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DCA A321 FO , 02-01-2016 10:46 PM

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Korea as a country is awesome, really nice helpful people to foreigners, who don't work for KAL as pilots. If you like cold beer and spicy fried chicken you will be in heaven.

If guys are leaving for other countries it must be really bad. All my friends there are super family orientated.

#12

jonnyjetprop , 02-02-2016 01:49 AM

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The median household income in the US is $53,657. Many of us would not like to try to live on that as well.

Typical American family earned $53,657 last year - Sep. 16, 2015

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Originally Posted by DCA A321 FO

$30,000 might be the average on some survey but there is a large upper middle class or upper class population there. It would be hard to live on $30,000 there, everything is so expensive, from food to utilities. I bought one of my translators a pair of Levis, he politely told me he didn't want them, I asked why, he said they don't cost enough. His daily jeans cost $300, I asked how many pairs do you have, he said 7.

There seems to be many well off people there and many not so well off. I lived there for 2 years.

Salary Survey in Korea (South)| Salary Comparison

Actually it does look like $30,000 is about average, wow, my rent was at least $1500 a month.

#13

The Dominican , 02-02-2016 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilberto Farthi

Ummmm… Oh.... $140,000 is a LOT for someone living in Korea. As far as I know $30,000/year is the average pay in the whole country. Hire new pilots and fire all those greedy ...

You are joking I hope......

You can fly a CRJ in Japan for higher pay than those guys are flying the A380...., all in a time when KAL is profitable and growing..., it isn't greed, it is fairness...!

#14

Braniff DC8 , 02-04-2016 05:28 AM

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So does Orange Air pay more than that then johnnyprop?

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jonnyjetprop , 02-04-2016 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Braniff DC8

So does Orange Air pay more than that then johnnyprop?

Yes. Pay scale is posted in profile section.