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[lastat06513]

I saw this on the chinese discussion forum and decided to apply it to Korea as well....

Simply put...
What was your feeling the day or night before you arrived here from your home?
Was it anything as you expected?






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Korean proverb-
I have a feeling this is going to be a long day.....better wear "short pants"

[royjones]

I was scared, yet excited for a new experience.

[itaewonguy]

damn I cant remember.. I was nursing a hang over.. from the fairwell party I had the night before.. but I remember
I meet mr Lee 4 days before I came to korea or even considered coming to korea.. or even really heard of it.... . 2nd day I met mr jung the boss.. then 2 days later I was on a plane!
thats what happens when you answer an add..

people wanted to work in south korea.. call MR LEE..
that was in wednesdays paper.. I was on a plane saturday night..

and I loved every minute of my first 8 months in PUSAN!!
now.. JESUS.. dont get me started..7 years im ready to answer another add people wanted to work in siberia!!! got to better than here.. hahahahahahaha

[seoulunitarian]

I had just come from rural mid-China, so Korea was heaven. My first night, I drank four bottles of soju, so wasn't really aware of things the next day....

Daniel

[peppermint]

I was excited- the full effect of what I'd decided didn't sink in until the wheels hit ground in Incheon.

[lastat06513]

Wow!

I remember when there was no airport in Incheon, just Kimpo International Airport and that was only in 1996!
Alot of newbies!!!!

[Sue_in_Daegu]

I'll let you know in 16 days! It's already been a wee bit sad saying goodbye to friends, but I am so excited I occasionaly spring up and do the Snoopy dance!

[little mixed girl]

i'll talk about this year's coming.
personally i basically knew what to expect in terms of the reaction of koreans to me, and i usually expect the worst in most situations so...when the worst doesn't happen i feel fine.

i was nervous about my korean...and also about the humidity (*shakes fist at humidity*)...
=/

[Zed]

I felt extremely disappointed to be missing the New Year. It didn't exist. There was no time when my watch could have had 12:00 midnight on it. I left Toronto at 11:30 pm on Dec 30th. We touched down in Anchorage sometime in the early hours of the 31st. As we moved toward the dateline it was getting on into the 31st. Then suddenly it was the first of January. No New Year's Eve? No one on the plane evem mentioned it. I was so disappointed I didn't even have a drink.

After being installed in a love motel next to Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon on New Year's Day I spent the day by myself walking around the fortress. Korea seemed interesting that day, but a little lonely.

[theatrelily]

I was a tad bit drunk, but excited- dazed, actually.

From the time I started looking at jobs to the time I landed in Seoul was 9 days.

Started applying on a Friday, signed the contract on Tuesday, received my airline tickets on the following Friday, flew out Saturday morning. I arrived on Sunday evening.

Very impulsive. It was wild and (thankfully) worked out....

[Zed]

[Zyzyfer]

Well, I had one dude I know telling me that I was going to be teaching in some tiny mountain village no matter where I lived, and that if a farmer offered me his daughter in marriage and I didn't accept, that I'd be insulting him. I was pretty surprised when I was taken through Seoul on my first night here...at the time, it was the biggest city that I had been to.

[Zed]

Must have been confusing it with West Virginia.

[ryleeys]

[theatrelily]