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bwiiian
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:27 am Post subject: Samcheok |
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Hi, I am new here but I am moving to Samcheok to teach in a couple of weeks and I wondered if anyone has been/lived/worked there? I know it is only a small town but the location looks amazing with great beaches and mountains etc but it would be good to get an idea about the place from someone who knows the place well. I am not really into clubbing or anything but a couple of friendly bars would be nice.
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| It has ONE friendly bar...I live there. You won't get laid, nobody does unles they bring women with them. |
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bwiiian
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Luckily for me then that I am bringing my woman with me!! Are you from Samcheok or are you working as a teacher there? What is the nice bar called, I will check it out as soon as I get there. So how is life there? |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:33 am Post subject: |
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boring....I'm EPIK...second year here. Actually if your older/married normal it is a nice area. Beautiful and scenic. Little poverty stricken in some parts but not all. Has a nice homeplus/tesco which has most of the foreign style foods (but at a price) Pizza exists, as does dunkin donuts and BR.
-really being 24 I just wish there were girls here... |
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bwiiian
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Well if it is your 2nd year there then it can't be bad!! I am a bit older than you and coming with my wife (she is following me on there after a few weeks) but I'm not past it yet!! hehe. Are there many foreigners there? The beaches look great and so do the mountains for skiing in the winter, I'm really looking forward to it. |
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Robot_Teacher
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: |
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Dave, can you make me another double Big Mac please. Come on, put on a site that works. Please?
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| samcheokguy wrote: |
boring....I'm EPIK...second year here. Actually if your older/married normal it is a nice area. Beautiful and scenic. Little poverty stricken in some parts but not all. Has a nice homeplus/tesco which has most of the foreign style foods (but at a price) Pizza exists, as does dunkin donuts and BR.
-really being 24 I just wish there were girls here... |
Yes, you won't score a date in smaller towns for sure as most young ladies and gentlemen head off to the cities to live, but return home to Gangwondo after they score a spouse and begin having kids. I'm fairly close to Samcheok myself and the only reason why you won't score a date is unmarried women without kids, what few who stay in a small town, will not get involved with you out of fear, embarrassment, and loss face in what locals, her elders, will think of her dating a foreigner. The foreigner I know with a Korean woman used to teach in a city and met her there who then moved to the country where she was originally from.
I was turned down when asking the only available single early 30's woman who speaks some English. She's just dog ugly as can be, but I wanted to be friends since she speaks English and has a sweet personality. You can bet nearly all the young to middle age adult woman in small towns are married and have small children and usually work in civil service such as teaching. Small town people distance themselves as there is some level of fearing you on account of not understanding you, lacking confidence to speak English or interact with you, and many more times than not, they're afraid of what others will think if seen associating with you. Age is also a biggie in that you won't talk to someone longer than a few minutes who is too young or too old to be your friend as friends must be about same age even if said Korean speaks good English.
I'm very sure they're are exceptions to this rule in the larger cities. Even if that Korean is one of the very few locals who can hold an English conversation, they won't be your friend even they like and respect you. I met a brilliant old Korean man in my small town who speaks awesomely well and is self educated, but he wouldn't take up my offer to go to dinner or for a drink. Only one time will someone vastly differing in age talk and that took courage for him to do that in the 5 day market place simply to ask why I'm in Korea and how long I'll be staying. I just wanted to make regular same sex friends too, but can't. By living in a small town, I can see how Korea is a very conservative culture, but when I visit the cities, I see blatant individual self expression and any thing goes young culture happening such as in how they dress, act, and have fun. You'll even see Korean man and woman holding hands as well as foreign man and Korean woman walking together.
If you live in Seoul or large city, you won't clearly understand what I'm talking about as I know it definitely is nothing like a small town. Small towns give you a taste of the old Korea which doesn't really mesh well with modern culture and the government sending in foreigners to teach, but the kidz love having you out here. Outside of civil service people raising kids, small towns consist mostly of older retired folks from a bygone era who hate change, hate the jets in the sky, and dislike us, but they don't express hostility as to save face and they have no say so in what goes and doesn't go outside of their own private lives. |
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