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[Xerxes]

I've been here a while, and I'm afraid of getting that "been there, done that" attitude. There are so many farging ppl in Seoul all crammed together that there has got to be more to do.

I loved it when I went to Loryang-jin fish market and had fresh sashimi with the fish still gulping for water/air while I was feasting on its flesh, and enjoyed the assortment of different kinds of sea-kill with the ajimmas grinning at me in approval of my soju-drinking, sashimi-slurping extravaganza.

I also like getting piss drunk at those road-side soju vendor thingys in those orange-vinyl-covered sea-food joints (in some parts of downtown Seoul; danm expensive tho, the sea-food ones), or just at any one of those all around the city (they all have soju stashed away, if you ask them nice with a jesture, a word and a wink).

I was freaked out when I had my fortune read to me by a shaman mystic, a manshin, (please, no self-righteous flames from the church-ladies here; I will enjoy my nice bake in Hell, thank you), and it being so accurate (got phone number and directions, if you want em).

I love the cheap, really-good-acting, experimental theaters all over Haehwa-dong/Daehak-no area.

Going to a really cheap baseball game in Korea (under 10k won!) with a bunch of my old students (now in college) and getting piss drunk passing around a plastic bottle of spiked lemonade, lemon soju, and getting weirded out by the really funky cheerleading chicks and the drill-instructor like cheerleading dudes and doing all these group cheer moves with my students (and no body seems to watch the game: one time a spectator snached a rival team flag and ran to the other side of the stadium to the other "enemy" side until the enemy overpowered him--even the ball players watched him for a while--that killed me).

Any more suggestions for an adventure in the city or in the country that is different than anything you've ever done in yer home country?

[visitor q]

Going to high class, expensive anmas and room salons and not only getting what I paid for, but getting my mind blown away.

And THAT is the real Korea.

[Grotto]

Go do some spelunking up near Gangneung...great way to kill a day and see some cool caves.

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

[Beavis]

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[Swiss James]

ice fishing in Chuncheon where I caught the fish and then ate it alive. I think that 'festival' starts again in a couple of weeks, I definitely need to go back there.

Dancing with crazy country folk at Buddha's birthday after they fed me their moonshine makkoli



"Sleeping" in a temple- (trying to sleep until 3am when they wake up for prayers anyway).

getting drunk all night on the beach at Pusan then going for a swim in my pants when the sun came up. Oh and on Deokjeokdo too.

[OiGirl]

[RACETRAITOR]

Getting drunk with skinheads from three different races in a Japanese restaurant.

[kangnam mafioso]

hmmm ... this would take years to write (actually working on my memoirs now ... lol).

eating live octopus and minows/raw crab/pregnant shrimp/dog/ cow blood soup/ burned purple rice soup/ fish egg sack soup ... the list goes on

waking up in a pc bang at 9am with no memory of how i got there

doing the deed in a video bang/ norae bang/ all the other bangs

waking up in the taxi at sunrise with the driver yelling at you in korean because he doesn't know where to take you

hiking up to the buddha statue at ganghwa-do and participating in a buddhist bowing ritual at a local temple

taking great trips to japan (3 times), thailand (2), malaysia, phillipines, europe and china

working 10 hours a week and getting paid a full time salary and a free apartment

breaking up a fight between two hogwan owners in the hogwan while the children and parents stared on in disbelief

holding class in the park because the hogwan had broken immigration rules and was informed immigration was on the way

enjoying post world cup celebrations all over seoul

going to booking clubs and room salons

beholding the sunrise from many a pochang macha

swimming with a million koreans (all wearing blue jeans in july) at hyundae beach in pusan

paying $4 USD to go to world class saunas

[Xerxes]

[RACETRAITOR]

I did the deed while driving a scooter, but I don't really consider that exotic. Cool, maybe.

I also had sex with my Korean girlfriend while listening to white power music (not that I believe in that garbage).

And being in a couple Suck Stuff songs is pretty cool.

I almost went with my friends for the final broadcast of Music Camp, which would've left me in deep shiat after a couple of them whipped out their willies.

I taught my girlfriend how to ski and she was one of the better skiers on the hill by lunchtime. I'm in the wrong teaching industry.

There's more but I can't remember them all.

[bijjy]

I ate some Kimchi once. It was a nice change from the Walmart fried chicken.

[ed4444]

I got mowed down by a vegetable sales van while crossing a junction at the green man signal.

It was probably the only time the driver wasn't polluting the air with annoying speaker sounds. Suspiciously quiet in fact.

It hurt but I am still alive.

[kangnam mafioso]

dancing with a bunch of drunken iraqi people in a country bar near hooker hill in itaewon.

talk about cultural fragmentation.

[moredhel_1]