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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Drunk people acting like fools is shocking to this guy? In Korea? |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
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| The most offensive things about Itaewon are the crappy Indian restaurants and Ho-Lee-Chow's "American-Chinese Food" which manages to taste worse than Wok Express at 4 times the price. |
Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure we can turn this into a Taco Bell thread if we try hard enough. |
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| Mr. A said: 'I had thought I was going to see the Itaewon of the past, and to have to see that shocking scene made my co-workers feel awkward�. I had the thought that Itaewon has changed so much in just a few years.' |
I can't actually figure out what this is supposed to mean. He expected to see old Itaewon, but Itaewon has changed so much?
Anyway, I don't feel bad for poor Mr. A and his awkward-feeling coworkers in the slightest. The hyped-up vogue brunch-time atmosphere by day does not extend into the evening hours. |
Im also confused about this "I wanted to see old Itaewon" quote. Back in the day the bars extended all the way to Samgakji. Only licensed "bar girls" aka hookers could enter the area. And they checked their ids. The girls who worked there were the best looking women in all of Korea. The bars were segregated based on who they served: some served white GIs and some black GIs. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Im also confused about this "I wanted to see old Itaewon" quote. Back in the day the bars extended all the way to Samgakji. Only licensed "bar girls" aka hookers could enter the area. And they checked their ids. The girls who worked there were the best looking women in all of Korea. The bars were segregated based on who they served: some served white GIs and some black GIs. |
This is the most confusing part of the article. Even if you don't want to look back that far, what I've heard about Itaewon of the '90s involved a lot more street prostitution and a lot more ridiculousness. Again, it sounds like this guy stayed into the evening for the first time and saw what goes on after dark (which, again, is a lot like what goes on everywhere else in Korea after dark). |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| So a dude saw some PDA between a Korean girl and foreigner, and heard some people talk loudly, and they made an article about it? |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I was shocked when I used to visit my ex-girlfriend near Silim station. That place was full of drunk koreans, puking on the street and shouting. And as for seedy, I lost count of the number of kiss-bangs, business clubs and love motels in the area. |
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ghostrider
Joined: 27 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like the journalist was really trying hard to manufacture a story when there's not much of a story. And they used the same photo (a foreigner talking to Korean girl in a short skirt) that was used in a previous article about the "scandalous" things that happen in the hostess bars of Itaewon. |
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