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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: Busan |
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Who would live there?
I did. Once. |
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whatthefunk

Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Dont have a clue
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting question. But the greater question is....would you live in POHANG? |
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J.B. Clamence

Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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I'd give it a shot for a year if the job was really good, why not? |
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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Pluses of Busan include much better weather, great scenery, beaches, great little Texas Town with women that actually strip (oolala), a Russian community (always interesting), and I guess thats about it. |
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shakuhachi

Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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Serious question and not flame bait. Koreans have told me that Pusan ladies are the best looking in Korea. I have also noticed that disproportionate numbers of the Korean lookers I have met have also been from Pusan. Can someone who has lived in Pusan and Seoul comment on this? |
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Avram Iancu

Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: Changwon
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Yes, TB. I may not agree with your politics, but I do agree with your choice of destinations and ladies. Russians, and other Eastern-Europeans put EVERYONE else to shame in the drinking stakes...
Just say SLIVOVITZ (or PALINKA, the stronger Romanian home brew)
Never blacked-out as fast, although the quantity of "Stop" signs pulled-down that night was remarkable... |
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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:07 am Post subject: |
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shakuhachi wrote: |
Serious question and not flame bait. Koreans have told me that Pusan ladies are the best looking in Korea. I have also noticed that disproportionate numbers of the Korean lookers I have met have also been from Pusan. Can someone who has lived in Pusan and Seoul comment on this? |
I'll try.
I lived in Pusan (when it was spelled with a "P") in 1996-1997. The girls at that time had to keep their haircut in High School.. and as soon as they got out, they just let it grow and kept long hair until they got married. They also wore micro miniskirts and really tight jeans all the time. They were stunningly tall, gorgeous, cheekbones, long hair, just looked like models everywhere.
When I moved back to Korea and to Seoul in 2000.. all the girls there seemed to turn collegiate. Crop the hair shoulder-length.. switch to those college knee-length baggy-like pants.. complete with the little collegiate sweater.. I didn't like it.
I still haven't quite figured out if all of Korea changed.. or just that I was in 2 different cities with really different looking women. |
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phaedrus

Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:23 am Post subject: |
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The women seem the same in Seoul and Busan. The hotties are hotties, and the dogs are dogs.
Busan has its beaches, but Seoul has its big city feel. Undecided. |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: |
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I moved to Geoje Island in 2002 to be close to Busan, yet get the small town feel.
Now I still like Busan, even though it has a much colder wind than the island, and the beaches aren't as necessary (Geoje has tons of great swimming, scenic, sandy beaches).
I'll keep on going to Nampodong on a Saturday night sometimes, to Sameon Sundays to shop, to the university and Russian areas for drinks and stuff. I have yet to hike the mountains thereabouts, but I'm sure I will.
The best part of Busan in 2005 for me will be the overnight ferry to Shimoniseki to make a couple of more jaunts to Japan. And the film festival, if I finally catch some of it after a few years of near misses. |
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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:17 am Post subject: |
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The Film Festival is great. I was living there for the 1st one. It was a great treat at the time as well.
Just curious, how much is the ferry now from Busan to Fukuoka and back? And how late does it leave on a Friday and how late does it come back on a Sunday? |
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Cthulhu

Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Busan is a great place--when I was there I wouldn't have traded living in Haeundae with anywhere else in Korea.
Tiger beer wrote:
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I lived in Pusan (when it was spelled with a "P") in 1996-1997. The girls at that time had to keep their haircut in High School.. and as soon as they got out, they just let it grow and kept long hair until they got married. They also wore micro miniskirts and really tight jeans all the time. They were stunningly tall, gorgeous, cheekbones, long hair, just looked like models everywhere.
When I moved back to Korea and to Seoul in 2000.. all the girls there seemed to turn collegiate. Crop the hair shoulder-length.. switch to those college knee-length baggy-like pants.. complete with the little collegiate sweater.. Rolling Eyes I didn't like it. |
I remember that, and the change in 2000. Bleah. When the high school girls dressed up in their minis and boots on the weekend, the only way to tell some of them apart from the young college girls was the telltale short haircut. |
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dogbert

Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:29 am Post subject: |
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The women from Busan look like mutants, but there is much less air pollution than there is in Seoul, so I'm at a loss for the cause. |
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just because

Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Busan is pretty cool. I like it.
Then again Seoul is Ok but it is too crowded for my liking. |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003 Location: pusan baby!
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:59 am Post subject: |
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Tiger Beer wrote: |
The Film Festival is great. I was living there for the 1st one. It was a great treat at the time as well.
Just curious, how much is the ferry now from Busan to Fukuoka and back? And how late does it leave on a Friday and how late does it come back on a Sunday? |
Tiger Beer a return ticket on the ferry is about 150 bucks.Unfortunately there is no late ferry.There are two companies running ferries at the moment and I think the last boat from both Busan and Fukuoka leaves around two.
I'm surprised at the 'bigging' up of Busan women though...I've always heard the best women were from Daegu. |
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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:30 am Post subject: |
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waggo wrote: |
I'm surprised at the 'bigging' up of Busan women though...I've always heard the best women were from Daegu. |
Daegu and Busan people in general have always struck me as almost the same. The thinking, the conservativism, the strong adherence to traditional thought, etc. |
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