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pumpkin
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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 Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:39 am Post subject: City of Daejeon |
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| Can anyone tell me about the city of Daejon? How far is it away from Seoul and is there stuff to do there? Anyone currently working at a school there? |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: Daejeon |
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Hi, I don't live in Daejeon but have visited twice. Getting ready to leave my school (have worked here 6 years) and moving to Daejeon.
My impression is that Daejeon seem like a pretty good place to live. Good size population, clean, a few western restaurants, etc... I certainly like it more than Seoul or the city I currently live in.
If you want more specifics feel free to e-mail me direct. |
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crazykiwi
Joined: 07 Jun 2003
Location: new zealand via daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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hey dude,
im currently living in daejeon, chose to come back here as i worked here last year. i find a sound as city to hang out in. its around 2 and a half to three hours from seoul, but they are currently trying to get the 45minute speed train up and running so that should be good.
They have a few nice things to do like drink and......drink! nah, there are plenty of mountaind to climb nearby, parks to go camping in, a river to swim....nearly got ya! no, but it has a river to play soccer/frisbie/rugby etc down . also its close to a number of sound beaches, 3 hours to busan, an hour or so to daecheon beach and some other beaches i cant remember.
the main reason i came back was the mates i had made. the people here are on the whole, a great bunch to hang out with. also the pubs here are again, on the whole, pretty good. a great "down town" area and also a number of suburbs with some great little bars. anyway, any more info you need, just put some specifics on a post. oh yeah, plenty of schools to choose from, check out the job section section for details. laterz bro
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| check out daejeon wbe |
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Joe Thanks
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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A pretty useless site. Not much information at all.
Joe
had checked it out
was disappointed |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Do these summarize Daejeon?
(the main title at Daejeon Web)
"Hey You! The Waykook Who Smells Like Beer."
Joe Thanks wrote,
had checked it out was disappointed.
Many students want to study in Daejeon, right?
Many Koreans want to work in Daejeon, right? |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I am not an expert on such things, but I am pretty sure that DaejeonWeb contains more info than a certain pompous ass who refers to himself in the third person's site... |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Daejeon is ideally located if you like to travel. It has two train stations; West Daejeon Station (Seodeajeon Station) and Deajeon Station (same in Korean). You can get to Seoul from both in about two hours. You can also get to the southwest cities of Mokpo and Yeaso from Seodaejeon and the southeast(ernish) cities of Daegu and Busan from Daejeon Station.
Daejeon has an amusement park at Expo Park.
It has a pretty busy downtown area with a lot of shopping. It also is where some of the 'foreigner' bars are located. I believe the are is called "Eun-haeng Dong" (thoug someone may correct me). Some of the bars people go to are J-Rock, Watermellon Sugar, The Zoo and The Spong Bar. I can't review them for you because I don't go to them myself.
On the west side of Daejeon, near Chungnam University, there is also a nightlife area. A lot fo the foreign teachers that live in that area drink there. One popular place is the 'Santa Claus Bar' in Kun-Dong, under the Lotteria. Just tell the taxi drive 'Kundong Lotteria', and the bar is downstairs.
I know that some people play soccer, we have had paintball trips organized, and some play baseball. Once you get out and meet a few people, you might make the connections you need to participate in such things. I have met people in rock-climbing clubs and paragliding clubs...Lts of stuff to do.
Daejeon has a couple of Carrefours and at least one Wal-Mart for your western food needs.
There are quite a few movie theaters with English movies (if you like movies).
Lots of health clubs and swimming pools.
Well, that's about all I can think of. good luck. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought it was not quite "useless". I especially liked the grocery shopping tips. Living in Cheonan, I know I'll get round that Lotte Dept. Store sharpish for a wagon-load of cheese and meat. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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How many students want to study in Daejeon?
How many Koreans want to work in Daejeon?
Are you going to work in Daejeon or tour the city? |
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Joe Thanks
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| diver wrote: |
| I am not an expert on such things, but I am pretty sure that DaejeonWeb contains more info than a certain pompous ass who refers to himself in the third person's site... |
You certainly aren't an expert, but I know of a certain, sharky-avatared pompous ass who is offended becaue they don't update the Daejon web so the ygo and get snitty and then actually post MORE infromation in a subsequent post than ALL of the Daejon web itself. They are also so petty as to get their panties in a knot about third-person references since they have nothing of subtance to attack Joe for, except a bruised ego.
Daejeon web, like Ulsan web is crap. Rarely updated, no substantial information. It's more vacuou than a tourist brochure, and that's not the info most folks want.
Daejeon web offers NOTHING: NO maps, no names of shops or addresses beyond generic, touristy - yu'd find it on your own if you went there crap - or of anything or bus numbers or anything of REAL, practical importance, since most who would go there have more than a toursit's interest in the place.
It's crap on toast.
THIS is fact.
Check your oxygen, diver, as you're not ony wrong, but you're delusional.
