Indians In Korea

Korea is the land of history and culture blooming in natural atmosphere. In one sentence kimchi, hanbok, rice cake, lunar New Year, Taekwondo all together is Korea. Life in Korea has everything you need for YOUR life. South Korea is a country of rugged and unsurpassed beauty, covered with mountains, surrounded by seas. Here people are some of the warmest and most generous on earth. Korean culture is ancient, refined, and filled with vitality. It's the country where, Cars are left untended and running, house doors unlocked, and goods out in the open. For a westerner, the way Koreans trust one another seems at first naive, almost childlike. Soon one realizes this is the way things should be.

Working and staying in South Korea will change your life indeed. But how it does it depends largely on how you begin. There are Three keys to get a joyful and stressless life. First to be accustomed with Korean food (according to your preference), Second Learn some useful Korean words, so when you go out you never face any problem. And third understand Korean culture and manners. Because there is a Korean word "Donbang yeichiguk" it means eastern land of manners. So life in Korea sometimes is easy going and sometimes it's a big challenge for outsiders, who came from a different culture and lifestyle.

"the 13th Boryeong Mud Festival 2010"

July 17(Sat)~July 25(Sun) Daechon beach
Boryeong City has abundant resources and beautiful scenery with mountains and beaches. It is a blessed place that has been called world in Boryeong cause the citizens have lived in splendor from generation to generation at the place of the great scenic beauty.
Boryeong Mud Festival has been held at Daecheon swimming beach, there is a unique shell-powered sandy beach only found in Eastern countries. So, you may swim and massage with a mudpack at the same time. Furthermore, there are Mud massage programs (Self massage at the Beach, Ultramodern mud massage) and Mud Experiential Land program using mud powder made through the processing procedure, that is, they gather mud from pure plain and remove all impurities.

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Dual Citizenship to Be Allowed in Korea

A Hearty Welcome to IIK (Indians in Korea) Group, a group where we make you feel you are in India with the vast Indian community.
The groups main focus is to bring Indians under one umbrella and interact freely in Korea. We all are here because we are Indians, so there is no room for individual language, regional or religion. We help Indians and make them feel home in Korea with the help of our lively discussion in group, meetings, get together parties, social cultural activities, and the best helping hands by each of the members in the group.
As you all know the importance of being an Indian, we are all proud to be Indian. We shouldn't differentiate or disintegrate the great India; we should have the feeling as an Indian, irrespective of our location, language, religion, culture, etc. As we are here for the work, name and fame of our country, as well as ours own, the honour or dishonour goes to the Country as a whole. Keeping in mind to raise our country's name and Fame as well as our own, we should help each other and make our live more comfortable in our stay in Korea..

IIK Vision:

1. Help Indians to make life easy in Korea by providing useful information at one place.
2. Strive to create a positive image for India through transformational thinking and creativecontribution.
3. Recognize achievements of India & Indian community and their impact on Korean societyand economy.
4. Provide an outlet for spreading group & personal creative expressions and experiences.
5. Promote ideas to create a sense of mutual openness and trust between Koreans andIndians.
6. Create a platform for NRIs awareness by sharing how NRIs in other country areorganizing ideas to help transform India. Motivating NRI to invest emotionally in India.
7. Raise common and reoccurring social, professional and other related problems and issuesof IIK members and help to solve them by making one.

Core values:

To act as a source of transformative wisdom, and promote transformative thinking and leadership among the Indian community. To help in recognition of hidden potential and find ways to manifest and leverage the potential in each individual. To bring focus on Interdependence and synergy of collective wisdom of NRIs towards realizing India's hidden potential.

Connect to IIK

In 2002, Indians in Korea started one community in yahoo group to connect each other, to share the feelings of Indians in Korea and to help each other in every steps of life-in-Korea.
Today the group is strong, trustful, active, non-profit group, named as INDIANS IN KOREA (IIK) to give better interaction among Indians in Korea.

To Subscribe in IIK group, mail to indianscommunityinKorea-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Group Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indianscommunityinKorea

Transportation:

http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/1041_Transportation.jsp

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Employment for spouses

1.0 Employment of spouses

1.1 Korea government rule regarding work of spouses

1.2 What all the jobs spouses can get in Korea

1.3 Pros and cons of working in Korea

1.4 Additional Information.

This is most important factor now a day for the Indians, who came to Korea with their spouses. Because most of the Indian spouses are highly educated and have previous experience like their husband. But as they come in the dependent visa (F3), Korea government doesnj? give them work permission. There are many kinds of job, which spouses can do. But as English teaching job is more demanding in Korea, so everyone is trying for that.

