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[Threequalseven]

Let me start by being perfectly clear. This is not an attack on Korea. I'm legitimately trying to brainstorm things that are commonplace in the West that are not common here. There was a post earlier where someone asked what they should bring back to Korea from home, and someone replied along the lines of "if you can't think of anything, then you don't have it that bad." Since reading that, I've been a bit perplexed. On one hand I feel like Korea is lacking many of the things from home, but on the other hand it's hard to articulate exactly what those things are. What's actually missing? One more point, I don't live in Seoul, and I'm not talking about things you can find at Itaewon or Hongdae. For example, I know Mexican food exists in Korea, but it's almost impossible to find throughout the vast majority of the country including most of Seoul. So that's what I'm trying to think of. What are things you can find in nearly every city and town back home that you really have to go out of your way for here? Again, I'm not saying Korea should have these things or is in any way inferior for not having them. Also, I know Korea has a lot of things that the West doesn't have. So please don't misinterpret what I'm asking. I'll start with a little list:

Places:
- Mexican restaurants
- Sandwich shops
- Casinos
- Strip clubs
- Restaurants with beer on tap
- Restaurants or bars with wi-fi

Products/Services:
- Whole wheat bread
- Sour cream
- Deli meat
- Tortilla chips
- Shoelaces
- Bike racks on buses

Misc:
- Gauged ears
- Skateboarders

[Steelrails]

Ethiopian Food
Good NY-Style Pizza
Greek Pizza
Detroit Pizza
Good Beer. IPAs.
Bourbon
Good selection of ROY tobacco
Cigars
Coney Island Restaurants
Guns
Marching Bands
High School & College Sports
Good Chips & salsa
Pork Rinds
Curry Fries
Spinach Artichoke Dip
7 Layer Bean Dip
Jimmy John's
Silver Tequila
Gourmet Salad & Hot food bars at grocery stores
Small bottles of Tosti Asti & Anti-Friz cocktails
Jewish Delis
Nexxus & Paul Mitchell
Bluegrass
American Chinese Food
Soul Food

[fezmond]

Gays, apparently.

[Nolos]

So in other words you want to turn Korea into a fast food, pig of a country like America with sleazy strip clubs. No thanks. Get some morals. Korea is doing just fine without *beep* strip bars.

Ok, I can see the better food restaurants but that will just push the trend of fatness upward at an accelerated speed more so than it already is.

[Julius]

escalators that work without having to be switched off and fixed every second day.

[Threequalseven]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

Bras larger than a small C cup.

[Ginormousaurus]

[Julius]

[coralreefer_1]

[Times30]

[augustine]

So, the parameters of your post exclude those of us who live in Itaewon or central Seoul? I don't know how some of you people survive out there in yellowneck territory. In the three or so weeks I've spent in various countryside beach towns here, personally, they seemed to lack pretty much everything I need, but I'm not from some small Canadian tundra town, so I understand that there are degrees of the step up and the step down to the average person.

Even in the proximate Itaewon/hongdae area, the food isn't even all that great. Better than the slop that constitutes Korean food, though.

There actually was a strip club in the spot below Sujis for a brief period of time early last year, owned by that little mega rich Pakistani guy who lives here and played on the pool team, dragging his 300lbs wife around with him (though I think he may have moved on since I haven't seen him in a while). Worst strip club ever, though. I actually took on a semi-consulting role in that business briefly, but he's just a screw up with a lot of dirty poppy seed Pakistani family money and that shit failed, or was just a money laundering front. That guy is/was pretty notorious so I assume a few people here know what I'm talking about.

There are also good casinos here. Walker Hill is a quality casino and 7 Luck isn't too bad. I've lost a lot of money playing poker at WH but I've made some good money at 7 Luck at black jack. Very good money.

To me, there's a ton lacking here and I'm pretty much ready to move on at this point. I'm mostly biding my time and waiting to get fired from my zero-oversight, 3 hour a day job, where I essentially do nothing. Call me what you want, but this is a weird country and I'll take the experience, tang, and easy jobs I've received along the way as a positive, eh, I already used the word 'experience' so, I'll take it as a positive... random circumstance?

I'd rather be back in the land of plenty. On the list of shit that isn't here, I don't even know where to start.

[fezmond]

[Threequalseven]

[robbie_davies]