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Rum Jungle
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: North Asia
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 Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: O What a Feeling! |
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Has anyone ever seen a Toyota ad on Korean television? Just got back from Chuseok break in Taiwan where there were Toyota ads on Taipei tv and I realised that I haven't seen such ads in my time in Korea.
There are probably Toyota ads on Chinese tv, African tv, Arab tv for all I know, so why not on the Choseon channels? Not exactly a global hub indicator if one of the world's biggest car companies doesn't see it's worth its while to advertise.
If anyone has seen Toyota ads on tv I take back my sly dig at Korea's global hubness. |
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gang ah jee
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Hub of Asia blah blah blah |
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Ginormousaurus
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| You don't see too many Toyotas on the streets either. I imagine there are pretty high tarrifs placed on them. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| Korea car numba hana. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: |
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Would you drive a Japanese can in Korea?
Sounds dangerous.
I'll be looking now for a Japanese car. I never notice cars, hence I get run over a lot, but now I'll have a look. If I see one ever I'll crap in my pants right then and there. |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| In Busan I've seen Hondas mainly. I've seen a GTO and an MR2. I have never seen a Subaru. I have seen the odd Toyota sedan. Someone always parks a Toyota pickup in the pay carpark at the Catholic Centre. |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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I have nothing to say on this topic.
But I love this expression...
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Rum Jungle
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: North Asia
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Looking at the Dong-A Ilbo yesterday in the staff common room I saw quarter page print advertisements for Jaguar, Land Rover and Honda.
But print isn't television. You can turn the page, avoid it up to a point, unlike when television ads burst in on your favourite programme.Would you drive a Japanese can in Korea?
Sounds dangerous.
I think this is the point. It's dangerous for television executives. Remember a couple of months back the American rice shipment, following on some trade liberalisation measure, sitting in a warehouse waiting for a Korean wholeseller, to purchase it for sale? None decided to take the first step. Recently, a friend back in Australia mentioned that an Australian rice shipment was on its way to Korea. I'd be interested to know if the Korean rice wholesellers decided to buy it, as an alternative to American rice, thereby avoiding the odium of being the first to buy the American-pushed WTO/FTA product disliked by many Koreans.
Toyota, Honda etc back home are big buyers of television advertising. Why wouldn't Korean television executives want to get their hands on that revenue stream? It has to be some reason like the above. None want to take that first step with a country perceived as an adversary by many Koreans.
Maybe I'm jaded having gone to Taiwan and seen what appears to to be an open economy in action. Even the international supermarket in Taipei 101 hits for six anything I've seen at Costco, Carrefour etc. Totally imported food stuffs on the shelves.
A question for you guys in Seoul. Is there any place where it's possible to get fully imported food and groceries in Seoul? Where do the diplomats get their stuff for dinner parties?! |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Where do you get off analyzing Korea's trade policies if you can't even find imported food in Seoul? |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Korea car numba hana. |
you funny man, guru. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| Where do you get off analyzing Korea's trade policies if you can't even find imported food in Seoul? |
Pretty good question from one of our more well-liked trolls.
Taipei is the pits compared to Seoul due to the much larger number of filthy men and ugly buildings and rank-looking and rank-smellin' toilets and whacked drivers and shady locals and ubiquitous gangsters from Fujian Province, Taoyuan City, and Chiayi City.
Taipei City was a real downer, man. It'd be, as you noticed, alright for a quickie. Anything more than that, and you might as well move to Shanghai. |
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Rum Jungle
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| Where do you get off analyzing Korea's trade policies if you can't even find imported food in Seoul? |
Please excuse my impudence. I don't live in Seoul. It's a genuine question. Is there a fully imported food supermarket in Seoul like there is in Taipei? If there is I stand corrected. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Rum Jungle wrote: |
| billybrobby wrote: |
| Where do you get off analyzing Korea's trade policies if you can't even find imported food in Seoul? |
Please excuse my impudence. I don't live in Seoul. It's a genuine question. Is there a fully imported food supermarket in Seoul like there is in Taipei? If there is I stand corrected. :D |
Namdaemun Market and the grocery stores in the Hannam-Dong area have many of the things that you, in all likelihood, would like to purchase.
Namdaemun's offerings are cheaper in price and might entail all of your culinary requirements; Hannam Supermarket's offerings, although much more numerous and diverse in terms of quality, are, usually, a bit more expensive.
PM me for a detailed map from your area of Korea if you need one, eh.
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Rum Jungle wrote: |
| billybrobby wrote: |
| Where do you get off analyzing Korea's trade policies if you can't even find imported food in Seoul? |
Please excuse my impudence. I don't live in Seoul. It's a genuine question. Is there a fully imported food supermarket in Seoul like there is in Taipei? If there is I stand corrected. |
Well, you asked if there was a place to get fully imported food in Seoul and the answer is there are dozens (maybe approaching a hundred?) of places with large selections of imported food and even a lot of the crummy mom n' pop places with the concrete floors have a shelf of Japanese sauces and such. it's not a matter of wine and cheese for diplomats, it's spaghetti sauce for English teachers.
And since when am I a well-liked troll? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Let's move to the Philippines or some other advanced country. |
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