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| What is the first thing you would buy for your apartment? |
| Toaster Oven |
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| Computer/iPod Speakers |
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13% |
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| Western Style Bedding |
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21% |
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| Coffee Maker |
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8% |
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| Microwave |
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8% |
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| Game System |
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13% |
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| Rice Cooker |
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4% |
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| Fan |
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4% |
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| A Comfortable Office Chair |
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13% |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:15 pm Post subject: First purchase for a new apartment |
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| Assuming you had just arrived in Korea and had none of the items listed, what would be the first thing you go out and buy? The apartment already has the basics like dishes, bed, A.C, crappy folding chair. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| xbox 360 |
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Xylox
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Visit e-mart, purchase everything? |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Sofa. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| That new 72" LG 3D LED HDTV. If you've got 18 mil won to spare, I don't think there is a better purchase to make in the world *tear*. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Most of those things you could pick up in one fell swoop on CraigsList. The small electric appliances make life a little better, and a fan is a must if your place doesn't have A/C.
Why people move to the other end of the world to get 'experience' and then subsequently purchase a 'gaming system' is beyond me. Get off your arses! |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
| Why people move to the other end of the world to get 'experience' and then subsequently purchase a 'gaming system' is beyond me. Get off your arses! |
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oldtrafford
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Why people move to the other end of the world to get 'experience' and then subsequently purchase a 'gaming system' is beyond me. Get off your arses!
your thought process is beyond me!!!  |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
Most of those things you could pick up in one fell swoop on CraigsList. The small electric appliances make life a little better, and a fan is a must if your place doesn't have A/C.
Why people move to the other end of the world to get 'experience' and then subsequently purchase a 'gaming system' is beyond me. Get off your arses! |
What if ur playing a korean-bought system, and drinking korean beer while playing with a pretty korean university student? if u ask me, that's a pretty nice cultural experience!  |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:02 am Post subject: |
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I bought the apartment first.
Actually, as of last month, I own two apartments here now. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| It's gotta be the bedding. Good lord I can't stand that crunchy quilted bedding that they have in Korea, like the kind of bedding your grandma has in her spare bedroom that no one has used since 1987. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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BigBuds, you're the only person I know actually buying an apartment right now. Hope you do OK with that as things have been on the way down for a while now.
Depending on your hood, there still might be a little negotiating room to make a little coin, but the days of windfall profits on apartments have passed. |
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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
Location: darkness
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:36 am Post subject: |
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gotta go with toaster oven... i haven't owned a microwave in two years now at my present apartment...
i'd also say a couple of big towels, tho you can swipe those from love hotels also, a few plants always makes the apartment seem more cozy... and a water machine cuts down on waste and is the same price as buying bottles...
i'm surprised no one has said stripper pole |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
BigBuds, you're the only person I know actually buying an apartment right now. Hope you do OK with that as things have been on the way down for a while now.
Depending on your hood, there still might be a little negotiating room to make a little coin, but the days of windfall profits on apartments have passed. |
Already had an offer on the one we bought a month or so ago of 20 grand more than we paid for it.
I'm down south not far from Busan and there's still money to be made in real estate down here but I look at it as a long term investment so I'm not looking for quick easy windfalls, not to say it wouldn't be nice to get a quick easy windfall.
I own a couple of plots of land here as well as the apartments and hopefully will be buying some real estate in Thailand and the Philippines over the next year or two. |
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