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Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

You answered your own question. That's why they're cheap. I've been into tons of them though, as a chronic internet addict, and they do vary in quality quite widely, especially some of the things you were mentioning like chairs, I've sat in some primo chairs in PC bangs...

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

Sorry, my bad...it's just that the Good News is too fantastic not to share with the heathens.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject:

Privateer · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.

When I think about how good PC rooms could be, done right, it makes me want to cry, and ask why lord, why? Someone please open the ultimate dream PC room in Seoul. And while you're at it, a nice combined, video, DVD, and game rental place that actually has a wide selection - in ordered rows - too.

You could even do like the Japanese do and put showers in it. Then I'd never leave.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I like them but what I really can't stand is the kids. It doesn't even matter if you're in the smoking section. Little Korean kids are horrid, awful creatures and it would be so nice if there were more places free of them. Even much more pleasant middle and high school kids can become suddenly very obnoxious in PC-bangs, as can soldiers. Where I used to live there were a couple PC-bangs that were almost always free of them and I just loved hanging out there. I don't use PC-bangs in my small town because it just isn't high school teacher etiquitte, but I do when I'm in Daegu. Does anyone know of some kid-free PC-bangs there?

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

But you've missed the point.

PC rooms in Korea aren't about PCs at all! What y'all've (yes, it's a real word...it is now) fail to realize is that these rooms were designed STRICTLY as a last refuge for heavy smoking pleasure. Not that Koreans don't smoke anywhere they damn well please anyway, but in a PC bang, they can be enveloped in smoke. Fully surround-sound smoke. In every FIBER OF YOUR BEING. Throw in some cup noodles and and an 815 cola and you've got yourself a modern day opium den. Game. Set. Match.

That's the secret of so called "PC" rooms. Hell, there's nothing PC about PC rooms.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Yeah...Gord has an ego, but to beck it up, he is usually correct on issues he takes up. He is certainly a proactive guy and seems to be hard-working enough to deserve what he has.

To be "schooled by Gord" is an exercise in self-control...wouldn't want to be on the "Grotto end" of an argument with him.

Gord over the top?! Yeah...true to form. Wink

I'm more than certain he was chuckling to himself on a couple of issues in the OP.

Back to the post and not the poster...yeah, pc rooms really make me cringe. They have gone way downhill in the last five years and it seems the great proliferation of them has only added to the overall "cheapness".

tweeterdj · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Location: Gwangju

I loved reading "Acts of Gord"! It was awesome, mostly because I managed a sports retail store for over a year and saw a lot of the same stuff as is on that site! I was just about rolling on the floor for some of it, simply out of remembering that time when that customer in my store...

I don't think it's THAT egotistical, just a great piece of satire.

and PC bangs suck, probably why i used one the first day i was here, then promptly had someone call KT for my internet connection the next day.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

1000 won an hour.

You get what you pay for.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Japan net cafes totally kick ass on Korea's, IMO. Cleaner, more private, less noisy, and better services. But its usually the equiv of 2-3000won more per hr. Often have private booths, too, so you don't have to deal with the smoke and noise from others. The only places in Korea for secluded PCs like that are the 6000+/hr ��ȭ��'s that have the free porn. And those are still more pricier than the Japanese net cafes. The porn is the difference, obviously. In Japan net cafes you can also pay a smaller rate and read from a massive selection of comics, too. If you know Japanese or like looking at manga. Smile

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

not that I go to PC rooms. but once in a blue moon I will pop into one becuase I have some time to kill.
the only major I see with PC rooms is the SMOKING!
the place is full of children to come to and play after school. but its always full of REJECT grown men who cant get a job! and all they do is cloud the room full of smoke, these kids are aged from 9years old!! they dont need to be breathing in all that smoke! should be a rule SET!! NO SMOKING!!!
really hope non smoking ban arrives in korea soon!
but I doubt it when the people who pass down the laws are the ones who are addicted to drugs as nicotine!!