Here are some websites that I use for various lesson plans:
The ferry schedule is posted (along with other tours) on the Tour Mokpo site and is fairly straight forward if you can read Korean. The translated version clears it up a bit, giving us the following table:
There are two notes at the bottom of the table:
No. Mokpo to Island of Love (Oedaldo) Island of Love (Oedaldo) to Mokpo Remarks 1 (06:50) (07:25) Rising 2 08:30 09:20 Rising 3 09:30 10:20 Provisions 4 10:30 11:20 Rising 5 11:30 12:20 Provisions 6 12:30 13:20 Rising 7 13:30 14:20 Provisions 8 14:30 15:20 Rising 9 15:30 16:20 Provisions 10 16:30 17:20 Rising 11 17:30 18:20 Provisions
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Microsoft Office has a considerable market share in North America. Same here in South Korea. So chances are that you won't have to rely on another office suite to do your lesson planning.
Unfortunately this doesn't mean that the version of Office you have on your laptop is going to be the same version that you have at your school. Usually this doesn't matter, but for the heavy PowerPoint 2007 user (like me) who creates on an English machine and presents on a Korean machine, converting is an essential way of life.
Microsoft maintains a collection of converters. The same page also has a collection of viewers which are great in the rare case that you get a computer without Office installed. And the new version of Office has a completely different file format (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, etc) that is still not as readily accepted as the previous file formats (*.doc, *.xls, *.ppt, etc). For these files, Microsoft provides a converter by way of the Compatibility Pack.
And of course if you don't want to download any software, there's always the converters at Zamzar.
Almost every patch of free soil in Mokpo is converted into a make-shift garden so it's very surprising to find a school that has been closed and left to deteriorate for a good number of years. This school is known to the local foreigners as the abandoned school.
From what I've gathered, the abandoned school was built during the Japanese occupation of Korea and was Japanese exclusive. After the war it was changed to Mokpo Jeil Girls High School (목포 제일 여자 고등 학교 aka Mokpo Jeil Yeoja Godeung Hakkyo), but eventually the school moved over into its current location in Ha-dang and no one has been back since.
The closest land mark is the Mount Yudal Post Office (유달우체국 aka Yudal San Ucheguk) and is useful for unconfusing taxi drivers who insist on taking you to Ha-dang.
In the same way that he has documented his cat, pharflung has documented various tidbits of Mokpo and goes beyond the apartment video or the class room video.
There are the cliche shots, like the view from Mount Yudal and the New New City, but pharflung also gives us brief glimpses into everyday Mokpo:
