How can I find my old friend?

Hello,

I have an old friend from Gimhae city that I would love to be in contact with, but sadly her email accounts are no longer active...I only have the address where she lived in 2002 and not enough time to contact her by post - am leaving for Japan next week and would happily take the ferry to Pusan to catch up with her if I can locate her!

Any ideas?

Thank you.

check out pusanweb.com, and you can try the message boards

Unless you elaborate, there isn't much clue to begin with.

If she is young enough and spends some time on the internet, there's a remote possibility that she's active on Cyworld - which is an equivalent of Facebook/Myspace in Korea - trackable by name, gender, age, region and school, assuming she released such parameters to the public. If she has a popular and/or common name, you'll get hundreds of hits. It's a manual search from that point on without further information. It won't work in English, though. You need to know how to type Korean.

OR, a letter or postcard by ordinary 'Par Avion' overseas takes more than two weeks indeed, but FedEx/UPS/DHL express document delivery can make it in two working days, three maximum. That's well before you get on your flight. And it's trackable on the internet so that you'll know if the old post address is still valid. Have you thought about that?

FedEx mail is a good idea. I'll give pusan web a try too. Thank you both.