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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:59 am Post subject: Proven: Seoul Most Expensive in Asia |
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Sorry to take over other threads (God told me to do it) but I found this report which tends to prove it.
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It��s true! Seoul is one expensive City!
These days so many migrants seek a better standard of living. More and more however, migrants are choosing the best place to live in terms of cost, for their families. In this report we asked several average people how they viewed the costs of living in Seoul.
Coming across our first respondent was easy. She was a thickset late middle-aged woman involved in stern discussion with her fellow neighbors at a local restaurant, or bun-shik jom. We approached her and she was only too quick to respond to our questions.
��Korea is the most expensive place to live,�� she stated deadpan. ��Everyday I have to make allowance for my son his noodle lunch. Everyday that lunch costs a whopping 1500 won ($1.60),�� she bemoaned. ��Just 10 years ago lunch was 500 won, that was bearable, but this expense ����
We left the restaurant bearing a new regard toward the expenses of Korean life. We approached our next respondent with greater emphasis now on accommodation.
��You��re damned right Korea, Seoul in particular, is expensive,�� replied John Rmoshi an embassy worker in Seoul. My apartment costs my government 6 million won (6500 dollars) a month.��
We were stunned. It seemed like the cost of housing in Seoul would easily outstrip any other Asian city. Other major cities don��t share this cost: just $400 a week gets a two-bedroom apartment above the Kowloon Backpacker right in the heart of that city. In a suburb in Delhi, two bedroom houses are found for as little as eight dollars a month!
We wondered if we had hit the iceberg on this one. But, before we could finish our research and keep earnestly interviewing we found we had already spent our entire funding. After a synopsis of our budget we realized that the majority of our funds had gone on taxi expenses. We did get several glorious views of the wonderful Han River as we rode between Jongno and Sodaemun, but we realized that transportation, too, is a huge expense in Seoul, rising well and beyond any other major Asian city.
Reporters: Ivan Bosloktoetivich and Stu Mokely |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Proven? Anecdotally? I'd like to read what those two authors have to say after visiting Tokyo, or is Japan no longer in Asia? |
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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: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| lunch costs a whopping 1500 won ($1.60),�� she bemoaned |
 That little?
Seoul is a place where one can find a half-decent hotel for under $50 no problem, eat at a lot of restaurants for under $20 per person no problem and take very cheap means of public transport.
Compared to most cities in most developed countries I've been to, it's a cheap place to visit, though not as dirt cheap as small Korean cities.
It's an expensive place to live largely because of the property costs! |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Just in case some of you t are a little slow on the uptake, the op was posted in humor and not meant to be the subject of debate about whether Seoul is the most expensive city or not!  |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Why would I be slow on the uptake?
I haven't been following any other threads on the subject, and there most certainly are people here who would use an article like that to 'prove' their point.
Can borrow your mind-reading powers, fidel?
If you know something we don't, you could always post a link instead of lording it over us. |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
Why would I be slow on the uptake?
I haven't been following any other threads on the subject, and there most certainly are people here who would use an article like that to 'prove' their point.
Can borrow your mind-reading powers, fidel?
If you know something we don't, you could always post a link instead of lording it over us. |
Neither have I and you're right some people would use an article like this to 'prove' something but obviously not in this case as the tone/ethos of the article speaks for itself.
As for a link, a link to what? The ops personality? humor? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| It appeared to me that the OP was referring to some other thread where the he/she had been in an argument on the point of Seoul's cost of living, and that you were aware of this thread. I was asking for a link to it. So I guess I'm wrong, and I guess the satire in the original article posted was uneven enough for me to not get it. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: ... |
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That is retarded.
You know American consular officials live in the $400 flats above the backpacker hostels in Kowloon.
Is there a link for that?
Or is a troll? |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:54 am Post subject: |
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Well, I had a good chuckle this morning.
I wonder Fidel, what clues were given that you caught on straight away?
Was it: that real cheap meal that we know would cost us $10 anywhere else but Bangladesh and the City Mission?
Or, that most of the statisticians use only Western expat housing prices to determine 'their' "Most Expensive Cities" lists?
Or, that the naive dudes in the taxi went from Jongno to Sodaemun, decrying the cost of transport but had been suckered crossing the Han river three times?
Well done, Fidel.
I guess what set me off was I had once read a Times (Yes, the real deal)article saying how expensive Bombay (Mumbai) is. In a land of obscene poverty, what a ridiculous idea. |
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