Korean Job Discussion Forums

[saharzie]

This a website I am working for. It's going to be launched fully soon but at the moment we are expanding and seeing what works and what doesn't.
Would appreciate any feedback regarding any aspect of the site, good or bad. It will be expanding dramatically in the next few months, and we will be taking on board any ideas/suggestions/criticisms.

So let us know what you think

[email protected]

or pm me

cheers

saharzie

www.worknplay.co.kr

[desultude]

Sometimes I think that Seoul is the New York City of Korea- from there the rest of the country just doesn't seem to exist. I thought I would find things of interest on the website, but it is again not a Korea website, but a Seoul website.

[saharzie]

I agree, but it is in it's infancy. We had to start somewhere, and most english teachers do live in Seoul. It's quite basic at the moment so thats why we want feedback so we know in which direction to expand.

[desultude]

I hope I wasn't too harsh. I am actually curious what percentage of English teachers do live in Seoul.

[weatherman]

Not enough atmosphere in the reviews. Could be more balanced about not ripping on people in their 50's or duds who don't move the scene. Set a tone, give move feeling to the place being reviewed.

Overall, very happy to see a web site like this opening. Seoul needs one, where as pusan has its web for information, your site should also try to make community feel to it, with locals and expats involved.

[Coffeecup]

Only have a few minutes on my hands now, but I clicked on to the site and browsed a few pages.

Obviously layout well done, professional looking fonts. I like the fact that some social-life possiblities are discussed.

Didn't get the chance to weigh it up yet, but I would recommend to anyone reporting about or doing a website on Korea to "stick to the truth," I think that the politically correct "don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings" or "wouldn't want to offend anyone" is a sure way to turn users away as fast as lightning. The fact is, expatriates are a savvy people with particular specialization in the realities of life, and for me in particular perhaps nothing is more disheartening than when websites or users skew the truth about Korea and/or any foreign country.

Treat your users as very intelligent, and especially mature people (i.e. sex is a responsible topic, not a giggly-googly tee-hehe one), let the Westerners know the whole side of anything -- the truth, even if ugly to some people, will always prevail, even though there are those that believe in suppressing it.

Will try to write more another time.

[saharzie]

Thanks for the feedback

Yeh, the reviews are only a taster of the places..will have more in depth reviews, photos and eventually video footage...Will also cover the gay scene here as that has been neglected. If anyone has any bars/clubs they want to see reviewed let us know.....

Yeh Pusan web was an influence, will take time to get there though....

[rapier]

Took a brief look at the sit, it seems nice..a welcome addition to browsing here. As regards advertising jobs, this is good but it'll be better when you can advertise a whole lot more. I never respond to job ads because usually several hundred other people have already.

[Coffeecup]

In depth, realistic coverage of social life would be great. However, for the most part I would recommend either skipping the 'gay scene' or else placing it in a unique section only for people that would be into that, which if you do pursue it that would be the only logical choice. 90%+ of grown men are not of that affiliation, have zero interest in it, and have nothing to do with it at all. Putting it up in a main category fashion would be unnecessary and really have a dampening effect. Very very few people who go to Korea are interested nor ever will take an interest in it, but that's mainly the fact everywhere.

[Gwangjuboy]

Presentation scores high. Nice layout and easy to use menu. It is a too focused on Seoul. However it's early doors as we say in the UK. I am sure that you could extend the site to cover the other provinces and big cities in Korea. Maybe you could send someone on trips and write reports on beauty spots from a Western point of view. If I want to go on a trip then I often find that the information on the place is written by a Korean in very average English. Not a good preview. Might be a gap in the market for you! At the moment it's akin to reading a metro magazine on the subway. As your site suggests, that is all it is at the moment - a time killer. Good start though. Good luck.

[kangnamdragon]

Good idea to review bars/clubs....maybe restaurants too (Western---too many Korean) + brunches at hotels

Movie schedule is great!

[BTM]

I'm a big information-design wonk, and if it ain't pretty, I can't be bothered.

And that's a mighty pretty site. Useability is good, too.

Very nice indeed.

[Zyzyfer]

[The King of Kwangju]

Nice site. Reminds me of Macromedia's old one. Looks like you guys are setting yourself up nicely so that people can contribute and content be added.

A few points:

1) Every page is encoded as Korean :

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-KR">

When there is no Korean on the page. Rigs without K fonts installed get popups, and some of the text is garbled.

3) The text on the "teaser" graphics on the main page is too hard to read

4) "Daily Dose" graphic links to http://www.worknplay.co.kr/day/viewmain.aspx?ViewCode=29 when it should link to http://www.worknplay.co.kr/day/list.aspx

"Daily Dose" itself isn't all that descriptive, I don't think

5) Broken links:

http://www.worknplay.co.kr/jobs/jobwanted/
http://www.worknplay.co.kr/jobs/joboffered/

from
http://www.worknplay.co.kr/job/

6) uploaded photos should be resized and converted to .jpg - one guy has a .bmp on there that takes a long time to load

7) the light blue on grey in the job postings isn't all that easy to read

That's all for now - good luck on the site.

[kangnamdragon]