About Daegu (Taegu) City Korea - Teaching English In Daegu

Although daily living costs and expenses are noticeably lower than Seoul, Daegu is still slightly more expensive than Korea’s smaller citiies.

There are lots of western teachers and foreign engineers living in Daegu.  Daegu is the big city with a small city feel and many westerners are very friendly and open to meeting new teachers to the city.  Unlike some of the major cities in Korea, Daegu is extremely friendly and has a very welcoming feel to it.

Daegu has excellent transportation.  In addition to the Daegu subway system and excellent bus routes the KTX high speed train also goes directly through Daegu. Taking the high speed train north into Seoul (under 2 hours), or South into Busan (less than 50 minutes) is extremely easy.

Daegu has lots of entertainment options available for western teachers.  The city is well known for its trendy entertainment districts, professional sports teams, nearby ski resorts, and countless nori-bongs (karaoke rooms), museums, theatres, cafes, restaurants, bars and numerous festivals throughout the year.

Daegu is the self pro-claimed fashion capital of Korea.  There are lots of fashionable areas with hundreds of trendy shops and boutique style stores in the downtown area.  Daegu is also flooded with high-tech stores and outdoor markets selling everything from cheap electronics and clothing to fresh produce and seafood.

Nightlife in Daegu is extremely vibrant and the entertainment districts are filled with young people 7 days a week.  There are a number of western style dance clubs that play techno, house and hip-hop as well as countless Korean nightclubs that play Korean dance/pop music.

Daegu is surrounded by large mountains and a number of small lakes and rivers.  Although Daegu is a large metropolitan city, leaving the downtown core to go hiking on one of the near by mountains, or relaxing at one of the many park or river areas is quite feasible.

Teachers living downtown have no choice but to accept the high levels of noise.  Like other metro cities in Korea constant noise is a reality and Daegu is no exception.

Like every large city in Korea, air quality during the warmer summer months is noticeably reduced.  As for cleanliness, Daegu is cleaner than Seoul but on par with the other large urban areas in the country.  Note: Daegu is known for being one of the hotter cities in the country.