China or Korea?

I have a choice of assignments in Nanchang, China or Ulsan, Korea next year.

I have no idea which to pick. They are similar jobs, but the China job may be slightly easier.

I know nothing about either culture. I'm just a hick from Michigan.

Anybody got any comments on either?

Maybe I should take a poll:

<A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com//modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=6" target="_new">My Poll</A>

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I would go for Korea.
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Thanks for the replies. It's seems a bit of a toss-up still. The poll is currently at 3-2 in favor of China.

But, I talked to one of the controls engineers at my company, who is from China. When he heard which city it was, he recommended Korea. I guess that is the deciding vote.

I will announce my decision for Korea, tomorrow. I should be able to negotiate a stop-over in Hawaii, or the west coast, on the way back (if I have any vacation time left).

It's not exactly a long term assignment. Probably 3-4 weeks if everything goes smoothly. But you never can tell.

The assignment I am currently on, was predicted to be 2-3 months. It's been 7 months now, and I am just starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. I may be done in 2 more months. At least this job is only a 2 hour drive from my house. I stay in a hotel during the week, and go home on the weekends.

Thanks again, guys.

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He who laughs last, probably made a back-up.

Heh.. I've been on some projects that where supposed to be 2 weeks and ended up being 10 months.

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Well they originally only wanted me there for 2 weeks, but after a week and a half they decided to completely scrap what they had done before and to start over. So I was out there for a couple of more months, and then they changed their minds again and we went back with what we had. It's really messed up. Basically there where about 6 people in charge and each had his own idea of how it was supposed to be done. I just always saved what I was doing cause I knew if they told me to scrap it we'd prolly go back to it. Talk about a cluster [-peep-]. It kept me busy though.

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