I got Seoul

So… I’m thinking about maybe possibly I miiiight try to do an ESL thing in Thailand or something. It’s a great way to travel and see the world without wondering if you’ll have a job when you get back. I looked at a couple of opportunities in Japan but it seems that the living arrangements they provide for you is pretty, for lack of a better word, crappy. It’s usually a 100 sqft apartment that they SAY every single person in Japan lives in but I find that hard to believe. Maybe they do, I dunno, I’m just a spoiled American who’s shoe closet is larger that 100 sqft! Plus the pay is pretty crappy. It’s about 30,000 JPY a month. Sounds like a lot right? It actually comes to about 265.137 USD… you can stop laughing now. If I were to work in S. Korea, however, I would be getting about 1,800,000 Won per month minimum. That’s about 1,923.679 USD. No, you don’t have to pay rent out of that and no bills but your part of your health insurance. (about 3% of your earnings) Apparently- from what I’ve read from a few places- rent isn’t bad and utilities are so cheap it makes you wonder why you’re living in America still. PLUS~ the company pays your airfare (roundtrip) plus you get 10 days vacation and extra months pay at the end of your contract. Someone tell me why I’m still here?!? The only major downside that I can see is the “yellow dust” season when all the toxic crap from the factories in China float on down to Korea. It’s kind of like Ozone days but about 10x worse. Any hoot, I guess that’s it for today. TTYL



Stephb0b