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lizlemon
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
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 Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:14 pm Post subject: Sungnam |
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| I've been offered a job in Sungnam but I really don't know a thing about the area. Does anyone live there? Any words of advice or caution? The job seems good but I am hesitant to accept because I have no idea what the area is like / how many foreigners there are. Thanks in advance. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Seongnam is a huge area comprising many vastly different neighborhoods. You'll have to be more specific. Which 'gu' and which 'dong'? |
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lizlemon
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| well good to know its a big city - unfortunately i really don't know, but the school is called anmal, does that help narrow it down already? i wish i had more info. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:22 am Post subject: |
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Not really.
Here's the wiki page on Seongnam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seongnam
The city has three districts or 'gu'.....which gu and dong (neighborhood) you live in is important. Email the employer and ask them for the gu and dong of the school and the gu and dong of the apartment you would be living in. |
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lizlemon
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the advice, didn't even realize I had the wrong spelling. This is great. |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| lizlemon wrote: |
| Thanks for the advice, didn't even realize I had the wrong spelling. This is great. |
Not quite wrong, just the old system of spelling. I work in Seongnam-si and from what I've seen, the areas around Sunae station and Seohyeon station are quite lively, certainly not as varied as central Seoul but there are lots of restaurants, some foreign, two larger department stores, a bit of green here and there and at least one very attractive yet complicated bar owner.
Very good bus connections to Seoul; I can be in Gangnam in 15-20 minutes and Itaewon in under 45. Subway takes considerably longer, 34 minutes from Seoulleung on the green/yellow line to Sunae station.
Yatap and Taepyeong seem to be nests of attractive younger women. |
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eoneinna
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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I have an offer from Seongnam, too. Right by Sin-Heung (spelling?) station.
Jungwon - gu
Jung- dong
"중원구 중동"
Anyone know what that area is like? |
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eoneinna
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:27 am Post subject: |
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I have an offer from Seongnam, too. Right by Sin-Heung (spelling?) station.
Jungwon - gu
Jung- dong
"중원구 중동"
Anyone know what that area is like? |
Oh wait, I just wikimapiaed the area and there is a fairly large red light district next to the school. Nevermind!! |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Link please ^_^  |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:27 am Post subject: |
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I have an offer from Seongnam, too. Right by Sin-Heung (spelling?) station.
Jungwon - gu
Jung- dong
"중원구 중동"
Anyone know what that area is like? |
Oh wait, I just wikimapiaed the area and there is a fairly large red light district next to the school. Nevermind!! |
Yep. Lived right by Sinheung Station for a year back in 2001-2002.......big prostitution and love hotel area......gangsters too!...........very vibrant area. Very lively.......but you would need to be very comfortable with the urban environment to live there.
Don't let the seedy side put you off. It's a lot more 'interesting' there than say, down the road in Bundang-gu, which is a sterile, middle-class, married-with-two-kids, suburb. |
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Eblack
Joined: 04 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: Sujin station? |
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| I have an interview next week with a public school near Sujin station in Seongnam. Is this area still in the red light district of the city? It seems like it's in "old" Seongnam. If I was living around there, would it be safe for me (as a young white female) to be walking around by myself at night? Any information would really be appreciated! |
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eamo
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Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Sujin station? |
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| I have an interview next week with a public school near Sujin station in Seongnam. Is this area still in the red light district of the city? It seems like it's in "old" Seongnam. If I was living around there, would it be safe for me (as a young white female) to be walking around by myself at night? Any information would really be appreciated! |
Sujin Station is right between Moran Station (dog meat central) and Sinheung Station. If it's the same as it was a few years back, then yeah, a very raw urban environment which basically concentrates on eating, drinking and sex.
A young white female walking alone at night might get annoyed (or worse) by drunken men anywhere in Korea........but around that area I'd say you can bet on it.
In saying that, it was a lot of fun for myself and my group of young single men! |
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sallymonster
Joined: 06 Feb 2010
Location: Seattle area
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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As someone else said, Seongnam is huge, and includes Bundang. If, though, you were going to be working in Bundang, I'm sure they would specifically say "Bundang".
Seongnam, as in Old Seongnam = ghetto |
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Slowmotion
Joined: 15 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Bundang = nice and quiet
Seongnam = ghetto
Although Bundang is part of Seongnam, when people say Seongnam they usually mean the old part. |
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