Anything in Siem Reap
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Anything in Siem Reap
Sick of the states and these boring people. Need to get back to Siem Reap.
Anybody know of any work or have recommendations. Not trying to teach English but could do it (was a teacher prior...students never came to class...it was frustrating). Prefer part-time work so I can help a non-profit I'm involved with. Maybe restaurant or even hotel work. I got a Bachelors degree. Speak English and Spanish and some Khmer
Throw me a bone. I'll give you a 20 spot or something.
Thanks mates
Anybody know of any work or have recommendations. Not trying to teach English but could do it (was a teacher prior...students never came to class...it was frustrating). Prefer part-time work so I can help a non-profit I'm involved with. Maybe restaurant or even hotel work. I got a Bachelors degree. Speak English and Spanish and some Khmer
Throw me a bone. I'll give you a 20 spot or something.
Thanks mates
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How long are you intending to stay in SR? If long, it's worth to consider being a tour guide. The pay is good and a bonus if you have the interpersonal skills, and a few other side benefits. The annual fee used to be around $200 last time I asked, dont quote me on that though.
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They already have enough English and Spanish speaking khmer guides..SunSan wrote:Foreigners can't become tour guides.
Out of curiosity, what did u hear is good pay for these guides?flying chicken wrote:The pay is good and a bonus if you have the interpersonal skills, and a few other side benefits. The annual fee used to be around $200 last time I asked, dont quote me on that though.
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Also, I don't know what the annual fee is for a tour guide license, but the fee to "pass the exam" to become a guide in the first place is several thousand $ these daysSunSan wrote:Foreigners can't become tour guides.
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The Apasara cops didnt seem to care with Korean looking tour guides...haha
I actually had a chat with an Apsara cop 2 years ago, in term of the exam fee there are eligibility that you can applied where you dont have to pay as much -- there are 3 criteria, 1 of them required a college degree but forgotten the other 2. In term of annual fee or maybe a renewable fee I only discovered by accident when I overhead my tour guide friends talking among themselves.
Cambod, I didnt hear a lot, it just purely from my observation. Basically as a licensed tour guide you can work as a freelancer where hotels and such call up when they needed you, or fish your own customers. If you are well-connected or what not with a hotel or travel agency you have the choice to hand pick customers you feel most lucrative or outsource it other tour guides for a handsome profit margin. Of course it also depended the foreign language you are competent at in term of supply and demand.
I actually had a chat with an Apsara cop 2 years ago, in term of the exam fee there are eligibility that you can applied where you dont have to pay as much -- there are 3 criteria, 1 of them required a college degree but forgotten the other 2. In term of annual fee or maybe a renewable fee I only discovered by accident when I overhead my tour guide friends talking among themselves.
Cambod, I didnt hear a lot, it just purely from my observation. Basically as a licensed tour guide you can work as a freelancer where hotels and such call up when they needed you, or fish your own customers. If you are well-connected or what not with a hotel or travel agency you have the choice to hand pick customers you feel most lucrative or outsource it other tour guides for a handsome profit margin. Of course it also depended the foreign language you are competent at in term of supply and demand.
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The tour guide licensing process has nothing to do with Apsara. It is done by the Ministry of Tourism, and the "fee" to pass the exam -- $5000 was the last I heard -- is not an official one. The sole criteria is that you have the $5000.
Koreans are not exempt from the nationality requirement for licensing as tour guides. They game the system by calling themselves "tour leaders" and by hiring a token Khmer tour guide who goes and sits under a tree or something.
Koreans are not exempt from the nationality requirement for licensing as tour guides. They game the system by calling themselves "tour leaders" and by hiring a token Khmer tour guide who goes and sits under a tree or something.
Exactly.
All foreign looking 'tour guides' are actually tour leaders. These groups all have a Cambodian tour guide. Whether he's actually doing the guiding or not is not relevant to the authorities.
But I think we had this exact same discussion last year.
All foreign looking 'tour guides' are actually tour leaders. These groups all have a Cambodian tour guide. Whether he's actually doing the guiding or not is not relevant to the authorities.
But I think we had this exact same discussion last year.
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the korean companies provide services to racist koreans who would rather hear the angkor story spat from one of their own kinds mouths. there are plenty of korean speaking tour guides already who they pay like $35 a day...but the big ones like hanna tour just pays off apsara so they can hire koreans to be the guides. temple guiding would be sweaty as hell too.
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No. Wrong.wonderbread347 wrote:the korean companies provide services to racist koreans who would rather hear the angkor story spat from one of their own kinds mouths. there are plenty of korean speaking tour guides already who they pay like $35 a day...but the big ones like hanna tour just pays off apsara so they can hire koreans to be the guides. temple guiding would be sweaty as hell too.
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What's wonderbread wrong about? Hanna and all the other Korean Tour companies are notorious for this. They treat their tuk-tuk drivers like crap too...my friend works for one during high season. Small temple tour they only get $6 for 4 hours (and $2 of it goes to gas) whereas the going rate is $15-20. They are not allowed to speak any Korean to their customers because the company doesn't want to tell them how bad their being cheated. They take them to the Alaska Massage place, charge em 40hr, and then Alaska gets $7 and Hanna the rest. Make them stay at Korean Owned hotels and eat at Korean owned restaurants or beer gardens.
For some reasons Koreans just love the group tours...they could save so much if they were independent
For some reasons Koreans just love the group tours...they could save so much if they were independent
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First I'd like to make it clear that I am not being racist, having lived there (korea) for 2 years I get to know a few of the kindest and warmest people I have ever met, and made a best friend too.
In generalisation, most of the Koreans that I see when travel have a sheep herd mentality, they usually stick and trust their kind and even pack their own junk foods before boarding. In term of the Korean tour companies in Siem Reap, they exaggerate stories to their people of the likelihood of getting rip off and other mean stuff, and have monopoly in the market, the problem is equally shared by the greedy higher up Khmers. With this, they bullied drivers because they can, they spat and look down on Khmer because they think they are superior. The people I know and dont know in Siem Reap expressed about of their upset all the time when Korean come to topic due to their attitudes.
In generalisation, most of the Koreans that I see when travel have a sheep herd mentality, they usually stick and trust their kind and even pack their own junk foods before boarding. In term of the Korean tour companies in Siem Reap, they exaggerate stories to their people of the likelihood of getting rip off and other mean stuff, and have monopoly in the market, the problem is equally shared by the greedy higher up Khmers. With this, they bullied drivers because they can, they spat and look down on Khmer because they think they are superior. The people I know and dont know in Siem Reap expressed about of their upset all the time when Korean come to topic due to their attitudes.
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