It was easier said than done. Of the Native English teachers, of them came in couples. Of the left, probably 40 of them had girlfriends or boyfriends back home. That left 80 or so single teachers. Of those 40, four successfully got Korean girlfriends while living in Mokpo.
He met his Korean girlfriend at a dance club in Gwangju, which is about 40 minutes outside Mokpo. My girlfriend said that if her father found out that she was going out with a foreigner, she would be out of the family. The second native teacher I met with a Korean girlfriend was my roommate Axl. He met a Korean girl named Gloria during a private English lesson.
She was taking English lessons in Mokpo because she was planning to apply for a teaching job at a university in a city called Jeonju, which is an hour north of Mokpo. Gloria successfully got the job in Jeonju. They started dating shortly after she moved to Jeonju. Almost every weekend, Axl would take the bus to visit Gloria in Jeonju. They were getting along so well that Axl decided to apply for a job in Jeonju so they could live in the same town.
It took him four months of searching but he finally got a job teaching in Jeonju. The night before Axl was set to leave Mokpo, he got a call from Gloria saying she was breaking up with him. It was too late for him to stay in Mokpo, his position had already been taken by a new teacher and his room was also taken.
Although he was sad about what happened with Gloria, he still wanted to have a going away dinner. We had three-person dinner with a Korean girl named Pam. I want an American boyfriend I can just have sex with, nothing serious. While all along a from a girl in Mokpo wanted to have sex with him. I asked Axl why Gloria had broken up with him. He said something about her being too busy. What I take that to mean was that it was great to have a friend come visit but once he starts living in the same city, the Korean girl gets nervous about maybe this guy will try to marry me and then I can get stuck in a sticky spot.
