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Capo
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 Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: multinational companies operateing in korea? |
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Does anyone know where i can find a list of multinational/western companies operating in Korea?
My longer term goal is to work for a multinational once i have learnt korean well enough for that to be a viable option for me. Google wasn't that much help. |
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Look at the lastest Foreign Direct Investment statistics for South Korea. Then, google "Korean Labor Unions" or "Korean Labor Demostrations" and you'll discover the answer. |
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jeffkim1972
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DaeSung
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: |
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About the OP, I think its a good goal and all, but I don't know anyone that has done it. Anybody on the board had a similar thing happen? I work for a large Korean company and we have very very very few foreigners. We don't very often look for them, and I don't mean this to put down the OP but to be functional in a large Korean company you'd have to be really really good at Korean, or do something that didn't require lanaguage skills. (Like teach English to the boss). I'm really interested in moving to an American company but I don't know that they hire foreigners either.
So if someone knows more about it I'd be interested in hearing it. I think most multinationals want Koreans with good English skills and they bring over the people they want from back home. Just how it seems.
Some more info would be good ^^
Right now our plan for getting into the multinational is to go back to the states for an MBA work in the states for 3 to 5 years and get sent over as part of management. But who knows right |
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jeffkim1972
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:54 am Post subject: |
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If you are skilled, then an American company will hire you, regardless of your nationality, as long as you can speak English well enough to communicate.
A Korean company will also hire you based on your special skill. If you are an engineer or hold certain knowledge, then, regardless of your fluency with Korean, you will be hired.
If you are just trying to get hired based on your Korean skills, i'm sure you are competing with a million other Koreans that have a fundamental skill, the Korean language, so it will be more difficult to get hired.
If you just want to be a "staff salary person", it is difficult to get hired.
So having an advanced degree, experience, or knowledge, connections to buyers (if you are a salesperson, holding some position of strategic business advantage), then you can get hired anywhere in the world with a company that wants to expand. |
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Capo
Joined: 09 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| DaeSung wrote: |
About the OP, I think its a good goal and all, but I don't know anyone that has done it. Anybody on the board had a similar thing happen? I work for a large Korean company and we have very very very few foreigners. We don't very often look for them, and I don't mean this to put down the OP but to be functional in a large Korean company you'd have to be really really good at Korean, or do something that didn't require lanaguage skills. (Like teach English to the boss). I'm really interested in moving to an American company but I don't know that they hire foreigners either.
So if someone knows more about it I'd be interested in hearing it. I think most multinationals want Koreans with good English skills and they bring over the people they want from back home. Just how it seems.
Some more info would be good ^^
Right now our plan for getting into the multinational is to go back to the states for an MBA work in the states for 3 to 5 years and get sent over as part of management. But who knows right |
Well that is my plan before I came to Korea I worked for JPMorgan Chase in the UK (i'm British) and I know they have offices here in Seoul and else where so they will be my first port of call. My idea was to go back to the UK for 2-3 years get a job with a multination which has interests here, aquire the necessary skills with them and have them send me over. I will be reaching out to my jpm contacts soon to see if they have any ideas on how to go about this, I'm just trying to find out what my other options may be.
BTW I found out the is a job fair for foreign companies hosted by KOTRA next month on the 26th and 27th at the COEX centre so i'm going to go there and talk to some of the representives. |
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Drunken Monkey
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Foreigner employed in Korea = Korean salary, hoidays etc.
Foreigner sent to Korea by his/ her company = expat package.
I know which one i prefer. |
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jeffkim1972
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