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lion · Joined: 27 Oct 2004

So I spent a week on Jeju with my girlfriend, and now she wants us to move there. I�m much less than convinced, but it would seem to have some advantages over Seoul: clean air, easy access to relatively natural areas, the ocean, no subway line 2, etc.

Do you live/work on Jeju? And have you lived/worked elsewhere in Korea? How do they compare? Are there any opportunities to teach adults? What about the universities and colleges there? Is anybody doing anything else for $$ there besides teaching?

What about life otherwise? Are Koreans any easier/harder to deal with? I assume finding decent wine and decent cheese is next to impossible, and that there�s nothing like Hongdae (eg western dance music) or Ichon. Is there any kind of foreigner-town?

info-- lay it on me! Or please point me to some threads I mighta missed.

lion · Joined: 27 Oct 2004

BUMP

OK, NOBODY lives on Jeju. NOBODY knows anybody who has. NOBODY else has ever considered living or working there.

mithridates · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

I've never been there but I might visit there next month. Having an interest in the place and reading news on the place quite a bit, it looks like there are going to be a lot more Chinese or Chinese-born Koreans there than before now that they have visa exemptions that the mainland doesn't have. There are some conventions being held there now:
In September there is going to be a four-day conference of over 1000 Chinese McDonalds owners in the international convention centre, and in November another one with over 2000 employees from some sort of Chinese pharmaceutical company (Vaiel? Baiel?).

The reason why they're going to be gathering there is because Jeju-do is paying or all the costs of the conference, including airfare. I assume they are looking to earn that back in tourist dollars - for these two conferences they're projecting $10 million+ (dollars); not sure if that's a lot, but there it is.

http://www.newsis.com/_common/content.aspx?val=20060814155203596

Here's the convention centre that they'll be held in:

http://iccjeju.co.kr/