Originally Posted by
Clogiron
South Korea was my first exposure to SE Asia, company I worked for at the time offered me the opportunity to work on a project in Pohang back in 1988. Back then as a young skint 24 year old married with twin daughters I jumped at the opportunity and have never looked back.
It was during my time on that project when a co-worker introduced me to Thailand, even back then he was living in BKK and married to a Thai lady, and he realised how unhappy I was with married life back in farangland and convinced me to "Cash In" my RnR tickets and spend time in Thailand with him instead. Twenty Two years down the line I am still in SE Asia, I never did make it back to UK, and the "Co-Worker" is still here and I refer to him as Uncle.
I have worked in Korea again in the past few years, Ulsan (Hyundai Ship Yards) in 2005 and Seoul (Samsung Engineering Head Office) 2008 but it was not the same as my first time there. I cannot put my finger on whether Korea has changed or I have become "Asianised" in retrospect it is probably a bit of both, but Korea will always have a special place in my heart as the first Asian country I lived in and the stepping stone to finding Thailand/
