Seongnam, South Korea

An update on where I will actually be living for the next year:

Last week, I started looking for jobs in Thailand and Taiwan, because my recruiter said my application for the Gyeongbuk province was declined (he didn't see why it would, but that tends to be my luck lately). I had 3 interviews to schedule and I was feeling pretty good about staying in this awesome country. But then...Alas, an email from Henry came with a contract for me to sign! I will be teaching in Seongnam, which is just south east of Seoul. I'm so excited I finally have a job lined up, and that it is close to Seoul. Alex and Jodi will be in Daegu which is in south central Korea, so we will be about 3 hours away. Natalie and Charlie are going to be in the north east corner, so I'll be fairly close to them as well for weekend trips. And Brad and Kyle are a little east of Daegu, so I'm guessing I'll be about 4 hours away from them. Justin is still waiting to hear something from Henry, but there's a good chance he'll be in or near Seoul, so that will be awesome. Lots of great weekend trips will be planned to the various places throughout SK!

I also don't have to be there until September 2nd, so getting my visa in Bangkok is no longer an issue as far as timing goes. Right now I'm thinking I'll go to Bangkok with everybody else right after to get my visa out of the way, and then after they leave for SK (they are in a different program so their orientation is very soon), I am going to head down south and beach bum for a week or so.