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Cohiba
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 Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: Is there anything in Korea that isn't a rip-off? |
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So many products in Korea are a serious rip-off.
-Cars: Usually double MSRP
-Bikes: Usually double MSRP
-Apartments: Usually 2-10 times an equivalent N.A. apartment
-Wine: 40-50% higher than Japan or USA
-Potatoes: Korea is globally most expensive
-Melons: Korea is globally most expensive
-Beef: Korea is used to be globally most expensive (thanks USDA
for fixing that)
What isn't a rip-off?
-Subway: OK this is cheap
What else? |
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The Grumpy Senator
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Location: Up and down the 6 line
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Incheon International Airport. Check it out. |
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Mochi
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Taxis. Gimbap. Soju. |
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Gaber
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Restaurants that aren't American franchises
PC components
Domestic motorbikes.
teh internets
But I especially agree on the wine. |
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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Everything Mochi said, plus eating out at Korean restaurants and cigarettes. |
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markhan
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Is there anything in Korea that isn't a rip-off? |
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Of course there are many.
Generally speaking, I find so-called "Service" goods very cheap and fast in Korea. For instance, whenever I had problems with the Internet, a repairman would come to fix on the date I called.
Service industry such as medical, law, delivery, insurance, transportation, Internet, etc. is so much cheaper when compared to N.A.
OP should have known better than to write such an all-encompassing subject title.
| Cohiba wrote: |
So many products in Korea are a serious rip-off.
-Cars: Usually double MSRP
-Bikes: Usually double MSRP
-Apartments: Usually 2-10 times an equivalent N.A. apartment
-Wine: 40-50% higher than Japan or USA
-Potatoes: Korea is globally most expensive
-Melons: Korea is globally most expensive
-Beef: Korea is used to be globally most expensive (thanks USDA
for fixing that)
What isn't a rip-off?
-Subway: OK this is cheap
What else? |
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AgDragon01
Joined: 13 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Delivery for food. It's cheap, it's fast, they bring plates and stoves, and then you leave it all by the door so they can come pick it up.
I thought this thread was going to be about culture - I think that would've been a REALLY interesting conversation! |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Is there anything in Korea that isn't a rip-off? |
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| markhan wrote: |
| Service industry such as medical, ... is so much cheaper when compared to N.A. |
Not true. I never had to pay for anything my whole life until coming to Korea. I got an X-Ray on my ankle and that cost me 100,000 won, and yes I had medical insurance.
Anyways, Korea is pretty much a rip-off for anything not Korean. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Public transportation. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Medical insurance was cheap, around $75 a month for my wife and I. When my son was born at a university hospital and delivered by an English-speaking, U.S.-educated OBGYN, we only paid a premium of $1300. |
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The Grumpy Senator
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Location: Up and down the 6 line
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Is there anything in Korea that isn't a rip-off? |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| markhan wrote: |
| Service industry such as medical, ... is so much cheaper when compared to N.A. |
Not true. I never had to pay for anything my whole life until coming to Korea. I got an X-Ray on my ankle and that cost me 100,000 won, and yes I had medical insurance.
Anyways, Korea is pretty much a rip-off for anything not Korean. |
Strange. When I broke my fingers, I had multiple X-rays done (even got to keep one set) and never paid more than 20,000 won a visit. Depends on the hospital you go to.
I think markhan should have said USA and not N.A. My fingers would have cost me over a grand, easy, back in the States.
Imported items are expensive........who duh thunk it!!!!!!! |
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CA-NA-DA-ABC
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: Is there anything in Korea that isn't a rip-off? |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| markhan wrote: |
| Service industry such as medical, ... is so much cheaper when compared to N.A. |
Not true. I never had to pay for anything my whole life until coming to Korea. I got an X-Ray on my ankle and that cost me 100,000 won, and yes I had medical insurance.
Anyways, Korea is pretty much a rip-off for anything not Korean. |
YOU may not be paying for medical expenses in Canada but indirectly the tax payers are, and doctor's fees are outrageously higher in NA compared to Korea. |
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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, healthcare and dental care is cheap, as is medication. That's really a big fat gold star for Korea. I had health insurance in the US, but my co-payments back were nearly as high as the cost of my entire visit to the M.D. in the Korea, and my medication was never covered, and usually cost somewhere in the triple digits. And forget about a visit to the dentist, one or two of those a year and you're in the poor house.
Oh, and birth control is CHEAP and OTC.
But I hear Cohiba. The price of food and wine is what kills me. It's unbelievable. You get tired of eating pork and chicken every night and drastically limiting your fruit and veggie selection due to rip-off rates. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| nicam wrote: |
| ... and drastically limiting your fruit and veggie selection due to rip-off rates. |
Eat seasonally and buy from the local markets. Dirt cheap. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Is there anything in Korea that isn't a rip-off? |
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| The Grumpy Senator wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| markhan wrote: |
| Service industry such as medical, ... is so much cheaper when compared to N.A. |
Not true. I never had to pay for anything my whole life until coming to Korea. I got an X-Ray on my ankle and that cost me 100,000 won, and yes I had medical insurance.
Anyways, Korea is pretty much a rip-off for anything not Korean. |
Strange. When I broke my fingers, I had multiple X-rays done (even got to keep one set) and never paid more than 20,000 won a visit. Depends on the hospital you go to.
I think markhan should have said USA and not N.A. My fingers would have cost me over a grand, easy, back in the States.
Imported items are expensive........who duh thunk it!!!!!!! |
Yeah, obviously imported goods are going to be more money, but in Canada, everything is pretty much imported, but you still don't see the same effect as in Korea. |
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