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[pangaea]

I am looking for a job to start within the next few months. I am planning on Seoul but I don't want to rule out any part of Korea. I would also consider a coastal city or a larger city close to a ski resort. Does anyone know which cities are next to a ski resort or at least within easy traveling distance?

[Ukon]

As someone who commutes regular to a ski resort daily, seoul has plenty of shuttles to ski resorts...and they're free....certainly not as difficult as others told me. Wouldn't be possible on split shifts unless you had a car.

[blackjack]

Not sure where you are from but the ski resorts here are not like back home. More than 2 days on a single ski slope here would bore the hell out of me.

I get about about 6 days a year of skiing here, back home i would regularly do 30 one year I did over 70. Don't come here expecting good slopes. Don't choose where you are going to live based on a couple of months of very average skiing

[air76]

[earthbound14]

Chuncheon is right near Vivaldi Daemyun Park, Pyeongchang is near Phoenix Park, Wonju is close to Phoenix Park, High 1 and Youngpyoung...to name a few. You could even live in Gangneung on the coast (some nice beaches) just south of Sokcho (which is the nearest city to Seorak national Park - not big mountains, but very pretty) and travel an hour down the traffic free highway to Phoenix Park.

Jeonju in the south is near Muju Resort (but I hear the snow is bad there....which means its pure shite as Korean snow is next to non existent - all man made) but its also near Jiri san and a few other nice mountains while being about an hour from the coast (Busan, Gyeongju - both nice cities).

[Ukon]

High 1 is the best from what others told me...There is a new one next to seoul called Konjiam...anybody been?

[Vimfuego]

I agree with most on here, Korea's ski facilities are pretty rubbish. However, if you live in Seoul it's only two and half hours flying time from Sapporo where you'll find some proper snow and some proper resorts.

I was at Yongpyong last weekend, where they'd had around a metre of snow in the preceding days, to find that they'd done their best to compact it all or to remove it from the icy pistes and surround it with impenetrable fencing. The "powder" that was about amounted to maybe a foot or two at the sides of the pistes where they couldn't groom. So frustrating. Yongpyong seems to have some potential but the management there just don't seem to be able to manage the snow. They've actually got quite a high peak, which is a 15/20 minute gondola ride, but once you get there there's only 4 really thin runs.

I spent two days at Yongpyong; I quite enjoyed the first day, but by the second day I'd done it all, boring.

I came to Korea with all my own equipment thinking I'd be boarding every weekend throughout the winter. I just can't get excited by it here. I've had 5 days on Korean ski resorts, which is enough, and thankfully I managed a two week trip to Japan earlier in the season, which wasn't enough!

[Brooksmatic]

[earthbound14]