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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: While expat cyberstalking certainly is interesting... |
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(except that it's not)
...the much more interesting story is that people both under user names as well as anonymous users have put together enough material now that the wiki has over 4,000 articles. Few notice the effort put in every day to have a growing and searchable database for everybody to use, but IMO this is a much better story. "Super Awesome Database Aims to Bring Knowledge Previously Only Available in Korean to Light for Expats in Korea. Also is Awesome, and Has Racing Girl Database" would be my recommended title.
Now check this out:
http://wiki.galbijim.com/Euljiro_4-ga_Station
That's the first station I ever saw in Korea. When we first started the wiki a lot of people were writing first-hand accounts (I went there and the prices were blah, we thought it was okay but service was iffy, etc.) and since there's no "I" once more than one person has edited the page (and also since personal opinions shouldn't be put up as fact unless they're sourced) first we just took them out, but because there were so many of them now there's a system to write first-hand reports on each page. It takes a bit of wiki skill but in short all you have to do is put this template on the top of the page:
{{reports}}
save the page and click on the new link, then write away. Here's what I wrote about that station:
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| This was the first place I ever visited for the first two days or so when I was in Seoul for the first time in 2001 when I first came over here to study. The reason I chose Euljiro 4-ga out of all the other nice places I could have visited was because of a youth hostel I had found online in the area called Traveller's A, which was outside exit 4 I think, slightly towards where the Cheonggyecheon right now. Since 2001 was before the road was taken down to restore the stream, the area was extremely boring and depressing looking, and since I like coffee shops I spent the first two days wandering around the area looking for one. Well, the first night and the next day. The first one was this '커피전문점' which was just located on the 2nd floor of the hostel and had one ajumma running the place, opened at 11 and had toast and watery coffee. The next day I wandered around the nearby roads, found some textile and lighting shops, decided not to go any farther than the big Cheonggyecheon Freeway, and went back when I noticed the word 커피 once again. This also turned out to be a tiny dark place with only a few ajosshis, gross coffee, and beer. I had come from Kurume (close to Fukuoka) in Japan and I began to really dislike Seoul, thinking that since this was the centre of the city that's all it had. Luckily the next day when I decided to take the subway to see what I could find I chose a place called 新村 (신촌, oh, atarashii mura! Maybe this will be good!). Once I got off the subway there and went up to the surface of Shincheon Station I was saved, and I've liked Seoul ever since. mithridates aka 데이빛 16:05, 1 August 2006 (CEST) |
So I guess the point of this thread is that everybody's welcome to come and write their first-hand accounts of places. Use "I", complain about the service, whatever. Even if you don't know where exactly to write in the page just write it anywhere and I or somewhere else will put it where it belongs without deleting it. Well, unless it's completely useless. "I met this really cheap sl*t on that street but we were so drunk maybe that's why I thought she was easy, maybe she's actually not when she's sober!!" for example, I'd still delete that. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| I was really hoping for some translated snippets of domestic cyberstalking... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Putting in the racing girls section was genius. Diamond-in-the-forehead genius.
I'll read the other stuff sometime. Promise. |
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flotsam
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Diamond-in-the-forehead genius. |
I hate, HATE, that I recognized this allusion so quickly and laughed out loud. |
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eamo
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Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| Diamond-in-the-forehead genius. |
I hate, HATE, that I recognized this allusion so quickly and laughed out loud. |
Do you hate it because you know you look like him in that film??!! Hehehe... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| Diamond-in-the-forehead genius. |
I hate, HATE, that I recognized this allusion so quickly and laughed out loud. |
Do you hate it because you know you look like him in that film??!! Hehehe... |
Of course not. Fear is the little death that... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| Diamond-in-the-forehead genius. |
I hate, HATE, that I recognized this allusion so quickly and laughed out loud. |
Do you hate it because you know you look like him in that film??!! Hehehe... |
Of course not. Fear is the little death that... |
Dune?
No! Apocalypse Now! Marlon Brando's free-form soliloquy near the end! Rubbing his baldy head! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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That's hilarious.
Mentats have that diamond imperial conditioning mark...and guess who comes off as the bigger geek...
Wait a freakin' second, you sayin' I belong in NAMBLA? |
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EdInstead
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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The racing girl photos are nice, but it is much more interesting to actually interact with racing girls in real life than go to wiki and squizz at photos.
I just met one on Saturday (longtime friend) who keeps asking to move in with me, so she can escape a certain Korean guy she cohabitates with.
My apartment is too poor and small, though. 
She does have friends, however, and I am introduced to them.
Unfortunately, given my joke of an apartment, I may only get one over here once before she turns tail and runs.  |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| EdInstead wrote: |
The racing girl photos are nice, but it is much more interesting to actually interact with racing girls in real life than go to wiki and squizz at photos.
I just met one on Saturday (longtime friend) who keeps asking to move in with me, so she can escape a certain Korean guy she cohabitates with.
My apartment is too poor and small, though.
She does have friends, however, and I am introduced to them.
Unfortunately, given my joke of an apartment, I may only get one over here once before she turns tail and runs. |
Well, this settles the geek issue. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
That's hilarious.
Mentats have that diamond imperial conditioning mark...and guess who comes off as the bigger geek...
Wait a freakin' second, you sayin' I belong in NAMBLA? |
Whoa Trigger!! Stop showing off your proven ability to throw every thread you enter off-topic in increasingly bizarre ways.
Talk about the OP. Go on! I dare you!! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
That's hilarious.
Mentats have that diamond imperial conditioning mark...and guess who comes off as the bigger geek...
Wait a freakin' second, you sayin' I belong in NAMBLA? |
Whoa Trigger!! Stop showing off your proven ability to throw every thread you enter off-topic in increasingly bizarre ways.
Talk about the OP. Go on! I dare you!! |
The OP is aimed at drawing attention from another OP in which the OP took the piss out of the OP by going off-topic from the OP, mainly by posting photos of planes. Therefore...
(And NAMBLA fits the dialog in hand, anyway...)
But, you're right. Time to show Mith some respect:
More planes!! |
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eamo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Are any of those little 2-4 people planes twin-engined?
Because I used to own cheap cars and there's no way I'll ever get in something that depends on one internal-combustion engine. I need that back-up engine. |
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EdInstead
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
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The racing girl photos are nice, but it is much more interesting to actually interact with racing girls in real life than go to wiki and squizz at photos.
I just met one on Saturday (longtime friend) who keeps asking to move in with me, so she can escape a certain Korean guy she cohabitates with.
My apartment is too poor and small, though.
She does have friends, however, and I am introduced to them.
Unfortunately, given my joke of an apartment, I may only get one over here once before she turns tail and runs. |
Well, this settles the geek issue. |
Be nice, and please be sure to wipe off your keyboard before you close that wiki window and type that next post to me. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| EdInstead wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| EdInstead wrote: |
The racing girl photos are nice, but it is much more interesting to actually interact with racing girls in real life than go to wiki and squizz at photos.
I just met one on Saturday (longtime friend) who keeps asking to move in with me, so she can escape a certain Korean guy she cohabitates with.
My apartment is too poor and small, though.
She does have friends, however, and I am introduced to them.
Unfortunately, given my joke of an apartment, I may only get one over here once before she turns tail and runs. |
Well, this settles the geek issue. |
Be nice, and please be sure to wipe off your keyboard before you close that wiki window and type that next post to me. |
Swing and a miss. |
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