| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Rofpo
Joined: 12 Jun 2013
|
 Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:07 pm Post subject: Recommend your favorite blog |
 |
|
| Which is it and why. Especially looking for input from some peeps that have been in Korea for a long time, what do you read? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Rofpo
Joined: 12 Jun 2013
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Over 130 views and not one blog recommendation?
What gives?
Whatcha reading? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| The Marmot's Hole and ROK Drop are about the only two I frequent. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jphill9990
Joined: 02 Dec 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Gust's of popular feeling is great for those who want a more historical and in depth look into Korea. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
robbie_davies
Joined: 16 Jun 2013
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Simonandmartina...
Nah, just kidding!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
i wish an idiots tale was still out there, i loved that blog
expathell is also a good one |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
overdrive2023x
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
Location: San Diego, CA
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| It's kind of new, but ROKpaperscissors.com is pretty good. Porbably one of the more user oriented K-blogs out there, with their Gyeonggi Restaurant Reviews and the K-Urban Dictionary. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Rofpo
Joined: 12 Jun 2013
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
i wish an idiots tale was still out there, i loved that blog
expathell is also a good one |
Good?
Understatement of the century.
Comic gold! Thanks for that.
http://www.expathell.com/ |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Rofpo wrote: |
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
i wish an idiots tale was still out there, i loved that blog
expathell is also a good one |
Good?
Understatement of the century.
Comic gold! Thanks for that.
http://www.expathell.com/ |
Dude that blog is brilliant. Never really heard about it until now. It so wonderfully captures the haze of alcohol. And just when you think you have it plugged a certain way, it'll surprise. Above all it is a blog attracted to the bizarre.
Last edited by Steelrails on Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:09 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ibeattheborg
Joined: 17 Dec 2010
Location: the deep blue sea
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:46 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Rofpo wrote: |
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
i wish an idiots tale was still out there, i loved that blog
expathell is also a good one |
Good?
Understatement of the century.
Comic gold! Thanks for that.
http://www.expathell.com/ |
Agreed. It's a good read, unlike most of the other kimchi blogs. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
Wow. This is a blog that I have to show to my Korean relatives and how they should feel bad about their backward culture.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| How eactly does one go about starting one of those "Kimchi" food blogs, anyway? Do you just walk into restaurants with a camera and yell "I'm a blogger. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme free stuff and buy ads and I'll say that the "Poo stew" is just like home cooking, that you invented breakfast, lunch, brunch,dinner, and that the "Craptactular Crazy burger" is a real value at only 50,000 won." Or do the restaurants contact you, first? How does it work? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009
Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| dairyairy wrote: |
| How eactly does one go about starting one of those "Kimchi" food blogs, anyway? Do you just walk into restaurants with a camera and yell "I'm a blogger. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme free stuff and buy ads and I'll say that the "Poo stew" is just like home cooking, that you invented breakfast, lunch, brunch,dinner, and that the "Craptactular Crazy burger" is a real value at only 50,000 won." Or do the restaurants contact you, first? How does it work? |
Many of these food bloggers have a quid pro quo relationship with various restaurants such that the restaurant gives the blogger a free meal in exchange for publicity. As a blogger's hit count increases, word of mouth among the restaurant community increases and the blogger receives more and more solicitations from restaurant owners. And that's how the vicious cycle begins.
Some restaurants are more adept at using the blogging network than others; you'll frequently see certain restaurants mentioned over and over again on multiple blogs. One thing remains certain: any and all 'food blogs' should be read with the highest level of scrutiny and skepticism. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| toby99 wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
| How eactly does one go about starting one of those "Kimchi" food blogs, anyway? Do you just walk into restaurants with a camera and yell "I'm a blogger. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme free stuff and buy ads and I'll say that the "Poo stew" is just like home cooking, that you invented breakfast, lunch, brunch,dinner, and that the "Craptactular Crazy burger" is a real value at only 50,000 won." Or do the restaurants contact you, first? How does it work? |
Many of these food bloggers have a quid pro quo relationship with various restaurants such that the restaurant gives the blogger a free meal in exchange for publicity. As a blogger's hit count increases, word of mouth among the restaurant community increases and the blogger receives more and more solicitations from restaurant owners. And that's how the vicious cycle begins.
Some restaurants are more adept at using the blogging network than others; you'll frequently see certain restaurants mentioned over and over again on multiple blogs. One thing remains certain: any and all 'food blogs' should be read with the highest level of scrutiny and skepticism. |
Seoul Eats is one of the worst offenders among inaccurate food blogs. The founder of the site has no qualifications to rate food, other than that he used to work as a waiter or so at a restaurant and likes food.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Steelrails wrote: |
| Rofpo wrote: |
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
i wish an idiots tale was still out there, i loved that blog
expathell is also a good one |
Good?
Understatement of the century.
Comic gold! Thanks for that.
http://www.expathell.com/ |
Dude that blog is brilliant. Never really heard about it until now. It so wonderfully captures the haze of alcohol. And just when you think you have it plugged a certain way, it'll surprise. Above all it is a blog attracted to the bizarre. |
Steelrails dude, I hate to tell ya but you get special mention over there. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
