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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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 Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: Best travel deal from Atlanta to Seoul? |
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This is crazy. They want $1100 dollars one way! Is there any place on the net to find a better fare? I've tried airline consolidates and the airlines' sites!
If you have any ideas, I would appreciate them (coming at the end of this month). Thanks very much in advance! |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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You are coming at the absolute hieght of high season here. Sometimes, a roundtrip is actually cheaper than a one way. Here's a few websites to check
kayak.com
delta.com (see if they are running any website specials since Hartsfield is a hub) |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: Best travel deal from Atlanta to Seoul? |
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| elliemk wrote: |
This is crazy. They want $1100 dollars one way! Is there any place on the net to find a better fare? I've tried airline consolidates and the airlines' sites!
If you have any ideas, I would appreciate them (coming at the end of this month). Thanks very much in advance! |
This may sound like a strange question but unless you are coming as a tourist, (not as a teacher entering on a tourist stamp and working illegally until you get around to getting your E2) why are you sweating it. Let your school buy the ticket and then they can't complain. |
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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: Buying because... |
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| I have to pay for it first and get reimbursed. Found a site where I can save $500 and that's a lot of moolah! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: Buying because... |
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| elliemk wrote: |
| I have to pay for it first and get reimbursed. Found a site where I can save $500 and that's a lot of moolah! |
Forgive me for playing devils advocate here and don't take this as a flame...
Let me understand.
a) You are coming here on a tourist stamp (NOT VISA) and doing a visa run later to get your E2.
b) You are American and therefore only get a 30 day stay on your entry stamp?
c) Your future employer says they will reimburse you for the trip over?
d) Then they will pay for your visa run and related expenses?
e) They will wait until next month for you to fly over.
Are you daft? This sounds like your employer will get 30 days work out of you, decide to not pay you and you are screwed for your flight and have to leave the country with no money and no legal recourse to get paid - oh, and you risk deportation and fines if you are caught.
His advantage, save $1000 in flight costs, $2000+ in wages and no paperwork.
His risk = 0.
Your risk = airfare to Korea. Potential loss of wages. Potential deportation and blacklist if caught.
Your advantage = 0.
30,000 jobs and 25,000 applicants each year. Why are you doing things this way? Something doesn't sound quite right and I fear for you.
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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: Forgive me for playing devils advocate here and don't take t |
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The person who is hiring me is one of my best friends from Korea when I taught there 10 years ago. He is one of the most honest and ethical men I have ever met.
I didn't find out about the job he had until two weeks ago and he is waiting one month for me to come, rather than hiring one of the many in-country teachers that applied for the position.
He will reimburse me on arrival, pay for my visa run, etc.
The reason I am having to come with a tourist visa is that I forgot to renew my passport in February. So I had to renew it and it takes two weeks. So, there is no time to get an E-2 visa here.
One more thing. I am 58 and it's impossible to get a job at a university over there sight unseen (even though I look much younger than my age). So this is the perfect job for me. I will stay one-two years with him and then get a university teaching job, as I plan to stay in Korea for 5 or more years. Why? The health care system here sucks. The taxes suck. And I don't want to sit at a desk after being a freelance writer and editor since I returned from Korea nine years ago!!!
Hope that clears things up for you  And by the way, I didn't take it as a flame. I appreciate your concern. |
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dogshed
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| delta is now flying n/s atl-icn a couple of days a week, just started last month so they may have deals going |
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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: delta is now flying n/s atl-icn |
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| I've decided to go with the higher fare from Delta, Singapore Korean Air or Asiana. He'll reimburse what I pay, so might as well get as much money as I can for first month there until I get paid. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:05 am Post subject: Re: delta is now flying n/s atl-icn |
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| elliemk wrote: |
| I've decided to go with the higher fare from Delta, Singapore Korean Air or Asiana. He'll reimburse what I pay, so might as well get as much money as I can for first month there until I get paid. |
depending on if you care to change planes, the singapore airlines flight will be worth it. you just need to get from atl to sfo. otherwise the delta flight seems to be the easiest way to get here for you |
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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: depending on if you care to change planes |
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| I know. I love Singapore Airlines. Best experience I've ever had. But their flight to Seoul doesn't get in until 11 p.m .at night and I don't want to arrive in Ulsan the next day or after midnight, because I have to do my visa run to Japan. |
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