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[Ilsanman]

JUst some money saving ideas.

1. Don't buy 600 ml colas at Family Mart. In department stores or big marts (even the ever expensive Hyundai Dept Store), they're about 700 won. Savings of 500 won each time.

2. Buy a ����� if you use the subway inside Seoul at least 60 times a month. It's 35,200 won and you can use it 60 times, making it about 600 won a ride. Savings of at least 300 won a ride. Also, distance doesn't matter (except it doesn't work in the suburbs).

3. Freezer food is surprisingly cheap. Instead of going to a restaurant and ordering ��� buy some at the supermarket and fry them at home. The ones I have are 200 won each (pack of 10 for 2,000 won) and 2 are good enough for a meal. Other freezer foods are usually cheap, too.

4. Bring an empty water bottle from home and fill it up at work. Every school I have ever worked at has a water filter machine.

Any more good ideas, please contribute.

[Reflections]

Get a girlfriend whose daddy is the CEO of a Chaebol>

[Derrek]

[Ilsanman]

I use olive oil, its better but expensive. I use enough to lightly coat most of the bottom of the pan. Too much and you make a oil sponge and too little, and they burn.

They are mostly cooked, if not totally cooked when u buy them. It doesn't take too long.

I highly recommend some brands of frozen mandu. If you can so much as boil water, u can cook them. They're good and cheap.

[Derrek]

Do you thaw them first?

[Zyzyfer]

Speaking of colas, I bought a 24-pack of bottled (glass) Coke from Walmart. Worked out to 300 won a bottle, plus you can return the bottles to the store for a small refund.

Frozen food can be cheap, but that frozen ready-to-boil mandu gets nastier every time I eat it. The �ٸ��� is good to go, though. Fry it up and go to town.

Frozen veggie burgers from Costco work out to about 1,000 won per patty. I have cheese, buns, mustard, and bacon to go with them. Definitely no more than 2,000 won a burger, very filling, and somewhat healthy. Taste enough like the real thing.

Get a ���� card if you use the subway somewhat frequently. Good for Seoul buses as well. Knocks 100 won off the price, no matter how many times you travel. You're saving after 20 trips.

But really, so long as you don't go out on the piss every weekend, saving money shouldn't be too much of a chore.

[chiaa]

Glass bottled coke is that cheap there? I live on that shit!

Doesnt it taste so much better in a glass bottle?

[Zyzyfer]

[JongnoGuru]

[mercury]

Bring a little plastic bottle and take it to the Mcdonalds bathroom and fill it with soap. That soap is anti-bacteria!

Go to Carfour and fill up your water bottle at the "free" water dispenser.

In P.C rooms, bring an empty "tube" of toilet paper and roll your own.

At Homeplus, put a fake 100 won coin inside the shopping cart release. When nobody is looking change carts with them.


Sleep on top of a bus stop station. Nobody will see you.


When you teach your privates, sneak your laundry in with the rest of the families. Then act surprised when they ask you if the huge levis jeans are yours.


Bring a Mcdonalds softdrink cup to KFC, Burger king, and get free refills (ACtually, this is the only one I tried AND IT WORKED!)

[Zyzyfer]

[tommynomad]

Leave Seoul.


also:

If you're a frequent traveler, get a KTX card.
Instead of giving money to a gym you won't use (if you're average), get some runners and hit the road.
Go to the free book swaps or set one up with your friends/co-workers.
Learn to cook, fer chrissake: what are you, 12?

[toomuchtime]

Oops.
I mistook 'flint' for 'flute'. I thought this thread was going in a totally different direction.

[The Great Toad]

My suggestions - all have been tried and work-

If you are walking down the sidewalk and see someone eating or carrying food like oranges, say Anonhasio bow and smile- often they will offer you food.

Go out with a lot of rich car owning uni girls- they will always be late for the date and say they are sorry I'll pay, will buy you dinner and drive you to your place- so no bus needed, rthen call them when you need to go shopping. Tell them you think they are cute, and that you like Korean women.

When you see children eating any kind of candy at the store say hi to the mother / parent first. Then say hi to the child, 99 percent of the time the parent will tell the child to say Hello / how are you. At this time, point to the belly and say, "hungaaareee" in Konglish. The child will give you chocolate and if your lucky like me, sometimes the parent will make the little one kiss you.

Don't eat breakfast at home - eat at work, because of me Koreans think Americans are cavernous Carcharoths who devour all cakes and rice treats without regard to office sharing decorum. Remember you are the guest worker so it's only polite to eat everything brought and compliment the local food.

Make use of your toilet offal skills at work. This saves toilet paper, water, time, and cleaning solution costs at your home. And, if yer Smaug and Toad like as me you'll be pooing a lot after you've gorged all the available office snacks.

Forget to bring money for the bus. When you get on the bus find a student to pay for you or just tell the ticket collector the truth in English quickly and it will confuse them so you get a free ride. "No Money, I'm a dummass I forgot my wallet sorry."

So just remember these phrases-- "Hungareeee!" and "I brokeahh no money."

[mercury]

Actually, when I got back from Mexico I was short on money, and the Korean taxi drivers let me pay with peso bills!