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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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 Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:14 am Post subject: What's Gyeongu Like ? |
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Been offered what seems like a good job in Korea (Dongguk Uni). Thinking about going back.
Not too sure about ending up in Gyeongju though. My impressions of the place weren't great last time i visited it.
What's it like for living and working in ? |
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greedy_bones
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: not quite sure anymore
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:02 am Post subject: |
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I've only been there once on vacation, but seems pretty cool. It's got some cool old temples and tombs, and you can actually see stars.
The only bad things I can think of are the usual things about living in a small town, and another foreigner I talked to said there's a good esl teacher community, but it's so few people that if you have a falling out with one, it's known about by all of the other foreign teachers. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone any info on living in gyeongju ? |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I lived there for many years (the first time was twenty-five years ago) and I taught at DGU for fourteen years. I know some of the people still there (lots of turnover in the past few years, so many new people came since I was last there a few years ago). Please feel free to PM me and I can give you more info. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| dbee wrote: |
| Anyone any info on living in gyeongju ? |
The past few weekends I've been going there from Seomyeon in Busan (if you look at a subway map of Busan it's at the intersection of two of the lines). It takes me 1 hour 30 to get from Seomyeon to Gyeongju. It's only about 55 minutes away from Nompodong in Busan and PNU is, I'm guessing, a total of 1 hour 15 minutes away from Gyeongju bus terminal. The bus tickets are cheap, I think there might be a promotion on at the moment.
There's a wide variety of cultural and nature related activities to do in Gyeongju, IMHO it's one of the most beautiful areas in Korea.
The town pretty much shuts down at 10:00 though and I didn't see any indications that there's any sort of social life.
If you need to party, then you'll probably be heading into Busan on the weekends. |
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Totti
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:09 am Post subject: |
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I've just been offered a really good public school job and am probably going to accept.
I'm just wondering how much is the bus to Busan or Ulsan? Do they generally shut down at midnight? |
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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Location: left Korea
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