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[sojourner1]

700 won for Samdasoo bottle of water at a small grocery store.
1,600 for a large bottle of Gatorade.
1,800 to go a ways in a taxi.

Everything else is pretty much over priced.

[njp6]

I'll second the taxis. Not even in Central America are they as cheap as over here.

Baseball games are also cheap, 7,000 won to get in and 3,000 tall boys.

[vampirepirate01]

at the convenience stores , in the refrigerated section, there are usually these triangles of rice covered by seaweed. They are 1,000 won and often come with some kind of meat or seafood inside.

Kimbop- a roll will cost between 1,000 - 5,000 won. A 5,000 won roll would be something like "dinosaur eggs".

[espoir]

love the cheap taxis, but surprised nobody mentioned this;

Beer at the bar, a pint of Cass only runs you 2,000won. Back home its 6$cdn for a pint in the bar. and a pitcher for 10,000won here, back home your lucky to get one for 18$cdn.

[Bondrock]

there are a number of inexpensive products, many mentioned, that can be found if you shop in the street markets and network thru friends when you are not pressed for time.

what about all the free stuff? i used to hate shopping, but here I enjoy seeing the weird stuff taped together --- buy this cheese and the attached lugwrench is free ---.

used anything is dirt cheap here. used cars are a third of the price in Canada, any home appliance is almost free.

in my home:
free kimchi fridge
2 free computers (i rebuilt them from 3 i picked up in the apt. recycling area)
free spare TV
a couple of DVD players (also free)
tons of movies and music discs
free carpet
numerous free bookshelves
uncountable free books
cases and buckets full of foodstuffs given by students (my wife works in a country school)
free computer speakers
mp3 player (found on my bike route)
2 excellent used cars (about 4 million for the pair)
2 free motorbikes --- (daelim 125)
free briefcase (strange story --- found it on the road out in the boondocks filled with Bibles)

that's just off the top of my head... i am sure there is a ton of other free or near free things laying around my place . course it helps to have lived here awhile and is handy to have an extra apartment to store stuff.

[poet13]

Depending on the season, veggies are fantastically cheap. Almost any LEAN meat in the supermarket is also much cheaper than it's fattier neighbour.

20% of high school girls are prostitutes? Somehow I doubt that. Even 2% would be hard to imagine. Now, college girls....that's easier to accept with all the booking rooms and stuff.

[mayorgc]

where do i get 20 tangerines for 3000 won???

it cost me 5000 for 9 apples.

[Underwaterbob]

Car/motorcycle maintenance and unfortunately cigarettes are pretty cheap here.

[Zutronius]

[Sapa]

I agree, the delicious tangerines are a great deal at the moment. I've been coming home with a little black bag full of them for 3000won.

[Sapa]

[EzeWong]

Bogotan (Swell fish)

Amazing,

You get like 6 dishes of fish and a whole bunch of side dishes for 10,000 won.

Heavenly stuff, to me, It's a exotic Korean food for a low price.

It's best in a spicy soup, oh god!

[Lukychrm42]

My maintenance fee consists of water, cleaning, and cable tv for 30K a month. While boxed fruit can be expensive, you can also get 10 apples for 3000, or 6 persimmons for 2000. Also, a coconut is only $1.
When I asked at work about getting a filter system at home, they told me it was "too expensive," and actually told me to fill up water bottles at school.

A 1 kg of sea salt was less than 2000.
Also, if you like the quick vending machine milk coffees, 100 won is dirt cheap. Of course, you get what you pay for!

Finally, I pay 9K for a kilo of middle eastern dates. Once I found them, I realized that was a pretty good deal- about half of what I'd pay in the US.

Veggies- well, I love how cheap greens are here, and I can usually find my other favorites (peppers, broccoli, celery) on sale, depending on how skint I'm feeling.

And of course my electricity bill hasn't been over 10K in the last 2 months... hoping that won't change!

[greenwillow]

A truck comes by a big apt village near where i live that sells roast chicken. 1 for 4000 won or 3 for 10,000. bargain!

KTX tickets are cheap. Much cheaper than trains in the UK. It's about 1.5 times as fast yet 1/5 or so the price. Going from Seoul to Daejon station, only 24k won and takes only an hour.
Going about the same distance from London would cost me around 130k won, and take me at least 1.5-2 hours.

Text messages, only 18-30 won a single message. Then you can get special rates if you sign up for the right plan

Rameon noodles only 700 won or so a packet.

And yeah, eating outside is also cheap. I used to not flinch at spending 40-60k won for a single meal out with friends, but now that I can find meals for one tenth the price, I'm almost scared to go back.

Hotel rooms..
for 40-60k won a night, or even 30k for certain love motels I've heard, you have a room with a shower, a bath, a good sized bed, huge widescreen TV with cable, internet access, free dvd rentals, and a small fridge thats got 4-6 cans of drinks.
Most rooms in the UK don't supply so much for double the price.

[NoExplode]