wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
The "reasonable if you eat Korean food" is no longer true.
And besides.... It is my experience that most expats dislike 80% of Korean food, and will try to find something else when possible. Sure, people can like bulgogi and kimchi once and a while, but I have yet to find an expat happy eating Korean all of the time.
Your argument only works for gyopos who grew up on it, and Korean food is no longer cheap. |
i highly disagree with that. speaking from experience, being able to go get a 5k bowl of bimbimbap in gangnam (the priciest region of seoul) is peanuts in comparison to trying to find a decent price for a healthy non-fast food lunch in cities like tokyo, copenhagen, zurich, milan, nyc (manhattan), etc.
and as for the gyopo thing that's also nonsense. i know a lot of non-gyopo expats who love korean food and eat it every day. but that's not really the point of this discussion. the point was that it is very possible for someone to live in seoul for quite cheap. your tastebud's desire for western food is not really relevant to that.
edit: and if you're an expat from a country that uses dollars/euro/yen, that 5k bowl of bimbimbap actually ends up being even cheaper based on the weak won compared to meals in the for-mentioned countries. |
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