It's been a whirlwind adventure; deciding to go to Korea. Cote and I had been on a Korean Pop binge for a few months now, culminating in our trip 2 day trip to NYC to see SM Town 2011 at Madison Square Garden. Awesome!
I only actually knew BoA (she's the Queen of KPop) and a few songs by Super Junior (a 13 member boy band, yeah!). But wow was that concert fun! SM Town is a concert from SM Entertainment, one of the biggest entertainment/music industry giants in Korea. The concert features their biggest acts including: TVXQ, SuperJunior, BoA, f(x), Kangta, Girls' Generation(SNSD), and ShiNEE.
My favorites are definitely SNSD, BoA, and Shinee and Super Junior as well. So since the concert Cote and I have watched countless MVs (music videos), and watched Korean Variety Shows, reality shows, and Cote is a big fan of Korean Dramas, I am still a little wary after watching about 20 minutes of one. A little too cheesy, much like Canada's Degrassi. Maybe I'll find some I like. The best show I've watched is "Hello Baby" with the literal premise being, SNSD (9 member girl group) taking care of a baby by themselves. Quite humorous, and somehow the season was 22 episodes long? And I watched every single episode. Plus Shinee's edition of about 12 episodes. Yes.
Anyway, so Cote and I mentioned that we should go teach English in Korea. Of course, she's still in school so she can't until she graduates. I, thinking the process would take awhile, applied to a couple of positions.
And then I started hearing back. I applied for particular positions but through recruiters so now I had some recruiters working for me in Korea looking for positions that matched my specifications. I had about 8 phone interviews with various schools, I am actually still waiting to hear back from 4 of them. But I chose a school and sent my contract back! I'll be starting in late February and will be teaching Kindergarten and Elementary school students in a city outside of Seoul, called Anyang City.
I'll be staring a new blog, made up of entirely my Korean preparations, and when the time comes my Korean adventure.
