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Your first sighting of your school will most likely confuse, and alarm you because it will be nothing like you will be expecting. Korea is heavily urbanised and 90% of schools will be housed inside office buildings often on the 2-7th floors. Often schools will be unnoticeable to anyone in the street unless they think to look up for signs and advertising. Many times this advertising is not in English, as you would expect. My personal recollection of arriving to work at my school was somewhat frightening and my first reaction was ?Is a school actually located where I am being taken or am I working at a bar or parlour?? I had arrived from a long haul flight at 8pm the night before, was collected at he airport by a man who spoke NO English (2 hours late) driven for one hour in the dark to goodness knows where, and deposited into a massive apartment complex on the 8th floor. I found out he next morning there were 100 towers in this new complex, all-identical except for the number on the side of the building I was told to wait in the foyer at 9am the next morning. Actually seeing where I was for the first time in daylight hours was a shock! At the organized time a van approached and the Korean driver (in minimum English) asked me to get in. We went around a few blocks and 10 lane roads to arrive at this little block of office buildings. Upon embarking all I could see were drinking bars and nightclubs, certainly nothing looking remotely likes a school. I was ushered into the lift and suddenly the lift opened on the 4th floor to this amazing school environment. The school occupied the 4th and the 5th floor and all children accessed the school by the lift. Now many years later I have seen or visited many similarly located schools and a pattern has formed of how they will look to a foreigner for the first time.
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