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[coopaloop]

Hi Guys,

I just moved to Daegu from Texas and have only been here for a week. I'm living in the Bangchon district and know my way around Bangchon pretty well now. However, outside of Bangchon I'm clueless. I know how to take the subway to Jungango but once I get there I am lost. Seeing as how my Korean is terrible and that I'm, from what it looks like, the only westerner in Bangchon I was hoping somebody would give me directions to a place were westerners visit so I could possibly meet some people?

any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Coop

[kat2]

http://thedaeguguide.com/

Try this website. I don't live in Daegu, so can't help you out more than this.

[the eye]

Hi Coopaloop,

I'm not one for the bar scene, but i can give you some directions to the most western inhabited drinking holes.

The first would be Thunderbird's Lounge.
It's downtown.
If you get out of the subway at JungAngNo, walk up the main shopping street...the street with no cars...towards Daegu Department Store. You will also see a McDonalds and Burger King and Bennigans restaurant there.
Once you pass the the department store, turn left and follow the street down the side of the department store almost to the end.
Once you reach a small intersection with an old delapidated Dunkin Donuts, and the Tortilla in Twenty restaurant...look up to the right. If you have walked all the way to the traffic light, then you've walked one intersection too far.
Thunderbird's is on the 4th floor. There is a teeeny little sign.

The next place is Commune's Bar.
Turn right at that small intersection that has an old delapidated Dunkin Donuts, and the Tortilla in Twenty restaurant. You will pass a big reddish and off white Catholic church on the left. And a 3-way intersection. Keep going until you reach the next 4-way intersection. Turn left and you'll see the blue and white sign for Commune's. It's in the basement.

The third place is Itaewan Crew.
Go back to that 3-way intersection where the Catholic church was. Follow the street that runs away from the church. You'll pass Dijon and Into restaurants on the left. Keep walking past mutiple little intersections and you'll see the black and white sign on the second floor, to the left.

check out this outdated map for some more help.
http://thedaeguguide.com/guides/downtownmap.htm
Thuderbird's is near #21 on the map, Comuune's is between #35 and #37.
The Catholic church is the big red cross.

http://thedaeguguide.com/guides/contacts.htm

[Zulu]

Excellent map eye. No, I mean it. I could actually find stuff using it.

[coopaloop]

Thanks guys. Hopefully, between eye's directions and the links I should be able to find my way around downtown.

[capebretoncanadian]

For my two cents...the Ariana Hotel (cabbies know where it is) bout a 5,000 won ride from dowwntown) is a place where a pretty sizeable amount of foreigners go. On Saturday night they run an all you can eat, all you can drink buffet from 5-9 for 16,000 won. I had about three plates of food and about a hundred beer in four hours. Can't go wrong there. Pretty tasty house brews there too if you ever feel like getting away from the regular Korean slop.

[Corporal]

There ARE no westerners in Daegu. Hub of Asia my ass!

[the eye]

[stumptown]