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[grnmle]

The 10 best things about Korea:

1 ?
2 Galbi
3 Cameras
4 Hiking
5 Sleep
6 24 hours to drink
7 A big apartment
8 video games
9 american food
10 Valentine's day
11 KTX
12 Batting Cages

[K-Dog]

That list looks more like:

Ten best things about being an English Teacher in Korea.

[RMNC]

My favorite things to do in South Korea are for sure stuff you already mentioned, things like Cameras, Big Apartment, KTX, simple stuff like that. There's just so many I could barely stand to name just ten. Twelve maybe, but ten? no way.

[grnmle]

yes, you worded that better than me.

[Radius]

"big apartment"

[Hotwire]

Weekdays - Drink, smoke, eat and moan.

Weekends - Mountains, City breaks, outside the 7-11 with some bevvies or a bit of rambunctiousness in Itaewon (though it's overcorwded with dudes now) and the off-track betting office in Seoul.

[RMNC]

Am I just that good at tongue-in-cheek satire?

[Globutron]

[grnmle]

This was kind of a joke. I am writing a book on my experience as an English teacher. It's pretty involved.

I wanted to get a sense of what other foreigners feel now. This was my experience at the time.

I would be delighted to see how things have changed. If more people post
I will reveal number one.

[PRagic]

Thank the powers that be that SOMEONE is FINALLY going to write a book about their experience as an English teacher in Korea!

OP, not to be a wet blanket here, but give yourself a couple of months before you bother writing that book. You'll discover soon enough that pretty much everything you want to write about has been done to death a million times over and written about even more. English teaching in Korea is such a standard option for so many recent grads out of N. America and Europe that it just isn't exotic any more.

Come to think of it, you could write a book about living in Korea while teaching English simply by reading through droves of posts on Dave's. You wouldn't actually even have to live here!

[RMNC]

Your post is titled "Top 10 things to do in Seoul"

Your list beings with a "?". What does that even mean? I don't know? Fill in the blank?

It has 12 numbers on it.

I wouldn't exactly consider "KTX" "A Big apartment" "Cameras" things you can do, but rather things Seoul has or you can acquire. You don't "do" cameras or "a big apartment".

Sleep you can do anywhere in the world. "24 hours to drink" is horrible grammar. American food (with a capital A) is just ridiculous because American food in Seoul is pretty crappy on the whole and just about everyone agrees with that. Much more selection, quality and variety back home. But who goes to Seoul to eat American food? Again, it's not something you "do". Neither does one "do" Galbi or Valentine's Day.

I think you need a grammar lesson, man. I can only imagine the editor's headache when he reads your "book". You're an English teacher?

[erasmus]

[Underwaterbob]

Drive down the east coast in the summer. Start in Sokcho and end up in Busan. It's one beach after another with a sprinkling of mountains and actual scenery. Even better on a motorcycle.

[rollo]

Hiking in the mountains. Temple stays. Learning Korean. Beaches, exploring the islands. Sitting in a dive of a hoff on the side of a mountain looking down on Busan harbor at night. Pretty girls in miniskirts. so many little things.

But it has all been written about. Done to death.

[DeMayonnaise]