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wings
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: can someone else live in my apartment???? |
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I am slowly making plans to go to Korea with my significant other. He is not a native English speaker. We are hoping that I can get hooked up with a decent job with a non-shared apartment and then he can arrive a few weeks later and look for work teaching / tutoring Spanish and live with me for as long as we are there. I am wondering if having someone else live with me would be totally against the rules of my school, if I should mention it, or if they will have nothing to do with my apartment and it doesn�t really matter.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks,
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: can someone else live in my apartment???? |
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| wings wrote: |
I am slowly making plans to go to Korea with my significant other. He is not a native English speaker. We are hoping that I can get hooked up with a decent job with a non-shared apartment and then he can arrive a few weeks later and look for work teaching / tutoring Spanish and live with me for as long as we are there. I am wondering if having someone else live with me would be totally against the rules of my school, if I should mention it, or if they will have nothing to do with my apartment and it doesn�t really matter.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks,
Wings |
There are quite a few unwed foreign couples who live together but the housing is SMALL.l ]
IF only one of you is teaching AND you are working in a hakwon the housing will be about the size of a shoebox.
Typical unshared housing as supplied by a hakwon is usually a 1 room villa and the dimensions are often about 4m x 4m (think 14'x14' if you are American).
That would squeeze 2 of you, your kitchen, livingroom, bedroom and all your belongings into a space the size of a north American bedroom.
Great for stacking and cuddling but can get cramped over a year. |
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dreaming_saturn
Joined: 26 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: can someone else live in my apartment???? |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
There are quite a few unwed foreign couples who live together but the housing is SMALL.l ]
IF only one of you is teaching AND you are working in a hakwon the housing will be about the size of a shoebox.
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I think it's best to look outside of Seoul, I have a nice big place, two rooms, that I share with my husband in Cheonan. He's also a non-native speaker and he works from home via the computer. In fact all of the foreign teacher's apartments at my school are much bigger than described above. |
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wings
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: hmmmmm |
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| I wish I were better with visualising how very small that is. I will measure my bedroom when I get home. I�m not so much worried about the size, as we had the image of microscopic apartments, but more about getting into trouble with my school, it seems from what I have been reading that Korean bosses are sticklers with random rules, especially when it serves their interest....... |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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You boss might have something to say about it...but tell him to sod off.
What you'll need to do is learn to do stuff apart when you are together.
I had a small place last year and my wife and I got on each others nerves.
She watches TV, I sit beside her and play PS2. We are together but I'm not really there. You have to learn to do your own thing or you'll drive each other nuts. |
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