๐Ÿฅ˜Instant Job opportunity in Korea⑦ ์Œ์‹์ 

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น ์ทจ์—… ๊ธฐํšŒ: ํ•„์ˆ˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฐ ๋น„์ž ์ •๋ณด | Korean Restaurant Job Opportunities for Foreigners: Essential Korean and Visa Information

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น ์ทจ์—… ๊ธฐํšŒ: ํ•„์ˆ˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฐ ๋น„์ž ์ •๋ณด

์ดˆ๊ธ‰ (Beginner) | ์ทจ์—… (Employment)

Labor Shortage in South Korea

์ธ๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ ์—…์ข…์—์„œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ! ๐Ÿ‘‹ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์œ ๋ง ์ง์—…: ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ์‹๋‹น ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ

Promising Jobs for Foreigners in Korea: Cook & Kitchen Assistant

ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์™ธ์‹์—…๊ณ„๋Š” ๋งŒ์„ฑ์ ์ธ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
The food service industry in Korea is suffering from a chronic labor shortage.

ํŠนํžˆ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ์ดํ›„ ์ธ๋ ฅ๋‚œ์€ ๋”์šฑ ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” ์ ์  ๋” ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Especially after COVID-19, the labor shortage has worsened and the demand for foreign workers is increasing.

์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ์‹๋‹น ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ ์ง์ข…์€ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ๋งํ•œ ์ทจ์—… ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
As a result, cooking and kitchen assistant positions have emerged as promising job opportunities for foreigners.

Korean restaurant kitchen

์™ธ์‹์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ ์‹คํƒœ

Labor Shortage in the Food Service Industry

2021๋…„ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์™ธ์‹์—…์ฒด์˜ 74.9%๊ฐ€ ์ธ๋ ฅ๋‚œ์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์‘๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
As of 2021, 74.9% of food service businesses reported labor shortages.

์ค‘์‹·์ผ์‹·์„œ์–‘์‹ ๋“ฑ ์™ธ๊ตญ์‹ ์Œ์‹์ ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ ๋น„์œจ์€ 80%์— ๋‹ฌํ•œ๋‹ค.
For Chinese, Japanese, and Western restaurants, the shortage rate reaches 80%.

2022๋…„ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•·์Œ์‹์ ์—…์˜ ๋ฏธ์ถฉ์› ์ธ์›์€ 1๋งŒ 939๋ช…์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
In the first half of 2022, the number of unfilled positions in accommodation and food service was 10,939.

  • ๋ฏธ์ถฉ์› ์ธ์› (mi-chung-won in-won): unfilled positions

  • ์ธ๋ ฅ๋‚œ (in-ryeok-nan): labor shortage

์ถœ์ฒ˜: ์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
์ถœ์ฒ˜: ์„œ์šธ์‹ ๋ฌธ

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์ทจ์—… ์ ˆ์ฐจ์™€ ๋น„์ž ํ™•๋Œ€

Visa Policy Changes and Employment Procedures

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์™ธ์‹์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ๋‚œ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋น„์ž ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
The Korean government is relaxing visa policies to address the labor shortage in the food industry.

2024๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•œ์‹ ์Œ์‹์ ์—์„œ๋„❗๋น„์ „๋ฌธ์ทจ์—…(E-9) ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์„ ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ๋ณด์กฐ์›์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Starting in 2024, Korean restaurants can hire foreign workers with ❗the E-9 visa as kitchen assistants.

  • ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ๋ณด์กฐ์› (ju-bang bo-jo-won): kitchen assistant

  • ๋น„์ „๋ฌธ์ทจ์—… (E-9 ๋น„์ž): non-professional employment visa

์ถœ์ฒ˜: ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ฒฝ์ œ

2023๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์žฌ์™ธ๋™ํฌ(F-4) ๋น„์ž ์†Œ์ง€์ž๋„ ๋‹จ์ฒด๊ธ‰์‹์—… ๋ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์Œ์‹์ ์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ ์ธ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ์—…์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
Since 2023, F-4 visa holders (Overseas Koreans) can also work in restaurant kitchens.

์ถœ์ฒ˜: ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ

๊ธ‰์—ฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€๊ณผ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ฑด

Salary and Working Conditions

  • ์ดˆ๋ณด ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ: ์›” 250๋งŒ ~ 280๋งŒ ์›
    Entry-level kitchen assistant: KRW 2.5 ~ 2.8 million/month

  • ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด์กฐ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ง: 300๋งŒ ์› ์ด์ƒ
    Experienced kitchen staff: over KRW 3 million/month

  • ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ์žฅ๊ธ‰: 400๋งŒ ์› ์ด์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ(์ž๊ฒฉ์ฆ ์†Œ์ง€ ์‹œ ์œ ๋ฆฌ)
    Head chef level: over KRW 4 million (preferred with certification)

๋งŽ์€ ์—…์žฅ์—์„œ ์ˆ™์‹์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•ผ๊ฐ„·๋ช…์ ˆ ์ˆ˜๋‹น๋„ ์ง€๊ธ‰๋œ๋‹ค.
Many restaurants provide room and board, along with night and holiday bonuses.

  • ์ˆ™์‹ ์ œ๊ณต (suk-sik je-gong): room and board provided

  • ์•ผ๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜๋‹น (ya-gan su-dang): night shift bonus

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ

Why Korean Language Skills Matter in the Kitchen

๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ง€์‹œ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ๋งŒ ์žˆ์–ด๋„ ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ ์—…๋ฌด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค.
Basic Korean for understanding instructions is usually enough to start working in the kitchen.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ❗๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ์Œ“๊ณ  ๊ธ‰์—ฌ๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
However, to grow in your career and earn more, a deeper understanding of Korean expressions is crucial.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Š” ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค.❗
Korean uses very nuanced expressions when it comes to cooking processes.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด '์•ฝ๋ถˆ์—์„œ ์‚ด์ง ๋ณถ์•„์ค˜' ๊ฐ™์€ ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์˜จ๋„์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
For example, phrases like "cook lightly on low heat" require an understanding of temperature, time, and degree of cooking.

