Korean Job Discussion Forums

[vpadilla]

I will be living and working in Eunhangdong, Sihueng Does anybody have any info regarding that part of the city?
Is it industrial, suburban, or what?
Also,
What are good breakfast foods?I want to be able to prepare quick, filling breakfasts.
Is it cheaper to make a lunch and take it to work, or to buy lunch?
Thanks

[sojusucks]

Are you going to be working in a public school or hagwon? Public schools have cafeterias.

[Cerulean]

There's a FB group for the expat crowd there. Outside of Seoul and close enough to Bucheon station by bus.

I sum it up as a 'meh' place.

[vpadilla]

I am going to be working in a public school. Is the public school food good in SK? I know PS food in California is human slop.
To Cerulean, what is so meh about it? I heard it's an industrial city, which I am not happy about. If it's a boring city, the upside is I can save more money. I plan, like most, to go to Seoul during weekends and vacations.
It would be nice to have something to do though, to offset boredom.

[rainism]

if you're closer to Bucheon, as apparently you are, then other than the smallish downtown area, it can get quasi rural on the outskirts. As in actual rice paddies. The industry is on the opposite part of town fairly far away, next to Ansan. Supposedly that area is Korea's biggest industrial park, with over 3000 factories there I've been told. Took a bus thru the part of siheung you'll be living in one time en route to an orientation/training I had to attend along with my coteacher. Some adjumma told me to 'shut up' because I was speaking English but she said this to my coteacher. Unfortunately this wasn't precisely translated to me in time and we had to get off the bus, otherwise I would have demonstrated to this stupid Korean redneck cretin what she could do with her 'demand' and of course would have immediately doubled my volume and just jabbered in English non stop, preferably right into her face. Don't be shocked if you're surrounded by similarly minded hillrods.

I'd suggest developing a backup plan to school cafeteria lunches. Not sure what kind of food you like but if you like fish, rice, kimchi, everything drowning in gochujang and varieties of fish soup then you'll be good to go. If you don't, start planning alternate strategies immediately.

boredom can be solved by personal hobbies and interests. If you don't want to join a gym or do something physical, find something else. I'm told computer games can gobble up far more time than you can ever provide for them, so bring some you like

I predict you'll be spending a lot of time and money commuting to Seoul.