Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Steelrails]

I love Dave's...on one thread you'll have Koreans are so "image conscious"...then the next thread there are insults at the physical appearance of foreign NET women or what Korean guys wear or how stupid non-black people in hip hop clothing look or giant backpacks and board shorts.

Please.

Our life in Korea for good and bad, is both because of, and in spite of, Koreans and how they are. Hey, that pretty girl that you hooked up with? She loves her LV/Chanel. And when you found out she was insane and wanted you to spend 5,000,000 on a purse, well that came from the same impulse that made her pretty herself up. Take the good with the bad.

[Unposter]

Articles like this prove only one things to me: there is a lot of (too much?) money in Korea and I for one am quite happy about that!

[eamo]

[ThingsComeAround]

Pfft.

Chanel isn't the only one cashing in on this.

@ SR

I don't agree that spending 5 thou on a bag is equivalent to a girl 'prettying up'. A girl can be pretty without spending an insane amount on a bag. We are talking about intelligence and stupidity. To me its the same as a dude spending 5 K on a gaming computer which will be outdated in 4 months.

[cdninkorea]

My first thought was the same as many of you: Wow! That's way too much to spend on a purse, and look at how many people are crazy enough to buy them!

But you know what? I want a Tag Heuer watch. How is that any different? Cheap watches tell the time as well, and sometimes even better than, expensive watches. Does that put me in the same category as the "materialistic yuppies" who want a Chanel bag? If it does, so be it!

[edwardcatflap]

I suppose you could say watches are like jewellery for men, so is it weird if a girl wants a diamond necklace? Is it the actual diamonds she wants to appreciate the beauty of or is it the admiring glances, from people who can see they are real diamonds, she craves for?

I've always thought there was no point in getting a really expensive watch unless you have the rest of the stuff to go with it: designer suit, handmade shoes, expensive looking haircut etc. Then you can feel pretty sure people will assume the watch is genuine so you're getting extra stuff (male envy, girls' attention etc...along with the watch) . If you don't have the rest of the stuff, people will just think it's a fake. Of course you can't tell people it's not a fake as that makes you look an idiot so you're just left with the watch itself to look at and admire. As you said it doesn't actually do anything better than a normal watch. So you have a really expensive clunky heavy thing on your wrist that doesn't do anything special and doesn't have any positive affect on the way other people see you. A bit like a LV handbag in fact, though at least you can put stuff in that.

[tophatcat]

What's wrong with buying a 2 million won purse, if that's what the person wants to spend their won on? Is it really any different than 2-5 million won per year on:
cigarettes
beer
vacation
junk food
motorcycle
electronics
etc. ?

[edwardcatflap]

[Triban]

Electronics vacation and motorcycle all enhance your quality of life. I cannot see how a Chanel purse would have the same effect, unless you are completely shallow.

[cj1976]

I know a Korean princess type who wouldn't put out to her bf until he bought her a Louis Vitton bag. Amazingly, he duly obliged (even though she was nothing special at all).
Maybe a lot of these designer bags in Korea you see are products of similar negotiations.

[cj1976]

I think my wife is mental for wanting to spend $2,000 on bag, but she thinks I'm equally stupid because I want to buy a decent electric guitar for around the same price.

[isisaredead]

[ThingsComeAround]

[crsandus]

The one people may overlook is that fact that some of the Korean women are buying the bags as an investment. Some Korean females research certain bags well and buy a specific knowing it will rise in value. There was an article in the Chosun Ilbo about how Chanel (or some other bag company) was raising prices because they could. They wanted to make it more "exclusive". The article also linked to another article of Korean females buying a bag, and then selling the same bag 6 months later to a specialty shop for a small profit.

While I'm sure that most females are buying bags as an investment, we should remember that it's an important status symbol for many females that sometimes rises in value.

[tophatcat]