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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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Re: the small towns.
Or instead of living for the weekend or becoming an alcoholic...you could [gasp!] actually make friends with the locals. Where I am now is very small...about 3-4 thousand people. We don't even have a Lotteria.
Yet I've spent more than one enjoyable evening with the owner of the one BBQ and the local cop...just three guys chatting away over a few drinks...the language barrier tends to get a lot easier.
As for the age ratio...that's only a worry if you don't have an S.O.
Or you could be snobbish and dismiss all the locals as rude, uncultured peasants. The flip side of this is then don't be surprised when they perceive YOU as rude and dismiss you as a drunken, skirt chasing foreigner.
Your call. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Yet I've spent more than one enjoyable evening with the owner of the one BBQ and the local cop...just three guys chatting away over a few drinks...the language barrier tends to get a lot easier.
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That's all very well once in a while but would you actually phone the cop or BBQ owner up on a whim or when you were feeling a bit down and ask them to go out for a drink? Most people need at least one person they can rely on |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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And that's another advantage of living in Seoul: you can easily find dozens of Koreans who are your peers.
In smaller towns it seems like the foreigners only hang out with each other in big, boozy groups. In Seoul, it's easier to find foreigners with similar interests, as well as Koreans. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Choose a city that isn't Seoul or Busan. Try Daejeon, Daegu, Gwangju, or Changwon. You get a sense of what Korea is, have options as far as food (granted, not as many as Seoul or Busan), and you can meet more people.
Daejeon was great for me and my husband our first time around - it's in the centre of the country, so it's awesome for traveling, there's a great group of expats with a fantastic facebook group for easy meet-up organizations, and there's quite a bit to do. It's not touristy, however, but you're only an hour away from Seoul on the KTX, 2 hours from Busan (KTX as well), and you can grab a train or bus to any other part of the country if you like exploring.
The other cities still have lots of stuff to do, but Daejeon is definitely a great place to base yourself in Korea. |
I'd second Daejon. It's quite a nice place. |
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