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Thinking about moving to Korea, don't quite know where to move. Seoul or Busan sound nice. Also Im American, White, in mid 20s if that changes anything?
Are you looking for suggestions, orrrr????
What are your interests? Why Korea? What do you plan on doing? Where/how you gonna work (pls don't be another beta english teacher)?
>>1137353
Looking for suggestions. I plan on working as an IT professional.
>>1137349
Pyongyang
>>1137356
You're white and in your 20's, heading to South Korea where your plan is to work as an IT professional?
Do you speak Korean at all? Do you have a TOPIK test level? If so is it 5 or 6? Do you have specialist skills in IT that Koreans don't have that would make a Korean IT company hire you?
Koreans don't hire non-Koreans if they can hire a Korean for the same job.
The only job you will be able to get in South Korea is an English Teacher job in a hagwon (at best). If you don't have TOEFL or TESOL forget about public schools, and even then it is competitive enough to get a job and a lot of hoops to go through to just work in South Korea as an English teacher let alone as anything else.
Since you're American as well... South Koreans will generally dislike you and will definitely not respect you, especially if they see you as a koreaboo who can't speak a single shred of Korean besides ordering off of menus and the occasional 안녕하세요. Be prepared to be cursed at by almost every older generational person there is as well. IF you think America is racist wait until you get to Seoul and then anywhere else besides Seoul after that.
Go anywhere else but South Korea in Asia and you will probably have a great time there and be able to work as an IT professional. South Korea is not the place it seems like.
>>1137349
Another Koreaboo with shitty ideas.
>>1137388
Pretty much this. The only way you'll be able to have a job in SK as an American is if you join the US military or work for consumer electronics company from SK in the US, or you can try US based companies in SK. Older generation Koreans are actually pretty racist unfortunately. It's a nice place to visit, but i don't think it'll be your cup of tea mate.
>>1137349
You're going to move somewhere based upon what someone says to you on an anonymous Cambodian rice-worshipping yaoi bulletin board? Seriously?
>>1137388
Haha, oh wow, you hear this every single time whenever an East Asian country is mentioned.
>Country x is so rayciss but everywhere else is a utopia!
I can understand the anti-American sentiment in Seoul simply because of the way Americans act around the city. But i'm not quite sure how koreans would differentiate a white's nationality from another white.
Or maybe you're just a shitskin giving us the shitskin's perspective.
>>1137466
>Implying whites aren't the group to bitch the hardest about the racism when they begin living in Asia
>>1137388
>Since you're American as well... South Koreans will generally dislike you and will definitely not respect you, especially if they see you as a koreaboo who can't speak a single shred of Korean besides ordering off of menus and the occasional 안녕하세요. Be prepared to be cursed at by almost every older generational person there is as well. IF you think America is racist wait until you get to Seoul and then anywhere else besides Seoul after that.
Strange. I've had the opposite experience. Young people are interested in Americans dude.
You're kinda jaded.
Don't mind this guy OP.
>>1137466
I have lived in Busan as an Australian white male for 2 years now. Every older generation person who asks you something will also ask if you're American or not.
I haven't had much racist treatment in South Korea because I speak the language well enough to understand general daily conversation and I am also considered as a "중구인" by South Koreans meaning that I am still viewed as a foreigner however I am also viewed as someone who fits in to the mold of South Korean society.
>>1137474
>Strange. I've had the opposite experience. Young people are interested in Americans dude.
This is true, young people will be interested in Americans in the bigger cities. Not so much in the rural areas and smaller cities.
>You're kinda jaded.
Not really, I am giving him an accurate idea as to what it is like here.
OP if you're still reading this thread.
Take my advice if you do come here.
1) Start learning the language. Visit a korean church in your city/town and try to get lessons. Getting the basics down in Korean will make your life here a lot easier, even if you are in Seoul.
2) If you want a job in IT. You will need a university degree and some specialist skills that South Koreans don't have. A bit of info on my self, I work as a translator for foreigners who get in trouble with the police here, it took me 6 months to get here after being an english teacher here. I was required to have TOPIK level 5 which takes about 2-3 years of study to obtain.
3) If you want a korean qt3.14 go anywhere with your Korean language skills.
>>1137487
>Not so much in the rural areas and smaller cities.
I think you're pretty good at talking out of your ass.
I've been here about the same as you. I spend most weekends in Busan.
However, I'm a teacher in Tongyeong(pretty rural by Korean standards) and I haven't really been treated negatively due to my Americanness. Taxi drivers usually try to have friendly talks. Children and drunk Koreans try to practice their English with me. I see warm smiles from old people at restaurants.Though some drunk college kids have asked if i have a big dick more than once. Weirdos.
I'd say the only negative thing is that some think every American owns a gun and shoots eachother wild west style.
You may not think it personally but the whole tone of your 1st post is negative. You're not even American talking about what it's like to be in Korea as an American..
Your other points are valid though. Fluency in Korean isn't required to get the qts. It helps for sure though.
Is Korean really that easy to learn as people say? The hangul seems pretty simple, just have to learn how to write in those weird boxes. I speak Finnish as a native language so it might be easier for me than for English speakers to learn.
What about other aspects of the language? I have studied Japanese for a year before and the writing system and also numbers were a huge pain in the ass.
I had some Korean food recently in PH. They were cold!! Like cold spaghetti. Quite awful! I'm used to noodles being piping hot, like in Japan. Is this normal in Korea?
>>1137572
what you ate was 냉면. It is only a single dish. So 95% of food is not cold noodles.
Korean is considered hard as shit to learn, when comparing to other languages, for native English speakers. I'm white, speak Korean for my work and am not that ausie anon in busan.
Korean synonyms are the hardest thing for me. 7 words for wife all in common usage. 6 words for life, like 12 extremely/very. and Korean culture of speak English to all foreigners makes getting speaking practice difficult until you get to a decent level of speaking.
>>1137586
Yeah there was some Kimchi as well and other stuff. Thanks for the reply!
