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mysterious700
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| But Namdaemun Market will surprise you. The basement of some buildings near the burned down monument has a lot of hard to find goods. Prices can sometimes be better than Korean stores. |
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mysterious700
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| But Namdaemun Market will surprise you. The basement of some buildings near the burned down monument has a lot of hard to find goods. Prices can sometimes be better than Korean stores. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| Ok, I'm not going to read through the whole flamefested thread, but I somewhat agree with the OP. Things do seem to disappear, even Korean products like Maesil Juice (spelling?). Thankfully we have a CostCo close to us and can go there to get everything we can't get at EMart. |
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mysterious700
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| But Namdaemun Market will surprise you. The basement of some buildings near the burned down monument has a lot of hard to find goods. Prices can sometimes be better than Korean stores. |
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bangbayed
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| mysterious700 wrote: |
Try this site: it's run by Costco. It is a home delivery site. Use your local education office if you are unsure about delivery to your house while at school. (Or use your school if you only teach at one.)
http://www.ezshopkorea.com/ |
You sure it's run by Costco? I thought it was run by a company that bought stuff from Costco and resells it at a higher price, just like a lot of foreign stores in Korea. |
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paquebot
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| have you been in a music store? over 90% of the artists on the shelves are Korean. WTF? where is the selection? Only Korean pop music? obvious that these retailers have no clue what sells... if they had some "Rock-Roll" records then i would buy more... hasn't anyone in Korea heard of the "Bedrock Twist"...? that was the best selling album back home... |
Are you being sarcastic? Because if you're not, you and I apparently shop in very different music stores here ...  |
Where do you shop? I've only seen Korean music in music stores. |
Sorry for the (very) late reply. I do my music shopping in the Kyobo Bookstore near Jonggak Station in Seoul. Their classical section probably takes up the most space, followed by Korean rock/pop. However, the non-Korean rock/pop shelves look like they're not that much smaller, and there's a display set up for the top sellers from Korean artists and the top sellers from non-Korean artists. (I don't know if that just means sales in Korea, or international sales for artists they carry in the store.)
On top of that there's an island devoted purely to Japanese rock/pop and the back side of that has electronica/chill-out and new age music. Next to that is an island with "international" music (i.e., music from South America, Russia, Greece, compilations from Putumayo and the Rough Guide series), and across from both of those is shelving for blues and jazz artists. The blues and jazz section looks like it may be around 1/2 the size of either rock/pop section. (It takes up a similar number of shelves but those shelves don't reach as high vertically as the ones in the rock/pop section.)
There's a small section for hip-hop music, and for soundtracks they seem to carry an equal number of international and Korean soundtracks - possibly more of the former. Tucked away along one wall is a set of bins with LP records, and I have yet to come across any Korean titles in there. During my last visit - a couple months ago - I noticed vinyl pieces from Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, and a picture disc pressing of Nirvana's "Nevermind". Not sure how many vinyl sales they make, but I did catch a couple behind the sales counter in what looked like a 'customer holds' area.
I live in Uijeongbu and we have a really tiny music store tucked away inside a bookstore in the subway station. I'd guess that their non-Korean music section (rock, pop, hip-hop, and "r&b") is somewhere between 10-25% of the merchandise. There's also a music store here in town but I haven't stopped by to check it out yet. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Is that a cannabis leaf next to "General"?
Do they sell it?    |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Where do you shop? I've only seen Korean music in music stores. |
Sorry for the (very) late reply. I do my music shopping in the Kyobo Bookstore near Jonggak Station in Seoul. |
Kyobo's Hot Trax (Traxx?) has a selection that changes week-to-week depending on what their distributors give them. E-Mart-uh and Lotte Mart-uh should feel shame at their DVD section. Outside of kids DVDs, they have nothing, and even then, I went in to E-Martuh to get SpongeeBop and they didn't have it.
Stick to Kyobo for your media. If you want some chicken, go to e-mart. |
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