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MyanMate guides Myanmar people settling in Korea — visas, housing, jobs, and everyday life. We've been through it, and we'll walk it with you.
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Before
Couldn't read the contracts and worried about choosing a bad neighbourhood.
계약서를 읽을 수 없었고, 안 좋은 동네를 고를까 봐 걱정됐어요.
စာချုပ်တွေ မဖတ်တတ်ဘဲ မကောင်းတဲ့ ရပ်ကွက်ရွေးမိမှာ စိုးရိမ်ခဲ့တယ်။
After
Visited places with someone who knew what to check — signed somewhere I feel safe.
무엇을 봐야 하는지 아는 사람과 함께 집을 보고, 안심되는 곳에 계약했어요.
ဘာစစ်ရမယ်ဆိုတာ သိတဲ့သူနဲ့ အတူကြည့်ပြီး စိတ်ချရတဲ့နေရာမှာ စာချုပ်ချုပ်ခဲ့တယ်။
Before
My resume didn't look Korean at all and I wasn't getting any replies.
이력서가 전혀 한국식이 아니어서 연락이 한 통도 안 왔어요.
ကျွန်တော့်ကိုယ်ရေးရာဇဝင်က ကိုရီးယားပုံစံ လုံးဝမဟုတ်ဘဲ ပြန်ကြားချက် တစ်ခုမှ မရခဲ့ဘူး။
After
A clean Korean-style resume — and my first part-time job within two weeks.
깔끔한 한국식 이력서로 바꾸고, 2주 만에 첫 알바를 구했어요.
သပ်ရပ်တဲ့ ကိုရီးယားပုံစံ ကိုယ်ရေးရာဇဝင်နဲ့ ၂ ပတ်အတွင်း ပထမဆုံး အချိန်ပိုင်းအလုပ် ရခဲ့တယ်။
Who we are
A Korean and a Myanmar national who settled here — together we know both the system and the struggle.
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