Embassies and Consulates
Here is a list of Embassies and Consulates by country:
Information on Daegu and the Surrounding Area
Daegu Pockets was launched in 2009 and is a useful bilingual (English and Korean) magazine that provides interesting articles on life in Daegu and Korea, social events, as well as maps of popular foreigner hangouts around Daegu.
Galbi Jim is a blog/wiki forum website which includes a lot of information about general resource issues in both Daegu and Korea as a whole. Also includes forums on many topics that you can join and contribute to.
The City of Daegu website can offer you many ideas on things to do around Daegu, as well as information on all parts of the city.
Job listings, discussion forum, part idea guide, where you can find information on events occurring in Korea, FAQs, and even classified listings for used items.
Official site of the Korean Tourism Organization, a great website for planning trips and information for all around Korea.
Korean Language Websites
An excellent resource that has free audio and written content. Also allows for tracking of stats and has a great language learning app as well that compliments the website.
Helps you get started learning Korean before you arrive, or even after you have been here for awhile. Beginner to Advanced Lessons
A great online resource for learning Korean. They have full lessons on this site, which you can access for free.
Also a great online resource for learning Korean. This a great resource for free Korean content with both the mp3 track and transcript. Great and free for learners of all levels.
Contact EJ, at YMCA in downtown Daegu. At the YMCA, they run Korean language classes in 3 month semesters, every Saturday morning. Also, they can arrange for a private tutor for you to study Korean.
EJ’s e-mail- ymcatg (at) naver (dot) com
Korean Travel and Tourism
The official tourism website of Korea, with many links to events occurring around the country.
Happytour
Manchon Emart (2nd Floor)- ask to speak with Danny, he sets up many foreigners’ vacations, including getting visas. Email: happytour (at) hanafos (dot) com- address it to Danny.
Located near Camp Walker, can arrange air flight, tour packages, rail passes, as well as all ferry travel to Japan. English speaking.
Tours and trips that are geared towards foreigners, including DMZ tours, bungee jumping and river rafting, and temple stays. In English.
Lists of train schedules and prices, including the KTX, in English.
Lists of express bus schedules and prices for travel all around Korea, in English.
A Korean website with listings of low priced air tickets around the world. Korean only.
Useful ESL Internet Links
In no particular order, here are some great links to some solid ESL resource sites:
Tesol Alliance (ESL Certification in Korea)
KOTESOL (Korean Organization for ESL Teachers)
University of Iowa’s Phonetics
ESL Activities/Quizzes (with Korean/English online quizzes)
Medical Information
Dongsan Medical Complex (near downtown and Seommun Market)
Kyungpook National University Hospital (near downtown) Here’s a map
Yeongnam University Hospital (west, between downtown and Sangin)
Facebook Links
Here are some Daegu-related Facebook links that you may want to check out. In no particular order:
Korean Animal Protection Society (KAPS)
What’s Going On-Korea Activities Directory
Online Shopping
G Market – In English
This site has a wide variety of products with the Korean search engine. It has nearly all of the same products listed with the English search engine. You can find anything from socks to plane tickets here. Check it out here: G Market
Accepts: Paypal, Bank Transfers, Credit Cards
Auction.co.kr –In Korean
This is the largest online shopping site in Korea and is comparable to Ebay. You can type into the search engine in English but the product descriptions are in Korean. The prices are clearly listed and as long as you’re not looking for anything too complicated, you can make some purchases here. For more info, check out the site here: auction
Accepts: Bank Transfers, Credit Cards
Interpark – In Korean
Interpark has a little bit more variety than Gmarket but not as much as Auction. As with Auction, you can search in English here and get Korean product descriptions. If you can read Korean, you should be okay here with a dictionary. You can get by here with the assistance of a translation site too. Check it out here: Interpark
Accepts: Bank Transfers, Credit Cards
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