1.1 Korea government rule regarding work of spouses

As per the Korean government rule depend visa holder cannot work here in Korea as a full timer. As per Korean government rule F3 visa holder cannot work as a part timer also. But in the rule there is one provision that, if someone having F3 visa, and wants to work as a part timer, then they have to take permission for Local or district immigration office. There are some documents needed to apply for the permission. Those are:

1) Travel document, such as your passport.
2) Your alien registration card.
3) Application form, most of which could be down loaded from the Internet.
4) Application fees (60,000 won).
5) Other document that might be required additionally depending on the Visa status.
6) A letter of consent from a former workplace.
7) Resume
8) A certificate of degree and qualification.
9) A letter of recommendation of a minister concerned, or other materials verifying the need for the employment.
10) A certificate of employment. If your application is accepted, the immigration officer will stamp your Passport and record the amendments on the back of your Alien card.
One can find details in this web site.
One can get more information from Seoul Immigration office at: (02) 2650-6233.
The Seoul Help Center for Foreigners (SHC), operated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Business Agency (SBA), is an organization that provides foreigners in Seoul with comprehensive information and advice in daily life, business and tourism.
Seoul Help Center for Foreigners (SHC)
Tel: 02-731-6800
Fax: 02-731-6803
http://shc.seoul.go.kr
http://www.korea.net/search/Target/getting/Target_getting_seoul.asp

1.2 What all the jobs spouses can get in Korea

Spouses can get job in Korea, but that depends upon their Qualification. If spouses are in IT field, as there are many, and if they have minimum 3 years Of experience, they can apply for E7 visa, like their husbands. And one more provision is here in Korea that is, working as a teacher in Korea. Not like English teacher. Because to work as a English teacher, one has to get E2 visa, which as per nationality, Indians are not allowed. But an Indian spouse can work as a teacher in international school. They have such a provision, that we Indian spouses can work there legally. Now there are some Indian souses are working there as a Teacher. But as per the required qualification, applicant must have Masters Degree or B.Ed certificate. And if the spouses are interested of doing job they can find job in many job sites In Korea, which are in English. In those web sites they can find that some companies require F3 visa holder, for their overseas marketing division. In this site one can find different International schools in Korea.

http://www.shambles.net/pages/countries/kr_schools/

Also Spouses can find some job like phone teaching in Korea. This is a way one can work from home by phone. There are some concerns, which are dealing with this kind of job. They will provide Phone, books. And they will only pay your phone bill and they will give you salary. There teaching is little different. They will give you 10 students or more. You have to teach each student for 10 minutes everyday. Like if you teach one student 20 times for 10 minutes they will pay you (60,000 won). And they have many other provisions also. One can find this kind of job in different job sites. But for this kind of teaching one should speak English in American Accent. If someone is having Indian accent, while speaking English they cannot get this job.

1.3 Additional Information.

There some web sites, which are in Korean and English both, from their one can learn Korean basic, which are necessary, while working in Korea. One can get help from this web site.

http://rki.kbs.co.kr/learn_korean/lessons/e_index.htm

1.4 Pros and cons of working in Korea

There are many opportunities are in Korea. They only thing is that we have find that. So keep on trying job from many job sites. So There are some websites like,

1) www.highrise.kr/school
2) www.hotjobkorea.com
3) www.jobskorea.co.kr
4) www.englishspectrum.com
5) www.worknplay.co.kr

So these are the websites you can search the jobs. Choose the job and call them. As we have given our consent to the government, to give Indians E2 visa. May be in near future we can also get opportunity to teach English in Korea as a full time teacher. May be that time we have to fulfill some requirement here in Korea to Teach English. Like we have to produce TESOL certificate (Teaching English to speakers of other language) that is also known as TEFL.
You can find about this courses in this website. Indians can do this course. One can do this as a distance-learning course through Internet.
www.tesolcourse.com

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There are some good links, which are totally dedicated for foreigners in Korea. Hope the following links will help you out.

Travel to Seoul?
http://english.seoul.go.kr

Travel any where in Korea?
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/travel2

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