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[CaliUSA]

Hi, I would be VERY VERY grateful for any advice on this. Basically, I need a quiet, clean-looking place for a Skype job interview -- preferably where I can use my own laptop -- and preferably in the Sinchon area (i.e. near Yonsei).

The key issue here is the Internet connection. Three weeks ago I tried to interview from my apartment. Big mistake. South Korea is known for hyperfast connections, so you wouldn't think this would be such a huge problem, but the video kept freezing and breaking up, and finally it became a phone interview done by computer. It was very embarrassing, and obvious that the problem was on my end. I wasn't surprised when I was told a few days later that the committee had chosen someone else as their top candidate.

I asked a Korean friend about this and she helpfully came up with ideas, but none of them sound promising--e.g., PC bangs or "multi bangs," which just aren't the right setting, or a place called Mindeulle-Yeongto, which sounded good at first, but then she added that the "seminar rooms" on the upper floors probably don't have good network connections.

This interview I have coming up is probably the biggest thing that will happen to me in 2012. I would be willing to pay 100,000 won just to rent a professional-looking office/seminar room for an hour. THANK YOU for any advice

[ttompatz]

Contact a local business hotel.

They should have a business center with an adequate connection and appropriate "room decor" that you can rent for an hour.

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[CaliUSA]

Just did some Internet searching -- so the "Best Western Premier Seoul Garden Hotel," for example? Thanks ~

[ttompatz]