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Nuggets
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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 Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:28 pm Post subject: Teaching in Gangnam! |
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| I will be teaching Elementary in Gangnam, I've heard good and bad. What should I expect? |
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ramen209
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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a tiny apartment and inflated prices in restaurants, bars, etc.
Many students will be very good at English because their parents have paid a lot to have them learn it in private hagwons. Some students will have lived abroad. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I've heard some really mixed stories about gangnam. Really high level but pseudo foreigners. expect rebellious, western style kids. |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| What is a "pseudo foreigner?" |
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| With the exception of housing and some of the watering holes, Kangnam-Ku is LESS expensive than any other area of this country! |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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expect some foreigners to love you and hate you.
Gangnam is really nothing to be proud of.
Kind of like the slums of Beverly Hills  |
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hapigokelli
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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I live in Gangnam and teach in Seocho which is adjacent, was randomly assigned there by SMOE. It's good and bad. I can walk to at least 250 restaurants from my front door about a third of which are something other than Korean food. The prices tend to be 2-5,000 Won more than other areas. There are countless clubs, malls, singing rooms, and movie theatres but you can't find a grocery store anywhere.
The students are great, high level and polite at my school. No complaints.
The worst part is travel, Gangnam, while a city center, is not that close to a lot of the places I want to go like Itaewon, Hongdae and Dongdaemun. It takes at least 45 minutes by subway to get to those places. |
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Murakano
Joined: 10 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| hapigokelli wrote: |
I live in Gangnam and teach in Seocho which is adjacent, was randomly assigned there by SMOE. It's good and bad. I can walk to at least 250 restaurants from my front door about a third of which are something other than Korean food. The prices tend to be 2-5,000 Won more than other areas. There are countless clubs, malls, singing rooms, and movie theatres but you can't find a grocery store anywhere.
The students are great, high level and polite at my school. No complaints.
The worst part is travel, Gangnam, while a city center, is not that close to a lot of the places I want to go like Itaewon, Hongdae and Dongdaemun. It takes at least 45 minutes by subway to get to those places. |
I live in Gangnam and it takes 20-25 mins or so using 421 bus to Itaewon (from Gangnam/Sinnonhyun bus stop).
You're right about grocery stores itself, though there is Gangnam market just past Kyobo.
There is also Kims Club at Express Bus Terminal which takes 10-15 mins on a by bus. E-mart is 2 stops away at Seollung but a 10 min walk from there.....but no E-marts/Cosco's in Gangnam area itself. Closest Coscto is Yangjae but not that close to the subway unfortunately (though you can bus it there) |
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Slowmotion
Joined: 15 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| dirving wrote: |
| With the exception of housing and some of the watering holes, Kangnam-Ku is LESS expensive than any other area of this country! |
this is a load of crap |
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the insult, and have a nice day. |
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Slowmotion
Joined: 15 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| dirving wrote: |
| Thanks for the insult, and have a nice day. |
I wasn't insult you. I was just saying the information is bs. Which it is 100%
Gangnam is the most expensive area in Seoul. Seoul is the most expensive part of Korea. I just don't understand why you would make such a statement unless you just got here a week ago or you did it on purpose as a joke. No offense. |
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miljeong
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Slowmotion wrote: |
| dirving wrote: |
| Thanks for the insult, and have a nice day. |
I wasn't insult you. I was just saying the information is bs. Which it is 100%
Gangnam is the most expensive area in Seoul. Seoul is the most expensive part of Korea. I just don't understand why you would make such a statement unless you just got here a week ago or you did it on purpose as a joke. No offense. |
Word. I've been here 5 years and travelled (for work and pleasure) from the top to the bottom. Gangnam is in the top 5 most expensive places to go in Korea.
The cheapest place I've found yet, surprisingly, is Wando, the place where you take the ferry to Jeju-do. Good God it's cheap there. I bought a banana shake for 1,000won (in bundang its 2,500), and fireworks for 1,000won each (the 4,000won+ kind)
Considering that's all I bought there though, don't take my word for it  haha |
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