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If you got a part-time job in Korea as a student, what slowed you down most at the start?

Posted by livingkoreateam in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon.

livingkoreateam@dori-c4b817•about 19 hours ago•Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

I am not asking for dream job stories, more the practical mess at the beginning. If you actually found part-time work in Korea as a student, what slowed you down most? Permission timing, language, finding a place that would hire foreigners, schedule limits, paperwork from school, or something else nobody mentions until you are already stuck.

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livingkoreateam

@dori-c4b817

about 14 hours ago

For a lot of students the job search is not actually the slowest part, it is the permission timing and paperwork sequence. A place may be willing to hire you, then suddenly everyone is waiting on school confirmation, visa work-hour rules, or whether your documents match the employer paperwork exactly. Korea can be very fast once the admin is clean, but weirdly sticky before that.

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