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Chanel bags in Korea: 5.7 million won
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Triban



Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station

PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cwflaneur wrote:
So much hate for little girls and their slightly expensive little bags.

How about starting a thread ridiculing the men of the world who purchase certain cars, in some cases amounting to a 200 thousand dollar automotive dick-substitute?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRflz-93JA
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Illysook



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I see those expensive handbags, I dream of starting my own handbag company. Quality design and materials, superior workmanship, with a good percentange of the profits going to the workers and those who have less. It's my dream...but Korea is getting expensive and I fear that I may have to spend a year or two in the dessert to make it come true.
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Triban



Joined: 14 Jul 2009
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Illysook wrote:
When I see those expensive handbags, I dream of starting my own handbag company. Quality design and materials, superior workmanship, with a good percentange of the profits going to the workers and those who have less. It's my dream...but Korea is getting expensive and I fear that I may have to spend a year or two in the dessert to make it come true.


Watch out for those banana splits!
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cj1976



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Triban wrote:
Illysook wrote:
When I see those expensive handbags, I dream of starting my own handbag company. Quality design and materials, superior workmanship, with a good percentange of the profits going to the workers and those who have less. It's my dream...but Korea is getting expensive and I fear that I may have to spend a year or two in the dessert to make it come true.


Watch out for those banana splits!


You sound a trifle confused.
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rainism



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cj1976 wrote:
Korean women are a dream come true for marketing executives. Gullible, impressionable and slaves to fashion, these women have money to buy luxury goods because daddy or oppah help them out. It's no secret that there are a lot of vapid, superficial girls in Korea who use designer goods as a substitute for a personality, but it's their cash so what are you going to do? What strikes me most is how tacky these items look, despite their hefty price tag. It's pure nouveau riche, with people clearly purchasing unnecessarily. expensive items in a misguided bid to appear chic and urbane. Unfortunately, for many, toting a bag that costs more than a month's wages, while you are wearing a tracksuit and eating in lotteria just shows you aren't as sophisticated as you may believe.
But hey, the reason these girls look so good is because of their shallow ideals, so it's a real catch 22 deal.


post of the WEEK.

I fully support the right of Korean women to spend their money in any way they'd like, so long as that money isn't MINE Laughing

let their Daddies and Oppahs play the fool Cool

btw anyone remember that wannabe faux Sugar Daddy story in the K media where the guy slept with a bunch of women without ever forking over the sugar daddy money? The story said the women were normal women looking to acquire money for luxury goods, among other things Very Happy

one thing I do remember is how outrageous the sugar daddy money was for the offered weekly or biweekly trysts. On par or beyond the prices of the most elite LA escorts. (and I know of a wealthy guy in LA who indulges himself regularly, with Koreans being some of his faves). Now we know the reason why the prices were so ridiculous and the fact they're "Korean prices" is only part of the reason. These women needed a LOT of money for their useless status symbol bags Rolling Eyes
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Mix1



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonder how much rice could be bought with even half the money spent on luxury handbags in South Korea? I'd bet some hungry North Koreans would like to know.

Went out with a fashion victim chick who kept asking me to pay for everything because she didn't have any money that month. Then she told me she just paid between 3 and 4 mil won for her handbag, which of course I couldn't tell from a 50 dollar one anyway. (the actual price was a "secret") See ya later, Moneypit!

We all have our consumer fetishes, and luxury items can be nice IF you can afford them, but a luxury bag doesn't DO anything beyond hold random crap and serve as a showoff piece for other women. Ok, if it's made of real leather you could also boil it and eat it when you are out of funds for food because the bag was so expensive in the first place...

But what if it makes her FEEL HAPPY? Ok, well, if that's what she needs to feel happy....then that's just silly.
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Steelrails



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How clueless men are...Why does a woman buy a handbag?

I'll give you a clue, get a reasonably attractive but dumpily dressed girl and then have one of those handbag "princesses" (Korean or non, believe me there are plenty of those back home, my WASP cousins for example) sit down. Watch the body language and the mood of the non-princess girl (Not 100% guaranteed, but I'd say a good 80%). Yeah.

