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[vegavega]

Hi, I�ll be doing a volunteer work in Muju this autumn, part of which will be teaching english in local high school (called �Green dream school�). Is here anyone who worked there? What was your experiences from living/working in Muju?

[Chet Wautlands]

I've never worked or lived in Muju, but there is a big ski hill there. Apparently at one point Michael Jackson wanted to buy it. I don't know how true that is, but my co-workers insisted it was true.

Anyway, I'm sure others will know more, but it's fairly rural from what I remember.

[fungrel]

Met a friend from there, only a handful of other NETs working in the area. Almost all of them work in the public school system at multiple schools. It's not on the train line but apparently there is quite a good bus system going on.

Broke my arm skiing there, no powder at all. its like skiing on a giant 7-11 slushy

[roybetis1]

lived and worked in Muju in 2007 for the public school board. I'm not even sure there's a highschool in the city much less called "green dream".
When I was brought there (and that'd be the correct verb) they didn't have any apartments for the teachers (4 of us) and assumed everything would be okay because they were offering homestay instead.
We had to live in a hotel for 6 weeks until they found an apartment that I had to share. The flight reimbursement took almost 2 months, and the settlement allowance even longer.

When I first got there they left me out in a "recreation center" somewhere in a forest, didn't call or contact me for two weeks, and I spent my first six weeks doing absolutely nothing because nobody had put any thought into where and what they were going to do with the foreign teachers they had hired.

I very seriously suggest you travel to Muju and confirm the existence of this "highschool" (Green Dream sounds more like a hagwon) and wether you can live there. It really is a tiny outpost in the middle of nowhere.