Korean Job Discussion Forums

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

Right now, I'm living just outside of Seoul (30 mins by subway). My contract is nearly done, so I am contemplating a job in Gangnam.
So, if anyone knows what it's like to live there, please feel free to comment.
I'm wondering about noise, living expenses, stress from overcrowding,
will I be able to save money or not, etc?
Any opinions good or bad - I don't mind.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Hot and willing babes...tons of em!

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Gangnam is overpriced and overrated. I'm pretty happy to be out of the place.

The reason that Koreans are so into Gangnam is that you can buy an apartment and have it's value double in a few short years. It's an investors paradise. If you're not an investor, or don't intend to buy property there, there's not much point in being there.

If you're a teacher, and you have good contacts, then you can get some very profitable business classes.

Fun-wise.........Yeah, lots of fabulous women cruise Gangnam hoping to meet good executive husband material. The bars are sucky. Nightclubs are worse.

leebumlik69 · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

Saxiif · Joined: 15 May 2003 Location: Seongnam

Not a bad place to work but it costs too much and after a while all of the perfect yuppie plastic surgery faces drive you insane.

*shudders*

I commute into the area from Seongnam, great blue collar area Smile

Bailsibub · Joined: 22 Dec 2006

Kangnam is a good place to live as a westerner. You don't get watched or stared at because there are so many other westerners. Plus, you get the added benefit of the snobby "orange" people, who are living in their own little bubbles. They don't pay you, or anyone else for that matter, any mind, which makes them kind of dissapear into the plastic surgery haze that constantly settles on and around Kangnam Daero.

Mr. BlackCat · Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Location: Insert witty remark HERE

There's everything you want around Kangnam. Its busy and that gets on my nerves at times. Like when a 15 mins bus home ride turns into a 45 mins sardine can standstill. I lived north of the river last year in a blue collar area near Jongno and Dongdeamun and liked it. This is a very different experience.

I don't go out too often around here, but there's all sorts of places. The bars and restaurants I've been to were good, though. Its not too expensive if you know where to look. Over-hyped? Sure, but its the people who never really explored the area who dismiss it so readily.

One of my pet peeves about this area is the difficulty in going north. There are buses that go everywhere but the traffic is usually so bad that it takes too long. And only line 3 goes north and its always super overcrowded and hot as he11 itself. I know they're building new lines, but just another one going east-west (to go along with the other 3) and another one going to Bungdang. The yellow is supposed to be extended up to Wangsimni. God willing!