Helpful Sites

Sites

Eat Your Kimchi is a website run by married Canadian couple Martina and Simon who taught English in Korea for several years and documented their journey.  Their videos and posts are both amusing and helpful, covering almost every aspect of expat life in Korea.  They have an extensive Kpop section on their site, and a cult following of over 200,000 subscribers.



Blogs

Ask a Korean is  blog written by a Korean (who moved to the States at 16) in which he answers questions that have been emailed to him. It's well written and covers extensive ground. 



Forums

Dave's ESL Cafe is a site dedicated to information for teaching ESL. It's a great place to get updated information on life in Korea. Just a head's up – there are plenty of  discussions that turn into rants and personal attacks.   Online forums don't often bring out the best in people.  Still, I have found it useful for getting information on where to buy things, stuff in my contract, etc.

Go to the Korean Job Discussion Forum (or click the link) to access discussions on various aspects of life in Korea.  Be careful though, the posters on the forum are talking from personal experience and don't always give correct information or information that will be applicable in your situation.

Waygook.org is similar in purpose to Dave's ESL, but it generally seems like a friendlier environment.

Facebook  has quite a few groups, including English Teachers in South Korea  and GEPIK teachers (if you're doing GEPIK).  The users on Dave's ESL cafe usually seem more active than Facebook, but I've gotten helpful advice from people on both sites.


Learning Korean

Talk To Me In Korean is an awesome language resource, complete with humorous podcasts and printable written lessons. It starts with very basic Korean and works up. Best of all - it's free!

Learn Langs is a site that will help you learn Hangeul, the Korean alphabet. I personally liked its style of teaching, but if you don't there are plenty of other sites you can use. Hangeul is a fairly simple alphabet to master, and it's totally worth the effort.