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alljokingaside
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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| madoka wrote: |
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| Every massage place offers services for 24 hours, as per actual signs and business cards. I haven't seen one exception to this rule yet. I'm guessing that this includes the legit places, too. Whether or not they actually will give you a massage is up in the air though. |
Legit massage places are typically not 24 hours. I remember one year I slept wrong on the plane flight over and had a horrible crick in my neck. Between the pain and jet lag, I could not go to sleep and I found myself desperately looking for a massage place at midnight. None of the legit places I found were open. While I was careful not to enter a place with the barber pole, I went to one where after I described where on my upper shoulder I wanted massaged, they shooed me out. They claimed that they were closed, yet they took an entire party of adjosshis that rode up in the elevator with me. I got the hint. |
Again, every massage parlor I've seen so far in Busan have been advertised as 24 hours. A list of other presumably "24-hour" advertised commercial enterprises: PC bangs, places for food+drink, convenience stores. Whether or not they're actually opened for business is besides the point.
Personally speaking, I've gone in once around 1, insomniac, post-flu and -fever, my muscles gnarls of bodily stress. The masseuse, though masking a little irked thing, but was generally cool about it. She did make it implicitly clear that no funny business'd be going on. I might've been disappointed if I thought myself 30 years older and in Thailand (OOO! cheap shot?)
All this said, I can pass as a local, albeit a very strange-uh one. I have a friend that had went to the same place to have been rejected. He couldn't pass as a local, though. |
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One Shot
Joined: 23 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| alljokingaside wrote: |
Again, every massage parlor I've seen so far in Busan have been advertised as 24 hours. A list of other presumably "24-hour" advertised commercial enterprises: PC bangs, places for food+drink, convenience stores. Whether or not they're actually opened for business is besides the point.
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It would make sense for those places to be open 24 hours. On the weekends you can see people playing games all night long in PC rooms and some restaurants (not all my any means) cater to the late night crowd.
Again, I can't imagine a legit massage parlor being open at 3 or 4 in the morning. Don't know why a legit place would advertise as such since I really doubt (no proof though) they would have many customers at those odd hours. |
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