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| Waegukin Newbie Korea, South Joined 5499 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 1 of 3 29 January 2012 at 8:11am | IP Logged |
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I'm putting this in General first instead of specific, because I think it can be
applied to multiple languages. My dream is to work with North Korean defectors and help them to adjust to their new life in either S.K or and English-speaking country, or help them along the way to S.Korea. Either way I know I will need to have a high level of Korean to do this. I have high intermediate skills right now and am going to school in South Korea. If you were me, what exactly would you study? What type of vocabulary, etc? What kind of sources? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6619 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 2 of 3 29 January 2012 at 9:29am | IP Logged |
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Vocabulary relating to various social services and how they work could be important. You might also like to explain the school system and how to enroll their children for those that have them. But really, you need just about everything.
I have a book called "Living in Norway" written for immigrants to Norway (all immigrants, not just refugees). It explains everything from how the social services work to what the letters on the license plates mean. If you could find something similar for Korea, it would be a good start. You might not learn any vocabulary from reading it as it's likely to be written in English since it is for foreigners, but at least you'd see what kind of words are important so you could look them up. Also you might find out some information you didn't even know yourself, and you would see how to explain it in a straightforward manner. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4867 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 3 of 3 17 March 2012 at 2:34am | IP Logged |
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Work as in volunteering or do you actually want to make this your job? If job: Do you have the qualifications you need for this? If not, can you get them in Korea? I think that would be the first thing to worry about. And if you can get a degree in Korean I don't see what would keep you from being able to do the work.
If you want to volunteer, I think there might be a need for English education, or many other things that don't require perfect language skills. I recommend you to look into volunteering even if your real goal is to get a job in this area. You'll gain a lot of important insights into how the resettlement is carried out and without doubt you'll find out if the job really suits you or not. You'll also find out which vocabulary to study and you'll get used to North Korean dialect if you get to work with the refugees. I don't know about Korea, but here organizations that work with refugees are happy about every volunteer with any set of skills they can find. By the way, I commend you for this goal and hope you have many positive experiences. I do volunteer work in this area (mainly language teaching and recruiting volunteers) and it's great - interesting, challenging, rewarding, but it can also be very tough. Edited by druckfehler on 17 March 2012 at 2:40am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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