Hey guys, I’m living in Korea and trying to figure out what to do for Chuseok. The holiday is Thursday to Sunday, and I’m planning to take Thursday off to make it a decent 3-4 day trip for Fri-Sat-Sun.

I totally want to skip Japan since I've been there a million times already, and I've also already hit up Singapore, China, and Bali before.

Since I'm working with a pretty tight window and don't want to waste half my trip flying, where's actually good right now? Would love to hear some recommendations for a quick getaway from Incheon that isn't super basic or too far away.

Thanks in advance!!

I’m a highschooler which means they can’t actually bully me but they act real fucking rude. I want to make sure they‘re annoyed by me and I’ve inconvenienced them in some way, do any of you know a good trick?

A year ago a girl was acting rude so when she was lying on the floor with her friends I put my leg on her leg and now she’s scared of me, which was nothing so I know these bitches aren’t actually shit. So it didn’t even have to be anything big.

i go to a all girls school

I posted a couple of weeks ago and they'll issue a fine of about 1.6mil next week and issue a departure order.

Since I have to reapply for my visa, I won't be able to study this semester and probably won't be back for a year or so since I don't have 20mil in savings. So that's that.🫠

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Hello everyone! I have a question...so I was born in Russia with korean ancestory (I am ethnically korean). I was born in Russia but grew up most of my life in the UK. Therefore I have 2 passports. I would like to know if it's possible to enter korea without a visa so free 90 day stay and obtain the F4 visa inside the country. I have tried to do this already with my Russian passport with a lawyer here but ended up getting scammed. All the help and advice would be appreciated.

Is there any secret trick to escaping Korean verification hell ?
I finally got an ARC and a local number only to discover that my number previously belonged to some random ghost user (pjy****). Now whenever I try linking my Climate Card to T-money GO (bikes) the app insists to login as “pjy**** “ profile.
Obviously I can't reset the password because I'm not them.
I called the 120 English helpline for help. First I got routed to a Chinese speaker then got told to call back in 10 minutes and ultimately got hung up on. Groundbreaking customer service.

Hi guys,I’m looking for an appartment around silim,bongcheon
With a budget of around 30M won deposit and about 1.2M won monthly rent

I’ve tried to use zigbang but I’m having a hard time
Any help we’ll be welcome thank you

Small update: I think I finally understood a part of the situation !!
First I checked our old Kakao messages and realized I misunderstood him about poker. He worked as a dealer (!) and he knows a lot about it. but he actually told me he isn’t very interested in playing right now. My fault.
Also the “grumpy” behavior the last few days had a much simpler explanation. He contacted me and apologized for being quiet because he has been sick and in pain. I saw him today and he explained he has bad pain around his jaw (teeth) and has been taking medication.
So some Reddit user created a gambling addiction drama and I treated it as a cultural communication mystery while the poor guy was just sitting there with tooth pain 😭
Thanks to everyone who actually tried to help me understand the cultural and communication differences. I learned something from it.

Can someone please explain what’s going on ???
I (female) live in a shared house in Korea. One guy (Korean) lives here too takes care of the house and is usually very nice.
He had a difficult past and some problems with gambling. I don’t judge him. I was actually interested in poker so he bought cards and said we could play.
But whenever we planned to play he suddenly had to leave or meet friends.
We also talked about poker rules on Kakao. We simulated poker situations and my training was to guess who would win. Once we disagreed about a situation. I checked with Gemini Ai and my understanding was correct. He said he felt embarrassed after that.
Since then things feel a bit strange so I stopped asking to play.
He also bought an air fryer and blender and said everyone could use them.
Today I was using the air fryer and he told me it doesn’t work. I told him I cleaned it because it had been stored for a long time and it actually works. I asked him to have a look but he refused and just said no it doesn’t work.
I am European and I am confused by this behavior.
Is there something cultural I am missing?

I'm a korean korean boy. I live in gangnam and my father's law office is in Jongno. Today I had to do something with my dad and visited his workplace. Every time I visit 종로, it just feels so different from where I live, and strange to me. Of course there're huge skyscrapers, decent public transportation, and infrastructure, but the overall vibe just feels like a ghetto place or super inner city like. I've never seen homeless people(I see so much here) back in my hometown and every person(even old people) look put-together, but here there are so many people dressed kinda cheap and their skin is really tan, and what kinda shocks me is that people are smaller than 강남(i feel usually small back home but here im pretty tall im 176cm probably between 5'9 and 5'10). Even my aged boys are kinda smaller than me(which is usually not the case). I also see a lot of 외국인들 sightseeing too. Though it's really fun to walk around in 종로, cuz everything just feels new and I feel like I'm in a different country.

