Korean Job Discussion Forums

james_baldrey · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Will be moving to Gwangju this week and wanted to know about start up costs if anyone could help out.

How much for

1) A sim card for my mobile?
2) An iron
3) A dish of food. A bottle of water.
4) A meal for 2 at a restaurant
4) A calling card to call to the Uk
5) A pint of beer or a soju or whatever you drink!!
6) a ticket to Thailand
7) A ticket to Hong Kong
Cool

A cinema ticket
9) Posters
10) A CD
11) A bus ride to Seoul
12) a weekend trip somewhere out of the city

Anything else that you think i will need and the price would be great!

Cheers guys!

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

1. Don't know a lot about it- If it is a foreign phone you might as well leave it at home. It's not going to work.

2. You can pick a travel one up for around 15 000 to 20 000 won.

3. Be bim bab is good. 3000-5000 won.

4. BBQ place. 25 000 for the two with beer. Western places. Double that. Little tent place. 10 000. Max.

6. 10 000 won is where they start.

7. 2000 for a draught. 1600 to 2000 for a bottle at the corner store. 1300won at the supermarket.

8. 500 000 to 650 000 won is a fair price.

9. The ticket to Hong Kong is about the same price to Thailand.

10. Why bother? There's never anything in English playing anyhow. I think the last time I went it's 9 000 won. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. DVD rooms are more fun. 10 000 won and you get to lie down.

11. 5000 to 10 000 won.

12. 15 000 won for a CD.

13. From Ulsan it's 38 000 won each way. Bugger that. Get the plane. 75 000 won each way. It's only an hour and it's comfortable.

14. I take about 200 000 when I get out of the city. But usually because of my location here in Ulsan we hit some western restaurants and places which we don't have here so a lot of that goes on eating.

20 000-40 000 won per night.

50 000 for food over the weekend.

40 000 won for drinks and other stuff.

20 000 sundries.

Hope some of that helps.

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

Just backing Peemil up here really- they usually have english stuff at the cinemas when I go, but DVD rooms sure are a lot more fun- you can drink, smoke, turn the sound up, it's your own private viewing room.

That UK mobile definitely won't work, a 1.5 litre bottle of water is 1,000 won, but there are little water coolers all over the place when you're outside of your apartment, the longer you put off learning a bit of restuarant korean, the more you'll overspend on western food.

peppermint · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:

About water-I get a five gallon bottle delivered once every couple of weeks for 5,000W A small hand pump for it cost me 20,000 but it's saved me a lot of trips to the store. Chances are your school has a water cooler- ask them to set you up.

komtengi · Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon

cd prices will fluctuate depending on what you're buying...
Korean crap goes for about 11,000 I think, decent imported music can get up around 25,000. but remember the internet and cd burners are your friends, use them wisely Wink

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

1) A sim card for my mobile? -Hahahahahaha.
2) An iron -W20-70,000
3) A dish of food. A bottle of water.-W3,000. 1L W1,000, W600 in a supermarket.
4) A meal for 2 at a restaurant-W8-15,000
4) A calling card to call to the Uk -W13,000
5) A pint of beer or a soju or whatever you drink!!-Beer W2,000, Soju W3,000 in a restaurant, W650 in a supermarket
6) a ticket to Thailand -W350-600,000
7) A ticket to Hong Kong -W250-450,000
A cinema ticket- W7,000
9) Posters - I brought my own Whitesnake posters with me.
10) A CD -W13,000. Download, download, download.
11) A bus ride to Seoul - Maybe W15,000. Guessing.
12) a weekend trip somewhere out of the city -Yer ass in a sling.

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

peppermint · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject:

That's actuallly what I was using before, but the water still tasted a little funky and it's a pain in the butt to find filters where I am.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

I've got a water cooler... The water costs about 5 000 a pop and you've got both hot and cold water on the cooler... Best thing I ever did.

gaelforce · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Location: Bucheon

9) Posters

Does anyone know a good, cheap place to buy posters in Seoul?? I've seen some arty ones in Kyobo but they cost 15-20,000 each.

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

This sounds like a lesson from "Interchange 1" !! Laughing

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

1) A sim card for my mobile? - NO CHANCE, LEAVE AT HOME
2) An iron -20 000 FOR A CRAPPY ONE
3) A dish of food. A bottle of water. -A DISH OF WHAT????, WATER 600 won
4) A meal for 2 at a restaurant -ONCE AGAIN OF WHAT???
4) A calling card to call to the Uk -20 000 won
5) A pint of beer or a soju or whatever you drink!! -PINT, 2500won/SOJU - 1000 won FOR A BOTTLE
6) a ticket to Thailand -ABOUT 500 000 RETURN
7) A ticket to Hong Kong -ABOUT 350 000 RETURN
A cinema ticket -6000 Won
9) Posters -OF WHAT???
10) A CD -12 000 won
11) A bus ride to Seoul -FROM GWANGJU, ABOUT 20 000 won
12) a weekend trip somewhere out of the city -TO WHERE?? 3000 won for 30 minutes away