Asia countries people have longer working hours a day and strict rules in companies more than western countries people. Along with the fact, Koreans work longer and harder, and prefer to work bigger companies owing to good salary and reputations.
Broadly speaking, people who have received higher education tend to get better job in Korea, which means what university you have graduated is shown more important than individual potential at the first impression of interviews very often. Despite the tendency, there are some vocational schools from high school in Korea. Some students who are not interested in studying choose to go the schools, but it is still difficult to get better job than them believe it or not.
Moreover, the Koreans retirement of ages is disposed to be younger, which is around 60 year-old and 50 year-old among men and women respectively and it has caused lots of competitions between colleagues in companies as a result. Seemingly, when an employer makes redundant workers, its meaning is the same as fired in fact.
In my opinion, Working in Korea has more difficulties than NZ apparently because Kiwis can work flexibly depending on their given conditions.
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ReplyDeleteHi Emily,
ReplyDeleteI just read Jin's post and Chinese women also have to retire ten years earlier than men. This is all news to me.
It must be incredibly stressful for young people in Korea when so much depends on what university you get into. When I taught in the other part of our language school (with permanent resident students), there were quite a few older Korean students who wanted to move here to make life easier for their kids. I think they must have got quite a surprise with our school system, which is definitely more relaxed. Not surprisingly, many Asian students do very well in our school system because of their strong study culture and the push(in a good way) from their parents.
Caro :)