Korean Job Discussion Forums

[nene]

I'd like to get a couple books in the next week or two. What the Book doesn't have them in their warehouse, so it would take them 4-8 weeks, and Amazon's shipping fees, especially for expedited delivery, are insane. Someone linked to a British bookstore that shipped here for free, but that link is dead (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk). Anyone know of other alternatives?

[Silk]

I don't have a recommondation, but I do have a warning. Stay away from yes24, they are way overpriced, and when I ordered some books from them, they had all these sudden out of stock problems and I didn't see my books for weeks.

[nene]

The Book Depository is back online, seems to have been a temporary outage. Books are comparably priced to What the Book and a little more expensive than Amazon. Shipping is free, so it will be much cheaper than Amazon in the end, and I should get my books, which would have taken 4-8 weeks through What the Book, in 1-2 weeks.

[Intrepid]

What the book rocks!
I don't know how they do it, but books come fast, no shipping charge, and--are they more expensive than Amazon? Didn't seem to be. They must have a partnership with Amazon, as their catalogues are linked.

[nene]

Their catalogs may be linked, but I don't think their inventories are. I do like What the Book, but they have three levels of availability: stuff they have in store in Seoul (2 days), stuff they have in warehouse abroad (10 days), and stuff they don't have (4-8 weeks). For stuff in the last category, pretty week.

They seem to be more expensive than Amazon to me... I think they charge list price, maybe plus a small surcharge. List price feels expensive to me. There's probably a psychological trick going on too though, since I still have the residual 1000won-$1 association, making prices in won seem inflated....

[The Gipkik]

Books that I can't get here and I really want? I use www.amazon.co.jp It takes a week to get em here. I use my school's address so they arrive without any fuss. Now, it costs a bit for international though, for one shipment to Korea it works out like this for books:
1. per shipment = 1,900 Yen
2. per book = 300 Yen

For several books at once, it's a good deal as the books aren't extravagantly priced.

[nene]

[ChinaBoy]

I have friends in my home country who will buy a book and send it to me.

[uhfotis]

I use an american site called thrift books (http://www.thriftbooks.com/) and it usually works out to be about 8 or 9 dollars u.s. a book including shipping. Now sure how that'd compare to the amazon japan prices but check it out.

[ed]

I find all my books as Ebooks on the net for free.

just had to buy an ebook reader

[moosehead]

stop being such a hard-ass with your money and pony up the costs - jees - what writers and publishers don't deserve to get paid or something? shipping all the way to Asia shouldn't cost more than shipping locally??

give me a freakin' break already - if you want to listen to the music you gotta pay the piper -

[dimnd]

Rhw USO in the Mokdong/Omogkyo area lets you get books inter/library loan. Call the USO.