| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Most overrated club/pub/bar in Seoul? |
| Geckos |
|
25% |
[ 5 ] |
| Three Alleys Pub |
|
5% |
[ 1 ] |
| Joker Red |
|
15% |
[ 3 ] |
| Hollywood Basement |
|
30% |
[ 6 ] |
| Geckos Garden |
|
5% |
[ 1 ] |
| Myungmulgwan |
|
0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Stompers (Hongdae v.2) |
|
20% |
[ 4 ] |
|
| Total Votes : 20 |
|
| Author |
Message |
Hotel Cheonan
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: Gwangju
|
 Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
My vote to goes to Gecko's
One of the best places would be Seoul Pub |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
jurassic5
Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Location: PA
|
| Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 7:26 am Post subject: Re: Noraehanensaramder |
|
|
| cohke666 wrote: |
| And across the street from Zen bar on the main raod in shinchon is Harlem, go there, funny place. |
yup, nothing like headed to Harlem while in Seoul. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Holyjoe
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: |
| Polly's! You know you've had too much to drink when you end up there. "We should have skipped the kettles and gone home." Standard morning-after disclaimer. |
Never actually had a kettle from Polly's, but it always seems to be a place that we end up in on a big drinking night (don't get too many of them now  ) in Itaewon.
I wonder whether it's actually a starting venue of choice for folk on a night out?  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Emma Clare
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Anseong, sung, song.
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Matmata. In a word, the atmosphere is 'pants'. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Hotel Cheonan
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: Gwangju
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Oops same thread from awhile ago . . .gotta start reading these dates |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I used to go to Gecko's a lot with my friends.
I always found it to be fake. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I generally avoided Itaewon on weekends as it was just too packed, even by Korean standards. I personally found Gecko's a slimepit since a lot of prostitutes look for johns there, including this one woman who must've been 40ish and disgusting looking.
That said, on weeknights, I'd go to Nashville or Three Alley and sit at the bar, but I'd say my favorite place was Phillies in Haebangchon. I got to meet a lot of nice and friendly people there. I do miss that place.
I think it's time another area rivals Hongdae for afterhours partying. Any ideas? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Yaya wrote: |
I think it's time another area rivals Hongdae for afterhours partying. Any ideas? |
I think everyone wants the rival to Hongdae to be Apkujeong, but whenever I go there, I end up taking a taxi to Hongdae around midnight. In my experience, even when there is a nice big event in Apkujeong, is dies around midnight or one am.
I think when the army move out of Yongsan, Itaewon will be an unrivalled entertainment district, it'll be so groovy there I think. The soliders make it a bit sketchy, most of the whorehouses will move away, and Geckos and Seoul Pub type places will become nicer joints to frequent. It'll attract more charming people. The only thing I'll miss is Calientes at Nashville, which is mostly frequented by Latino GI's, cool place.
Anyway, the naffest, stinkiest joint in Korea right now is Seoul pub. It's a sesspit. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
How can you not like Geckos?  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ratslash
Joined: 08 May 2003
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| any in intaewon! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Butterfly wrote: |
| I think everyone wants the rival to Hongdae to be Apkujeong, but whenever I go there, I end up taking a taxi to Hongdae around midnight. In my experience, even when there is a nice big event in Apkujeong, is dies around midnight or one am. |
Exactly, I've been thinking this for a long time as well. Kangnam as well. Everytime I look for some alternative place in one of these other 'hotspots' I'm bored out of my mind within a few hours and off to the significantly better haunts of Itaewon or HongDae.
I just can't figure out why anyone would enjoy trying to pull a night-out in Kangnam or Apkujeong.
Anyone out there who swears by those places and made it their place of choice.. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Exactly, I've been thinking this for a long time as well. Kangnam as well. Everytime I look for some alternative place in one of these other 'hotspots' I'm bored out of my mind within a few hours and off to the significantly better haunts of Itaewon or HongDae.
I just can't figure out why anyone would enjoy trying to pull a night-out in Kangnam or Apkujeong.
Anyone out there who swears by those places and made it their place of choice.. |
Well the venues in Apkujeong are really plush, nice music and all and a feeling of a real event. But they just peak too early. It's funny because it's always hard to get a taxi there around midnight, and the streets echo to the sound of people shouting 'Itaewon yo' and 'Hongdae yo' to the taxi drivers. I guess its because all those good Gangnam girls got to go home early, leaving the boys looking for someone to play with. Honngggdaeee. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The whole area of Kangnam is way over-rated as well, but not by foreigners, by Koreans!!
It doesn't take a bunch of foreigners in Kangnam too long before they realise everywhere is overpriced and not really very good.
On the other hand, Koreans seem to really enjoy just being somewhere expensive. They don't seem to care that they can get more for less elsewhere. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
|
| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
Why do so few Korean clubs have live music?
I liked the Big Electric Cat near 3 Alleys for blues, but I think it's the only bar I've been to in Seoul that has live music on a regular basis. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
| *bump* |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
