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Newfoundlander



Joined: 29 Dec 2003

PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:47 am    Post subject: Who lives in Bongcheon Dong? Reply with quote

Who lives in the Seoul National University area... I'm doing a count... I know of four people including myself. But i see a couple of more stumbling around everynow and then. Including one particularly scared gentleman.

Boncheon Dongers Unite.... my guess is that there are ten of you... ten. Also include your estimates.
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm near Sillim.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've found that foreigners are much like cockroaches. For every one you see, there are another ten hiding behind a wall somewhere
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Holyjoe



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa

PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm near Sillim too.
Haven't seen a single 'foreigner' in the area that I live, but I've seen a few around and about the Sillim and Seoul National Uni bar areas.
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Jove



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Over the hill

PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lived in the area last year. There are at least several dozen foreigners in the area including teachers, students and a few russians. There are several large hogwans in the area with 10 or so teachers each. Try the JSA bar or the big LG grocery store if you're actually looking for them. Plus, there's a pretty good tchimdalk and dalkgalbi restaurant near the KFC (can't remember the exit number anymore, #7 I think).
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've long thought there should be some regular hangout for expats living in the area.

I've met a small handful of people randomly living somewhere around the Shillim to Seoul National University area.

Strangely however, I tend to moreso see them out and about in Shinchon, HongDae, Itaewon.. and just about anywhere but down in our neighborhood.

Sillim itself isn't too bad. Its kind of like a very mini-Shinchon. Filled with predominately Seoul National University students partying and drinking and socializing all night long. But it has almost no foreigner presense on any regular basis. Too bad, as it isn't all that bad of a place to hangout Wink I do enjoy myself when I go out in the area.
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devnull



Joined: 02 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:32 pm    Post subject: I lived there Reply with quote

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Who lives in the Seoul National University area... I'm doing a count... I know of four people including myself. But i see a couple of more stumbling around everynow and then. Including one particularly scared gentleman.


I lived near Nakseongdae station. I think there are more like thirty foreigners there, but the only ones with the courage to stop and chat were the mormons.... They live up the road from the SNU station.
I can tell you where to go to find no one-- Go to Nakseongdae (the park) during the middle of a weekday. There's a temple there that is always nearly deserted.

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Tiger Beer



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NokSangDae has a really good bar called 'MO BETTER BLUES' which has live music, a piano, and a mini-stage. I've been there once and quite liked it a lot.

My co-worker use to play in a band there.. and seemed to have a regular set of foreigners hanging around there as well.
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devnull



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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NokSangDae has a really good bar called 'MO BETTER BLUES' which has live music, a piano, and a mini-stage. I've been there once and quite liked it a lot.


Strange-- I never saw this place. But there is a bar that I did like-- a little hole in the wall called "Roadside" right next to the subway. It has a distinctly non-korean feel to it, when that's what yer looking for.

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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

devnull wrote:
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NokSangDae has a really good bar called 'MO BETTER BLUES' which has live music, a piano, and a mini-stage. I've been there once and quite liked it a lot.


Strange-- I never saw this place. But there is a bar that I did like-- a little hole in the wall called "Roadside" right next to the subway. It has a distinctly non-korean feel to it, when that's what yer looking for.

/dev/null


Its not all that far from the subway. About 5-7 minutes and kind of zig-zag.. sorry I can't explain it well. Someone you see in that area will probably know it though. (Basically its not on the main road, you angle back kind of southwest direction - I think).
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Holyjoe



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A Bongcheon/Sillim get-together should definitely be on the cards then - if a Cheonan one can get off the ground then one in our neck of the woods certainly can! Smile
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Tiger Beer



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I definetely think a Sillim/Bongcheon is in order. I believe zyzyfer also expressed interest in coming up from Cheonnan as well.. (as its not all that far from the southern bus terminals).

I'm thinking maybe in a month? I have a few busy weekends coming up in the immediate future..
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cbinseoul



Joined: 12 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul -

PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I live in Bongcheon 4 dong, between Bongcheon and Seoul Dae-ip-gu.
Lived here for just over a year. Like the area...
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Holyjoe



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa

PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiger Beer wrote:
I definetely think a Sillim/Bongcheon is in order. I believe zyzyfer also expressed interest in coming up from Cheonnan as well.. (as its not all that far from the southern bus terminals).

I'm thinking maybe in a month? I have a few busy weekends coming up in the immediate future..


Not too bad an idea...

Prime dates would be Saturday 21st February or Saturday 6th March - no point arranging something on the holiday weekend between really.
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Tiger Beer



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like a great plan! Either one of those two dates would work for me.

The feb21 sounds good.. or we can do a vote.. (poll).

Maybe in a week or two, we can start a new thread in its regards.. Wink
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