I'm wondering how the previous poster plans to get a job in Korea or actually did manage to get one without a degree. A university degree from an accredited institution is mandatory in Korea as it is it Japan and Taiwan. The Korean government will not issue you an E-2 work visa without one and woe-betide the "online, life-experience degree" brigade. The Koreans will sling you out of the country, never to return if you produce one of these from your rucksack. As for working illegally, they will sling you in jail and THEN sling you out of the country a couple of months later.