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FistFace
Joined: 24 Mar 2007
Location: Peekaboo! I can see you! And I know what you do!
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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: Krispy Kreme in Hyewha |
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| Since I saw a thread about Kebabs, I thought I'd mention Krispy Kreme is there now, next to Starbucks. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| The Korean craze over Krispy Kreme seems to have died down. I used to see lines outside the door at the Sinchon branch, but now I can go in there and order really fast. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| The Korean craze over Krispy Kreme seems to have died down. I used to see lines outside the door at the Sinchon branch, but now I can go in there and order really fast. |
I got my comp. dozen coupon just for being a foreigner and sticking my head in a week before opening of the Shinchon branch. That was the first one in Korea, so caused quite a stir.
Now there are well over twenty, so I think Koreans have adjusted.  |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
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| The Korean craze over Krispy Kreme seems to have died down. I used to see lines outside the door at the Sinchon branch, but now I can go in there and order really fast. |
I got my comp. dozen coupon just for being a foreigner and sticking my head in a week before opening of the Shinchon branch. That was the first one in Korea, so caused quite a stir.
Now there are well over twenty, so I think Koreans have adjusted. |
I wonder what Outback Steakhouse was like when it first came to Korea. Judging from the number of them, it must've been busting at the seams.
I *really* wonder about when eyebrow pencil first came to Korea. How did they live without it? It must've been a glorious, glorious day. I imagine one of those colonialistic missionary paintings of a white person floating off of a ship with a box of eyebrow pencils instead of a bible, and from the box is emanating a holy white light, and there are some some dark little koreans huddled in their huts, afraid but compelled, their eyes shining with the sheer power and glory of this miraculous invention which would soon free them from the shackles of their mean, crude, eyebrowless lives. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Love their donuts. Hate their coffee. |
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in_seoul_2003
Joined: 24 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| I used to see lines outside the door at the Sinchon branch, but now I can go in there and order really fast. |
Since anywhere from 50-70 percent of the people in those lines were there just for the one free donut, they could have cut down the line by handing them out outside.
Then again, that would have cost them way too many donuts. Also, the long line adds to the buzz.
KK, Outback, Starbucks: Koreans probably think they are getting a taste of the good life when, in fact, this is all just mediocre junk. Outback and Starbucks, in particular, I consider to be low class crap for their categories. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder what Outback Steakhouse was like when it first came to Korea. Judging from the number of them, it must've been busting at the seams. |
Not at all. The first Outback was way out near Palsan Station, towards the then international Kimpo Airport. It was never busy. I think I went there once. I'd only go near it on the way to the airport, and think "Why eat there now? Where ever I'm going is gonna have better food." I'd come back to Korea, go by it and think, "Why eat there now? I've gorged myself on better food. I feel kinda sick." |
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