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[Adventurer]

I am going to relate what I noticed about coming back to Seoul after an absense of 2 years. Dongdaemun Stadium changed its name and has a very long name. I prefer the shorter name. The Russian lady who had a decent sized supermarket moved to a smaller one with less stuff. An Uzbek restaurant I used to go to has fancier tables, and has English menus at the ready, and the food is good, but the nice formers I liked are gone. There are more Central Asian restaurants than before. I noticed another Russian store. I didn't go in this other one.

In Itaewon, I noticed whatthbook moved, the foreign store expanded, I saw the new Taco Bell. In addition, I saw that the Iranian restaurant I used to like going to is gone, but, thankfully, the Parisian cafe with fabulous tarts is still there. I noticed a new shoe store had gone up. What else? There were more Middle Eastern restaurants. I noticed Jester's an Australian place. That seemed relatively new.

I wanted to stay at what used to be a motel near the McDonald's. It seemed like it was gone, and there is some place called "The Residence". What's that place all about? Some areas of Itaewon looked slightly better including some of the areas opposite of the Taco Bell. Pancho's, the Mexican place, is gone. The Turkish kebab guy who has been around for years is still there. I would have thought he would have expanded by now. I heard he was cheated by some local fellow he was trying to strike some deal with. If it's true, I feel sorry for the guy. He's very hard-working.

I saw people in navy uniforms. I've never seen that before. I've only seen people in army uniforms in the past. It was unusual. Then again, a friend who is in the navy went to Korea before.

Traffic seems somewhat worse or is just me?

[CentralCali]

There's a small Navy unit stationed at US Army Garrison Yongsan.

[hogwonguy1979]

Panchos is still in business (how they stay in business is beyond me) its across the street from Hollywood

Nashville's downstairs restaurant is long gone, used to be the best place to get a steak. in the old days in terms of shops itaewon used to be a bunch of mom and pop stores with fake goods now its all brand name stores

thats for openers

[Adventurer]

[Stan Rogers]

Prices have gone up.

[Skippy]

[Adventurer]

[HELICIS]

Same thing happened to Texas Street in Pusan across from the train station. There was a US naval base near there as well as a Russian Merchant Marine Base. It used to be pretty wild, had some great shops and was probably the best place to get some good HEAVY leather jackets. Not the thin, cheap kind--well made quality jackets. It probably had the highest % of bleach blonde Russian women per capita of anywhere in Asia. (I say it jokingly.) There was even a Wendy's hamburger joint there at one time.

Now it's long gone, the Chinese have taken over. Now it's mostly, Chinese restaurants, some so-so shops and lost all it's character. It used to be a fun place to go to drink and hang out, now it's so bland I can't believe it. Maybe that's whats in the future for the Itaewon a few years from now.

[seoulsucker]

Itaewon is about to turn a big corner. Watch the throne.

[T-J]

[Adventurer]

[hogwonguy1979]

well there was almost a huge change in the physical appearance in itaewon today, a truck came barrelling down the hill by the post office and standard chartered bank and ran into the building above the new balance store etc collapsing part of it.

apparently the driver was killed but only me and 2 other people were hurt, a woman was pinned by the truck, a woman down on street level was struck by falling debris and had a few scratches, I was also at street level but only had a couple of minor cuts. How I avoided getting seriously hurt is beyond me

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