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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: US66 Bar in HongDae - Closed? |
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Just walked by on a Sunday afternoon.. the steps have been removed and an unintelligible sign out front. The US66 sign has also been taken down.
Is it permanantly closed? |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think we're that lucky. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:36 am Post subject: Re: US66 Bar in HongDae - Closed? |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Just walked by on a Sunday afternoon.. the steps have been removed and an unintelligible sign out front. The US66 sign has also been taken down.
Is it permanantly closed? |
no clue, but what's this I hear about you being married? congrats! |
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King Baeksu
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:09 am Post subject: |
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I passed by there myself on Saturday night and also noticed the same thing.
The unintelligible sign you refer to read 임대, which means "for lease." Seems like an obvious sign to me.
It's the passing of an era indeed. Another casuality of the relentless and rapid gentrification of the Hongdae area.
RIP. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| King Baeksu wrote: |
I passed by there myself on Saturday night and also noticed the same thing.
The unintelligible sign you refer to read 임대, which means "for lease." Seems like an obvious sign to me.
It's the passing of an era indeed. Another casuality of the relentless and rapid gentrification of the Hongdae area.
RIP. |
No way it's gentrification. That hell-hole has been raking in the cash for at least the last 5 years. |
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catycat
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, its closed. They were selling all their stuff off during the week, like all the pictures on the wall, and the furniture.
So, the place is for lease now. 300 million won deposit, and 20 million won a month rent!!!!! |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Maybe the owner decided to cash out or feuded with the landlord, which I can definitely see. I'm sure the landlord knew how well US66 was doing and probably asked for higher rent as a result.
Plus 15 years of running a bar can wear even the strongest down. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Where will all the scumbags go now? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| Is it just me, or is the sign saying "패 업" on closed places kind of hilarious? |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: |
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I don't see the humour in it.
I am guessing the owner had a long term lease, and it just expired. The building owner asked for a bunch more money, and the owner decided not to give it.
| kermo wrote: |
| Is it just me, or is the sign saying "패 업" on closed places kind of hilarious? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Is it just me, or is the sign saying "패 업" on closed places kind of hilarious? |
It's not just you.
A sign saying 패 업 would be, well, maybe not hilarious, but odd certainly, since the word is properly spelt 폐업.
What I find funnier are doors, typically glass ones and often found in 5-star hotels, bearing signs (in English): "DOOR". Like some sort of EFL classroom routine, where you make namecards for every object in the room. DESK, CHAIR, BOOK, WINDOW, BLACKBOARD, etc. I think the idea there is that people have been bashing into these glass doors, not realising they're there. And so these signs are intended to warn people (just as I've taken to affixing Post-Its on some of the larger windows in my house to reduce the number of birds smacking into them and dying on my balcony). But it still looks funny. This is a "DOOR", see the sign? |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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walked by there Fri nite and was shocked to see it closed and I live in the area.
it was a legend and perhaps one of the few expat bars in hongdae.
rip |
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mysteriousdeltarays
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Food Pyramid Bldg. 5F, 77 Sunset Strip, Alphaville
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| What a dump! Although it was something of a landmark. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Where will all the scumbags go now? |
Wherever you tell us to, oh Dear Leader. (I was going to say "skanks", but "scumbags" works just as well.)
| Yaya wrote: |
| 15 years of running a bar can wear even the strongest down. |
Rent trouble, physical exhaustion or whatever, 15 years is just an unlikely long run for a business, especially in this country, especially in that neighbourhood, especially in that industry. More interesting than why it closed is how it managed to stay around as long as it did. They were in business for the equivalent of FIVE Korean Wars one after the other. Quite an accomplishment. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| It was a convenient meeting place at one time but I never stayed long there. Plenty better and cheaper drinking holes in Hongdae. |
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