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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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Check your power supply. Most things nowadays, even if from North America, will still work with the voltages here. All you need is a plug convertor. My laptop, digital camera battery charger, and my electric razor all work with the voltages here. Just go to Yongsan and buy the plug convertor, it cost like 350 won, or 3 for 1000 won.
BUT MAKE SURE YOU CHECK ON YOUR POWER SUPPLY FIRST. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Check your power supply. Most things nowadays, even if from North America, will still work with the voltages here. All you need is a plug convertor. My laptop, digital camera battery charger, and my electric razor all work with the voltages here. Just go to Yongsan and buy the plug convertor, it cost like 350 won, or 3 for 1000 won.
BUT MAKE SURE YOU CHECK ON YOUR POWER SUPPLY FIRST. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Cool, Marcilla.
I recall your threads - from WA, right?
You seem to have got over here rather quickly. I seemed to take an age getting over but it was well worth the wait.
Just one question....where the hell's Hanseong? |
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Marcilla
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Hanseong is next to Pyeongcham station (sorry, I don't have a keyboard with hangul on it, so I can't type the real names, haha)
It's kinda south of anything
This is really the korean equivalent of Spokane, the crappy little town I was in in washington, despite what Soon Chan at GMSC led me to believe, haha
although that's okay by me, since there are still more stores and people around here than in downtown seattle, population density ftw!!
I'll look into a hepatitis a immunization, I think I might actually have gotten immunized to hepatitis when I was a kid in the US, but I'll double check
If I find a korean gamecube power cord (ac-dc converter) it'll save money to use that instead of my american power cord and a 220-110V converter
I'm just gonna go to seoul next weekend and do some serious electronics shopping.. I know that gba games work on any country's GBA, so I can pick up some of those while I'm there too |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm just gonna go to seoul next weekend and do some serious electronics shopping.. I know that gba games work on any country's GBA, so I can pick up some of those while I'm there too |
Definitely. If you find the right shop, you'll find some good stuff. They usu have lots of game packs(130in1, 58in1, etc) at a reasonable price. I'd say I'm 99.9% sure you won't find hockey. A friend of mine and I had to order from America to satisfy our hockey needs. Also, don't buy Boktai...the copy is in a std black cartridge casing...I thought I was buying the original..."where's the sensor?" I kept asking myself as I rolled the cartridge from side to side...had to get my mom to send the real one. Live and learn.  |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: i blew it... |
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oh, hey, if anyone reading this is planning to move to korea, don't get *beep* and plug your computer in before flipping the switch on the power supply to have it use 250V instead of 110
Right when I got here I checked the power ratings on my monitor's AC adapter and my computer's power supply and saw that all I needed was plugs that would fit into them on one end and the korean wall socket, and toasted my computer's power supply
fortunately the department store nearby had a computer shop with cheap power supplies for some bizarre reason, but it was still $35 I didn't really need to part with, haha |
oh man, i wish i read that a little earlier. i just plugged in my computer, something exploded, and a buncha smoke came pouring out. i see there's a little switch to have it use 250V that i failed to flip.
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now what do i do? should i bring the whole computer down to yongsan and have someone look at it? or is this something i can fix myself by buying a part and screwing it in? thx. |
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