In the past two days, I have seen many posts on social platforms about international students complaining that Korean convenience stores do not want foreigners to work part-time. Some readers also asked me in private messages that there are many convenience store jobs this year. Is there any channel for me, a lawyer, to introduce jobs to them? Indeed, it is now difficult for Korean employment agency platforms to find convenience store jobs that require foreigners to work part-time. This makes international students looking for part-time jobs during the holidays anxious and turning to Chinese information platforms to find jobs. The strange thing is that the Chinese information platform has many convenience store part-time workers recruiting. Why is this?
There are indeed some convenience stores recruiting foreigners to work part-time in these job recruitment information, but these are a minority. Most of the convenience store recruitment information is actually a front, they are illegal part-time workers who are trying to sell themselves off. Because many people believe that posting convenience store recruitment information must be a legal employment, it is easier to attract job seekers than high-paying part-time jobs with incomplete information. Unfortunately, the posters of illegal part-time jobs take advantage of this characteristic and use convenience stores as an excuse to recruit workers, but they actually recruit workers for illegal part-time jobs. Two typical examples are shared below. Readers looking for jobs should pay more attention.
The first one is a position in an entertainment venue. Karaoke halls and bars in South Korea's Chinatown recruit escort girls all year round, and international students are their first choice. But considering that no one would come if they directly recruit girls, they often use convenience store part-time jobs to target job seekers. When job seekers contact them, they will say: "We have just hired people for the convenience store job, but there are other jobs that are hiring. Do you want to try it?" They recommend that you just go to work and chat with customers and pour drinks, and the salary is still there. Much higher than convenience stores. This is a typical part-time job of a bartender.
The second one is the link between telecommunications fraud and . Many people now know that high-paying part-time jobs that can earn 100,000 Korean won a day are telecommunications fraud, so it is difficult to recruit people for positions such as investment companies, money exchange assistants, etc. So they also use convenience store part-time jobs to attract job seekers to apply, and they also introduce other easy and profitable jobs to trick job seekers into giving it a try first. Part-time jobs involving telecommunications fraud have obvious characteristics. They use chat software such as WeChat and are instructed by their bosses. They go to different places to meet people and get paid, and they use taxis to move around the entire journey, etc.
Lawyer Jin Yi’s thoughts:
Among the two part-time jobs, there is no need to say more about the consequences of participating in telecommunications fraud. Either go to jail or pay to avoid jail. What I want to emphasize is the work of escort girls. Although there are legal escort girls in Korea, only Koreans can do it. Foreigners working as escort girls are completely illegal employment. If they are discovered by immigration, they will be punished for violating social public order and good customs . In serious cases, they will be sent back to the country. So now that convenience store part-time job is not recruiting foreigners, you should understand it clearly before you see the convenience store recruitment information.
Author: Lawyer Jin Yi
