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Ronaldclaw · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Location: London

Sorry for this silly question but what is the best cable package to get if we are here for only a year. I have heard Sky life is the best but i have heard it is expensive to install and they dont really want to give it to foreigners who are only here for a year. i basically want as much English football as possible, any suggestions??!!

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

Well, Skylife is the best, but it is not cable. It is a satellite dish. Cable here vaires a little from company to company, but in general, you aren't going to get a lot of what you want. However, it is really cheap. If you want to watch a lot of football, your best bet is to pay and subscribe to one of those online streaming websites that is going to show lots of it.

mhills · Joined: 24 Aug 2005

With sky life you can free installation, and tell them the next teacher will take it over. Or have it under the schools name.

teachingld2004 · Joined: 29 Mar 2004

Is it free to have skylife installed now? When I was in Gangneung, I had to pay 60,000 to have it installed. That was 2 1/2 years ago.

Cable is very different, depending on where you live. I live in Bundang, and I do not have discovery, and some other channels that they have in Kangnam. You also can not choose what cable company you have, you have to use what ever is in your area. You can choose the channels. I have all the English channels that are available here, and still I do not have many.

And yes, you can get skylife for one year.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Ronaldclaw · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Location: London

Cheers guys so to get Sky Life I dont have to pay for anything is the box and dish free becuase on their website they say you have to buy both which looks a tad expensive to me?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I'd argue if you're here for only a year, there can't be anything on TV that's worth the trouble of paying for skylife. Get your basic cable and for your must see TV download it online via bit.torrent.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

I have skylife and it sucks. They randomly change the channels around and always take some out..then I am looking for the channels I like and they are gone. They have done this like 4 times since 2003....I signed the stupid contract and can't quit yet. They have sports but not much of anything else...it is also tricky about how many channels...it shows many hundreds of channels but there aren't...it is like 656,657,658,670,681, 700...I would say just get cable unless you really like sports. Some cable companies also offer cable modem, and cable t.v packages that work out to be a big saving for internet and t.v.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:20 am Post subject:

Two weeks ago, my school district installed SkyLife in my apartment free of charge (worth about W100,000), and I pay W8700/month for the service. It's a good deal.

The trouble is... the moronic K satelite-dish installers ran the coax from the dish to the TV, through the sills of the doors to my balcony instead of drilling through the wall. The doors won't shut - there is now a 1/4 inch gap I had to 'weatherstrip'.

I complained to deaf ears. I'll live with it until monsoon season, pack-up my s*it, get my severance, pension, and leave (the timing is just right).

The ineptitude Ks is mind-boggling. There is something in their culture/thought process that prevents them from applying rational logic or planning. Given a problem, they will 'treat' the symptom, but never consider the cause thereof.

As I type, I'm listening to my broken water intake pipe flood the downstairs apartments; and the pump the idiots installed to increase my water pressure, burn itself out as the bearing race for the impeller overheats. I could easily turn off the water and the pump Twisted Evil

... but in the morning, the K engineer/plumber/janitor would turn them on , see the water and the pump work (for two seconds), tell me there is "no problem" and promptly leave while discussing the crazy waygookin. F*ck'em! Cool

P.S. My water 'problem' was 'fixed' today (for the 13th time).

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

Your are right, I haven't seen the first bill yet.

However, I live in the 'sticks' and many of the channels "...are not available in your area". Perhaps this fact explains the price difference; but it puzzles me that with a satellite signal, why would my 'area' make any difference?