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saram_
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mr_thehorse
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:31 am Post subject: Re: Seoul - a top class city both now and in the future. |
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with the exception of fast internet speeds, and lovely legs running around, I feel its a unremarkable city. A bit sad to see them destroy older neighborhoods to be replaced with sterile concrete apartment blocks that only stalin would love. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| I don't care how inward he thinks Japan has turned, their cities still piss on Korea's |
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Sister Ray
Joined: 25 Mar 2006
Location: Fukuoka
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:45 am Post subject: Re: Seoul - a top class city both now and in the future. |
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with the exception of fast internet speeds, and lovely legs running around, I feel its a unremarkable city. |
As a city, I love Seoul. Dense, super urban and chaotic. Wonderful metro system. Surrounded by mountains. Big river. Great stuff.
Unfortunately, culturally and politically, it's not such a good place to live for me. Too reactionary, homogeneous and conservative.
But the city itself? Wonderful. |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:02 am Post subject: |
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From the article:
"Koreans must surely wonder if they’ve built a truly developed country or a dysfunctional sham, with Seoul a blindingly illuminated, distraction-filled Potemkin village." |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| the well-maintained restrooms in those stations; the Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shops where none need worry about the safety of their laptop; the other 24-hour businesses of every imaginable kind – have at times made me believe that South Korea has attained a new high watermark of urban civilisation |
he's correct in a way.
Try to find a decent wifi connection or even a PC bang in London, with a fast internet connection and a printer that works, takes about a week and costs you the earth. Try to find good reasonably-priced or even cheap accommodation that does not leave you with bedbugs and have drunken thugs roaming through it? Almost impossible. Try to find a range of food beyond fried breakfast and chips anywhere outside of the capital? no chance.
Every time I re-visit the UK it seems more and more third world. |
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aq8knyus
Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:29 am Post subject: |
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he's correct in a way.
Try to find a decent wifi connection or even a PC bang in London, with a fast internet connection and a printer that works, takes about a week and costs you the earth. |
We dont have PC bang culture, so why would you expect there to be internet cafes on every corner.
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| Try to find good reasonably-priced or even cheap accommodation that does not leave you with bedbugs and have drunken thugs roaming through it? Almost impossible. |
Premier Inn and Travel lodge are pretty cheap and are perfectly clean.
They are better than some skeezy love motel or jimgilbang.
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| Try to find a range of food beyond fried breakfast and chips anywhere outside of the capital? no chance. |
Rubbish.
Even tiny little market towns in the north have a multitude of cusine from all over the world. Better than some generic kimbabp joint.
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| Every time I re-visit the UK it seems more and more third world. |
You have all those problems because London is one of the most expensive cities in the world. It is not a city that you can go as a casual visitor on a budget for more than a couple of nights.
That is why Seoul is great, despite all the increases it is still cheap.
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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Seoul is my most favourite city in the world. I would live there if I could. Clean, accessible, artistic, and friendly. Whenever I visited, I left feeling refreshed, gladdened, uplifted and rested. Everything about Seoul is perfect. Spotless. Beautiful. What an amazing place!
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Loved this comment. Written by a Korean maybe? Who else would use words like 'spotless' and 'beautiful' to describe Seoul? Something not quite natural about the language too. The use of simple past 'Whenever I visited' instead of the more natural 'whenever I visit' and the Korean overuse of 'refreshed'. |
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misher
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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When you're young Seoul is not bad. It's cheap and people like to party. Things are convenient.
But when I'm 45 55 65, absolutely no way in hell would I live in Seoul. Yes I can think of worse places but I can also think of many places that are way better. I wasn't born in a 3rd world country with no options so why would I decrease my standard of living considerably and screw myself over as I hit my middle ages? Sorry, but if your answer is "The women here aren't whales" then I feel sorry for you. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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