change of plan

I can't go to sleep. Something is keeping me up, and it's going to bother me for the next little while. Here's the problem:

I just re-signed my rental contract for another year. This contract doesn't start until June 25 (6/25 is "Korean War Day" here, commemorating the start of the Korean War), so I guess I could back out of it before then. If, however, I let time go by, and the contract kicks in, then I get a job that requires me to leave Seoul, here's what happens:

1. I have to inform the real-estate office three months in advance (which probably means I also suffer penalties if I try to back out of the contract now, a month in advance).
2. I believe I'm also responsible for finding a new tenant, but I could be wrong.
3. For as long as no new tenant moves in during the remainder of my rental-contract period, I have to keep paying rent on the place.
4. If/when I move out, I have to restore the place to its original condition. This isn't a big deal and is only the right thing to do, really. But in my case, this means I need to repair the wallpaper damage on two walls: the small wall under my A/C where there's water damage (to the wallpaper only), and the larger wall at the head of my bed where, apparently, the motion of my head and my pillows has produced a deep discoloration in the paper. So I need to talk to my rental office about how I can effect those repairs. There's a shop on the first floor that seems to be devoted to housing-related items, so I'll visit that shop as well and see whether they have someone who can take the old wallpaper down and put the new wallpaper up. I could try to do it, but I've never done it before, so I could easily botch the job.
5. I won't get my own rental deposit back until there's a new tenant, and that tenant has paid his own deposit. Only after he/she pays will I see my money.
6. The contract seems to have stipulations saying my deposit (that's a whole W10,000,000) can be forfeit for this or that reason.

Upshot: Unless I secure work in Seoul, such that I can commute to my job every day, I'm kind of fucked. I need to visit the real-estate office and talk about all of the possible contingencies. I also need to fast-track my job search by putting out feelers now for whatever work I can do immediately, keeping in mind that I have a July trip to France coming up, which will interrupt whatever work I find now.

Moving back to America is still a possibility, but if I'm going to move, I should probably go before my new rental contract kicks in. That feels rather sudden, and I'm not sure how plausible that strategy is. So my two best bets for work are (1) returning to KMA, which is kind of a long shot if they require even F-4 visa holders to have a "main" job (I don't think they make allowances for freelancers); and (2) finding loads of private work to tide me over until I get a university job.

All of which means I'm either going to delay my upcoming walk (which was technically to start today, i.e., Friday, Seoul time) or just wait to walk in the fall. It occurs to me that I'm now feeling the stress that I should have started feeling months ago. It's bad to be in poor health and to have no real income.

UPDATE: I've just put up a tutoring ad on Seoul Craigslist, so I feel a little bit better now, a little less stressed. I might put up other ads advertising proofreading/editing services as well. I need to figure out what the average rates are for such work in Seoul.

UPDATE 2: Craigslist must be populated by the same assholes who infest Wikipedia. My pst, which was perfectly innocent, has already been flagged for removal. What the fuck, man? I was just in the middle of writing a second post advertising my proofreading services when I saw the flag. Now, I'm not sure whether I should even bother with Craigslist.