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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Lesson: Dont live in Seoul. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| I work for one of the companies that was originally hired to do the ticketing for the event, but our company backed out because we knew this whole thing was going to end up like this, a huge mess. The skinny: Political and government channels stifled the whole process from A to Z, as far as ticketing goes. No one could decide on an idea or the right way to do it and everything kept being changed and flip flopped to appeal to various bosses (yay Confucianism), so we pulled out, washed out hands of the thing, and let some other poor saps handle it. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| For all that hoopla it is a shame that this is how ATTENDEES will remember Yeosu. Gov officials will spin this as a success regardless afterward. Expect headlines such as: "The kimchi here is the best in the nation!" |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I just want to make sure I understand the system. First, you buy a ticket to get into the Expo then you have to pay extra to see the different pavilions or is it all included? |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
| I just want to make sure I understand the system. First, you buy a ticket to get into the Expo then you have to pay extra to see the different pavilions or is it all included? |
No, but you have to make reservations to see certain busy exhibitions, and I have a feeling there is a cap at at 2 reservations for the busiest places. By all accounts the queues can be enormous for some of them |
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Savant
Joined: 25 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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I would have gone if they still had the online reservation; coming from Seoul that would have been of benefit to me rather than having to wait in line all day to get into exhibitions.
Now, that it has been discarded I don't think I want to go and spend all day queued up.
For a country that has a large number of smartphone and internet users, the Expo Organizers basically just said "screw you" to all of us who use them. |
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shostahoosier
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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So is there any advice for people who will be attending on a non-holiday weekend?
I can deal with waiting in lines for up to an hour, but I'll probably only have Saturday since I'll be taking a bus to and from Yeosu. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Savant wrote: |
I would have gone if they still had the online reservation; coming from Seoul that would have been of benefit to me rather than having to wait in line all day to get into exhibitions.
Now, that it has been discarded I don't think I want to go and spend all day queued up.
For a country that has a large number of smartphone and internet users, the Expo Organizers basically just said "screw you" to all of us who use them. |
They canceled the entire system because some older Koreans complained? Stupid. |
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alwaysbeclosing100
Joined: 07 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject: re |
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| I went to the 2010 shanghai and it was insanely crowded......the largest attendence at an event in human history......70 million+.....it was chaos..... |
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motiontodismiss
Joined: 18 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: re |
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| I went to the 2010 shanghai and it was insanely crowded......the largest attendence at an event in human history......70 million+.....it was chaos..... |
70 million+ and most of them are mainland Chinese? Sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah, Yeosu was a failure ever since it was decided that the expo would be held in Yeosu. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: re |
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70 million+ and most of them are mainland Chinese? Sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah, Yeosu was a failure ever since it was decided that the expo would be held in Yeosu. |
That's what I was thinking. They were expecting 100,000 visitors a day but lowered their expectations to about 50,000 after the first week but they're still not getting that many people. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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the hell? Triple post
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: re |
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| motiontodismiss wrote: |
70 million+ and most of them are mainland Chinese? Sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah, Yeosu was a failure ever since it was decided that the expo would be held in Yeosu. |
That's what I was thinking. They were expecting 100,000 visitors a day but lowered their expectations to about 50,000 after the first week but they're still not getting that many people. |
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Drew345
Joined: 24 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| After the Ilsan flower festival, I decided to skip anything in Korea with "festival" or "expo" in the name. I'm just not equipped to handle crowds. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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