Hi,

With my wife, we are struggling to find a cheap slow way to ship. Packages are not fitting for surface mail Korea. They are asking us to use expensive fast services costing 1 600 000 won.

We have 4 packages as this :

100x71x23 20kg

95x70x23 18kg

73x64x45 12kg

66x64x45 11kg

It represents around 0.71 cubic meter and 61kg.

Thank you for helping and ideas 🙏

im searching for some feedback on something thats come up in the family. apologies in advance that there are a few details to go through below, but im wondering how much risk the following puts my wife and me into, in korea.

• wife is korean, and im USA living in korea, F-6, etc. the issue is with her family.
• her father (83) has some black fancy car, though they dont have any real money.
• oldest sister is going through a divorce, and they had some arrangement with the father where, on paper, sisters husband (soon to be ex) owned the car. this way they were still able to get insurance and have the father be able to drive the car. im guessing its some scammy way to get cheaper insurance for the father to drive the car. father pays the premiums.
• now that they are getting divorced, the car has to be transferred out of the husbands name and instead of doing this above board, my father in law is big time, heavy, pressuring my wife to put the car in her name.
• frosting on the cake is that he is a really bad and aggressive driver who shouldnt be driving at all. i think there is a reason he is worried about getting or maybe cant even get insurance in his own name.
• importantly, while we arent rich people (and neither is her family), my wife and i have assets we need to protect. (i mean, thats what insurance is for and thats why i have the level of insurance i do for USA life as well.)

questions...

1. is this a common practice in korea?
2. am i missing something maybe?
3. are the liabilities the same/similar as to what they would be in USA? like if he kills two 2nd grades in the crosswalk, after insurance covers the limits and we get sued for the rest?

i know how the situation would be legally/financially in the USA, but i dont like to make assumptions so im asking here about a korean context. i would do more direct research myself for details but, while i have strong conversational korean skills, i lack the korean literate fluency to do that on my own.

feedback with info to help me out and clarify things is greatly appreciated!

thank you

I'll be coming for the first time in Seoul, as a volunteer in a project. I'll be living in a dorm with no private/quite places and I need to take several online one-to-one meetings on weekdays evenings, maybe weekends too.

From my research so far, study cafes, study rooms even at Toz have a minimum of 2 people for the private rooms.

Do you have any suggestions to where take private online meetings? I'll be accommodated in Youngsan District, preferably near that area.

Any suggestion is much appreciated 🙏

Hi all, does anybody know if in Daejeon, these two pedestrian bridges are always open to the public?

I will be attending KAIST soon and both google maps and naver maps don't identify this as a walkable route. I am trying to figure out the best area to book airbnbs for my parents who will be staying for a couple of weeks. They are not planning on renting a car. Thank you!

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Afternoon all,

I'm an 18M incoming Global Interdisciplinary Studies student at JW Kim College of Future Studies (Endicott).

Unfortunately I missed out on a room in SolGeo, so it looks as though I'll be sorting a place off campus instead.

At the moment I'm mainly looking at a full-option (fully furnished) 2-bedroom, 1-bath flat in Dong-gu, though I'm still keeping my options open.

The place I'm currently considering is:
• Key money (deposit): ₩5,000,000 (roughly US$3,550 / £2,640)
• Monthly rent: ₩560,000 (roughly US$400 / £295)

I'm arriving towards the end of August / beginning of September, so if anyone else is in a similar position and is looking for a flatmate around then, do give me a shout.

A little about me: I'm fairly tidy, reasonably organised, and a bit of a germophobe, so I do appreciate keeping shared spaces clean. I'm generally quite easy to live with and tend to keep things fairly low-key at home.

Outside of uni I'm usually out hiking, reading, or down a cybersecurity rabbit hole. I'm also looking forward to exploring Daejeon once I arrive.

If you reckon we'd get on, feel free to drop me a message.

Cheers.

Me I’m a Korean who goes crazy for international people so every time I come across people seem to be from outside of here, I reach out to them and ask where they are from or what brought them here kinda general questions, but I found doing that has been their facial expression tells “how come did you reach out to me?” and so on. The other day I approached one of the random guys around Gangnam station and I was asked if I connected to church or something lol which is all understandable because there’s thousands of people who try to get them to go to church. They may have gotten either shitty experience by church people or just felt not normal since Korean tend to not really approach random strangers.

So the reason why I jotted down here is to ask where should I go to be able to meet international people? Are there any places or spots where people outside of Korea often go? I would appreciate if you could give me advices! Thanks! And again, I’m a Korean who just love meeting new people especially foreigners!