Korean Job Discussion Forums

[zacacho]

Hi,
I am planning on teaching English in Korea sometime this year and would like to know if anyone knows of a small city or town with trees and fresh air (comparable to Santa Cruz California)???

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[Tarheel13]

Yo, I'm new as well and will follow this thread. Thanks for posting, and best of luck to you.

[Porter_Goss]

Yeongjong-do. It's the island that the Incheon airport is on... the "city center" is an affluent little community... five minute bus trip to the airport (the way the airport is designed you rarely see or hear the planes)... they are in the final stages of subway terminal construction that will link to Seoul... currently 30 minutes to Seoul by bus... CLEAN AIR.

[margaret]

I lived in Jeomchon/Mungyoung for a year. The air was great. I worked at a good hogwan, REI American Language Institute. I don't know if they've found another teacher since I left at the end of March.
Margaret

[schwa]

Sokcho has pretty good air -- fresh sea or mountain breezes, no dirty industries.

March/April is compromised with yellow sand from China, but thats hard to avoid most everywhere on the peninsula.

[I_Am_Wrong]

maybe JeonJu or perhaps Jeju...I dunno.

[zacacho]

Thanks for all of the info,,,a few of those places I had already researched,,,,I guess I just need to go and check them out....

chau

[animalbirdfish]

Try Jinju or Gyeongju, both are pretty clean in my experience.

[europe2seoul]

How about Chuncheon ?
Its in Gangwon-do, close to the border with Gyeonggi-do.

Has mountains, rivers, lakes, clean air. Not that small, not that big. Nice place and attractive tourist destination for Koreans due to proximity to Seoul (3 hours by bus or 2 by car). Next to it is Gapyeong and all that area is "famous" for MT's and such.