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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject: If you could do it (Korea) all over again... |
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what would you do differently?
I would have gone to Seoul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, knowing what I know now I don't think I would have come at all.
Did meet my boyfriend here and made a ton of wonderful friends (unfortunately none of them Korean although I did adore my co-teachers) here. Had a lot of really fun times, but good riddance nonetheless! |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I've only been here a month but if I could do it all over again I'd remember not to give even an inch. If you give them an inch they will go for a mile. |
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iggyb
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I would have saved more money and done more to learn Korean and looked to move up the ESL ladder to a college gig. I always knew I was going to return to the US to grad school, however, and did not try to move up. |
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iammac2002
Joined: 12 Jun 2009
Location: 'n Beter plek.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I would have brought more shoes, and not taken a job in a small village far away from civilization. And maybe brought my racing bike with. |
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lotusbrick76
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| I would have brought more shoes, and not taken a job in a small village far away from civilization. And maybe brought my racing bike with. |
I second that! I would have brought more shoes! and deodorant!! |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| iammac2002 wrote: |
| I would have brought more shoes, and not taken a job in a small village far away from civilization. And maybe brought my racing bike with. |
Oh come on, Seoul is not that bad.  |
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Forbidden-Donut
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:16 am Post subject: |
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I probably would have gone to Taiwan instead....
but in terms of Korea, I would have jumped on the part-time train right away, instead of doing a full-time gig. I've made as much in the last 4 months as a first or second year full time teacher makes in one year. Wish I thought about it sooner! |
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AgentM
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| Forbidden-Donut wrote: |
I probably would have gone to Taiwan instead....
but in terms of Korea, I would have jumped on the part-time train right away, instead of doing a full-time gig. I've made as much in the last 4 months as a first or second year full time teacher makes in one year. Wish I thought about it sooner! |
Could you expand on that? How did you manage that? Part-time + privates? |
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SFValley
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Good to know. I've fully loaded up on shoes and deodorant.  |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| I would have played up the part of the evil foreign man: More drugs, rampant sex with Korean women, AIDS, swine flu, and I would have gotten a 2nd fake diploma. I would have also eaten less spicy foods. |
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iggyb
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| If you go to the public bathes and let someone scrape you with hand scourer - like you might use back home to clean a caked-on baking pan - you won't need the deodorant. |
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The_Source
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| iggyb wrote: |
| I would have saved more money and done more to learn Korean and looked to move up the ESL ladder to a college gig. I always knew I was going to return to the US to grad school, however, and did not try to move up. |
Don't waste your time with Korean universities. They are NOT a move up the ESL ladder. They are just a horizontal move to another ESL job in Korea. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| The only problem with korea is that it has too many koreans....you people need to spread out instead of living like sardines, be more outgoing, accept all cultures, quit being two-faced condescending fools! |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Seoul is where I would have gone. |
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iammac2002
Joined: 12 Jun 2009
Location: 'n Beter plek.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| iammac2002 wrote: |
| I would have brought more shoes, and not taken a job in a small village far away from civilization. And maybe brought my racing bike with. |
Oh come on, Seoul is not that bad. |
Be more specific. Seoul has shoes? Are you a guy? Guys don't have that problem, but Korean women only have feet going up to 250mm. I hate it. Why are Korean women's feet so bloody small? I don't want to pay W300 000 for a pair of shoes in Itaewon! |
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