Korean Job Discussion Forums

giancaldo · Joined: 10 Feb 2006

I'm considering teaching English in Korea, however, I really wouldnt want to spend a full year in just one city. I've read many posts on the net where teachers manage to change city just after a couple of months. Is this easy to do?

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Cities here are much the same anyway.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

You have probably noticed people moving from city to city between contracts. It is somewhat difficult to spring yourself from one employer and move to a new one.

coolsage · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:51 am Post subject:

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

It's true. All Korean cities look the same. They all have been built in the last 50 years, so the style is the same. And it's a small country.

Put on a blindfold and teleport yourself between any suburb in pretty much any city and they will look just like the any other place. I travelled from the tip of the North Island to Stewart Island off the south coast of the South Island in New Zealand. Every city looked pretty much the same. I once drove from Omaha, across Iowa, up through Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan, across the border into Canada and over the top of Lake Huron down to Toronto: close to 1,000 miles. Couldn't tell the difference just by looking.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

South Korea is 38,175 square miles.

Compared to other places..

Cayman Islands is 27,000 square miles..
Panama is 39,000 square miles..
Scotland is 30,000 squre miles..
Sri Lanka is 25,000 square miles..
Tennesee is 42,000 square miles..
United Arab Emirates is 32,000 square miles..
Guatamala is 42,000 square miles..
Honduras is 43,000 square miles..

In other words.. its not that difficult to see pretty much all of Korea fairly easily during a one year period from just about anywhere you live in this country.

coolsage · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

And British Columbia is the approximate size of Washington, Oregon and California combined, but with just the population of the Bay area. Trivia fans: It is theoretically possible to walk from the outskirts of Vancouver to the North Pole without ever encountering another human being.