[ Difficult Korean culinary terms]

Expression

Meaning

Pronunciation

๋‹ค์ง„ ๋งˆ๋Š˜

minced garlic

da-jin ma-neul

์ฑ„ ์ฌ ๋‹น๊ทผ

julienned carrot

chae sseon dang-geun

์‚ด์ง ๋ณถ๋‹ค

stir-fry lightly

sal-jjak bok-da

๋ฐ”์‚ญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฝ๋‹ค

cook until crispy

ba-sak-ha-ge gup-da

๋ˆ…๋ˆ…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ

not soggy

nuk-nuk-ha-ji an-ge

  • ์ฑ„ ์ฌ (chae sseon): thinly sliced

  • ์‚ด์ง (sal-jjak): slightly / lightly

  • ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋„ (jo-ri jeong-do): degree of cooking

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์‹ค๋ฌด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€์˜ ์†Œํ†ต์—์„œ๋„ ํฐ ์žฅ์ ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค.
Understanding and using these terms properly helps both in practical tasks and workplace communication.

ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ „๋ง

Future Outlook

  • ์™ธ์‹ ์ˆ˜์š” ์ฆ๊ฐ€: 1์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ๋ฌธํ™” ํ™•์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์™ธ์‹ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ „๋ง์ด๋‹ค.
    Food demand is rising due to single-person households and delivery services.

  • ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ์Œ์‹์  ํ™•๋Œ€: ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์Œ์‹์ ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์‹  ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์ทจ์—… ๊ธฐํšŒ๋„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    The number of multicultural restaurants is growing, creating more job opportunities for foreigners.

  • ํ•œ์‹ ์„ธ๊ณ„ํ™”: ํ•œ์‹ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ฆ์„ ์ทจ๋“ํ•œ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋ณธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•œ์‹๋‹น์„ ์ฐฝ์—…ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    More foreigners are opening Korean restaurants abroad after getting certified.

  • ์ •๋ถ€ ์ง€์› ํ™•๋Œ€: ํ•œ์‹ ๊ต์œก, ์ž๊ฒฉ์ฆ ์ทจ๋“ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๋“ฑ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋Œ€์ƒ ์ง€์›๋„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    Government support for foreign job seekers includes Korean food training and certification.

์™ธ์‹์—…์€ ์ง„์ž… ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ณ  ์ธ๋ ฅ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ง์—… ์„ ํƒ์ง€๋‹ค.
Food service jobs are easy to enter and have high demand, making them a realistic and stable career for foreigners.

ํŠนํžˆ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ด€๋ จ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ง‘์ค‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๋ฉด ์—…๋ฌด ์ ์‘ ์†๋„๋„ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ , ๊ธ‰์—ฌ์™€ ์ง๊ธ‰ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ์ปค์ง„๋‹ค.
Especially, learning Korean expressions related to cooking helps you adapt faster and increase your income and promotion chances.

๐Ÿง‘‍๐Ÿ’ป ๋งˆ์ดํฌ:
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๋ณด์กฐ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๐Ÿง‘‍๐Ÿ’ป Mike:
Hello. I would like to apply for the kitchen assistant position.
๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿ’ป ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค:
์•„, ๋„ค! ํ˜น์‹œ ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿ’ป Grace:
Ah, yes! Do you happen to have experience working in a kitchen?
๐Ÿ”‘ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํ‘œํ˜„ | Key Expression
์ง€์›ํ•˜๋‹ค (ji-won-ha-da) : to apply
์ฃผ๋ฐฉ (ju-bang) : kitchen
โ„น️ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ •๋ณด | Useful Information

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ณ ์šฉ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฌธ์˜๋Š” ๊ด€ํ•  ๊ณ ์šฉ์ง€์›์„ผํ„ฐ ๋˜๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ฌธ์˜ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For inquiries regarding foreign employment, you can contact the local Employment Support Center or Foreign Workforce Center.

⚠️ ์ฃผ์˜ ์‚ฌํ•ญ | Important Note
๊ทผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทผ๋กœ ์กฐ๊ฑด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์—†๋„๋ก ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Be sure to check the details of your labor contract and communicate sufficiently to avoid misunderstandings about working conditions.
❗ ํŒ | Tip
์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ์šฉ์–ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๋ฉด ์—…๋ฌด์— ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ ์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Learning Korean expressions related to kitchen terms in advance will help you adapt quickly to the job.
๐Ÿ’ฌ ์–ดํœ˜ ์„ค๋ช… | Vocabulary Explanation
์ธ๋ ฅ๋‚œ (in-ryeok-nan) | ๅ‹žๅŠ›้›ฃ | Labor shortage; difficulty in securing manpower.
๋ฏธ์ถฉ์› ์ธ์› (mi-chung-won in-won) | ๆœชๅ……ๅ“กไบบๅ“ก | Unfilled positions; the number of people not hired for available jobs.
❓ ์งˆ๋ฌธ | Question

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

What do you think is the most important thing for working in a Korean restaurant?

๐Ÿ’ก ์˜ˆ์‹œ | Example

์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ๋•Œ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฉ”๋ชจํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

When learning new cooking methods, it's always important to take notes and practice.

๐Ÿ˜œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 5๋ถ„๋งŒ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์–ด๋ ต์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”. ํž˜๋‚ด์š”!

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