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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:00 am Post subject: Korean things you wish would catch on back home but haven't |
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1. Chicken and beer restuarants. Not a bar, just a restaurant that serves beer and fried chicken with sauces, that's it. Seems to me to be a great idea. I love those places.
2. DVD and Playstation Bangs - Maybe these haven't caught on due to legality issues? But I don't see why not. It's just like you're renting the vidoe or game and the place is providing a means to view/play it.
3. Restaurants inside your apartment building. I love that I can go downstairs and eat kimbap, kimchi chigae, sam gyeop sal, whatever.
4. Korean food in general, even little things like mandu or kimbap. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| ondol heating and free internet downloading. |
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thorin
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Compulsory military service. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: |
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Cheap taxi's
Cheap smokes
Ondol
Fast internet
Slim girls |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:54 am Post subject: |
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Spitting in the streets
Unisex bathrooms
Meat-on-a-stick for sale the moment you walk out of a bar wanting meat-on-a-stick...
Norae Bang! Norae Bang! Norae Bang!
Liquor Bottle Parking... |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Oh...
Clean fast food restaurants
No tipping |
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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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- Super fast Chinese delivery in bowls
- Public transportation (it sucks in the States outside of the major metros)
- National Health Insurance
- DVD Bangs
- Noraebangs
- Grilling oysters at your table
- Undol heating while sleeping on the floor
- Less greasy diet (I have gone down one belt notch here)
- Chicken and beer joints
- Butchers with whole hogs hanging in the windows
- BBQ (the fried chicken franchise)
- Pitchers of beer with dry ice and flashing lights inside them |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: |
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What people above said and...
the mogyoktang / public bathhouses |
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goodfella
Joined: 10 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| MMMMM.... DOG MEAT!! |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| Negligible street crime. |
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John Henry
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I was in a place called Diamond Bar, California. On my way to an Italian deli, I saw this room full of computers, much like a PC lab at a uni. I thought it was really strange that people would go out somewhere and pay to use a computer. Doesn't everyone have one at home?
I think that was a PC bang in America. Sure was full of asians. |
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iain77
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Location: here, now
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| yeah, i saw my first korean-style pc bang in the korean area in Toronto, my friend worked in this bar, i went down the wrong set of stairs to go to the can, came into this dingy, smoky room full of asians in front of computers. I asked her about it, she said "yeah, gaming is big over there..................." |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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pretty much everything everyone has said except samgyeopsal - that shit needs to be shot into the center of the sun...
but how about this - it's cheaper to eat out than cook at home. that's a great idea. |
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tommynomad
Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Location: on the move
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Sample Sundays at E-Mart,
Street food stalls,
1330,
Noraebang,
Curbside alcohol consumption
are all great. But the first thing I'm importing is....
Ondol! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| tommynomad wrote: |
But the first thing I'm importing is....
Ondol! |
Tommy (and the other posters who said this), what is it that you prefer about ondol floor heating systems? I've had them in places I live here, and when they worked, they were fine. Problem is, too many didn't work properly, some didn't work at all, some leaked(!!), and required constant fiddling. Now, I don't sleep on the floor, nor do I sit on the floor much. We in the West live in a bed, sofa, chair culture, so what exactly is the great attraction of ondol? I can conceive of installing it in, say, one or two bedrooms rooms in a house, but not as the central heating system for an entire house in the West. Not unless you want to screw yourself when you want to sell the place. |
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