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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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They would only be enforced against foreigners though.
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| More garbage cans on the street and less vomit. Make it as clean as Japan (if thats possible). |
I'd go a step further and say make it as clean as Singapore. If Korea has to enact some similar laws and fines, so be it. |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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I know! They should attract more foreigners by treating the ones they have really, really well, and letting us do pretty much whatever we want, and giving us lots of presents and beers, and letting us start businesses easily, and letting FT's do private jobs legally, and not making us pay much tax.
Then when we tell our friends about Korea they'll all say 'wow, I want to come there too.' |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Yeah.
And an Andes mint on every pillow. |
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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: |
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Japan is beautiful and clean; Korea isn't. |
Korea did have some picturesque sights as regards countryside. Unfortunately they just bulldozed and concreted over them all in the mad rush to put up a parking lot.
I'm serious. Some of the islands had marvelous views. But they trashed them with stupid and tacky development. |
I call BS!! there are about 3 dozers here in SK and not one of them is of proper size like a D10 or the D11. There is so much dicking around with backhoes it makes me sick. Besides growing up in a family of redneck heavy equipment operators, I am a tree-hugger. If you are gonna tear some shit up, don't use 30 toys that take 10 months when you can do the same work in a week with one. But hey, the operators here are just like the girls at the end of the row at E-mart. Everyone workie!
I've been having beers with one of the operators on the new Jack Nicholas golf course here in New Songdo City. He's about in tears over the way things are done here.
OK, I really do know what you meant but it was a good oportunity for me to vent. It's not you it's me! I am better now for the next minute or two.
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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:37 am Post subject: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incheon_Tower
Broke ground a few weeks ago.
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I think there are a few things Korea could do to raise visitor numbers but it will never be able to rival Japan, China or S.E Asia because it doesn't have enough must see places.
1. Get Samsung, Hyundai, LG etc to promote Korea via their successful products and turn the current anonmyous Korea into a branded Korea
2. Work to reduce the price/difficulty of transit via Korea. Try to create a Japan-Korea-China backpacker route.
3. Take advantage of the films that had some international success and made Korea look cool abroad (may already be too late for this)
e.g The weirdness of Oldboy
The urban nightscapes of A Bittersweet life
The sexy Lady Vengence
The black humour from the host
4. Build a signature building so people would have a image of Korea before visiting. e.g Taiwan's 101 or Malaysia's Petronas Towers.
5. Sell Korea's unique foods and drinks as a reason to visit. Plenty of people have waddled out of a Thai restuarant after a good meal and went straight onto the net to book a flight.
Another good thing to do would be to avoid violent and daft protests being the most common thing people see in CNN and BBC concerning Korea. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Sojourner1 has excellent ideas. But that is alot to ask in a short amount of time.
In the short term, Korea could develop more tourist activities, improve English-language education within the tourism, banking, and hotel industries, and provide more English-language websites detailing events in Korea.
The Korea Times ran an article that mentioned that 55% of the 56 Korean festivals that distinguished Korean culture -- as defined by the Korea Tourism Organization -- lacked foreign-language websites, and that "52.1 percent of inbound toruists gained information" about Korea in this manner. (website: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/03/117_19990.html)
 In summary, give foreigners something cool to do here and let us know about it. |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: |
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I was studying my Korean lesson today, and in the dialogue Yu-Jin was going on vacation to the Yong-pyeong ski resort. So I got kinda curious (been skiing since the age of 3) and googled the resort.
I got found a page from the national tourist board, which was decent and had some info. But not nearly as much as I would like. For instance, there was no mention of if there were advanced trails, the number of different level trails, no mention of the vertical elevation of the mountain (which tells you how much skiing you can get in top to bottom). Just lift information (not many) and some hotel and amenities information.
It wasn't a bad page, but it could have been better. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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I agree with sojourner's post a while back. Korea's hamstrung by a neurotic and vindictive generation (born b/w 45-??? maybe 1970) who have absorbed the bad vibes of Japanese occupation/civil war/dictatorship, mixed it with a bastardized understanding of neo Confucianism and turned themselves into autocratic pricks with entitlement complexes who lack middle management skills. The business climate is so top heavy and ridiculously imperious here that no good ideas can bubble up.
