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jkelly80



Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:50 am    Post subject: Chicago Bulls still popular? Reply with quote

I was wondering if anyone knows if the Bulls are a big deal in Korea as they were a few years ago in other countries. I'm from Chicago and thought Bulls stuff would be a good gift for the kids. I'm inclined to think basketball in general isn't that popular over in RoK, though.

Any help would be great.
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mikekim



Joined: 11 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Manchester United for HS
WWE for MS
Maple Story for ES
anything shiny for younger
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Basketball was immensely popular 10 years ago. I remember everyone reading/watching Slam Dunk! and playing basketball on the school grounds.

Nowadays its soccer or bust. Soccer is about as exciting to watch as a round of PGA Golf.
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waynehead



Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno

PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a lot of my middle schoolers still know michael jordan/chicago bulls...probably heard about it from an older brother or something. man u is much, much bigger.
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Woden



Joined: 08 Mar 2007
Location: Eurasia

PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pkang0202 wrote:
Basketball was immensely popular 10 years ago. I remember everyone reading/watching Slam Dunk! and playing basketball on the school grounds.

Nowadays its soccer or bust. Soccer is about as exciting to watch as a round of PGA Golf.


...that's not true, golf is boring.
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GoldMember



Joined: 24 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Koreans don't care if the bulls come from Chicago, or any other place in the US, as long as they can find the smallest bone fragment, they'll send the whole lot back.
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jkelly80



Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WWE? I see that Confucianism and homoerotic man-soaps are not mutually exclusive.
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Scotticus



Joined: 18 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Woden wrote:
pkang0202 wrote:

Nowadays its soccer or bust. Soccer is about as exciting to watch as a round of PGA Golf.


...that's not true, golf is boring.


I'd have to agree. Golf is boring; soccer is infuriating. Sometimes, if I'm bored and flipping through the channels, I'll stop on a soccer game and watch for five minutes. Invariably, some *beep* takes a dive and lays around screaming and grasping his leg as if it was just severed at the knee. Of course, the replay shows he wasn't touched. That's the point where I start yelling obscenities at the screen and talking about how much I hate that god damned sport.

And that, my friends, is why my gf hates when I watch soccer.
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billybrobby



Joined: 09 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say basketball comes in third to soccer and baseball. It mainly depends on which teams have Korean players. I see a lot of Yankees hats, but I don't know if they have ever had a Korean player, it may just be that I go to too many corny hiphop clubs.
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