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Toon Army
Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:33 am Post subject: Good bars in Hongdae / Sinchon? |
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anyone recommend any good bars in Hongdae and Sinchon? Preferably with a good mix of foreigners and Korean. I know of Tinpan 1 and 2 in Hongdae and Mikes Bar , Zen 1/2 in Sinchon also but not many others as I'm fairly newish to Seoul...
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Brixz (sleepy loungey couch bar), Ska (slutty dance bar), FF (some live music and dance-able newish guitar rock), M-2 (trashy pretentious b-boy wad-bar with hot girls, and some ok house sometimes), Cage (house and D&B), and the Pojang Machas (tents) are good enough, if you want a mix of koreans and locals.
There's a few good tiny little tucked away places as well...dig around! |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:05 am Post subject: |
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2nd for BricXX in Hongdae. Once you meet the staff, you'll feel comfortable walking into that place any night of the week on your own. They go out of their way to introduce solo patrons to other folks in the bar. Same goes for the one in Itaewon.
From the main campus gate of Hongdae, head towards Sangsu station. Make a right at the big 7/11 and you'll see a red sun on your left a few blocks down. Alternately, just go to Sangsu station and head towards the campus. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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2nd for BricXX in Hongdae. Once you meet the staff, you'll feel comfortable walking into that place any night of the week on your own. They go out of their way to introduce solo patrons to other folks in the bar. Same goes for the one in Itaewon.
From the main campus gate of Hongdae, head towards Sangsu station. Make a right at the big 7/11 and you'll see a red sun on your left a few blocks down. Alternately, just go to Sangsu station and head towards the campus. |
I haven't gone to BricXX yet, but honestly, I wouldn't need the staff intoducing me to people. You can go to a booking club if you are that desperate to be forced to talk to someone. I like sitting alone and minding my own business sometimes. I don't always NEED someone to be with. I'd be aggravavted if barstaff were trying to throw me upon loser guys and such. I have people, especially men I am not interested in, pestering me enough as it is. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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This was the first time a hookah bar was mentioned and Princess didn't discuss the debatable health effects of hookahs. Nice-uh! (just playing w/ you, Princess).
If you really want good hookah smoke, Gr8 across the street from 7-11 (above Ska) is the place to go. They have 41 flavors, not 6 like Bricxx. They have great wines for good prices and champagne. Mixed drinks are good, too. Bricxx does have more space and Red Rock on tap, though. They also serve food beyond anju, but the quality is questionable. The staff is hit or miss at Bricxx, sometimes they try to take your hookah early. Gr8 is friendlier and has a small (very small) bar overlooking the street.
Woodstock in Sinchon is great and they play great rock music (usually classic rock). If you are near the station, head past the Hyundai dept. store entrance facing the big intersection and make your next right. Then, take either your second or third right, it will be on the right.
Club Aura in Hongdae often has unique, live music. When facing the uni, walk left for a bit, it's on the right.
For great microbrew and atmosphere in Hongdae, go to Castle Praha. If you take the right past 7-11 (like you are going to Bricxx), keep walking a few blocks to the end of the street. Look across the street and to your right for the castle. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| Club Aura in Hongdae often has unique, live music. When facing the uni, walk left for a bit, it's on the right. |
Aura is gone. |
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: Central Areola
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| seoulsucker wrote: |
2nd for BricXX in Hongdae. Once you meet the staff, you'll feel comfortable walking into that place any night of the week on your own. They go out of their way to introduce solo patrons to other folks in the bar. Same goes for the one in Itaewon.
From the main campus gate of Hongdae, head towards Sangsu station. Make a right at the big 7/11 and you'll see a red sun on your left a few blocks down. Alternately, just go to Sangsu station and head towards the campus. |
I haven't gone to BricXX yet, but honestly, I wouldn't need the staff intoducing me to people. You can go to a booking club if you are that desperate to be forced to talk to someone. I like sitting alone and minding my own business sometimes. I don't always NEED someone to be with. I'd be aggravavted if barstaff were trying to throw me upon loser guys and such. I have people, especially men I am not interested in, pestering me enough as it is. |
There's an old saying 'you have to slay a few dragons to get to the princess'. But it really doesn't apply to you, other than you need to be slayed and I don't mean figuratively.
Dude! Don't you get bored writing as a pretentious wench all the time? I was really stoked when you said you were leaving. Why did you come back? No, wait...I know, you have nothing else.... I don't know whats sadder, crying and telling everyone you're leaving or coming back afterwards. You could at least have gotten a new sock.
Anyway.
