Gyeonggi - Do

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My new Home Town 

I went to research my new town a bit just to see where exactly I'll be staying and what I can expect form my surroundings. I don't want to be completely clueless.

Gyeonggi is one of the most popular provinces in South Korea with a population of around about 25,6 Million over 11,730 km(2). Interestingly enough Gyeonggi-do can be translated to "province around Seoul. Seoul is the capital of South Korea and it's the largest city. Incheon which is also very popular is South Korea's third largest country and it's located on the coast of the Gyeonggi- Do province. 

Climate 

The climate of Gyeonggi province is the continental climate, which has a severe differentiation of temperature between summer and winter and has distinctions of four seasons. This really sounds a little like a recipe to get sick. I hope they have something similar to Corenza C because that stuff works for everything. Anyway in their winters I will be able to snowboard and build snow mans. Super awesome. Temperatures normally range between -4 and -8ºC. And then the summers are hot and humid and everybody runs for the beach so I will be able to maybe build up a little tan as well but will see. Temperatures have an average of 26,5ºC. Super hot. NOT!!

Nature and National parks

Well this is where I get excited. As a nature lover and water sports person I think mentioning a big river flowing through Gyeonggi will get me excited. The river flows through the mountains and also through the plain so definitely will find something somewhere to do with water sports. If not, oh well. I will just have to stick to snowboarding then. Gyeonggi is stocked with mountains (hiking Yay) and lakes and seas.

An abundance of colour to the pure white snow. It's absolutely beautiful. 

Transportation 

Gyeonggi province's proximity to Seoul and Incheon has contributed to its extremely well-developed transportation infrastructure. It is close to both Incheon International Airport (International Airport) and Gimpo International Airport. They also make use of water transportation and a subway station all over the city to increase availablity of transport.

Education

Gyeonggi is actively investing in education at the moment (which is probably why I got my job) to foster a talented population suitable for globalised economy. It's currently promoting the opening of local campuses of reputable universities as well as establishing special purpose high schools for high-quality education. Paju is the largest domestic "English Village" for education in English language as well as villages in Ansan and Yangpyeong. 

Sports 

Very interesting. The Korea - Japan World Cup was held in Suwon World Cup Stadium in 2002. 

They have sailing as a high profile sport in Gyeonggi and they compete in races on the river. This also attracts sailors from right over the world. I'm definitely going to make a plan to go see this. 

Then they also have Football, basketball (not sure how this works because according to me they are quite short people like myself), Volleyball, Ice Hockey (I think this is super cool. I'm definitely going to try this out).

Food

Apparently Gyeonggi has long been famous for their Incheon rice, Yangpyeong Korean beef, Suwon cow ribs and Korean court cuisine, and marine delicacies made of fresh marine products from the west coast. I am a sucker for seafood. Think I will definitely have a blast when it comes to dinners. I think I'll be able to find quite a lot of food that I would like.

Festivals 

Korea has ALOT of festivals. Almost every month there is a festival or maybe even two. It's quite ridiculous looking at the list. It looks like every little region has a festival at some point during the year. I think it might be really interesting to go see what the Koreans do at festivals. Besides for that I love festivals. I will post about the ones I will go too.