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[Illysook]

I'm going to be living in Yonsin and the Moon Guide is cracking me up. It reads like a series of advertisements.

I figure that with the right company, I could go to Everland and laugh all the way through. They say that it's like Disneyland. Is there really any comparison? Do some Koreans think that it's better than Disney?

I also read that Everland is owned by Samsung, as is the Ho-Am Art museum. Interesting name. Is admission by the hour?

[SeoulShakin]

Your level of maturity is just oh so funny.

If you're going to make "by the hour" jokes at every "ho" thing you read, you're probably going to be living on the wrong continent.

I hope this experience enlightens you slightly.

[spliff]

I live a 5 min walk from Everland. Where is "Yonsin", never heard of it.

[Kikomom]

Illy, let us know how it stacks up against Cedar Point.

(I'm guessing you've been there )

[Illysook]

Darn it! Now I have another place that I want to go before I leave!

My family used to keep an antique wooden Chris Craft up in Sandusky, Ohio where Cedar Point is located. There were silly traditions on the drive up, like pronouncing Bucyrus incorrectly and trying to get my brother to say ahwa tagoo Siam quickly as we drove through a town called Siam.

It was like Cedar Point and King's Island competed to build the biggest baddest rollercoasters and as a kid who live half way between the two, I was a little overprivileged.

I only went to Disneyland once and I was a freshman in high school at the time. Space Mountain was the only roller coaster and if it hadn't been for the fact that I got to sit in the lap of the boy that I had a crush on, I wouldn't have been impressed at all.

Most recently, I went to the Ohio state fair. I was working there on a promotion for the Nintendo Wii fit balance board. We let people try it out and gave away free socks. After work, my friend Lloyd and I took a pile of socks with us and attempted to barter them for whatever we could get. We scored free lemonade shake ups, french fries, pizza, enough rides to make us queasy, and two freak shows. Gorrilla girl and Octopus woman were fakes, but the worlds tiniest woman was a West Indian little person. I didn't expect her to be real, but there she sat text messaging someone. I didn't have anything to say to her, nor she to me, so feeling slightly ashamed, I got the hell out of her space as quickly as possible.

[spliff]

Everland does not compare to Disneyland. You're in for a pretty big disappointment.

[Kikomom]

My cousins in Cleveland would invite us out to a boat party on Marble Head every summer with their friends, sometimes at Bay Point, sometimes at a camp ground or trailer park. Bay Point has a view of the roller coasters across the water. We'd build a campfire on the beach and 'chair dance' to Van Morrison, Bare Naked Ladies, Steely Dan, all night long.

It's where Wario learned to play Blackjack with a jar of pennies I kept in the van for penny-ante poker with the kids on rainy days. Pulling into a Burger King to pick up breakfast one time in Sandusky on our way home was the first time I'd ever seen 'Canadian Soldiers' out in force.

[Illysook]

Hey spliff, how come you are smiling over my potential disappointment?

And do you think that Everland would compare to the Circleville Pumpkin Show?

[spliff]

No comment, I've never been to the Circleville Pumpkin Show. But, the county fairs I've been to in Maine, upstate New York and Pennsylvania were WAY better than Everlame. Especially since you don't have to spend more time waiting in long azz lines w/ bratty K-children in all directions than actually riding rides or engaging in other activities. And, you don't have to pay 50 bucks to get in, either.

Ive had a year pass for the last two years that my school got me...I went once.

[Illysook]

Like most people, you probably enjoy a little Schadenfreude. It's forgivable.

I'm a fan of things like the Millersport Sweet Corn Festival which is a slice of Americana at it's best, and something called Comfest, which is an all volunteer run music festival here in Cowtown.

Still, if one must subscribe to corporate amusements, I think that using Aesop's fables for your kiddie theme has to be more interesting than "It's a Small World" or "Hanna-Barbara Land."

I also find it rather appalling that a corporation would own an art museum. How can art really exist or be created in that sort of climate?

[spliff]

Apparently, artists need paychecks just like most other people.

[Kikomom]