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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:26 am Post subject: Itaewon's gay hill, hooker hill, and more to be destroyed |
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| Anyone have a link to the Korean article on this? Is Chia from WhatTheBook still around here -- I'd assume his area falls under this too. Apparently, there was a gov't announcement that a large portion of Itaewon is scheduled to be leveled in the next 1 to 2 years, and totally rebuilt? Was talking with several Korean friends about this in Goldfish bar, and a guy at the Foreign food market confirmed it. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: Re: Itaewon's gay hill, hooker hill, and more to be destroye |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| Anyone have a link to the Korean article on this? |
"the" Korean article? This scheme has been brewing for about 10 years now. Maybe longer. Still a year or two off? I'm surprised it's taken them this long to get off the drawing board and onto the bulldozers.
"Good-bye skeezy clubs & people, Hello billion-won-per-unit highrise apartments surrounded by green areas" seems to be the battle cry.
BTW, who calls it "Gay Hill"?
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| We MUST stand for the hookers! Homo Hill can go though... |
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kiknkorea
Joined: 16 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:12 am Post subject: |
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^I'm pretty sure the profession can still survive in Korea!
I am curious to how big a "large portion of Itaewon" is.
With any luck they mean the whole place.
It would be nice to see most all of it go and start over. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| I heard from a school not far from WhatTheBook, around the mosque, pretty much up to main street Itaewon, and that area. Not sure how far toward Geckos it will go, but yeah... that area. |
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komtengi
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: |
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haebangchon is in the firing line as well...
chiaa has left the country by they way |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Did he sell out his store to someone else?
| komtengi wrote: |
haebangchon is in the firing line as well...
chiaa has left the country by they way |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| komtengi wrote: |
haebangchon is in the firing line as well...
chiaa has left the country by they way |
Really? The store seems to do so well. I am guessing they are managing it from afar while they educate their son overseas? He was about that age. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| oh well. love it or hate it, that's one less colorful spot in Korea. |
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js99
Joined: 25 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:41 am Post subject: |
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Where will all the soldiers hang out now once the area is demolished?
Also, Itaewon has been known for providing affordable housing for many in the expat community.
It basically sounds like they are running the foreigners out of what is basically known as the foriegn district. |
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AgentM
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| Hopefully WhatTheBook survives! I'll need a good store to buy English books from when I get over to Korea. |
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Goon-Yang
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| Give me a sledgehammer and I'll smash down most of hooker/homo hill for them. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Goon-Yang wrote: |
| Give me a sledgehammer and I'll smash down most of hooker/homo hill for them. |
Agreed. The restaurants and some of the pubs? Some good to great places, but the rest is garbage. |
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PigeonFart
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| If the Mosque was destroyed, that would be tragic. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| PigeonFart wrote: |
| If the Mosque was destroyed, that would be tragic. |
You KNOW we're talking about the sleazy places that draw the criminal element. |
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