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gotte00
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: chicken wings at...... |
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| HOOTERS!!!! That's right, Hooters is coming to Korea. I was on the bus tonight in Apgujeong and rode passed a sign at the new location of Hooters. I have no idea when it's opening, but it's near exit 4 at Apguejong St. Enjoy!!!! |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Some folks are going to be disappointed, I'm sure. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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That should be interesting.
Wasn't there a place in Itaewon where the old OB Stadium was that had that orange and white motif going for awhile. Went there once and was sadly disappointed? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
| Some folks are going to be disappointed, I'm sure. |
 Not the plastic surgeons. Expect some more implants. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| Are they going to serve mini-wings? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I predict it'll become one of the brest places to eat out in Gangnam. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| It won't be the same. They know all too well that most customers at Korean 'family restaurants' are women. They guys you see probably wouldn't be there if they weren't on a date. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| It won't be the same. They know all too well that most customers at Korean 'family restaurants' are women. They guys you see probably wouldn't be there if they weren't on a date. |
What?
Anyway, Hooters doesn't bill itself as a family restaurant anywhere, and in fact goes to great lengths to make sure nobody ever mistakes it for a "family restaurant". About 70% of their customers are male, and that shouldn't change in Korea. I imagine the only real difficultly would be marketing the concept to Koreans (men, that is). It's not a drink-till-you're-sh1tfaced sort of place, it's not a girly-pours-my-drink-while-I-grab-her-brests/ass sort of place, and big tips doesn't mean you're gonna drag Hooter Girl back to the yogwan later on. Then again, this being Korea, who knows... they may find it necessary to bow to local customs. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| It won't be the same. They know all too well that most customers at Korean 'family restaurants' are women. They guys you see probably wouldn't be there if they weren't on a date. |
What?
Anyway, Hooters doesn't bill itself as a family restaurant anywhere, and in fact goes to great length to make sure nobody ever mistakes it for a "family restaurant". About 70% of their customers are male, and probably won't change in Korea. I imagine the only real difficultly would be marketing the concept to Koreans (men, that is). It's not a drink-till-you're-sh1tfaced sort of place, it's not a girly-pours-my-drink-while-I-grab-her-brests/ass sort of place, and big tips doesn't mean you're gonna drag Hooter Girl back to the yogwan for ee-cha. Then again, this being Korea, who knows... they may try to "localise" things. |
I'm saying it may be marketed as a family restaurant in Korea because Korean men prefer Korean food and soju when they get together, whereas yhe women are more receptive to the whole 'theme restaurant' experience. If it is marketed towards men, management needs to be ready to deal with the occasional dirty old men who thinks that Hooters is a room salon.
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Oddly, it's my girlfriend wants to go. I think Hooter's is fucking stupid waitress wise. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| Oddly, it's my girlfriend wants to go. |
Yeah, that's something I thought about mentioning. Korean women are different, unique, strange in some ways. From all my years here, from everything that I've seen -- which is not inconsiderable -- I have never seen a race (okay, okay -- an ethnic group) of women more into unabashed checking-out of other women than the Koreans. And I don't just mean checking out girls in the street for fashion critiques or tips, I'm talking about the rapt attention they pay to the nosty doncers at the kyabarey, the soft-core chicks in the noraebang/room salon/business club videos, the rezbian ruv-act at the sungin nite-uh. That kind of checking-out. Japanese women might come close, might even beat them, I dunno. I wasn't in Japan long enough to make the same, well-founded, exhaustively researched, and totally irrefutable judgment about them as I am regarding Korean females.
So yeah, Korean chicks would probably be more into going to a Hooters bar than chicks "back home" would. They're kinda freaky like that. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| the_beaver wrote: |
| Oddly, it's my girlfriend wants to go. |
So yeah, Korean chicks would probably be more into going to a Hooters bar than chicks "back home" would. They're kinda freaky like that. |
No, thanks for me. I'll pass. I know they'll be serving up pitchers of the same ole lame K beer, Cass, Hite, O.B.....
A funny thing I predict is that Korean woman will buy up all the Hooters t-shirts and they will become a fashionable item here. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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Some much needed graphics....
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VanIslander
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Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.hooterskorea.co.kr/
No one here has asked the obvious...how can you have a Hooters without....hooters? Don't get me wrong...lots of the k-girls I know have nice perky racks, but they're not exactly well known for being the voluptuous type that grace the hardwood floors at most places in the states.
Reminds me of the South Park episode with the grade school girls working at a restaurant called "Raisins" |
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