Any good Korean job search websites?

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Reply #1 - 2012 June 25, 10:44 pm
efeilliaid Member
From: Japan Registered: 2009-03-14 Posts: 19

Hello everyone,

I have worked in a few countries and found websites like monster.com (its regional sites) very useful in my job searches so far (coupled with attending business networking events and meeting 'real' people). I am currently based in Japan and have been working here for over a year. I am happy in this country and can't really think of a better place in terms of... well... too many good reasons!
However, since my childhood days (when I discovered an article on hangul and the Koreas), I have been very interested in Korea too. My recent trip to South Korea seriously messed up my mind. The people there were lovely, I liked the mixture of modern 'order' with the typically South-East Asian mish-mash, and the language was sweet to listen to. Also, many people spoke decent English, seemed very open and I had great fun wherever I went (city and countryside).
So I thought - I have a good visa for Japan, I will obviously attempt to make it my permanent base, but why not try to live and work in South Korea for two or three years in the meantime? Besides, my girlfriend with whom I've travelled for over five years will most likely be promoted to a good position in Seoul for ~2013-2015. Hence my question to those who are knowledgeable: could you point me to good Korean job search websites in English? I am NOT into teaching - I was an English teacher for four years in the past and then moved on to broadly defined localization (IT, finance, life sciences and whatnot - as a PM, translation project coordinator, consultant, quality manager). I'd be grateful for any useful hints.
* I am mostly interested in Seoul, and if not there, then Busan.
* I can only read hangul and know a bunch of random expressions = I don't speak Korean and can't read anything with real understanding. However, I am cheeky enough to try to look for work in South Korea as I have previously been a successful and valued employee in the localization industry in countries like France and Japan using English exclusively (my general feel for written content in European languages plus Russian plus extremely basic Japanese [the bottom level really] with good RTK retention were sufficient for any role I've had).
* Obviously, I have started learning Korean but I don't expect to be at a professionally useful level any time soon smile

Thank you very much!
efeilliaid

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