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dominic



Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:04 am    Post subject: EVERYONE PLEASE READ Reply with quote
Hey everyone this is Greg. I've been in Seoul for 3 years as a teacher here, dont write on this form much. I went to Pusan for vacation this past week which is a great town and if you can you should go at least once. I want everyone to know that we went to a bar in the university area called New York New York, and they treated us really badly. I dont want to gety into the huge story here, just a warning to all those people looking for a good place to dance and just hang out, stay away from this bar. They are the most racist bunch of people I've seen since I've been in this country which means our night was bad. So if anyone is going to pusan, my advice and I guess my warning too...dont waist your time in this bar find a better one which wont be hard.
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:05 am    Post subject: Re: EVERYONE PLEASE READ Reply with quote
dominic wrote:
I dont want to gety into the huge story here


Yes you do. Let us have it.
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camel96
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah I don't buy it... Smile
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Cthulhu



Joined: 02 Feb 2003
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Strange, there was a bar in the downtown area of Busan called "New York, New York" that had a sign that said "Foreigners No Enter" because of supposed run-ins with GI's awhile back (haven't checked lately). But that bar wasn't located in the university area so I guess the name "New York, New York" has a certain anti-foreigner ring to it.
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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
no details.. come on, you're tempting us to go there and see for ourselves why this place is so bad.
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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
EVERYONE PLEASE READ, in caps no less -- what a fatuous & arrogant attention-getter for something of minimal interest to the great majority of readers here.
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Squid



Joined: 25 Jul 2003
Location: Sunny Anyang
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Schwa- you bite.

Spill the beans Dom.

Why is your post name Dominic when the name's Greg?


Yours Squidly[/quote]
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Tancred



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Upon a mountain in unknown Kadath
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cthulhu wrote:
But that bar wasn't located in the university area so I guess the name "New York, New York" has a certain anti-foreigner ring to it.


ironically enough...if they're so anti-foreigner why don't they call their bars seoul, seoul or something.
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
everything is for a reason in this world. if the bar treated you badly that was wrong. But think, why??? Maybe because they've had a continous run of bad experiences with westerners before?
It may be that teachers get tarred with the same brush as rowdy G.I's. Or it may be, as i've often observed, that westerners tend to invade a place as if they were masters of the universe, and show little sensitivity or respect for locals.
The number of times I've noticed westerners go into a place with a demanding, aggressive or whining attitude is too many to count.
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William Beckerson
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
rapier wrote:
that westerners tend to invade a place as if they were masters of the universe


I do that.

I go into bars all over Seoul, lift my sword into the air and yell, "BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!" After some special effects, I jiggle my pecs and walk out.
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Cthulhu



Joined: 02 Feb 2003
PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Run into She-Ra recently? Very Happy
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