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AfroBurrito
Joined: 19 Dec 2013
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
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| Outside of Seoul, I don't think there are many Koreans who fancy a good glass of wine as much as they do a shot of soju. |
My city is only 500K people. At the Homeplus there is a very good selection. It's not like all the wealthy people live in Seoul. There are doctors, lawyers, MB500s, symphony concerts, rich people here too. |
I never said there weren't "rich people" (or well-paid professionals, for that matter) outside of Seoul.
And I am familiar with HP as a source for reasonably priced libation. I lived in a small Jeolla town called Iksan and often found decently priced wine in HP.
Please don't attempt to distort my comment into a classist disparagement. I'm hardly a sophisticate. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Really? I buy nearly all my wine nowadays when one of the big Seoul department stores has a sale. I spend upwards of 400,000 and don't buy any more until the next one. You can get some very good stuff for under 20,000 on occasions like those. It's funny seeing most of the people there half filling a small basket with the stuff. Unless you're planning on taking the pledge or you've got something terminal, I can't see why you wouldn't go out and spend all your available cash/credit. It's free delivery as well. |
I'm curious how one keeps up with department store sales? Looking to take up a similar wine buying habit. New Year's resolutions and all. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:02 am Post subject: |
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I'm curious how one keeps up with department store sales? Looking to take up a similar wine buying habit. New Year's resolutions and all. |
I've got a network of people who shop a lot in those places - wife, mother in law, wife's friends, colleagues sometimes etc... who let me know, but we also get leaflets through the post about it. Nothing systematic though. |
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John Stamos jr.
Joined: 07 Oct 2012
Location: Namsan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| You know, the way people end up at dice. |
What? End up playing dice with people? Do you hang out with really old black dudes? That's the last group of people I'd expect to accept your out of touch with reality, fake multicultural hipster doofus act.
I don't really get wine, meaning I've been around wine snobs, including my own parents, and I love drinking wine myself... but I think there's a lot of bullshit in it. Give me a red vest, some rossi and put me in front of a bunch of wine yuppies from Northern California, 99% will believe it's a $300 bottle of wine if I tell them that it is. The singer of tool and a bunch of poor countries are producing it now, and everyone seems to say it's pretty good stuff, so I think wine is in a good place. So I think wine is in a good place... wtf am I talking about, I just came on here to make fun of SR then tried to relate it back to the op which I don't even think I read. I've just never noticed a huge difference between a 200d vs a 20d bottle of wine, at least not enough for me to understand the price difference. But maybe I'm unsophisticated, though I think it's more of a ritualistic thing these days. |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| John Stamos jr. wrote: |
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| You know, the way people end up at dice. |
What? End up playing dice with people? Do you hang out with really old black dudes? That's the last group of people I'd expect to accept your out of touch with reality, fake multicultural hipster doofus act. |
^LOL |
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420bro
Joined: 15 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:16 am Post subject: |
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| back to the point....the department stores usually have huge sales once a month or so. I often get bottles 60-80% off. Granted the original prices are inflated but with the huge discounts you end up paying what the bottle should cost. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| You guys are gonna laugh at me for this one but...Vino Solo. Yes, those little plastic bottles of wine that you can get from CU mart. They're 4000, come with their own little cup, and taste like a standard spanish wine. When it's winter time, throw them in a little bath of warm water to get them room-temp. Nice. |
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AfroBurrito
Joined: 19 Dec 2013
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
| You guys are gonna laugh at me for this one but...Vino Solo. Yes, those little plastic bottles of wine that you can get from CU mart. They're 4000, come with their own little cup, and taste like a standard spanish wine. When it's winter time, throw them in a little bath of warm water to get them room-temp. Nice. |
No laughs from me! I've had them, and think they're great!
Lotte Mart also has this semi-palatable 1.5 bottle of French Cabernet whose name eludes me, but it costs ₩9,000 and does quite nicely for parties. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| byrddogs wrote: |
| John Stamos jr. wrote: |
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| You know, the way people end up at dice. |
What? End up playing dice with people? Do you hang out with really old black dudes? That's the last group of people I'd expect to accept your out of touch with reality, fake multicultural hipster doofus act. |
^LOL |
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| I usually end up at soju. You know, the way people end up at dice. |
But yeah, if I had claimed the latter the label of "fake multicultural hipster doofus act" would be far too kind. |
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greene
Joined: 11 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| Still pretty pretentious homie |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ending up at soju is pretentious?
Good grief, I'd hate to see what would constitute down-to-earth. Ending up at moonshine? |
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