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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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������ Independence Gate (door) pronounced "Dongnimmun" in English
���� Լء independence (sorry, can't find the separate meaning for the characters)
�� ڦ gate/door
Incidentally, if you've done most everything in Seoul and want to see something new, the park at this station is rather nice. You might see a stunningly attractive (okay, okay, mildly attractive  ) foreign woman with a poodle in desperate need of a haircut walking around there. Say hi if you do! I don't recommend paying the 2300won to enter the Seodaemun prison history hall, however -- unless you have a specific interest in that history. It's has a lot of mannequins depicting awful scenes of torture, and put me in a bad mood for 2 whole days!!! |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Hoeryong - The center of the universe and everything holy. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| JackSarang wrote: |
���� - Ejaculate
Most of the stops with �� mean water-something, although not all. Just look at the Hanja. Its the same Hanja for Wednesday. |
There's one stop that always sounds like "kum ho" to me. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| ��ȣ(����) - golden lake. ^^ |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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I'm guessing Gunja station doesn't have anything to do with mary jane either
yeah I know... it's probably pronounced goonja ����? |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Great thread, I've always wondered about those subway names. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| i read somewhere that itaewon means "something that tom waits would write a song about if he sang for slayer" but i can't find the link... |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| uberscheisse wrote: |
| i read somewhere that itaewon means "something that tom waits would write a song about if he sang for slayer" but i can't find the link... |
good old itaeowon dong, apparently it used to be called ���˵�
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
I'm guessing Gunja station doesn't have anything to do with mary jane either
yeah I know... it's probably pronounced goonja ����? |
Yeah That was my thought. Then there's bongwassan. Wassan is water in German? Bong water? |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:46 am Post subject: |
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How about Noksapyeong?
Four green units of measure?  |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Oddly enough, I bought a book on exactly this same subject years ago, when there were fewer lines than there are now. It explained the station names and gave a bit of the history of the area around each station. |
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