Woodstock in Sinchon (if it's still there) grungy atmosphere and will play any song you can think of, occasional bursts of air guitar are recommended.
The Bar in Sinchon (see above) slightly less grungy but the 22k gin and tonic/screwdriver pitchers are awesome. Song requests all night.
Tin pan 1/2 in Hongdae (2000w tequila) great place for a bender and a made dance-floorbut it gets pretty packed and I've nearly been bottled twice by random angry Koreans.
Actually that reminds me. The last time I was in Tim Pan One, I preceded to the gentleman's room after dismissing myself from the table I had been residing at with a group of my accomplices. While patronising the bathroom facilities a small line had gathered very close to where I was experiencing a nasty case of stage fright. With only one urinal and an audience forming, my bladder was resisting and the pressure was mounting. I did what I could by closing my eyes, imaging waterfalls and visualising myself flowing a torrent but the progress was minimal. I opened my eyes moments later as a trickle had begun to form. I noticed in my peripheral vision that the crowd waiting for the bathroom had dispersed. Surprised, I turned around to the sound of a bottle breaking only to see a very short and very irate Korean holding a broken bottle standing in front of the mirror visually fuming and shaking with rage. Meanwhile, my terrible attempt at micturation was beginning to produce sensations of relief, but this relief quickly turned to panic as Mr. Angry turned to face me, swearing angrily and waving his bottle. I had no choice but to cut the flow, zip up and dismiss myself; as much as I wanted to finish that pee, I didn't want to get stabbed for it. I had to calm myself with cheap tequila after that. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Bah--'Tin Pan.' More like 'Bed Pan.'
Got its uses though, no doubt...I'm always sure to run into old pals there, dangerously drunk on the cheap cheap sauce. |
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YoshaMazov
Joined: 10 May 2007
Location: Suwon
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The only good part of Tin Pan is the cheap Tequila. The bar itslef is horribly overcrowded and scuzzy.
Another sweet Hookah bar is called Nabi (or maybe Nrabi) about a block up from Bricxx, although it's not that well advertised. Nice atmosphere. There used to be a place called the "N Bar" also right by Bricxx, but I think it closed down a few weeks ago. Too bad, seeing as how you could get a Hoegaarden for 3,000 won and Tequila for 1,000. A Rocky Mountain (of Itaewon fame) just opened in Hongdae and I checked it out last weekend, but it's really more of a dance bar than a sports bar. Not at all like it's brother. And there was a dude checking IDs for some reason. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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one of my favorite places in hongdae is yohimbe.
really quiet, laid back atmosphere, and you sit on gymnastics mats. not a rowdy place where douche westerners show off their 200-dollar frosted tips but a good chilling/talking place.
it's somewhere on a side street on the north side of that boulevard where the luxury noraebang is. that's about the best directions i could give you. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| I miss Aura. I'll have to check out Yohimbe sometime. Bricxx is pretty chill with the right people. It's got it's douchebaggery too though. FF has a pretty bad setup for a live venue but it can be alright at times. The bar above FF plays some pretty good music at times. |
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YoshaMazov
Joined: 10 May 2007
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I miss Aura. I'll have to check out Yohimbe sometime. Bricxx is pretty chill with the right people. It's got it's douchebaggery too though. FF has a pretty bad setup for a live venue but it can be alright at times. The bar above FF plays some pretty good music at times. |
Last time I was in Bricxx a fellow threw on a black ski mask and started chanting "Tiocfaidh Ar LA!" For the non-Irish it generally means "Our day will come!" a once popular IRA chant. Not exactly something you expect to hear from an American in Korea, eh? |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| YoshaMazov wrote: |
| crazy_arcade wrote: |
| I miss Aura. I'll have to check out Yohimbe sometime. Bricxx is pretty chill with the right people. It's got it's douchebaggery too though. FF has a pretty bad setup for a live venue but it can be alright at times. The bar above FF plays some pretty good music at times. |
Last time I was in Bricxx a fellow threw on a black ski mask and started chanting "Tiocfaidh Ar LA!" For the non-Irish it generally means "Our day will come!" a once popular IRA chant. Not exactly something you expect to hear from an American in Korea, eh? |
How do you know he was American? |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Poor Princess. He takes a hammering in every thread these days.
I like Zen II in Shinchon. Nice seats, good drinks selection, decent look about the place, reasonably priced, plays Hip-hop. Yes, I'd much rather hear the latter than U2 or Hotel California.  |
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mcgeezer
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I think it's called Club Evans
Jazz club with a chilled atmosphere and good music (if your into that of course)
Couple blocks down from Hongig University... |
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