To do a service job in Korea, it's about 12 or 13 thousand yuan a month.

Korea is a high-cost country, and unless you can find a place to live and eat, you'll have to spend a lot of your money on food and shelter. A year can save a hundred thousand are very impressive, basically is on track to small white-collar wages.

Surveys show that more than half of the expatriates working in South Korea work more than 50 hours, and the average monthly salary is close to 2 million won (about 10,000 yuan). In fact, this wage level in South Korea belongs to roughly the median, the problem is that this 2 million won salary is not easy to come by, but to pay a lot of physical strength and energy. Working 50 hours a week is the equivalent of going to work six days a week.

According to an earlier survey by the Statistics Korea, 33.5 percent of South Korean teenagers aged 15 to 24 would like to work as "national civil servants," especially men. This is because male civil servants are the most popular among unmarried women in Korea. In Korea, more than 100,000 people take the civil service exam every year, and the competition rate is close to 40:1.

To cope with the competitive civil service exam, there are various cram schools for the civil service exam, and these cram schools are spread all over the streets of Korea.