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[Ceel22]

Greetings All,

Just wondering if anyone else has heard from Epik/recruiter where they're to be placed. Have had word back from my recruiters but didn't get 1st choice, which was Jeju, got 3rd Daegu(Taegu) instead.... don't ask me what happened to 2nd choice!

Anyway, not complaining just wanted to know if anyone can tell me anything about this city and also, does it come under metropolitan or provincial state education?

All responses much appreciated!


Thanks!


C

[toniyellow]

Its Metropolitan, but I'm not sure what difference that makes. The Office of Education are pretty good for things like buffet dinners, free Korean lessons, free tickets to events or coupons for Spa Valley.

Its a good place to live in terms of facilities and transport, nice subway and buses with English screens inside. Ugly and bad weather though. If you aren't too far from the train or one of the bus stations, its a great place to travel the rest of Korea. In the center of the country so you can get to pretty much any event in under 4 hours.

Look on facebook for Daegu Friendship Club, Daegu Language Exchange Daegu English Teachers, Daegu Ski Club, Daegu Film Posse. Daegu *insert interest* and it's there. Easy place to live.

http://www.koreanbloglist.com/ also has a lot of people in Daegu blogging away about how adjummas push them in the subway.

[meagan8477]

Which recruiter are you with? The only people I know that have heard back applied through ESL Starter.

[Ceel22]

[quote="toniyellow"]Its Metropolitan, but I'm not sure what difference that makes. The Office of Education are pretty good for things like buffet dinners, free Korean lessons, free tickets to events or coupons for Spa Valley.


I thought Daegu came under the Provincial Office of Education and as such I would get an extra allowance for working outside the city. It would've been a nice bonus but no worries.

Thanks for info. Just one final thing: is the weather really that bad?

[Ceel22]

[toniyellow]

The weather is just a lot more frustrating than say Busan, which is so close but so much nicer with the sea breeze.

In winter the temperatures are below 0 but it almost never snows. (I hate cold weather without snow)
In summer it is crazy crazy hot and no wind.

The city is surrounded by mountains which block the wind and the air just sits and stagnates. There is a haze that almost never clears. I should be able to see Palgong mountain from my classroom but mostly I can't. I thought the haze might clear in winter, but its worse, an inversion effect is keeping the coal smoke trapped close to the ground.

But the public transport is better than Seoul or Busan. Whenever I visit another city I am frustrated by how long it takes to get somewhere and how many transfers I have to make. Overall mostly I am glad I live here.

[Morticae]

Cold weather without snow is great! Cold weather with snow sucks.

Snow is cool the first day or so, but they don't do anything to combat it here. That means that for WEEKS it's just a sheet of ice. Every day I have to be careful as I walk to work. One slip and I could be down for the count

But yeah, snow is great until it turns into the ice sheet.

[Ceel22]

[Ceel22]

[TwoFold]

[Morticae]

That's pretty typical, and how it was done with the last August intake. It's enough time to get your stuff done.

[toniyellow]

[sluggo832004]

[toniyellow]

Third week. Double checked in my email, I got emailed the tracking number for my contract January 19 2009. I received it a few days later.

Wasn't a late applicant or anything either, last minute is just how Korea rolls.

[sluggo832004]