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Jane the Best
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Bundang
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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: Does anyone live in KIMPO? |
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I have just found out that I am teaching in Kimpo starting in March.
Does anyone have any info about the place? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: Re: Does anyone live in KIMPO? |
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| Jane the Best wrote: |
I have just found out that I am teaching in Kimpo starting in March.
Does anyone have any info about the place? |
Quick, cheap and easy flights to Jeju on the long weekends. |
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Jane the Best
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:47 am Post subject: |
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good to know...
is it close to seoul?
Thanks for the reply |
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Thumbnail Postermonkey
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: Indeed! |
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Jane;
Kimpo is about 40 minutes away from Hongdae (bus) and about 1 hour from the 'Wan (Iteawon). It's got many modern conveniences including a few OKOK bars and the airport is a few km away from downtown.
PM me for more info if you like. See ya! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| Jane the Best wrote: |
good to know...
is it close to seoul?
Thanks for the reply |
IF you are right in Kimpo / Gimpo, then yes, sort of... Purple line - 9 stops west of the immigration office. 45 minutes and one transfer to Itaewon.
If you are on the outskirts of the city it can be pretty rural but they do have excellent public transit. Probably 1:15 to Itaewon.
You could do faster on the buses once you learn to read the side of them. |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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For three years I lived in Kimpo city. When I got there in 2001 the only modern area was really Sawoo dong. Within a year development sped up. It's changed alot in the last 5 and a half years. But it's still a country town.
Quiet for the most part.
Where will you be working? |
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PaperTiger
Joined: 31 May 2005
Location: Ulaanbataar
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Some parts of Kimpo are pretty far away from the nearest subway stop, I had to take a bus for 40 sometimes 60 minutes just to get to the nearest subway terminal. If you like going to Seoul on the weekend to party, make sure to have some friends that you can crash with or it might be hell getting back without paying an arm and a leg on taxi fare. There's all kinds of little hotels and hostels you can stay at overnight (bring earplugs unless loud sex helps you sleep), love hotels are not cheap and they don't let you share with friends.
I liked Kimpo because the housing was cheap (lived with my then fiancee, now wife) and it was quiet. Good place for hiking, biking, and whatever else people do in the middle of nowhere.
I worked at Oedae-O at the end of long road near a slaughterhouse for pork and adjacent to a large public cemetary. They had me sleeping on the floor of an apartment I shared with four other teachers. Bastids.
Better luck for you, I hope. |
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