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[El Bandito]

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Just found this thread when looking for the Freakiest Waygookin Thread.

Pretty interesting in that it is so old, so a lot of what the people are talking about here is long gone. I.E. Benchwarmer's. But the parks and nature stuff is still here.

Anyone in Ulsan teaching these days? I meet a lot of people and it seems like they are all engineers, but the area by my house and downtown by the Lotte/Hyundae/Shinsaegae bermuda triangle are full of hogwans. I know that there are some teachers here.

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[Blanca]

Benchwarmers was bought out by one of the original owners who turned it into JJ's Bar, which is much better and when I left in November, was doing very well and throwing some bitchin' parties (the Beer Olympics in the summer with the Royal Anchor was great fun).

For anyone considering Ulsan as a place to live, I'd recommend it over other similar-sized smaller cities such as Daejeon or Gwangju. There is a tight-knit foreign crowd, some excellent bars, beaches and some great hiking trails in the mountains nearby. It's a city on the up, too - people have a lot of money here, including the government, so Ulsan is expanding at a frightening rate and people are throwing money around on things like street music festivals and cultural events. Just in the last year we got a brand new department store and some sort of skyscraper in Samsandong, and there are apartment blocks going up everywhere (especially in Jung-gu on the road to Taewha-dong from Home Plus).

Don't get me wrong, if you get an offer in Seoul, Busan or Daegu then go there, but Ulsan is not a bad bet otherwise.

[Yaya]

I visited Ulsan earlier this year and was a bit impressed. It doesn't seem like a provincial town as it holds the distinction of having the highest per capita income in Korea thanks to its status as the city of Hyundai.

I went to Manila Town, a bar run by a Filipina, and JJ's. The area around Lotte Dept. Store wasn't bad, either.

[son of coco]

I lived in Ulsan for just over a year a couple of years back and it isn't a bad place to live. I understand it's developed quite a bit since then too. I generally found the other foreigners friendly. There was the odd socially inept tool around (as it to be expected really), but on the whole everyone was pretty good.

If you don't mind the air smelling like old hot dog water on occasions due to the factories, or enjoy being able to taste the air when the wind is blowing the right way, then it's fine! There are some great areas to visit around the city too.

I'll be going back for a visit early next year, and am almost looking forward to it haha

[joelove]

I lived in Ulsan in 1997-98. It was fine back then in some ways. Not much in the way of western stuff I guess, as it was 40 mins on a bus to buy some coveted items like cheese, or to get KFC, but I liked Korea then as a neophyte.

There was a bar near the uni called Tombstone I believe, good spot for meeting other foreigners and local people/women for fun times. Crap, that was 15-16 years ago.

[El Bandito]