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Subject: questions to costs of living...salary...procedure to get an appartment
Dear forum users .
Yesterday i found this great „institution“ while googling and I am really happy about it. At first let me say thank you to iGEL who obviously puts a lot of effort in the forum.
My name is Julia, I am living in the Netherlands, even though I am originally german. Actually I decided to write in English, because I thought its more open for all people no matter which mother tongue- but if germans answer of course we can write german.
Let me introduce myself at first:
I am 29 years old and young architect. I have studied at the Technical University in Delft/NL. The program was an international mastercourse, so we were 30 students and 16 nations. Among these there were 3 students from Korea---so here we have the connection !
My boyfriend, called Stephan also architect, and I, we became friends with these guys, who are now after our study is finished back in their native country, working as architects in different offices.
Because of the Sympathy we felt to theses korean fellow students we applied for jobs as architects in offices in Seoul-Korea. The office likes our work very much, so now we are in serious negotiations about the salary.
At this point some questions come up, which i would like to ask people who have experiences in both cultures.
The mentioned korean friends who work as architects in Seoul earn a salary which is round about the half of what a young architect earns in Germany or Netherlands, even though the costs of living in Seoul seem to be very high- I found information that Seoul is the 4th most expensive city in the world. Even though I know, that foreign employees can ask for a higher salary than a korean employee, and that architects salaries are in general everywhere lower, i don’t know, how this difference of costs and salary can work.
The second very new situation for us is the procedure to get an appartment. Our friend wrote us, that in Seoul there are actually no “rental” flats like in Germany, but that you need to give the owner of the flat an amount of money like for example 50.000 € at once. The higher this amount of money is, the lower is the monthly rent.
Since normally nobody has this amount of money you have to ask the bank for a loan to pay it.
This seems for us very, very complicated. Does anybody of you know this procedure, is it correct? Where did you, if you stayed in Seoul, actually live? Is there maybe however annother chance for foreign people to rent an appartment?
I am looking forward to reading your answers, advice, comments.......either in english or german.
Thank you and bye, bye Julia.
Yesterday i found this great „institution“ while googling and I am really happy about it. At first let me say thank you to iGEL who obviously puts a lot of effort in the forum.
My name is Julia, I am living in the Netherlands, even though I am originally german. Actually I decided to write in English, because I thought its more open for all people no matter which mother tongue- but if germans answer of course we can write german.
Let me introduce myself at first:
I am 29 years old and young architect. I have studied at the Technical University in Delft/NL. The program was an international mastercourse, so we were 30 students and 16 nations. Among these there were 3 students from Korea---so here we have the connection !
My boyfriend, called Stephan also architect, and I, we became friends with these guys, who are now after our study is finished back in their native country, working as architects in different offices.
Because of the Sympathy we felt to theses korean fellow students we applied for jobs as architects in offices in Seoul-Korea. The office likes our work very much, so now we are in serious negotiations about the salary.
At this point some questions come up, which i would like to ask people who have experiences in both cultures.
The mentioned korean friends who work as architects in Seoul earn a salary which is round about the half of what a young architect earns in Germany or Netherlands, even though the costs of living in Seoul seem to be very high- I found information that Seoul is the 4th most expensive city in the world. Even though I know, that foreign employees can ask for a higher salary than a korean employee, and that architects salaries are in general everywhere lower, i don’t know, how this difference of costs and salary can work.
The second very new situation for us is the procedure to get an appartment. Our friend wrote us, that in Seoul there are actually no “rental” flats like in Germany, but that you need to give the owner of the flat an amount of money like for example 50.000 € at once. The higher this amount of money is, the lower is the monthly rent.
Since normally nobody has this amount of money you have to ask the bank for a loan to pay it.
This seems for us very, very complicated. Does anybody of you know this procedure, is it correct? Where did you, if you stayed in Seoul, actually live? Is there maybe however annother chance for foreign people to rent an appartment?
I am looking forward to reading your answers, advice, comments.......either in english or german.
Thank you and bye, bye Julia.
This post was edited on 2006-01-29, 23:35 by 
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....also freue ich mich natürlich auch sehr über "teilantworten" 
