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[Hatcher]

I was in Korea for a long time and what I miss most is the food. Good food for good prices. I also miss the saunas as I would go and relax before a biz class.
Finally, the nightlife with the streets busy every evening.

I dont miss being run into when standing right in front of them. Work environments were tough as well.

[edwardcatflap]

I left after around the same time for Hong Kong and after racking my brains for a bit realize there's absolutely nothing. Everything's better here. No, just thought of something, the girls dress more tartily in Korea.

[schwa]

Nice question. Racked my brain too & couldnt come up with much. I left earlier this year.

Had I gone "home" to the familiarity of Canada I'd surely be missing the foreign experience. I cant picture that eventuality, its too much fun discovering new stuff.

I truly enjoyed all my time in Korea, a decade & a half. Naturally I miss a handful of longterm Korean friends, but we keep in touch.

I thought I'd miss my students (the many delightful ones) but you know, you get a classroom full of new kids somewhere else & they take over your focus & affection in the here & now.

I thought I'd miss the hotsprings. Korean saunas are great & I went weekly year in year out. Nowadays I dont even have hot water in my house or access to it & I'm perfectly content.

Korean food: I'm meh about food in general & seek only just enough pleasant daily fuel. I'm vegetarian, a light eater, & can be easily satisfied anywhere.

Money. I do miss earning more than I could spend, even with diminishing wage conditions, & watching my account grow. I've diversified that into savings, investments, & pension. Thanks Korea. As a result, I'm doing fine just breaking even doing what I love to do in a remote & exotic locale as a post-retirement-age guy.

Korea: I learned how to teach there & got pretty good at it & that experience has served me well. I hope that window remains open for others of similar inclination into the future. Living there took up a good chunk of my life (a quarter!) & I have no regrets.

Life, you'll eventually discover, is fleeting.

[metalhead]

I slightly miss kimchi jjigae and gamjatang. Where I am now Korean restaurants do not exist, it's all about Chinese, Japanese and Thai food, East Asian-wise at least.

I also miss convenience store drinking a bit.

I also thought ticket prices to travel around Korea were good, and there were always buses and trains except during nightmare times like Chuseok of course.

Otherwise I can't think of anything I miss really, maybe if I had a higher salary and great work conditions in Korea I would miss that but alas! It was not to be.

[SHGator428]

I couldn't come up with anything. I enjoyed my time there for the most part, and I would do it again as a first time ESLer.

I still work with and teach Koreans. I eat Korean food daily during the school year. I transitioned into China easily from having been there for many years.

China isn't that much different culturally. I live in Shanghai, which I find a plus over Seoul.

I'm relocating to the States in an area that has a sizeable Korean and Chinese population next year after over a decade abroad. Even so, maybe I'll have a different opinion then.

[World Traveler]

[GENO123]

[Hatcher]

As the OP, I do miss the manner in which the K ladies dressed. I worked at a female university for 7 years and had models and actresses as students.

You dont see those styles in China.

[Fallacy]

[Yaya]

The expat scene here is not bad but also deteriorating with the decline of the ESL market. I hear Korea will turn into Japan in that area.

I hear expats in Japan aren't friendly at all to people they don't know, whereas in Korea, it's so easy to start a conversation with expats.

And of course, I love not having to see whale-size people in Korea (though I have seen more than a few obese people lately).

[crescent]

Left for good on Feb.18, 2014.

After 13 years in Korea, the only things I miss are ondol heating, and having a bathroom I can flood with water. My Korean wife misses only her folks. Everything else, even jjimjjilbangs are available here if we want them, but we never th