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ThingsComeAround
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It's funny you mention that, because I was just talking the other day about how the PC Room has totally died off in the past 5 years. When I came here 10 years ago, they were all over. Now, I spot them, but they're a much reduced presence.
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Surely yee jest
I don't think you are looking for them. Then again, with cheap internet and cheaper computers, do we really need them like we used to? |
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alwaysbeclosing100
Joined: 07 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:09 pm Post subject: re |
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i was here in 97 and i think
- seoul is far less livable now
- the driving then was definitely 3rd world...only two speeds....gas pedal to the floor or stop
- living outside of seoul was much more 3rd world and poor back then
- the korail train to dongducheon didnt even have windows back then
- far fewer big box stores like emart and homeplus back then
- more traditional markets back then
- there are less food tents now
- i never heard of koreans marrying foreign wives until the last few years |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Lazio wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| It's funny you mention that, because I was just talking the other day about how the PC Room has totally died off in the past 5 years. When I came here 10 years ago, they were all over. Now, I spot them, but they're a much reduced presence. |
Within a 200 yard radius around my home there are easily 10 PC rooms. Dunno how was it 10 years ago but can't imagine being much more than this. |
Perhaps we live in different areas. When I fist moved here I lived in Anyang, and it was very much how you described. Since then, the areas I've lived in ive noticed a drastic decline.
I lived in Mapo for 5 years and only saw one PC Bang near my place. My current apartment on Gyonnggi is similar... 200 yards may find me one. |
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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| I don't seem to attract the ladies here like I did in the mid-1990's (of course, I was 15 years younger and there were not many foreigners here then......................) |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| Haven't seen one of them trucks that used to drive through the neighborhoods, blowing some kind of smoke out the back, to kill all them mosquitos in the summer time. Kids used to chase that truck till it was out of smoke... Don't hear alot of them guys that used to walk the streets late at night, yelling out rice cakes and chestnuts for sale. |
Every summer these are things I can't help but notice
Where have you been? |
Yeah those trucks went up and down my street several times last summer in Iksan, and I was actually going to start a thread about them but never got around to it.
I used to run behind those trucks in Florida when I was a kid too and did not know any better, but the fact is that "smoke' is poison - some kind of insecticide. It may or may not be a necessary evil to combat the mosquitoes, but at the very least some precautions should be taken.
The reason I say this is that when this truck last summer was billowing out this "smoke" so thickly that you could hardly see across the street, I saw a middle age adjumma carrying a new-born infant and not making the slightest attempt at covering the baby's face, even though there were several stores she could have ducked into.
I guess I should not have been surprised - there was the same lack of concern when they fumigated our school during the bird-flu scare. |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:41 am Post subject: |
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Seriously, learn the difference between LESS and FEWER. You're all English teachers and very old English teachers at that! I've been seeing this mistake all over this thread.  |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Lazio wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| It's funny you mention that, because I was just talking the other day about how the PC Room has totally died off in the past 5 years. When I came here 10 years ago, they were all over. Now, I spot them, but they're a much reduced presence. |
Within a 200 yard radius around my home there are easily 10 PC rooms. Dunno how was it 10 years ago but can't imagine being much more than this. |
What about the da bangs? Those seem to have reduced themselves over the past few years. Though still around, they seem to exist in smaller numbers. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Lazio wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| It's funny you mention that, because I was just talking the other day about how the PC Room has totally died off in the past 5 years. When I came here 10 years ago, they were all over. Now, I spot them, but they're a much reduced presence. |
Within a 200 yard radius around my home there are easily 10 PC rooms. Dunno how was it 10 years ago but can't imagine being much more than this. |
Perhaps we live in different areas. When I fist moved here I lived in Anyang, and it was very much how you described. Since then, the areas I've lived in ive noticed a drastic decline.
I lived in Mapo for 5 years and only saw one PC Bang near my place. My current apartment on Gyonnggi is similar... 200 yards may find me one. |
Very much suspected this |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:13 am Post subject: |
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1) English ability has increased greatly
2) Koreans have become more accustomed to seeing non-Koreans
3) Seoul is a lot more liveable, bearable (this could also be just me, as maybe I have just gotten more used to it)
By the way, I am talking about the peroid between 2002-now |
Snap, I've also been here since 2002 and I'd mostly agree with the above.
I would add:
-attitudes to the US have improved
- mens fashion has become less formal (guys wear jeans and trainers more)
- A lot of formerly pretty or wild countryside has been concreted in various ways (ruined)
-The mass arrival of vietnamese wives
-cellphones have improved radically
-daves is much more civil
- hakwon abuses seem to be less widespread than before
-the overt xenephobia has decreased
-A lot of new infrastructure
-The "hallo" chorus has died down a lot |
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