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Eoghan · Joined: 25 Aug 2006

I have two decent job offers in the Ilsan city area but I'm struggling to find any info on the place. Hoping to move in the next week or two and know no-one so any advice would be great.
Thx

Novernae · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

We live in Ilsan and love it. It's great. Lots of great places to walk, eat, shop, and close enough to Seoul that a trip in is not a huge deal. There is a walking street with shops and restaurants called LaFesta that has great ribs for a night out. We lived in Seoul last year and much prefer it here. The air is cleaner, there is less sewage smell, and they have cushioned sidewalks! (go planned city!!)

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

It's no Bundang...

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

Eoghan · Joined: 25 Aug 2006

Novernae, thank you very much for the info

Yaya.... is there a Second off???

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Yes, Ilsan seemed very nice and clean on the occasions I visited. Has a nice park there with a lake, if memory serves me. It's well over an hour away from downtown Seoul on line 3 however. I'm in northwest Seoul myself and it takes me a good hour to get to Ilsan on the subway. I'd miss proximity to Itaewon and stuff like that personally, but if you don't mind that, I think it'd be a nice place to live.

Francis-Pax · Joined: 20 Nov 2005

I am very familar with Ilsan. Please PM me if you want any info on the schools that have offered you a position.

Overall, Ilsan is an excellent place to live. I enjoyed my two years there and I still visit there frequently to meet with friends.

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

Novernae · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

Eoghan · Joined: 25 Aug 2006

Yaya.... c'mon... why so bitter??? If you have a chip on your shoulder about teachers, it's got nothing to do with me!

cwaddell · Joined: 23 Jan 2006

Myself and my girlfriend have lived in Ilsan for 6 months, and totally love it. It has everything you need in close proximity, and as others have pointed out, also an impressive park and shopping area. The commute to Seoul doesn't bother me at all, in fact we only go into Seoul every 3rd weekend or something.

No doubt someone will eventually post how any "satellite city" of Seoul is boring with no nightlife, but these people are crazy. Like anywhere in Korea there are pubs wherever you look, so if your in good company, with beer, it's surely never boring.

Feel free to give me a PM if you have any questions, as I did the same thing to others when job hunting, and it was a great help to me.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Ilsan is great, I lived in greater Goyang for over a year and still have friends who I visit there regularly. The social scene is far better than other satellite cities, there is a good football (soccer) team you can join there and have a ready made social base (www.lokomotiv-goyang.com). Depending on where you are, you can be in Hongdae/Sincheon in under an hour, but there are plenty of shops, bars and restaurants to keep you happy, especially around La Festa in Jeongbalsan. There is also a lot to keep you interested in the surrounding countryside and, this is a big bonus, the KTX originates from Hangshindong station twice a day, meaning you can get from your doorstep to Busan in around 3 hours.

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

even though the subway may take a long time to reach seoul(depending on where u want to go), you can get to gangnam via bus in 25 minutes. it reminds me of bundang, isolated at times, but close enough to the city if u need to go there

Bingo · Joined: 22 Jun 2006

Can someone post where the nightlife is in Ilsan? What are the best pubs for Westerners to hang out? How m,any people congragate there on the weekend? Are there pool tables?

Thanks in advance,
Bing