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DCJames
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Giheung-gu is a huge district in Yongin which is a fairly large city. Giheung-gu is the more modern developed part of Yongin closest to Seoul / Seongnam. Dongbaek is a neighborhood in Giheung-gu and is 15 minutes away from the neighborhood of Jukjeon.
The dongbaek area is the newest part of Yongin and farther away from Seoul than Jukjeon. It has an emart and a nice lake park. It's also a ghost town with lots of empty new apartments buildings with very few people actually living there. Quite a boring place if you ask me.
Jukjeon is closer to Seoul, Suwon, and Bundang and has an emart and shinsegae department store. It's got a little skatepark, riverpark and a bunch of outlet stores in the area. I'd much rather live there than Dongbaek. And I'd rather live in Seoul, Bundang, or Suwon than in any place in Yongin. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:20 am Post subject: |
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I live in the Cheong-gu part of Yongin near the campus of HUFS Yongin campus. I work at a hagwon nearby. Do not get sucked into working all the way out here.
And ignore Jeff's Cigarette's. He seems to enjoy being negative and you can't take that stuff personally here or you will be miserable. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
I live in the Cheong-gu part of Yongin near the campus of HUFS Yongin campus. I work at a hagwon nearby. Do not get sucked into working all the way out here.
And ignore Jeff's Cigarette's. He seems to enjoy being negative and you can't take that stuff personally here or you will be miserable. |
Exactly, Everland and HUFS are in the middle of nowhere. Very very few foreigners there. |
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trish91198
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
Location: Jukjeon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:30 am Post subject: |
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I am leaving for Yongin on Saturday as well. I will be teaching in Jukjeon. Mdvl...what school will you be at??
As for info on yongin:
http://en.yonginsi.net/
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
I live in the Cheong-gu part of Yongin near the campus of HUFS Yongin campus. I work at a hagwon nearby. Do not get sucked into working all the way out here.
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Why?
Perfectly ok working out in the sticks. Maybe if you are a 21 year old graduate who needs his mommy's aprons strings to hold onto it might be tough. However, for a grown man or woman who is capable of living on their own and mature enough to entertain themselves rural Yongin is great. |
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DC in Suwon
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Well, from what I hear Yongin sounds fine to me.
I'm working in dongbaek, but not sure where I'm living yet. They always say 10/15 minutes away or so. I'm guessing that could be anywhere in Yongin?
Thanks again everyone for your opinions (good or bad). |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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I survived the first five months in the middle of nowhere without a tv or a computer. I've survived it, but I still would not recommend it.
Most of the HUFS instructors commute from Seoul and they are right to do so. You don't save more money living in a place even if you do get paid more because when the weekend comes, you can't get to Seoul fast enough. Then, while you are there you will spend any amount of money just to have normal human contact with people who speak your language.
At the six month mark, I've found that I don't have to go to Seoul for the whole weekend, I can spend less money while there, and I've found other places where I like to go, but I still have to get the H-E-double-hockey-sticks outta here. |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
I survived the first five months in the middle of nowhere without a tv or a computer. I've survived it, but I still would not recommend it.
Most of the HUFS instructors commute from Seoul and they are right to do so. You don't save more money living in a place even if you do get paid more because when the weekend comes, you can't get to Seoul fast enough. Then, while you are there you will spend any amount of money just to have normal human contact with people who speak your language.
At the six month mark, I've found that I don't have to go to Seoul for the whole weekend, I can spend less money while there, and I've found other places where I like to go, but I still have to get the H-E-double-hockey-sticks outta here. |
As I said. For a noob who misses his mommy that sounds about right.
You just sound like another one of those morons who comes to a foreign country to spend as much time as possible with other expats and making it as much like home as possible.
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In Seoul? I've have to spend the last couple of weekends doing stuff there and the inane drivel that comes out of peoples mouths is torture.
Why don't you go home and get a job in Walmart? You can converse in English and have lots of like minded people around you. |
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BreakfastInBed
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
| Illysook wrote: |
I survived the first five months in the middle of nowhere without a tv or a computer. I've survived it, but I still would not recommend it.
Most of the HUFS instructors commute from Seoul and they are right to do so. You don't save more money living in a place even if you do get paid more because when the weekend comes, you can't get to Seoul fast enough. Then, while you are there you will spend any amount of money just to have normal human contact with people who speak your language.
At the six month mark, I've found that I don't have to go to Seoul for the whole weekend, I can spend less money while there, and I've found other places where I like to go, but I still have to get the H-E-double-hockey-sticks outta here. |
As I said. For a noob who misses his mommy that sounds about right.
You just sound like another one of those morons who comes to a foreign country to spend as much time as possible with other expats and making it as much like home as possible.
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In Seoul? I've have to spend the last couple of weekends doing stuff there and the inane drivel that comes out of peoples mouths is torture.
