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El Burro
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: Here in Seoul with a little kid. Help! |
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Hello everybody!
I already posted something similar a few weeks ago before we came to Korea, but I think it is worth posting again....
My wife and I and little girl arrived here a week ago. We would dearly love to find an English-speaking play group or pre-kinder or similar for her to go to. She is 2 years and 5 months.
What do you other parents out there do with your little ones?
We would also like to make contacts with other parents of kids her age or a little older to find friends for her and hopefully for us too. Feel free to PM me if you like.
Regards,
Peter |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Seems to me that you best option is to roll down to some international church services. There you will meet many family oriented expats. GIs have on base service and most young teachers don't run to service every weekend. I'd go to one of those, they are often located near embassies that correspond (i.e. the Anglican church is near the English Embassy) |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember reading in the seoul classfied, or Kscene that there was a woman trying to set up a play group. I'll see if I can dig out an email for you. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:48 am Post subject: Re: Here in Seoul with a little kid. Help! |
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| El Burro wrote: |
| . . . an English-speaking play group or pre-kinder . . . |
Why throw away a perfect opportunity for the child to grow up bilingual?
There are plenty of good Korean preschools. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Why throw away a perfect opportunity for the child to grow up bilingual?
There are plenty of good Korean preschools. |
are you kidding? Just living here your kid will be billingual (start studying now dad as you'd better be too). Don't let your kid be warped like all the kids we teach. There are plenty of English schools, heck there's one near me- and I live in a ghetto. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| We take our kid to Gymboree. It's really fun except for the singing (Daddy just moves his mouth). They have a special waegook class. |
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ladyandthetramp
Joined: 21 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
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Why throw away a perfect opportunity for the child to grow up bilingual?
There are plenty of good Korean preschools. |
are you kidding? Just living here your kid will be billingual (start studying now dad as you'd better be too). Don't let your kid be warped like all the kids we teach. There are plenty of English schools, heck there's one near me- and I live in a ghetto. |
Not if you keep your kid away from Koreans. I'm guessing there are a lot of kids going to international schools here who can't speak Korean. |
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Priya
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:35 am Post subject: Re: Here in Seoul with a little kid. Help! |
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| tomato wrote: |
| El Burro wrote: |
| . . . an English-speaking play group or pre-kinder . . . |
Why throw away a perfect opportunity for the child to grow up bilingual?
There are plenty of good Korean preschools. |
I think this is a great idea, actually, but I still would need someone at the school to speak English so they can talk to ME about how my child is doing. And from my experience, that's a little hard to find. Anyone else have any luck with this? I would love for my 2-year-old daughter to grow up this way. |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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We would also like to make contacts with other parents of kids her age or a little older to find friends for her and hopefully for us too. Feel free to PM me if you like.
"friends" for us too..........hmmmmmm.........what kind of "friends"....................are you talking about? There might be a seoul swingers club but I cannot tell you anymore about it. |
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El Burro
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: More info |
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| chiaa wrote: |
| We take our kid to Gymboree. It's really fun except for the singing (Daddy just moves his mouth). They have a special waegook class. |
Hi there,
Any more info on the place you mentioned would be great. We are living Yonsei Uni area. How old is your little one anyway?
Peter |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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Junior is 20 months.
www.gymboree.co.kr of course it's just in korean (and crashing my IE right now). It's a bit pricey. Something like 270.000 for 12 classes but you also get to go to some of the free time classes as well. Good group of parents in the waegook class. Junior likes to stalk the girls and the mother's don't complain too much. The teacher speaks English well for a Korean, but I still cringe at some of her mistakes. She is well organized and moves quickly between different activities--never staying on any one for too long where a kid gets bored. There is a wide selection of nationalities as well which is really good. It's in Hannam dong, but I think they are all over the place. Perhaps not the waegook class though. The ajoomas after our class are so damn pushy that we have to get out of the room as quickly as possible for fear of flogging so I would be scared of going to the Korean classes. I will post the phone number to that branch this evening so you can give them a call. I know they allow you to do one class for free as a tester. |
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yangtheman
Joined: 16 Jul 2004
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Hi, and welcome to Korea!
Mine are 29 months (boy) and 9 months (girl). I am interested in some kind of playgroup, too. PM me if you want to start one!
Cheers, |
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spark05
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Location: Jung Dong
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My husband and I are both gyopos and somewhat fluent in Korean and we tried sending our 3 yo son to a Korean preschool but after a week we pulled him out. He doesn't speak Korean so he had a really rough time, basically crying the entire time he was there. He's had a hard time adjusting to Korea. There's a Montessori school here that has a native english teacher so I'm hoping to try that soon. He's so against the idea of school now though.
We're in Bucheon, if anyone is nearby I'd love to get together. |
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