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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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 Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: can anyone comment on mohyeon-myeon? |
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hi,
i will be moving there shortly...close to the university, to a new officetel. the area looks pretty rural compared to just west of it. there is a university nearby, how is the nightlife there? perhaps most critical is the transit, are there regular buses to seoul and bungang? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:52 am Post subject: Re: can anyone comment on mohyeon-myeon? |
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| dosed_neurons wrote: |
hi,
i will be moving there shortly...close to the university, to a new officetel. the area looks pretty rural compared to just west of it. there is a university nearby, how is the nightlife there? perhaps most critical is the transit, are there regular buses to seoul and bungang? |
 There's no nightlife in Mohyeon-myeon!!! It's a small country town. Restaurants and norae-bangs are the best you'll do.
I presume you're going to work at HUFS.......well, you're in the country, even though there's a uni there. I guess the HUFS students party on the weekend wherever they live.....but they don't party in Mohyeon-myeon. |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| i wish i was working there...alas, i'm at a hagwon. think there are a bunch of foreign women running around that place? |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| I'd love to work in a University in one of those little -myuns or -ris. Enough foreigners to have bonfires, but still quiet enough to hear myself think. |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah? i'll be teaching younger kids, hopefully old enough to have a lot of fun with them! it seems to be close to a lot of sporty stuff, which is great. |
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Njord
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Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Send me a PM. I live in mohyeon. Actually, there is nightlife of a sort - lots of drunk college kids at 9:00 PM. There are a few reasonable restaurants and bars, but for the most part you'll be going to Bundang or Seoul for your entertainment. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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It's 40 minutes to the nearest subway station in Bundang, and depending on how long you have to wait for the bus, it will take 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours to get to Seoul. No nightlife that I ever saw...except for drunken college kids, who will probably annoy you.
You can look forward to some nice hikes and pretty scenery, but as for the town itself, it's not so pretty...room salons, da-bangs, and the like, plus one of the gyms that you might go to is in the same building as one of the aforementioned shady businesses...not so comfortable if one is a lady, but as for your question about foreign women... I used to be one of them and my one girlfriend there left about a month before I did. Perhaps the local hagwon owners have managed to replace us with hotter women...or maybe not... you can be the judge.
Good luck! |
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Sistah_Souljah
Joined: 17 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
but as for the town itself, it's not so pretty...room salons, da-bangs, and the like, plus one of the gyms that you might go to is in the same building as one of the aforementioned shady businesses...not so comfortable if one is a lady, but as for your question about foreign women... I used to be one of them and my one girlfriend there left about a month before I did. Perhaps the local hagwon owners have managed to replace us with hotter women...or maybe not... you can be the judge.
Good luck! |
Yo waz up? I used to live in gwangju. I dont remember there being a lot of room salons or dabangs in mohyon. There was one big one with flashing lights right on the corner of town and one coffee shop but one without any cute girls delivering coffee like you find in the more rural parts of korea. Not many foreign women there. Some foreign guys but there not many either. |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Njord wrote: |
| Send me a PM. I live in mohyeon. Actually, there is nightlife of a sort - lots of drunk college kids at 9:00 PM. There are a few reasonable restaurants and bars, but for the most part you'll be going to Bundang or Seoul for your entertainment. |
haha, 9pm? even with work the next morning i'm usually out until at least 12 or 1. pretty lame-ish, i'll definitely shoot you a PM later brother... |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
It's 40 minutes to the nearest subway station in Bundang, and depending on how long you have to wait for the bus, it will take 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours to get to Seoul. No nightlife that I ever saw...except for drunken college kids, who will probably annoy you.
You can look forward to some nice hikes and pretty scenery, but as for the town itself, it's not so pretty...room salons, da-bangs, and the like, plus one of the gyms that you might go to is in the same building as one of the aforementioned shady businesses...not so comfortable if one is a lady, but as for your question about foreign women... I used to be one of them and my one girlfriend there left about a month before I did. Perhaps the local hagwon owners have managed to replace us with hotter women...or maybe not... you can be the judge.
Good luck! |
thank you! not too worried, i'm just thrilled to visit the east for the first time (born and grew up in russia) and looking forward to my (supposedly) brand new officetel. the hiking is clutch...but the town is pretty developed right? i tend to think korea generally LOOKS a bit shabbier than where i live in downtown toronto, but it isn't anything scary or anything...how is the water? i get a bit paranoid when google earth shows huge industrial plants upriver from the town...not that lake ontario water isn't full of sewage and pharmaceuticals but standards have improved a lot in the past few decades, plus ontario lakes up north we have are pretty much unpolluted...korea is so dense that i have to assume they have to cut a lot of corners... |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Most people drink bottled water and it's against the law to fish in the river there. I don't know if pollution is the reason, but I wouldn't be surprised.
As far as being developed goes, I'll refrain from judging, but there were 2 room salons on the main drag through town and then a da bang on my street. When I would wait for the bus, it would remind me of a rundown neighborhood back home. I seldom felt that I was in any danger though. |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| right...and the bottled water comes from??? in canada some bottled water is tap water, so no difference, just a way to make money. |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| bump. |
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dosed_neurons
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| bump for the korean day... |
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