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[Homer]

In the spirit of fairness...list the things you like better in your home country vs Korea.

I'll start:

Nothing




















I'm sure that stoked the fires of some of the apologist obesssed posters...

Ok...seriously:

1- Open spaces
2- Hockey
3- Opportunity to speak French (some of my family are French)
4- Micro breweries
5- Diversity of foods ( thats not so bad anymore as we cook varied foods here)
6- Less pollution (in the smaller cities anyway)
7- Montreal (great city to visit and live in)


Your turn....

[The Bobster]

[Homer]

Yeah...I forgot the cheese....as well as the wine!

[eamo]

Korea really lacks an interesting live music scene. There's a little but not enough. And the little there is doesn't really fit my bill.

Any medium-sized city (500,000 people plus) in the west blows away Seoul (12 million people!) for live music.

[Wangja]

Home is great - indeed nowhere better - if the weather is good and you have enough cash in your pocket. Most of the time however, it's like living inside a Tupperware (r) box.

I agree with Eamo about the music, unless you like jazz.

Then:

Beer (real beer, as in ale)
Cricket
Rugby
Food (real food as in hot and spicy curries, bleeding meat, potatoes, vegetables - not lawn cuttings or roadside weeds - and bread)

That's about it ......

[Hollywoodaction]

[Newbie]

[bobbyhanlon]

-irony, and an appreciation of what makes something tacky, particularly in music.
-british slang and swearwords, for instance 'w@nker', which is a very enjoyable word to deploy.
-a good curry, which doesn't cost 20,000 won like ganga
-not being stared at, or constantly being asked if something is too spicy for me
-house parties! i'm surprised nobody ever mentions this, but why is it that koreans don't seem to go in for them? maybe its the constraint of living in small apartments, who knows..

but despite all this, i love it here and i don't want to go back..

[ajgeddes]

Homer, this is like a bizzaro thread.

I generally agree with most of you. Such as:

1. Beer - The Beer Store and the LCBO - You can't beat the selection anywhere.
2. Variety of food
3. TV that doesn't just show the same thing week after week, month after month, year after year.
4. More access to playing/watching sports.
5. Clothes that are not so........ flamboyant.
6-25,693. Availability of cheese. It even gets the GF angry.

Doesn't mean I want to go back though.

[canuckistan]

[capebretoncanadian]

1. my lifelong friends
2. my family
3. good selection of beers
4. cheap and plentiful mary jane

that's about it, for the poster above and the poster who quoted the poster above about hockey and baseball beer leagues....What rock ye been hidin under....there's plenty of both to go around as per my experience!

[SuperFly]

Big Buds. Nice red hair sense from northern california.

[JongnoGuru]

"things you like better"... That's just too broad and open-ended for me. I'd never finish that list. I mean, look at the sort of things people are listing -- irony, 20 inches of snow, a better live-music scene, clean air, unlimited supply of narcotics, the city of Montreal, bird sounds...

So why not let's limit this to things that could actually be brought here. Which is what I've done, and it's whittled my list of 32,556 things down to one.

A quality-of-life improvement that should be tabled at the next Seoul City Town Hall Meeting:

All I want is one (JUST ONE) typical, well-stocked suburban supermarket -- you know, the kind that any town of 30,000 might have two or three to choose from? The kind where, if you stood at the entrance to the DENTAL & PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS aisle, and you threw a stone as far as you could, and where the stone hit the floor there'd still be rows & rows of DENTAL & PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS beyond it? Because that's how many DENTAL & PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS they have? And it's the same thing at the BREADS aisle and at SOUPS & SEASONINGS and HOUSEHOLD SUNDRIES and SNACKS & CEREALS and all the rest?

The kind with the unstoppable deli section? Where you can make your own salad with 5 different dressings which they make right in their own kitchen? Where they let you craft your own sushi dinners? Or choose from among their many pre-made meals, sandwiches, gosh, just everything, every cuisine & description? And the uncountable number of beers? And cheeses? The fifty-five different kinds of rice? And the produce section, oh mercy...

When I'm on vacation, I can spend half a day just wandering aimless through the aisles, those big spacious aisles, of a supermarket. Nobody rams into me with their cart, there are no cattle stampedes, no crammed elevators or escalators, no pushing. I want to pinch myself just to make sure I'm not dreaming. Other shoppers look bored and I'm ecstatic. Seoul has nothing like it, not with that selection. But here's a sleepy town of 30,000. With three of them.



I say we transport one of these to Seoul. No true HUB of ASIA is complete without one. (ask the Philippines) We don't need the car park, just the store itself with everything in it. Let them slap a 100% tariff on every item, it'll still be cheap to us. Okay, the Korean farmers will howl, so let the government declare the place strictly off-limits to Koreans, like they do with the casino at Walkerhill. And they could institute the death penalty for anyone found reselling the items, along with a massive reward system for snitches. That should eliminate the risk of products from the supermarket winding up in the black market and ultimately in the wrong hands.

[stumptown]

Man, there sure are a lot of stoners on here. And I sympathize with you 100%. Kindergarten would be so much better after a good ol' wake-n-bake.

[Hobophobic]

1. "Homebrewed" Beer
2. Cheese
3. "GRAVY" (should be more readily available.)
4. Decent potato chips
5. Nature in general...

Overall, selection...more variety in all of the above...September will bring these great treats...its been too long...