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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: Teaching in Jeolla-do |
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| I was considering moving out to the country for next year. Maybe Namhae or something close to that. Do any of you guys work down there? If so, what's it like? Are the people friendly? I heard the food is excellent. |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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I spent 6 years teaching in Jeollanam-do. Little town called Suncheon (280,000 people. Jeolla is quite good. Very rural but nice. People are pretty friendly though they are pretty "country".
Have spent the last year in Daejeon and I can honestly say I miss living in Jeollanam-do. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Namhae, isn't in Jeolla-do, but it is the south. What is your personality? It really depends on you. Countryside teaching in Jeolla-do is a whole new ball game than teaching in a city. You will be noticed and watched and talked about, but you will have great experiences in learning about old people and their lives... The kids will be a lot more curious about you too, than in city teaching.... Best bet would be with a public or private elementary or middle school... best wishes.... |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| saw6436 wrote: |
I spent 6 years teaching in Jeollanam-do. Little town called Suncheon (280,000 people. Jeolla is quite good. Very rural but nice. People are pretty friendly though they are pretty "country".
Have spent the last year in Daejeon and I can honestly say I miss living in Jeollanam-do. |
At 280,000 Suncheon isn't that small.. its a medium sized city at least. It has probably changed a bit since you lived there. Over the last year and a half an e-mart, homeplus and an outback steakhouse have opened making western products much easier to get. Furthermore there is a large rapidly growing foreign community. The city is hiring hell-loads of foreign english teachers from its own budget. The city itself has hired 40 foreign elementary school teachers, and is in the process of hiring 40 middle and 40 high school teachers too. This is in addition to foreign teachers hired from the province's educational budget, and hagwans etc. There are over 100 foreigners living in one apartment complex, which is pretty impressive for a city of its size. In fact if you're looking to avoid foreigners don't go to Suncheon, they're everhwere.
If you're living in South Jeolla outside of Gwangju, Suncheon or Yeosu you might find it a bit TOO 'country'; but those major towns make living pretty easy for a foreigner, particurlarly if you're used to living in Korea already.
I've lived in a couple of cities in South Jeolla and had no problems. I think the major disadvantage is that its harder to find people to date in smaller places.. if that isn't an issue, then go for it.
Namhae would be a cool place to live too, I think there's very few foreign teachers down there. Would be an awesome place to live for about 6 months of the year; the beachers are excellent. |
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tweeterdj
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Location: Gwangju
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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my wife and I have been in Mokpo for the last 4 months, and it's been pretty good. The foreign community is fairly close knit, since there're only about 25 english teachers specifically. So far (aside from the first couple weeks of adjustment) it's been fairly easy. Mokpo has under 300000 people so it's not big (ie you can walk from one side of the city to the other in under 3 hours) which is kinda nice. Overall i think (having been to Seoul a couple of times) i like it better here than in the big city. Just my 2 cents...
Oh and i don't know much about the dating scene, but if that is a priority I could see it being a problem... |
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rainyqueen
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
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I worked in Goheung, in Jeollanam-do a few years ago. Now this is smaller than everywhere discussed. There are less than 15000 people in the whole town. It was absolutely wonderful! Hours were short, I had a three day weekend, the students were fantastic and much more affectionate than I'm used to now (I live in Busan). I lived in a Minbak on the beach 15 minutes out of town. There were about 20 people in my whole neighbourhood.
On that note, I only got paid about 1.3 million a month, but worked four days a week, three or four hours a day. Transportation to and from work, lunches and many weekend excursions were paid for. I had the weekends to camp and swim in the bay. Sadly, the school went bust - as the director was a drunk.
The country is not a place where you can rake in the dough - but experience wise, I'd jump at the chance! |
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