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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: Coming to Korea with no job |
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| Would you book a place to stay before arriving, or wait until you get here to find a vacancy? I don't want to drag my stuff all over Seoul to find a place to stay. Goshiwons are out of the question, because as a lady, they scare me, and shared bathrooms aren't happening. Does anyone know about the Princess Hotel in Apgu/Shinsa??? |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Are going to feel some pressure to hurry up and find a job if you come and stay in a hotel? In otherwords, are you short on funds? It would suck to take an average job just because you were running out of time. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| babtangee wrote: |
| Are going to feel some pressure to hurry up and find a job if you come and stay in a hotel? In otherwords, are you short on funds? It would suck to take an average job just because you were running out of time. |
I'll have a few thousand bucks. Surely I'll find something better than 2 years of weird roommates. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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On a budget of "a few thousand dollars" I'd stay in a love motel if I only needed a place to stay for a week or less, they're usually safe and clean with nice amenities (sometimes even with big screen TVs, and jacuzzis!), and usually cost W30,000-40,000 per night. As long as you don't mind having hookers and cheating couples as your neighbors it can be a great value.
Any longer and you may need to suck it up and stay someplace cheaper with shared bathrooms like a goshiwon or a hasookjip/하숙집. In either one you'd be able to get your own bedroom and some meals would be included for around 300,000 per month. There are a lot of clean, quiet and safe goshiwons and hasookjips around Shinchon/신촌 station that cater to uni students.
Good luck. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow... and if you don't have "a few thousand bucks?" |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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You should be able to find a reasonable yeogwan that will be cheaper than a hotel. Might be a bit noisy at times, but it's up to you.
good luck |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| you can also sleep in pcbangs and subway stations. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| thebum wrote: |
| you can also sleep in pcbangs and subway stations. |
LMAO. Nice one, thebum. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| ella wrote: |
| Wow... and if you don't have "a few thousand bucks?" |
Then it's probably not a good idea to move overseas without a job waiting for you. |
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Hotpants
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know about the Princess Hotel in Apgu/Shinsa??? |
Quite appropriate for your username. However, I just wonder why you would want to ask this question if you have already been living in Korea for the past 3 years? |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| If I had "a few thousand bucks" just laying around, I wouldn't be going to Korea for a job... |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| ella wrote: |
| If I had "a few thousand bucks" just laying around, I wouldn't be going to Korea for a job... |
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| Then it's probably not a good idea to move overseas without a job waiting for you. |
If you're doing it on your own, a one-way flight to Korea alone will probably cost you close to a thousand dollars. Then you'll have to pay for a hotel or goshiwon while you're looking for a job, and that could take a few weeks or longer if you're trying to find something better than you'd find by taking an offer from back home (the whole point of coming over on your own). Once you have the job, you still will probably have to wait 4+ weeks for your first paycheck.
I don't see how you could come here on your own to look for a job with much less than $2000. If you want to come to Korea on your own, there's an added expense that often pays off with a better job.
If you don't have that and want to come over here to work, there's no reason why you can't, but you'll have to take a job sight unseen, over the internet so that they will pay for your flight to Korea and you'll have a job and apartment waiting for you once you get here. If that's what you have to do, that's what you have to do and there is no shame in that. That's how most of us got here, including me. |
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ella
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| I've got the ticket, I don't have "a few thousand bucks" laying around in addition. I was lucky to be able to get that. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
On a budget of "a few thousand dollars" I'd stay in a love motel if I only needed a place to stay for a week or less, they're usually safe and clean with nice amenities (sometimes even with big screen TVs, and jacuzzis!), and usually cost W30,000-40,000 per night. As long as you don't mind having hookers and cheating couples as your neighbors it can be a great value.
Any longer and you may need to suck it up and stay someplace cheaper with shared bathrooms like a goshiwon or a hasookjip/하숙집. In either one you'd be able to get your own bedroom and some meals would be included for around 300,000 per month. There are a lot of clean, quiet and safe goshiwons and hasookjips around Shinchon/신촌 station that cater to uni students.
Good luck. |
The one I was in cost 50,000 won/night. The second one I was in I did not pay for but the school official said they wanted to charge him to store my luggage so we put it in his car. -Jeff |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Hotpants wrote: |
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| Does anyone know about the Princess Hotel in Apgu/Shinsa??? |
Quite appropriate for your username. However, I just wonder why you would want to ask this question if you have already been living in Korea for the past 3 years? |
Actually, I've been in Korea 4+ years. I'm asking this question because I never had to stay in hotels, goshiwons, etc while I was there...  |
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