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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: Skylife...? |
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| SO, I'm getting quite tired of paying 20.000 a month for 3 English channels on the tele. I've looked into skylifew and it seems to be the solution. However, I've been getting confliscting information from the website v. talking through the phone (via translator). Here's the Q's? Has anyone actually gotten it for themselves? 2: Did you have to pay 178.000 won for the reciever (website says no, phone says "yes, because you're a foriegner"? 3: Whats the deal with the "minium 3 year contract" that they said was required (on a seperate phone call? Basically whats the bases? |
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peppergirl
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it's either the deposit or the 3 year contract. If you get the 3 year contract, you don't need to pay for the decoder, but as you're a foreigner and they suppose you probably won't be here for that long, you should pay the deposit. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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If you can swing it, have your school buy the dish and put the contract in their name, and then pay the monthly fee to your school. It's more expensive for foreigners to sign up for Sky Life. (same as with cell phones)
That's what I did. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Man, do you watch that much TV? Get out  My school pays for my cable bill so cost/benefit doesn't really figure into my plan. But yeah I could see how you'd maybe think 20,000 won for AFN/Discovery/CNN isn't a great deal, compared to life back at home. But then I do get OCN/Super Action/Home CGV and sometimes there's something decent on that.
Me, I just download via bit torrent TV shows I really want to watch. Saves me from having to buy a VCR.
- Arrested Development
- MST3K
- Dr Who
That's about it. |
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Koreabound2004
Joined: 19 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| JacktheCat wrote: |
If you can swing it, have your school buy the dish and put the contract in their name, and then pay the monthly fee to your school. It's more expensive for foreigners to sign up for Sky Life. (same as with cell phones)
That's what I did. |
What is the monthly fee after you pay for the receiver or get your school to hook you up?
I have cable here, get about 3-4 English channels, and pay 6,000 a month...I don't mind it, and generally I can find something to watch between those channels. Otherwise I play on the net or read a book. If I stay in SK one more year, I might look into the Skylife option...however, a friend of mine who has it, says that the only good channel he gets with it is OnStyle...and I already get that with basic cable...what's up with that? |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:59 am Post subject: |
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Hmm I got cable but no tv (TV fried one 1st day)  and my school is dragging their feet about geting me one. Well I wish they would stop dragging their feet about my insurance, I have spent 110k won on doctors so far. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreabound2004 wrote: |
| JacktheCat wrote: |
If you can swing it, have your school buy the dish and put the contract in their name, and then pay the monthly fee to your school. It's more expensive for foreigners to sign up for Sky Life. (same as with cell phones)
That's what I did. |
What is the monthly fee after you pay for the receiver or get your school to hook you up?
I have cable here, get about 3-4 English channels, and pay 6,000 a month...I don't mind it, and generally I can find something to watch between those channels. Otherwise I play on the net or read a book. If I stay in SK one more year, I might look into the Skylife option...however, a friend of mine who has it, says that the only good channel he gets with it is OnStyle...and I already get that with basic cable...what's up with that? |
The bill runs to 12k a month for about 200 channels (I dont get any of the extra movie or porno channels). Of these, about 10 broadcast primarily in English. My school signed up for the 3 year contract, so the bill is lower.
Sky Life and Dave's are about the only English I get to hear these days living out in the hinterlands of Gyeonggido province. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| JacktheCat wrote: |
| Sky Life and Dave's are about the only English I get to hear these days living out in the hinterlands of Gyeonggido province. |
It's weird how much chatting with friends back at home on MSN takes the place of your daily english conversation. What in gods name did ESL teachers do before the Internet? |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| Does anyone have anything other than SkyLife or cable? Several companies provide foreign programming but you have to buy a dish. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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I have Skylife and the Internet in one package. My wife hooked it all up so don't ask me pricing but I do know that we have a 3 years contract.
That being said i was both impressed and dissapointed with Skylife.
Honestly, I got the family package because of the History channel and Animal Planet. Unfortunately the History channel is 90% Korean.
One surprise though was the On Style network. Some decent shows on there and my wife loves watching all that reality dating TV so in the end it was worth it.
note: it only has CNN (which I hate). I was hoping for the BBC |
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Koreabound2004
Joined: 19 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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I have regular cable, and I get On style, OCN, Superaction, CNN, BBC through Arirang....MBC movies is also good. Cable is 3-4,000 a month.
I don't think Skylife is worth it from the sounds of things. |
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Draven
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| We have Skylife too, and I'm encouraged because it seems to be getting better. They've just included Discovery Channel (channel 403 for me), and there's a new channel (whose name escapes me currently) which is coming in June and apparently specializes in foreign t.v. shows. They say they're going to show 24 and the Amazing Race, for example. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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I get regular Gangnam cable (4000 per month I think) so I have OCN, Discovery, CNN, the "Friends, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Seinfeld channels", Super Action, and 4-5 other channels with a lot of English programming.
When I checked out what Skylife were offering it looked like I would actually be losing as far as my favorite English channels were concerned.
Here's the Skylife in Korea channel list. No Discovery??!! Screw that!
http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/channel/sub02_3.html |
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Draven
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I get regular Gangnam cable (4000 per month I think) so I have OCN, Discovery, CNN, the "Friends, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Seinfeld channels", Super Action, and 4-5 other channels with a lot of English programming.
When I checked out what Skylife were offering it looked like I would actually be losing as far as my favorite English channels were concerned.
Here's the Skylife in Korea channel list. No Discovery??!! Screw that!
http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/channel/sub02_3.html |
Skylife has just picked up Discovery Channel; I just discovered it last night . They're calling it a 'preview' now until June 1st when it starts officially, but it's on just the same. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Draven wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
I get regular Gangnam cable (4000 per month I think) so I have OCN, Discovery, CNN, the "Friends, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Seinfeld channels", Super Action, and 4-5 other channels with a lot of English programming.
When I checked out what Skylife were offering it looked like I would actually be losing as far as my favorite English channels were concerned.
Here's the Skylife in Korea channel list. No Discovery??!! Screw that!
http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/channel/sub02_3.html |
Skylife has just picked up Discovery Channel; I just discovered it last night . They're calling it a 'preview' now until June 1st when it starts officially, but it's on just the same. |
Thanks Draven I wouldn't have known they just added it. Too cool!
If oyu have a decent cable package then I wouldn't recomend it. But for many cable is hit and miss here in the ROK so you just might want to invest. |
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