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Seoul finally gets an Ikea... but remember this IS Korea

 
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:59 am    Post subject: Seoul finally gets an Ikea... but remember this IS Korea Reply with quote

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Sorry if I got some of you excited. It's just a cafe in Edae that gloms on the name. Ah Korea.
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Return Jones



Joined: 06 Feb 2004
Location: I will see you in far-off places

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's an Ikea in rural Gwangju, just over the mountain from Seohyun in Bundang. It's a tiny furniture store that is supposed to sell real Ikea goods. Same logo and everything.

Then again there's also a Tim Horton's, real logo and all, in Suwon...where am I going with this?....
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the eye



Joined: 29 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One here in daegu also, but authentic... they import their product from japan
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StAxX SOuL



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: London

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ikea is already over here...

They have concessions in stores like GS Mart... authentic Ikea goods...
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neandergirl



Joined: 23 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There was a real one in Pohang for about 2 and a half weeks a few years back.
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ikea is not Ikea unless it's a large store full of medium-quality, well-designed and very cheap household goods and furniture. This is what the name Ikea means in Europe anyway.

When it eventually comes to Korea it will be expensive. Mark my words.
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korea252



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul, Haebangchon

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
There is an Ikea in Korea - online, www.ikealand.net.
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austinfd



Joined: 14 May 2006

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

korea252 wrote:
Hi
There is an Ikea in Korea - online, www.ikealand.net.


Where is it?
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korea252



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul, Haebangchon

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No idea. I thought it was only online.
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Return Jones



Joined: 06 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

austinfd wrote:
korea252 wrote:
Hi
There is an Ikea in Korea - online, www.ikealand.net.


Where is it?


Says Daegu at the bottom.
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Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also read you can buy ikea furniture online at the korean website gmarket
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helly



Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ikea furniture is sold in Korean stores but I don't think they've opened their own yet. And yes, it is outrageously priced. I don't remember the details but a friend of ours was visiting us in the US a couple years ago and commented on how nice the table we had in our son's room was. Then, she told us that it costs something like 5 times more at the store in Seoul. Couldn't believe when I told what it actually cost.
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Futooomsh



Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

www.ikeacollection.co.kr

they are good, deliver etc, never had any probs with them..
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