This country will be a really great place in twenty years--it's already interesting but teeters on being intolerable for the time being. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| I met a woman from Singapore who's in love with Korea. She has been to Korea on vacation four times. That's right: vacation. At one point, we were talking about which countries have the best food, and she said that Korean is her favorite. I think she got a little annoyed because I said, "Really? Korean's your favorite? Are you sure?" |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Renacting history. Horses, cannons, bows and arrows, castle sieges, and all the craft and lore that goes with it. Make 'living history'.
Tourists could come over for a package that includes bowmaking, arrowmaking, horseriding and firing an arrow from a moving horse, ...
firing canons, firing muskets, using swords, daggers, pikes, spears...
living in 'historical villages', cooking on fires, using houses with real ondol,...
meditating with a 'warrior monk' giving meditation lessons, weekend tours from their 'historical village' as a sort of 'day off' from living anciently...
taking the bus to Seongju fortress near Seoul, Jinjuseong in Jinju, all the forts that were used in various battles throughout Korea...
harvesting wild plants, plant medecine, and so on.
An ancient cultural lifeways package. Manufacture of stone tools, fishing weirs, etc. as in the paleo/neolithic. |
Great ideas! Actually, for many of your suggestions, I already advertise to people around the world. There is a great archery museum up in Paju; it isn't a huge place, but is run by Korea's most well-known fletcher and his son. They made many of the bow/arrow, crossbow, etc. props for Korean historical dramas and you can see many of them there.
Up in Sokcho there is a mounted martial arts association (Korea Equestrian Martial Arts Association); they attract a lot of people internationally.
I think the re-enacting part is great and I suggested it to the mayor of Kanghwa Island a while back. The island is building a new historical center and some re-enacting might add a bit of life to it.
Good thoughts. |
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Sushi
Joined: 24 Apr 2008
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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There is only one Casino in Korea open to the local population, and it's in Kangwando. They need to put Korean going casinos in Seoul, Taegu, Ulsan and Pusan.
How about nude beaches. I think they would do wonders for Korean women or coed nude chimchilbangs.
Most Koreans have no appreciation for what foreigeners would like to see. We are directed to the basic tourist trap things. There are a lot of hidden away places that only the local people go to, and the local population too often would rather we didn't see them. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Oreovictim wrote: |
| I met a woman from Singapore who's in love with Korea. She has been to Korea on vacation four times. That's right: vacation. At one point, we were talking about which countries have the best food, and she said that Korean is her favorite. I think she got a little annoyed because I said, "Really? Korean's your favorite? Are you sure?" |
Korea holds appeal to Asians, pure and simple. Most of the tourists who come here are Japanese, then come Chinese and Southeast Asians.
And well, believe it or not, I'm sure there are people who go to Detroit or Philadelphia for vacation despite those two cities being outright dumps. |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| Oreovictim wrote: |
| I met a woman from Singapore who's in love with Korea. She has been to Korea on vacation four times. That's right: vacation. At one point, we were talking about which countries have the best food, and she said that Korean is her favorite. I think she got a little annoyed because I said, "Really? Korean's your favorite? Are you sure?" |
Korea holds appeal to Asians, pure and simple. Most of the tourists who come here are Japanese, then come Chinese and Southeast Asians.
And well, believe it or not, I'm sure there are people who go to Detroit or Philadelphia for vacation despite those two cities being outright dumps. |
Philly rocks. This is one example of something people must not pass up if they go there: |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| Oreovictim wrote: |
| I met a woman from Singapore who's in love with Korea. She has been to Korea on vacation four times. That's right: vacation. At one point, we were talking about which countries have the best food, and she said that Korean is her favorite. I think she got a little annoyed because I said, "Really? Korean's your favorite? Are you sure?" |
Korea holds appeal to Asians, pure and simple. Most of the tourists who come here are Japanese, then come Chinese and Southeast Asians.
And well, believe it or not, I'm sure there are people who go to Detroit or Philadelphia for vacation despite those two cities being outright dumps. |
Philly rocks. This is one example of something people must not pass up if they go there: |
Wow, the Liberty Bell and then the Rocky thang, other than that, Philly is a friggin' trash dump. I've been there and I know. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans are clueless when it comes to white people's tastes.
We DO NOT want to see the 63 Building. We have dozens of em.
We DO NOT want to see breakdancing. It's gay. And it's American.
We DO NOT want to see where your TV shows are filmed. They're gay.
We DO NOT care about the "miracle of the Han"
We WANT to see temples
We WANT to see palaces.
We WANT to try Korean things.
We WANT to learn about YOUR Culture. Not painfully repackaged American culture. |
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