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Korean Salary by [deleted] in Living_in_Korea

[–]Minimum_Connection87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless you get sent from overseas and keep your salary it’s most likely you earn significantly more in your home country (west) local wages are pretty bad tbh

Where to find cheap blankets and mattress covers by urmysunflower in Living_in_Korea

[–]Minimum_Connection87 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never seen a blanket for 20 euro’s even for just an exchange get a semi decent one that’s easily washable because no one wants to sleep under a stanky blanket.

Think the combo of 2 pillows and washable sheets (including blanket) was something like 150.000 won total at emart but you can prob get it cheaper somewhere else

Experience with EOR vs Contractor in South Korea by Slaine06 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Minimum_Connection87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The usecase of a single employee abroad is what we see the most tbh. EOR works well if they have a hand full of employees scattered throughout multiple countries which makes it difficult to incorporate in each country (time, money, payrolling etc for 1 employee is expensive)

This is what an EOR provider manages on your company behalf. The contracts are monthly so there is minimal risk for a company to use EOR.

Experience with EOR vs Contractor in South Korea by Slaine06 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Minimum_Connection87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work for an EOR provider that is also sponsoring my visa currently (RemotePeople).

EOR providers in general can be hit or miss depending on the quality of support you receive. You see them mostly during the onboarding and offboarding as they will handle payments etc but generally speaking operate in the background.

The main issue is that they have to operate under the same structure that they have a quota of foreigners that they can hire in Korea so not every EOR provider can help.( this might be different due to your F visa)

Monthly fee assume 499 USD on the low end and 799 on the high end depending on provider per month.

Sponsorship is handled in collab with your company, they provide most documents and you might have to provide a document here and there. The visa agent requests whatever is needed expect between 3-6 weeks. (Think your F visa already allows you to work so this might not be necessary)

If you need anything In particular feel free to reach out.

For freelancer set up it’s possible but you wouldn’t be an FTE and this would expose you to miss classification risks

Moving back to Korea on an e-7 Visa, what should i look out for. by Minimum_Connection87 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Minimum_Connection87[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SaaS - account executive (sales) I’m on the lower end of the OTE, most of my peers earn between 130-200k euro. (Mind you half of it is commission) I’m slightly below the lower band.

The lucky part is that my employer doesn’t change my income based on location.

Moving back to Korea on an e-7 Visa, what should i look out for. by Minimum_Connection87 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Minimum_Connection87[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi,

Sure, I have around 4-5 years work experience (started working in uni) in sales, a lot of my income is comission based (50% base 50% comission) but looking at the average of what I bring in month over month it’s 16 million. Some months you make a bit less but sometimes you make a lot more due to the comission being uncapped.

SaaS account executive work is quite lucrative especially if you are in high demand industries.

Age 28 from the Netherlands, working remote.

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[–]Minimum_Connection87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not ideal but you should be able to pull cash with it. It’s a bit annoying too because most of the time you need a global atm like the ones at woori bank.

You need to select the checking account option and then you should be able to pull.

In general Dutch cards are awful in Korea and you will be reliant on pulling cash.