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Dirty Foreign English Teacher

By admin on August 16, 2010

Hey expats teaching English in Korea especially you dirty foreign guy teachers. You know who you are. Could you do all of those hard-working respectable ESL teachers a favor and don’t post pics of you living up the stereotype that spreads so rampantly and pervasively around Korea because of MBC “documentaries” backed up by more [...]

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National Pension, Korean Income Tax and Medical Insurance

By admin on August 2, 2010

So you get your pay slip and see that your National Pension contribution and Medical Insurance payments are a little too similar. Meaning that you thought pension was 4.5% and insurance was 2.5% (roughly speaking that is what you are taxed in Korea for those), would mean a heck of a difference in the two, but oddly [...]

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Korean CEOs are reading

By admin on July 31, 2010

400 Korean CEOs were surveyed about what they are reading and here are the results. There not all about business as one might expect, but deal with living in harmony with nature and other people then came the business related and other self-help topics. “What would Google do?” written by Jeff Jarvis “Marketing 3.0” by [...]

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Korea Visa Tips

By admin on July 21, 2010

Getting an E2 Visa isn’t easy and it is going to get even harder for expats hoping to teach English in Korea. Especially for US teachers (FBI checks only come Jan 1st 2011) and Canadian teachers (could be RCMP) and really all ESL teachers. Here are some tips for you to remember for Criminal checks will soon [...]

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2010 Seoul Foreign Language Instructors’ Seminar

By admin on June 6, 2010

KAFLA and the Seoul Board of Education are putting on their annual seminar for native English teachers in Korea. This mandatory seminar is designed to inform teachers about immigration polices. Although, no new information is usually given, but the representative from immigration does do a Q&A usually so that is nice. Also, you’ll hear from [...]

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