Gymming in Songchon

So while the majority of this blog is to keep people at home up to date with our lives, I realise that it could also be of some use to people who may come to the area to teach and want to find out about the place.

Now since our teaching schedules leaves us with every morning free, Ally and I decided we had better do something other than freeze in our 13 - 18 oC flat. Since we both got into the gym at home we decided to try to find a good one out here in Songchon, Daejeon. One of my students was a great help with this and took us to a new, small, but very nice gym on the 5th floor above Dunkin' Donuts (yes, tempting). Anyone already in Songchon will have no trouble finding the place.

It's a really good gym, loads of weights and all the right machines for men and women. And there are even two squash courts with classes running all the time.

You can see the two squash courts at the back of the picture, and around the wall on the right are around 10 different machines.

Now paying for this was very strange. So the options were 60,000 W (£34) for one month. Not too bad, similar to England maybe. 260,000 W (£150) for six months, good deal. Or 200,000 W (£115) for the whole year.

This confused both us and my student translator greatly. I decided that we had better grab the year deal before the numbers changed, so that is what we agreed to. The guys there are very nice and enjoy walking around helping you out with machines and proper form, so we have no regrets and go most mornings at about 10am.