states...would never dream of leaving the states....I never really planned on it either....but opportunites kind of presented themselves.