Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jhuntingtonus]

I'm a 52-year-old American man whose public elementary school contract expires late April. I have had a good time on the job here in Jeonju, but don't feel successful personally:

- Although females of all ages seem to like me, I have no girlfriend, mainly because the pool of candidates here anywhere near my age who speak English is tiny

- There are no evening or weekend Korean classes here, and I want to learn

- The expat community is young, small, and revolves around drinking, which I don't do and get no pleasure from being around when it gets heavy.

I like my job here, but have been assigned a completely new set of schools and co-teachers, so can't count on good situations there. I have read enough about Seoul on these pages to see it's probably not a good idea - the bad job climate, especially for those my age, seems reason enough. So how about Busan? Do you think the things above would be better there? How about Daegu, Gwangju, or even Daejeon?

[ttompatz]

[jhuntingtonus]

Interesting - perhaps I should consider cities connected to Seoul by subway. I've thought of them as being "Seoul" also, but guess they're really not.