Why don't you go home and get a job in Walmart? You can converse in English and have lots of like minded people around you. |
Wow. Really hit a nerve. Everything ok at home? |
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KAMAKAZI
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
Location: Jamshil
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| If the Huh? remark was meant to me by the OP, I think a lot of teachers go to Korea having no experience whatsoever in the written or spoken language. That's fine. I do speak and read Mandarin Chinese at a very rudimentary level. In other words, I can be polite and make very little small talk and read what I see to a very small extent. I also read and speak French and Spanish at a higher level. Korean, as I'm finding out is not that tough, but it's just something I've put off. I also think that the plane ride is going to be so long, it's something to occupy my time. Speaking in a conversation mode, I can speak the basics. It's just reading that I have to work on -- and frankly, who the frick cares? I can see this is a board I'm going to abandon once upon landing. The negativity is astounding. But then I said that when I went into Costcos in England and only saw Old El Paso Mexican food products. I did come back. |
surprised you didnt get flamed yet on here for saying that  |
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DC in Suwon
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Well, just found out for sure I'll be living in Dongbaek (Dongbak?). Anyone live around that area?
EDIT: And I don't believe I'll be one of those noobs who needs expat attention. I majored in anthropology and have spent weeks at a time in the middle of nowhere studying/researching different cultures. Never in Asia though, so I'm excited either way. For those of you who have noted living in Yongin, I look forward to meeting you if I have the chance. |
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| You'll be in giheung-gu...why "no clue"? |
Nice rhyme.
The school is in dongbaek, giheung, yongin. I don't know where I'll be staying yet, but I figure it will be somewhere in the vicinity. That's the first time I ever typed vicinity. |
Dongbek! home of the one emart and movie theatre!
nothing in dongbek accept empty buildings and apartments!
the only francises you have are, baskin robbins, dominos pizza , lotteria and papeyes chicken! and most of the other korean bakeries etc..
there is a lake in the center of the dongbek which also is empty only a couple shops, everything else is empty due to extreme rental fees!
its been that way for 3 years!
there are a couple mountains around for hiking..
the subway is opening up this year so it will link to suwon easily..
bundang, is a bus away, about 30mins to jukjeong which is the bottom of bundang...
dongbek is a small residential town , nothing in that town! its dead!!
your weekends will be enjoyed away from home sorry to say!
a taxi home from Soh hyun St in bundang will cost you about 15.000won
bundang has everything you need!
hope this helps..
ohh regarding gyms, yes dongbek has a couple gyms..
do you know what school you are going to be working at!?
ill let you know about the school too.. |
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DC in Suwon
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Koreadays wrote: |
| DC in Suwon wrote: |
| Jeff's Cigarettes wrote: |
| You'll be in giheung-gu...why "no clue"? |
Nice rhyme.
The school is in dongbaek, giheung, yongin. I don't know where I'll be staying yet, but I figure it will be somewhere in the vicinity. That's the first time I ever typed vicinity. |
Dongbek! home of the one emart and movie theatre!
nothing in dongbek accept empty buildings and apartments!
the only francises you have are, baskin robbins, dominos pizza , lotteria and papeyes chicken! and most of the other korean bakeries etc..
there is a lake in the center of the dongbek which also is empty only a couple shops, everything else is empty due to extreme rental fees!
its been that way for 3 years!
there are a couple mountains around for hiking..
the subway is opening up this year so it will link to suwon easily..
bundang, is a bus away, about 30mins to jukjeong which is the bottom of bundang...
dongbek is a small residential town , nothing in that town! its dead!!
your weekends will be enjoyed away from home sorry to say!
a taxi home from Soh hyun St in bundang will cost you about 15.000won
bundang has everything you need!
hope this helps..
ohh regarding gyms, yes dongbek has a couple gyms..
do you know what school you are going to be working at!?
ill let you know about the school too.. |
I don't know where you guys live in your home countries, but I live in a pretty decent sized city and have NO wal-mart or movie theatres. I don't need everything to be in a one block radius of my place. |
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chickenpie
Joined: 24 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| Why do we even care about some pop manufactured girls that didn't even write their own songs? |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| DC in Suwon wrote: |
Well, just found out for sure I'll be living in Dongbaek (Dongbak?). Anyone live around that area?
EDIT: And I don't believe I'll be one of those noobs who needs expat attention. I majored in anthropology and have spent weeks at a time in the middle of nowhere studying/researching different cultures. Never in Asia though, so I'm excited either way. For those of you who have noted living in Yongin, I look forward to meeting you if I have the chance. |
Dongbaek is an odd place.
Lots of buildings, not much there,
Like a new ghost town.
However it's 15 minutes from old yongin town, so there is a farmers market avaiable to you every 5 days if you want fresh veggies etc not from E-mart. |
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