TOEFL @ Selor, WTC II, Brussels

Office of the Flemish Community (Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie)
on King Albert Boulevard II, Brussels

For some reason, ETS keeps saying Selor is located at "WTC III", a building which does not exist. There's WTC and WTC II, that's it.


Some differences between the test in Belgium and in South Korea:

• Pricing: 245 USD in central Europe / 170 USD in Korea (Woooow) 
• Documentation: ID only / ID + testing receipt with ETS ID
• Location: Only at Selor in Brussels / in most major citiesking section. You are also not allowed to enter the testing room before the test ends.
• You are checked with a metal detector, and not allowed to take anything (no watches allowed, but there's a clock in the room anyway) into the testing room, except for 
• You must log and sign the time in and time out of your break before the Spea
• tissues separated from their packaging.
• You must leave all your belongings at the lockers adjacent to the testing room. 

Most test-takers at Brussels seem to be at university level or higher, definitely no high school students there, while most TOEFL aficionados in Korea are middle-and high school students (ages 12 - 18), and some university students applying to postgraduate programmes in the US (companies accept TOEIC, which is much easier). 

And, not many people take TOEFL here anyways. I tried to register for the TOEFL a month in advance in Seoul, but all the seats at the 15 or so different locations had been sold out. I tried to find seats in Gyeonggi-do Province, no luck there either. Plus a glitch in the ETS website saying there were free seats when there were none, accepting my payment and holding my money, then telling me no booking had been made. This problem is so frequent ETS had to set up a separate team in Korea to deal with refunds. Just get a new online registration system, goddammit! (The refund was made within 2 weeks, which is exceptional for ETS - a friend of mine waited a couple of months and called the US back and forth - before the Korea refund hotline was set up).

It also seems that IELTS is much more popular here than in Korea. The IELTS is at about the same price (200 EUR), but students seem to prefer the interview-setting for the Speaking session.