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[์ธ๋ฑ์Šค ๋ณต๊ตฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค‘] ๋ณธ ํฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” HTTPS ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋กœ ๋™๊ธฐํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Career Crossroads: Grace's Job Change Dilemma in Seoul ๐Ÿ–ฑ️ Add to Favorites

The Crossroads of a Job Change

ํ˜ธ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์˜จ ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค๋Š” ์„œ์šธ ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์—…๊ณ„ 1์œ„ ํŒจ์…˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์—์„œ ํ•ด์™ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Grace, who came from Australia, works in overseas marketing at the top fashion company in Gangnam, Seoul.

๋ฐ๊ณ  ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ๋„ ์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ , ์—…๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋„ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Thanks to her bright and positive personality, she gets along well with her colleagues and is recognized for her work performance.

๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ณ์—๋Š” ๋“ ๋“ ํ•œ ์ง€์›๊ตฐ์ด์ž ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ง์žฅ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์กฐ์–ธ์ž์ธ ๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
By her side is Deputy Manager Kang Min-yeo, a strong supporter and advisor on Korean office life.

์กฐ์–ธ์ž (joeonja): advisor, counselor

๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ง ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ํ•œ ์—…๊ณ„ 5์œ„ ํŒจ์…˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋จผ์ € ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ฎ๊ธด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
Deputy Manager Kang previously worked at the same company as Grace before moving to a new job at the fifth-ranked fashion company that is now offering Grace a job.

์ด์ง (ijik): job change, change of employment

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ํ—ค๋“œํ—Œํ„ฐ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์†”๊นƒํ•œ ์ „ํ™” ํ•œ ํ†ต์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Then one day, Grace received an enticing phone call from a headhunter she met through Deputy Manager Kang.

์†”๊นƒํ•œ (solgithan): enticing, tempting

Headhunter: ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค ์”จ. ๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜น์‹œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Hello, Ms. Grace. I received your contact information from Deputy Manager Kang Min-yeo. Are you perhaps interested in new career opportunities?

GRACE: ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๊ฐ• ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋‹˜๊ป˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์ข‹์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐํšŒ์ธ์ง€ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hello. I've already heard great things from Deputy Manager Kang. I'd like to hear more about the opportunity.

Headhunter: ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ํ•ด์™ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํŒ€ ๋ฆฌ๋” ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๋ด‰์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์˜ 1.5๋ฐฐ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๊ณ ์š”.
Our client company would like to offer you the position of Overseas Marketing Team Leader. The salary is 1.5 times your current one.

๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ (gogaeksa): client company, customer company

GRACE: (๋†€๋ผ๋ฉฐ) 1.5๋ฐฐ์š”? ํŒ€ ๋ฆฌ๋” ์ž๋ฆฌ๊นŒ์ง€... ๊ฐ• ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋‹˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ตฐ์š”! ์ •๋ง ์†”๊นƒํ•œ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด๋„ค์š”.
(Surprised) 1.5 times? And a Team Leader position... It's Deputy Manager Kang's company! That's a very tempting offer.

์†”๊นƒํ•œ (solgithan): enticing, tempting

This is where Grace's dilemma began. The location of 'Suwon, Gyeonggi Province' was quite far from her current residence in Gangnam, Seoul, especially the convenient Yeoksam-dong.

Considering the daily commute time, it could significantly impact her quality of life.

Moreover, her current company held the stable position of being the top in the industry.

ํ˜ธ์ฃผ์ธ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณธ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ (Australian Perspective)

GRACE: ๊ฐ• ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋‹˜, ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ํ—ค๋“œํ—Œํ„ฐ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ข‹์€ ์ œ์•ˆ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”. ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ… ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์›์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์—ญ์‚ผ๋™์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ์ด ์ข€ ๊ฑฑ์ •๋ผ์š”.
Hello, Deputy Manager Kang! I received a great offer from the headhunter. Thank you so much. But... the company is in Suwon. I currently live in Yeoksam-dong, so I'm a bit worried about the commute.

๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€: ์–ด, ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค! ์—ฐ๋ฝ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์—ฐ๋ด‰ ์กฐ๊ฑด์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด? ์ˆ˜์› ์œ„์น˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋‚˜๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ข€ ๋ง์„ค์—ฌ์กŒ์–ด. ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์ญ‰ ์‚ด์•˜์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
Oh, Grace! You got the call. Are you happy with the salary conditions? You're worried about the Suwon location, right? Actually, I hesitated a bit about that part myself at first. I had lived in Seoul my whole life.

GRACE: ํ˜ธ์ฃผ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ณดํ†ต ์ž๊ธฐ ์ƒํ™œ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฝ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ง์žฅ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ด๋™ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ธธ๋ฉด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ง€์น  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
In Australia, people usually consider finding a job within their living radius important. Long commute times can be very tiring.

์ƒํ™œ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฝ (saenghwal bangyeong): living radius, vicinity

๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€: ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ง์žฅ์ธ ํ‰๊ท  ์žฌ์ง ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ธธ์ง€ ์•Š์•„. ๋‚˜๋„ ์ „ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ 3๋…„ ์ข€ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์งํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๊ณ .
The average tenure of Korean office workers isn't that long. I also worked a little over three years before changing jobs.

์žฌ์ง ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ (jaejik gigan): tenure, period of employment
์ด์ง (ijik): job change, change of employment

GRACE: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๊ธˆ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ 1์œ„์ž–์•„์š”. ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ด๊ณ , ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ธ์ง€๋„๋„ ๋†’๊ณ ์š”. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” 5์œ„๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ… ๋ฌธํ™”๋‚˜ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์€ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€๊ฐ€์š”?
And my current company is number one in the industry. It's stable, and the brand recognition is high. The new company is fifth... is its culture and stability okay?

๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€: ์—ฌ๊ธด ํŒ€ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋„ ์ข‹๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด. ์—ฐ๋ด‰๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ž–์•„? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์š”์ฆ˜ ์ด์ง ์ถ”์„ธ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„.
The team is great and I can work proactively here. Salary is important, but so is the opportunity for growth. Looking at the trend in job changes, moving fast for your career isn’t a bad thing.

์ฃผ๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ (judodojeogeuro): proactively, independently
์ถ”์„ธ (chuse): trend, tendency

GRACE: ์Œ… ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋‹˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋“ค์œผ๋‹ˆ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. ์ˆ˜์›์—์„œ์˜ ์ƒํ™œ์€ ์–ด๋–ค๊ฐ€์š”? ์—ญ์‚ผ๋™๊ณผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ๊ฐ€์š”?
Hmm... I think I need to consider it more. What’s life in Suwon like? Is it very different from Yeoksam-dong?

๊ฐ•๋ฏธ๋…€: ์„œ์šธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ ์ ์‘ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„. ์ˆ˜์›๋„ ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค ๋งŽ๊ณ  ๊ณต์›๋„ ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ์‚ด๊ธฐ ์ข‹์•„.
It’s different from the city center, but once you adjust, Suwon is great. It has all the amenities and lots of parks, so it’s a good place to live.

์ ์‘ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ (jeogeung gigan): adjustment period, settling-in period

GRACE: ์กฐ์–ธ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ๋‹˜. ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ข€ ๋” ๊ฐ๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
Thank you so much for the advice. It really helps me think more objectively.

Through her conversation with Deputy Manager Kang, Grace fell into deeper contemplation.

Her familiar and stable current job, the attractive opportunity for a salary increase and promotion at a new company, and even the change in living environment from Seoul to Gyeonggi Province.

As an Australian and a foreigner working in Korea, what decision will Grace make?

In the next installment, we will follow Grace as she learns more about the new company and re-examines her career goals and life values.

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