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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject: Settling-in allowance? |
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Did you have any settling-in allowance or assistance?
How many foreigners receive settling-in assistance?
Are large corporations the only employers that provide
settling-in allowance and assistance?
Why do not large (or rich) universities provide settling-in allowance?
Look at the service that this realty company provides.
http://www.relo-korea.com/service_setting.html |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I got pretty much all that when I arrived. And a small cash bonus to buy things I would need as well.
Ask and ye shall receive. |
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BTM
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Back in the saddle.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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As I mentioned in another thread, relocation companies are primarily for corporates, and the executives they relocate. They are everywhere, around the world. I used one (or rather my company did) back when the techboom was going on, and I was hired and moved to Sydney, Australia. One free month in a $1000-a-week condo in Milson's Point and a $60 per diem while I found my own place to live and got set up (with the help of the relo service) was part of the package, to give you a feeling for how many bucks are involved, here. Or were, back in the glory days of '99. 
Corporates (or the military) pay through the nose for services like this, which are everywhere, and way way way beyond the league of us English teacher types and our skinflint employers, I'm afraid, myself included these days.
Edit : You know, except Gord, of course. Heh. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Edit : You know, except Gord, of course. Heh. |
It was a small school with a new owner, and the owner just wanted to make sure everything was all right for me when I first arrived. My second school was "here's the school, here's the apartment and don't forget how to get there from here, here's your key, see you tomorrow." But I suspect that was primarily more because I was already experienced and had lived in Korea previously so they didn't feel the need to hold my hand. |
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