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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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 Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject: where is the online community in Seoul? |
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Where is the English-language online community? I have googled all over the place and can't find anything like what I'm looking for. Every city in the world has something like:
Craigslist.org (San Francisco, LA, NY, Boston, most US cities)
AsiaXpat.com (Hong Kong)
That's Beijing
That's Shanghai
LA Weekly magazine
Compass magazine (Taichung)
Taiwan Fun magazine
ShenzhenParty.com
etc
I'm looking for a site that has classifieds (including personals, language exchange, and jobs) so I can meet people in this country, bulletin boards, and that has bar + restaurant reviews and a calendar of what's going on. If it doesn't exist I'm going to set it up.
I have been here a month and I am incredibly frustrated at how difficult it is to meet people. I was able to make a half dozen friends my first week in Beijing and other cities much weirder than Seoul... why is it so tough here? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| The closest thing to what you're describing here is English Spectrum- but that's just rebuilding after the "scandal" last winter. |
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joe_doufu
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| The closest thing to what you're describing here is English Spectrum- but that's just rebuilding after the "scandal" last winter. |
Please do tell... |
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joe_doufu
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, BTW. It's the kind of site I'm looking for, which will save me a programming job, but it has depressingly low traffic.
How do you guys meet people in Korea? This forum seems to be great for shooting the [breeze] but not for actually making connections with people. Particularly not with non-teachers or Koreans of any sort. |
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ballewja
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Jungwha-dong, Jungnang-gu, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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http://www.lifeinkorea.com/index.cfm?Language=English
The above is a link for expats in Korea, it has some of the things you mentioned (personals, etc). Also, I know Craigslist.com does have a page for Seoul though there's not much on it right now. |
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harddrive
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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ballewja,
That site you mention is low grade for social connection possibilities. Any other ideas?
thanks. |
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ballewja
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Jungwha-dong, Jungnang-gu, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: ... |
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I got nothin...
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| peppermint wrote: |
| The closest thing to what you're describing here is English Spectrum- but that's just rebuilding after the "scandal" last winter. |
Please do tell... |
Okay- up til last winter it was a fairly busy site and one of the features was a page called "Ask the playboy" Over time, there started to be some really nasty things posted about Korean women there, and pics of k-girls doing things that their fathers would rather not know about (k-girls gone wild)
The site got some Korean language media attention, the Korean internet community went mad and started assuming all foreigners were like that, and the site got shut down It just came back up about a month or two ago. |
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