There will definitely be a mood change. Either the non-princess will get silent and withdrawn or maybe she'll get irritable and tense, but either way, she is knocked off her kilter, almost always to her detriment.

Women notice this kind of thing and that's why they do it. A cell phone doesn't do it. Not even a car. Not a laptop computer. Something about fashion accessories...I dunno I don't get it either, but the effects are unmistakable.

So is there utility to handbags, and expensive shoes, and clothes...I guess yes.


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cwflaneur



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:
How clueless men are...Why does a woman buy a handbag?

I'll give you a clue, get a reasonably attractive but dumpily dressed girl and then have one of those handbag "princesses" (Korean or non, believe me there are plenty of those back home, my WASP cousins for example) sit down. Watch the body language and the mood of the non-princess girl (Not 100% guaranteed, but I'd say a good 80%). Yeah.

There will definitely be a mood change. Either the non-princess will get silent and withdrawn or maybe she'll get irritable and tense, but either way, she is knocked off her kilter, almost always to her detriment.

Women notice this kind of thing and that's why they do it. A cell phone doesn't do it. Not even a car. Not a laptop computer. Something about fashion accessories...I dunno I don't get it either, but the effects are unmistakable.

So is their utility to handbags, and expensive shoes, and clothes...I guess yes.


BAM... right on target. Best post on this thread so far.
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Triban



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cj1976 wrote:
Triban wrote:
Illysook wrote:
When I see those expensive handbags, I dream of starting my own handbag company. Quality design and materials, superior workmanship, with a good percentange of the profits going to the workers and those who have less. It's my dream...but Korea is getting expensive and I fear that I may have to spend a year or two in the dessert to make it come true.


Watch out for those banana splits!


You sound a trifle confused.


Youvmean a truffle confused?!

AFAIK a large body of sand is called a desert while a sweet after dinner treat is dessert. If he is spending two years in the latter, he should prepare for early onset of diabetes!
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Triban



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cj1976 wrote:
Triban wrote:
Illysook wrote:
When I see those expensive handbags, I dream of starting my own handbag company. Quality design and materials, superior workmanship, with a good percentange of the profits going to the workers and those who have less. It's my dream...but Korea is getting expensive and I fear that I may have to spend a year or two in the dessert to make it come true.


Watch out for those banana splits!


You sound a trifle confused.


Youvmean a truffle confused?!

AFAIK a large body of sand is called a desert while a sweet after dinner treat is dessert. If he is spending two years in the latter, he should prepare for early onset of diabetes!
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Illysook



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

apologies for that spelling error, I love dessert so it must have been a Freudian thing. Do they have good cupcakes in Saudi Arabia?
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Triban



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No clue Illysook...you know I couldn't help myself.

But in tye vein of the thread it begs the question....how much would you pay for designer tiramisu??
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qcat79



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i was eating pizza at pizzarium in itaewon this past weekend, and this korean girl with her gucci bag wanted to put it in the chair at our table. i said put it on the floor.

you should've seen the look on her face.
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Steelrails



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

qcat79 wrote:
i was eating pizza at pizzarium in itaewon this past weekend, and this korean girl with her gucci bag wanted to put it in the chair at our table. i said put it on the floor.

you should've seen the look on her face.


Remember this the next time you have something you want to put on a chair and somebody tells you no "just because".

Seriously, is this supposed to make you look good or something?
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isisaredead



Joined: 18 May 2010

PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:
qcat79 wrote:
i was eating pizza at pizzarium in itaewon this past weekend, and this korean girl with her gucci bag wanted to put it in the chair at our table. i said put it on the floor.

you should've seen the look on her face.


Remember this the next time you have something you want to put on a chair and somebody tells you no "just because".

Seriously, is this supposed to make you look good or something?


i doubt the poster is going to own something as ridiculous as an over-priced handbag to necessitate him putting it on its own chair, rather than the floor.
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