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daninkorea
Joined: 06 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: Apple store in COEX closed.... where do i go now? |
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My Ipod is playing silly buggers at the moment so I went down to the Apple Experience store on Saturday, to get it fixed. After walking around I realised that the store is part of a big refurbishment and was closed and after having a quick look at the internet it seems it has closed permanently.
Does anyone else know somewhere else I can get my ipod fixed in central Seoul?? |
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EdInstead
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Well, that's one way to avoid having to service all of those Macbooks and Macbook Pros which are being found to suffer from so many problems (heat, staining, and so on).
Actually, that store was always busy, so I am sure someone will open up another somewhere very soon after the franchise is sold off. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Go to Yongsan.
The store isn't in the main building (where e-mart and the subway is), its in the second one which you will need to walk a plank to get there 
Otherwise, just drop iPods altogether and get something local and better. |
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RobinH
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Mid-bulk transport, standard radeon accelerator core, class code 03-K64--Firefly.
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Is the place across the street from Korea House still open? |
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daninkorea
Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies,
I went to Yongsan in the end and there are two places in the main Yongsan building (not space 9.) There is one in the basement that does very basic repairs, and the other is an authorised repair centre on the 5th floor of the same building. It's called U Base.
They told me that its going to cost me 290,000 won to fix my ipod........  |
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Cigar_Guy
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Can I just comment on how categorically stupid it is that you have to sift through the Apple site in Korean to find an English list of fixit shops?
Just a reminder everyone--I tried the place in Yongsan, but was told that because the laptop was working at the moment, there wasn't anything they could do. That was a fun early morning walk in March. |
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StAxX SOuL
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: London
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Ummm, lol...
Just around the corner from the Apple center of old in CoEx is what appears to be Korea's equivalent of Staples... I forget the name but it's a huge store, and they are official Apple stockists with a slightly more compacted version of what was on display in the Apple store from iPods to Macs, and onto the various speaker gizmos you can buy for your iPod... |
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RobinH
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Mid-bulk transport, standard radeon accelerator core, class code 03-K64--Firefly.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| Cigar-guy, I found that list by searching the US apple.com, and pretty quick too. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| daninkorea wrote: |
They told me that its going to cost me 290,000 won to fix my ipod........ |
DAHAHAHAH!!! |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| Does "fix" = "give you a replacement one, no guarantees about how old it is or where it's been"?? |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| StAxX SOuL wrote: |
Ummm, lol...
Just around the corner from the Apple center of old in CoEx is what appears to be Korea's equivalent of Staples... I forget the name but it's a huge store, and they are official Apple stockists with a slightly more compacted version of what was on display in the Apple store from iPods to Macs, and onto the various speaker gizmos you can buy for your iPod... |
Yea, that's Linkos.
There's also an Apple Experience Store in MyoungDong, just like the one in COEX. |
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daninkorea
Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| No "fix" means put in a new hard drive. My ipod is about 14months old and therefore out of warrantly..... |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/service/faq/ wrote: |
| If you own an iPod, and it requires service for any other issue, Apple will replace your iPod for the service fee listed below, plus $6.95 shipping and handling. |
Apple does not "service" or "repair" iPods, merely replaces them. |
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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Apple store in COEX closed.... where do i go now? |
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| daninkorea wrote: |
My Ipod is playing silly buggers at the moment so I went down to the Apple Experience store on Saturday, to get it fixed. After walking around I realised that the store is part of a big refurbishment and was closed and after having a quick look at the internet it seems it has closed permanently.
Does anyone else know somewhere else I can get my ipod fixed in central Seoul?? |
Hi Dan. Yeah, no more need to go to COEX now.
Go to Myong-dong, it's smaller than the one at COEX though. Get off in front of the Migliore Department Store. See that big pedestrian shopping road where everybody is walking? Go down about 50 meters until you're at the corner of the 5 story Pascucci's coffee shop (used to be a big Starbucks there) and you'll be at a pedestrian intersection. Keep walking straight down about 20 meters until you hit the next pedestrian intersection and turn to the right at the corner where you see the Giordano's (clothes shop). There's a smaller apple store on the right-hand side (you should now be on a narrower little side road) another 2O meters. It's on street level tucked away and the sign is in hangul only from what I can remember. If you walk too fast you could well miss it. I don't know if they do repairs but they sell imacs and ipod stuff and if not can probably give you a number for an apple service agent. Mebbe some day they'll get a full sized apple store here but no plans off the drawing board yet from what I hear. |
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