[HN Gopher] Ask HN: I need to quickly move to South Korea, How?
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Ask HN: I need to quickly move to South Korea, How?
I'm a British Software Engineer. I just discovered my South Korean
fiance has just been diagnosed with a terminal condition so I need
to move over there ASAP. I've got a CS degree and 1 and a half
years experience at a large news organisation. In my team we manage
a web service written in elixir including all associated CI and aws
infrastructure. I've been coding in python since I was 16 and java
at uni. I've been learning Korean for the past year but its not
business ready yet. So my main question is, given my situation,
how difficult would it be for me to get a job in Korea? Other
questions: How common are English speaking software jobs there?
Could I get a remote job for a company outside of Korea while still
living there? Does anyone here have insight into Korean job visa or
marriage visas on here, that could point me in the right direction?
Sorry if this isn't concise or the questions are easily googleable,
I'm still reeling from the news. I just thought this is the most
likely place to get the best advice! Thank you in advanced, your
advice is greatly appreciated!
Author : krthowaway
Score : 59 points
Date : 2022-01-12 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| helpdudetaway wrote:
| I might be able to hook you up with a part time contract, not the
| most glorious project (js/ts node, react) but highly flexible.
|
| Let me know how I can reach out.
| prewett wrote:
| Check the tourist visa requirements. China has (or at least had)
| a 60 day or 90 day multi-entry tourist visa with no maximum
| number of days. So you just take a trip to Japan ever couple of
| months and come back. Even if it had a 180 day per year limit
| (like the US and Europe, I believe), it would be a way to be
| there, talk to some expats and see what things are like.
|
| Another option is language study through a University, which if
| you think you will be in Korea for a few years, I would
| recommend. I tried working FT in China and studying language in
| my spare time, and in retrospect I would have been better off
| taking a year (or better, two) to study language, as I never
| progressed beyond survival+, and that's about the point where the
| built-in need to learn peters out. This would work well with
| remote work, especially if you take a light class schedule.
|
| I think that frequently the non-work visas only require that you
| do not work at a local company paying you in local currency. If
| you work remotely for a foreign company, being paid in foreign
| currency to a foreign bank account, I believe that is not a
| problem. (How would that be functionally different from having
| your rich parents pay your living expenses? Or living of the
| dividends of your trust fund?) As far as I can tell when I
| researched it, even the US is okay with that (and have known
| several foreign students in the US doing that), but I would
| advise doing your own research.
| excalibur wrote:
| This brings to mind a plague of romance scams. I have a close
| relative who was duped by a woman who wanted to move in with him
| but needed him to cash some checks for her first. I'm guessing
| you're smarter than that and your fiance is someone you've
| actually met IRL and have a physical relationship with. So
| condolences on her prognosis, a scam would actually be easier to
| recover from.
| vmception wrote:
| Sadly I know someone who also optimized for being cautious of a
| romance scam and their penpal verifiable died from a
| preventable ailment. If only she sent that $100 dollars they
| explained they needed.
|
| She had initially met this person on vacation and stayed in
| touch and they eventually asked for money. Guess its impossible
| to tell the difference!
| nnoitra wrote:
| what sort of 100 bucks prevents a death?
| klyrs wrote:
| Color me skeptical, but antibiotics could fit the bill.
| krthowaway wrote:
| ahaha thanks for your concern, but we've been dating for 3
| years, met her the old fashion way at university. :)
| NewGuy- wrote:
| I lived there almost a decade and know the visa process. Get
| started on paperwork for an F-6-1 visa. It will allow you to work
| without restrictions. Your best options for work are Kakao
| (KakaoTalk) and Naver. They have solid Python development
| capabilities. Coupang is their best ecommerce company. Go check
| out the paperwork on visas: https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/gb-
| en/brd/m_20265/view.do?seq=66...
| krthowaway wrote:
| Thanks so much for the link, I didn't know they had English
| speaking jobs going in Kakao, Naver and Coupang. I assumed
| those companies especially would be 100% Korean.
| petamask wrote:
| Best option is to get the merraige visa. You can't work with the
| student visa. And unless you already have a contact, I think to
| get a work here (that offers visa) would be difficult. You can
| play live 3month as tourist hop to Japan and come back move but
| that would be difficult with the pandemic and it is an
| uncertianty that would weigh on both of you. I'm a Korean my
| husband is a Brit programmer. We went through this route before
| and my advice is to look into marriage visa immediately. Its
| actually not that difficult and while it's comparatively fast it
| still takes some time. You can find my contact in the profile if
| you want.
| yongjik wrote:
| Sorry to hear that. You may also want to ask r/korea in Reddit,
| it has some weirdos but many people there would have some
| experience with Korean visa.
| pratik661 wrote:
| I'd check out some UK/US based remote first companies as they
| would be less of a culture shock. A lot of companies have a dev
| presence in SEA and India and would love to have more on call
| coverage for those regions
| connordoner wrote:
| Is there any chance that you can keep your current job and work
| remotely?
| krthowaway wrote:
| I'm going to talk to my boss tomorrow but I think its unlikely,
| Korea is GMT+9. I'd have to work outside of normal GMT+0 hours.
| My boss is great, but something like this will require higher
| clearance, which I doubt I'll get.
| sokoloff wrote:
| If you work in times relative to Korea's solar day, yes. You
| could conceivably work from 9-5 in GMT still (from 6PM-2AM
| local time).
|
| I'm not saying it's ideal, but you're trying to pick the
| least bad of some dreadful options (for which I'm sorry and
| wish your fiancee [and you] well as you navigate this).
| Keeping your current job, working it as a "second shift" job
| from Korea might give you stability that's valuable here.
| joecot wrote:
| If he could, I'd be doubtful South Korea would want him.
| Looking at some work visa requirements [1] they'd need a
| sponsoring company in South Korea. If they're working remotely
| for an English company it sounds like SK would say "Cool, keep
| working over there then".
|
| If OP wants to live in SK with his fiance and work remotely for
| somewhere else, they'd probably be better off being a "tourist"
| and getting married and getting a SK visa that way. Yes,
| they're engaged because they didn't want to rush into that, but
| lots of people from different countries end up getting married
| in a hurry for this reason.
|
| https://www.justlanded.com/english/South-Korea/South-Korea-G...
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