Joe
has schooled
spoken
and spanked
Last edited by Joe Thanks on Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:52 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Joe Thanks
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:49 am Post subject: |
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More information than ALL of Daejon web:
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Daejeon is ideally located if you like to travel. It has two train stations; West Daejeon Station (Seodeajeon Station) and Deajeon Station (same in Korean). You can get to Seoul from both in about two hours. You can also get to the southwest cities of Mokpo and Yeaso from Seodaejeon and the southeast(ernish) cities of Daegu and Busan from Daejeon Station.
Daejeon has an amusement park at Expo Park.
It has a pretty busy downtown area with a lot of shopping. It also is where some of the 'foreigner' bars are located. I believe the are is called "Eun-haeng Dong" (thoug someone may correct me). Some of the bars people go to are J-Rock, Watermellon Sugar, The Zoo and The Spong Bar. I can't review them for you because I don't go to them myself.
On the west side of Daejeon, near Chungnam University, there is also a nightlife area. A lot fo the foreign teachers that live in that area drink there. One popular place is the 'Santa Claus Bar' in Kun-Dong, under the Lotteria. Just tell the taxi drive 'Kundong Lotteria', and the bar is downstairs.
I know that some people play soccer, we have had paintball trips organized, and some play baseball. Once you get out and meet a few people, you might make the connections you need to participate in such things. I have met people in rock-climbing clubs and paragliding clubs...Lts of stuff to do.
Daejeon has a couple of Carrefours and at least one Wal-Mart for your western food needs.
There are quite a few movie theaters with English movies (if you like movies).
Lots of health clubs and swimming pools.
Well, that's about all I can think of. good luck. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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I don't work for DaejeonWeb.
I didn't attack you for referring to yourself in the third person because I had nothing of substance to criticize you for, rather, I attacked you specifically for referring to yourself in the third person. I haven't met anyone yet that does so and isn't a pompous ass. You could be an exception, but I don't think so.
We don't dive on oxygen.
DaejeonWeb offers more info than you did. I tried to help out someone who posted what I believe was a sincere request for info. You did not. You decided to attack DaejeonWeb, presumably because you had nothing of substance to say. |
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Joe Thanks
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| diver wrote: |
| I don't work for DaejeonWeb. |
Sure seems like you do - given how defensive you got when I laid the honest smackdown on the site.
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| I didn't attack you for referring to yourself in the third person because I had nothing of substance to criticize you for, rather, I attacked you specifically for referring to yourself in the third person. I haven't met anyone yet that does so and isn't a pompous ass. You could be an exception, but I don't think so. |
Again - you attacked the third person posting because you had NOTHING of SUBSTANCE to criticize me for. The quote proves it.
It's like saying "I attacked you for being black because I haven't met a black person who isn't evil" or other nonsense.
SAME exact style of unfounded, illogical, and just plain wrong critique.
And yes, it is petty that it gets your panties in the not. Joe is right about this. Ironically, I've NEVER met a person who spoke in the third person outside of one cat from Jamaica - and I didn't know him enough to dislike him, for sure. Kids - yes. Adults, no? So, that begs the question just who are you meeting that does this without a tongue planted firmly in cheek?
I doubt you've met ANYONE like that but base it on some bad movies you saw where they had the jock do it.
Joe is pretty sure he's right, since NOBODY really does, save Joe, and he does it because he knows it makes people laugh or that it focuses in - with razor-sharp precision - on their anal-retentive linguistic hang ups.
Besides, it's fun.
I didn't and generally don't do it to raise ire, but I have grown to LOVE that it does. It's called "cheap heat" in the wrestling business, and if I had more folks like you that I could easily get into a caniption fit by simply using he third person when getting self-refferential I could main event in the ring one day.
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| We don't dive on oxygen. |
Oh, you're aquaman? Maybe it's the pollution in the water getting to you then.
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| DaejeonWeb offers more info than you did. I tried to help out someone who posted what I believe was a sincere request for info. |
I can't offer "help" but have the SAME interest as the other person, and when I look back at the time-wasting, bandwidth-wasting Daejeon web - I laid the facts down that it offers little useful information. I'm not the only one who did it, but you felt the need to attack me.
Yes, your post did help. At least for me; not too helpful, but it's a start -a and it's 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% better than ANYTHING on Daejeon Web. So, again, you used it as a ruse to attack me, or you do write for it and got your panties in a knot about the fact someone called the Daejeon Web on being useless and completely UNhelpful.
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| You did not. You decided to attack DaejeonWeb, presumably because you had nothing of substance to say. |
Your attempts at spin are not effective.
Daejeon web sucks: fact.
Daejeon web offers little USEFUL information: fact.
NOBODY painted that fact. Joe did: fact.
Joe does not want people to waste time in futile searches: fact.
You attacked joe for no reason: fact
You are now ducking and covering: fact.
Joe didn't start in on the attacks on posters on this thread. You did: fact.
So, stick with the "help" and cut the attacks if you want to be "helpful."
Joe hopes he has made it clear that Daejeon Web is bloody useless when researching Daejeon. Joe knows - Joe hs been trying to research on it.
So, you've been schooled. You're welcome. It WILL make you a better person.
Thanks for the other post, but no thanks for the needless personal attack.
See you in row one when I make it to Michinoku pro:
Joe
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| Jesus... I don't have to say anything...Just letting you ramble on proves my point more effectively than anything I could say... |
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