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mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

For ant of you in Daegu, there's a PC bang in downtown that charges 600won/hour. It's just down the street form the fire station.

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

whatthefunk · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Dont have a clue

My PC bang is great except for on weekends during the day when its flocked by stinky kids on heelers.
Its a couple who own it and one of them is almost always there. When ever they change shifts, there is bound to be some sort of domestic scene because the husband is almost always drunk. The wife always comes in and yells at him for one thing or another.
Once, the husband was wasted drunk, passed out at one of the pcs. I was in there with a friend, and when we were ready to leave, we called over to him, but he didn't budge. The guy sitting next to him shook him and yelled 'ajushi' at him for about a minute before he came to. He stared at us for a while and then stumbled over to the register. We had had a couple Cokes and were in there for over an hour so I was thinkiing the total would be close to 5,000 won, but after fumbling around with the register and drooling over himself, he only charged us 1,000 won and then immediatly collapsed in the chair behind the register and slammed his head down on the desk and was out cold. the next day, he had a nice hair cut so i imagine the wife got pissed and made him clean his act up.
Oh the adventures you can have in the pc bang....

camel96 · Guest

I have my own computer at home. Me or my GF are online probably 6 hours total a day. It costs us 27,000 won a month for the connection. If we spent the same amount of time at a PC room it could be something like 200,000. Used computers aren't that expensive. Yeah some of the crazy freaks you see at the PC bangs can be fun but you're going to see them anyway. For me the noise, the stench and the stress of fools crashing into my chair just don't make it worth it to have to drag my ass out of the APT.

Fren Lee · Joined: 02 Feb 2003

I go to a certain pc bang a lot; it's well ventilated, so the smoke effect is tolerable; the owner is kindness personified; I drink soju discreetly sometimes while I am online, and when I leave I clean up any mess I've made and push my chair in. I always bring my own headphones so I don't disturb my neighbors with the loud music or games! Sometimes I ask my neighbors to turn down their own loud games or music, and they always comply, and never seem annoyed. The owner always smiles when I enter, so I guess I'm considered a tolerable customer. In short -- I LOVE PC BANGS IN KOREA!

Another bang I go to sometimes with a friend, less frequently because it does not have my favorite game installed, but it is also an extremely pleasant place. One of the owners there pointed disapprovingly at the bottle of soju my friend and I were sharing once; I took it outside immediately and got rid of it. We were being a bit loud and annoying, frankly. Thereafter we shaped up. Politeness will get you everywhere.

Oh and I should add, I seem to be fairly lucky, because I hardly ever see any annoying behavior at these pc-bangs, but I DO avoid them during the hours when they are likely to be filled with screaming kids.