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Life as an English Teacher in South Korea

Whether you've been abroad or whether you're just getting ready for your first trip, nothing can completely prepare you for life in Korea. Seoul is one of the most wired cities in the world yet in the suburbs just outside this metropolis people are still burying their food in the ground to preserve it for the winter. Truly amazing!

4 Ways to Make it in Korea

Korea Information - Living in South Korea

Korea is an amazing country to live and work but that said, there are a lot of people who dwell on the negatives... don't be one of those people...

Be patient and accepting.
- Accept that you don't understand the many facets of the culture and that you may never completely understand and you are well on your way to making the most of your experience.

Korea is a great place to teach

Korea Information - Living in South Korea

Living in Korea is awesome. Most of the apartments are furnished with Western style furniture and you can always get Korean style stuff. As for buying furniture, I don't know. We have a TV, microwave, stove, bathtub, shower, fridge/freezer, and all types of little goodies. There are 3 people living in my apartment and we all have our own bedroom and share the rest.

I highly recommend reading all the sections on teaching in Korea if you are going to teach English in South Korea. Information in the Money in Korea section tells you, among other things, that plastic isn't widely used in rural areas or really anywhere but the larger bix bog shops. The Teaching Privates in Korea section could save your visa. Each topic with the minor exception of possibilty the Bringing Children or Bringing Pets will have valuable information in them. Take time. PREPARE. Read the Teaching in Korea section of the site.

Paragliding in Korea

Korea Information - Living in South Korea

Alexandra Wood, Footprints Teacher in Korea writes to us to tell us about her experience flying the friendly skies! Read more here:

I found out about it from an adult student. He goes every weekend and he kept saying how wonderful it was and that I should go. So finally I said I would go. Because he was a member of the club I paid only 50,000w, normally it is 80,000w. That includes transportation to the mountain, equipment use, tandem flights and lunch. After we went out for dinner and to a sauna but that was extra.

We left at 6:30 in the morning. It still looked like night. I couldn't tell if people were still awake or just waking up. We arrived at the school and waited for people to arrive. No one except my friend spoke English. We took a van to the mountain which was about 3 hours away. W e got there and stopped at the bottom of the mountain. While waiting at the bottom other people showed up including some foreigners (English at last!). This mountain is maintained by the government so there is a bathroom and general area for paragliders to watch the jumpers and eat lunch. We took a rickety truck up the mountain's curvy road. I and some other foreigners thought it would be fun to sit in the open back of the truck with the equipment. Well, the road was so windy and bumpy that it was an adventure just to get to the top without falling out.