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Tipp7
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:47 am Post subject: Seongnam |
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| Hey, im moving to Seongnam pretty soon, A few subway stops away from the Bundang area, Anyone know is there a big expat community in Seongnam ?? Im travelling alone and would love to meet people out there!! |
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dantana
Joined: 01 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:14 am Post subject: |
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I lived in Bundong back in 2000, and I can tell you it's one the best places to live. You're close to Samsung Plaza (Subway), coffee shops, restaurants and best thing there...there are nice parks around. Also, your only 20-30 min away from Seoul and not stuck in the city. As for foreigners there...lots around that work in other schools in the area...I'm sure you'll bump into them once in a while. Bundong is a rich area too...so if you want to do privates, it's a good place too.
Hope this helps
Good luck! |
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Tipp7
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info !!! |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Seongnam has two very distinct sides to it. Old Seongnam city (raw urban working class korea complete with thousands of love hotels, prostitutes, dog market, gangsters etc..) and Bundang-gu.....a modern middle-class suburb with clean streets, good schools, rich parents, western-orientated shops and restaurants, and very little of what goes on up in Seongnam city.
Seongnam city and Bundang-gu are divided around the point of Yatap Station. |
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Tipp7
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| God damn it , im after taking a position near Sanseong station which doesnt seem to be in the city centre itself, and it seems as close to Seoul as it is to bundang, know anything about it?? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| Tipp7 wrote: |
| God damn it , im after taking a position near Sanseong station which doesnt seem to be in the city centre itself, and it seems as close to Seoul as it is to bundang, know anything about it?? |
Sorry. Don't know anything about Sanseong. It could be a nice area. Some parts of Seongnam city are fairly nice. I lived for a year near Sinheung Station which was a pretty rough but totally vibrant and a lot of fun if you didn't mind a few rough edges. |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Tipp7 wrote: |
| God damn it , im after taking a position near Sanseong station which doesnt seem to be in the city centre itself, and it seems as close to Seoul as it is to bundang, know anything about it?? |
Yeah man, you're in the ghetto. 산성 (sanseong) is on the pink subway line
(line 8 ). I worked in the area a few years ago. You'll see a different side of Korea, that's for sure.
Until I worked there, I thought that Koreans were all rich! Of course, that's because the only Koreans I had contact with were the parents of my students. |
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Tipp7
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| So are u telling me ,im in for a terrible time then ?? did u even remotely enjoy ur stay there , many foreigners ?? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| So are u telling me ,im in for a terrible time then ?? did u even remotely enjoy ur stay there , many foreigners ?? |
That will be mostly up to you. You could have a good a time there as anywhere. There's nothing wrong with Sanseong. It's just working class.
There aren't a lot of English hagwons in Seongnam city so not a lot of foreigners. You'll be pretty close to Seoul though. |
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Dude Ranch
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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any other new info on Seongnam city, -- close to Sanseung subway station ?
There is a public middle school that wants me to start there end of May. It is a public school position but they say it is an English hand-on practice center, and students come to this center and help the students with hands-on experience in English (and there are 4 foreign teachers working there)
It seems like it would be pretty close to Gangnam, closer than living in Bundang. |
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