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[rai]

[Khyron]

[Khyron]

[butter808fly]

Sounded cool to get away for a day.. why your rush to come back here Mr. Kirk?

I agree that your writing is interesting... happy vacation

[Junior]

[Junior]

yes
Yes
YES
YES!
YES!!
YES!!!
YESS!!!

YES YES YES!!!!!

[Junior]

Hahahahaha!

[pest2]

[Don Gately]

This entire post could pretty much be summed up with, "The Grass is Always Greener..."

I was in Japan two days ago, it was 2% better than korea and 250% more expensive. That's not a good return on investment.

[VanIslander]

[rai]

[Len8]

I did a visa run not so long ago, and actually had some money to spend. Last time I was thereI was kinda broke, so I crashed up at the hotel by the baseball stadium. The hotel workers started to kick the bums out who had been sitting in the sofas all day, and when they got to me they asked me what I was doing there. I told them i was waiting for my visa at the Korean immigration office, and they said go ahead and stretch out on the couch. They told me to relax, and get some sleep.

This last time I got to wander around a bit. Went to the shrine and the Canal shopping center. In the evening I popped back to the same area around the canal shopping center, because it looked like the karaoke section with all the hostessess and what have you. OK well it was. There were all these ladies dressed up in long dresses trying to entice someone to sing with them. They actually had signs up charging Y5000 for an hour of singing. I said to myself is that all you get. Only singing. I asked the girls if they could be touched and kissed. They said no way. I told em that in Korea you can find girls for that price and pretty much do whatever you want to them. They were quite startled. They still continued to parade their arses around with their signs anyway. I said good luck to them.

Their are alot of Philipino girls, chinese girls and Indonesian girls in that same area of Fukuhoka. I don't know if you would call it the roppongi of Fukuhoka or not. They are all dressed well and try to entice guys up to drink with them , sing with them and paye them. I got to talking with those girls because they spoke English. Was kinda fun, but I felt for them, because their jobs in my book were a little degrading. Hung out with them for while and hoped someone would paye for them. For a joke I offered a massage service to any lady that walked past. The looked back at me and screeched with laughter.

There were Korean hostess ladies as well. When they found out I was living in Korea they switched toto a daialogue in Korean. "Oppa, Oppa bali bali Oppa. Kapsida, kapsida"

I took a walk rhrough the red light district across the road from all the karaoke section as well. Unlike the Opalpal here in most Korean cities, you dont get to see the girls. You just paye abougt Y10000, and take pot luck. They take you back to a room I guess and do things to you

I thought to myself "thats gotta be one big rip off. What if the girls are all fat ugly bitches. Maybe the guys refuse if the girl they get is as ugky as a camels arse. The Korean O Pal pals are open for you to inspect the girls. Foreigeners here in korea get turned down a lot, but you can find girls who will service foreigeners. aome might even allow you to look down their pants to see the jewels so to speak.

I thought that not being completely open with customers at their red light districts was symptomatic of a bigger Jpanese problem. Is it in the Japanese character to exploit their own as well as foreigeners. Are they overly secretive about buisnrss dealings or what.

[Len8]

I did a visa run not so long ago, and actually had some money to spend. Last time I was thereI was kinda broke, so I crashed up at the hotel by the baseball stadium. The hotel workers started to kick the bums out who had been sitting in the sofas all day, and when they got to me they asked me what I was doing there. I told them i was waiting for my visa at the Korean immigration office, and they said go ahead and stretch out on the couch. They told me to relax, and get some sleep.

This last time I got to wander around a bit. Went to the shrine and the Canal shopping center. In the evening I popped back to the same area around the canal shopping center, because it looked like the karaoke section with all the hostessess and what have you. OK well it was. There were all these ladies dressed up in long dresses trying to entice someone to sing with them. They actually had signs up charging Y5000 for an hour of singing. I said to myself is that all you get. Only singing. I asked the girls if they could be touched and kissed. They said no way. I told em that in Korea you can find girls for that price and pretty much do whatever you want to them. They were quite startled. They still continued to parade their arses around with their signs anyway. I said good luck to them.

Their are alot of Philipino girls, chinese girls and Indonesian girls in that same area of Fukuhoka. I don't know if you would call it the roppongi of Fukuhoka or not. They are all dressed well and try to entice guys up to drink with them , sing with them and paye them. I got to talking with those girls because they spoke English. Was kinda fun, but I felt for them, because their jobs in my book were a little degrading. Hung out with them for while and hoped someone would paye for them. For a joke I offered a massage service to any lady that walked past. The looked back at me and screeched with laughter.

There were Korean hostess ladies as well. When they found out I was living in Korea they switched toto a daialogue in Korean

I took a walk rhrough the red light district across the road from all the karaoke section as well. Unlike the Opalpal here in most Korean cities, you dont get to see the girls. You just paye abougt Y10000, and take pot luck. They take you back to a room I guess and do things to you

I thought to myself "thats gotta be one big rip off. What if the girls are all fat ugly bitches. Maybe the guys refuse if the girl they get is as ugky as a camels arse. The Korean O Pal pals are open for you to inspect the girls. Foreigeners here in korea get turned down a lot, but you can find girls who will service foreigeners. aome might even allow you to look down their pants to see the jewels so to speak.

I thought that not being completely open with customers at their red light districts was symptomatic of a bigger Jpanese problem. Is it in the Japanese character to exploit their own as well as foreigeners. Are they overly secretive about buisnrss dealings or what.

[Medic]

Japan has it's good points and it's bad points. It's expensive yea, and if you wanna go furnish your pad you go to recycled shops to buy old furniture. The "Hard Off, and Book Off " places selling used furniture, clothes and books are all over the frigging country. Otherwise you gotta live in a barebones apartment.

How come you gotta look for cheap places to eat. Geeze. How long do you gotta spend lots a money and live there before you find these cheap places to eat. The food is shit too. Go look at the Japanese internet sights and you will see how much expats over in Japan love to come to Korea to eat good normal food at reasonable prices. There is one F---king restaurant chain I went to that had the almighty gaul to charge more money, because they were operating past midnight. I checked my reciept, because it seemed to the price was too high and that's what I was told. I almost threw the glass i had with me at them. I swore at them
loudly so the whole restaurant could hear me until I was allowed to paye the normal price


They write screeds of stuff on their internet sights to give directions to places to get your money's worth for food to eat. In Korea we would laugh our heads off if any one did that. Hell all you gotta do is walk down to the corner shiktang and you will get filled on W5000. Same food in Japan wood cost you W20,000 and you would puke on it. They know Korean food is good, so they try to copy it and advertise it as such. Many people go to these places, and what do you think they get. It's a joke.
Their number one meal is shabu shabu. Some kindly Japanes family took me to eat it at a restaurant when I was working there, but were apologetic, because they knew it didn't compare with korean meat. All it was was thin slices of beef cooked in boiling water. No marrination whatsoever.

Accomodation isn't free in Japan either. They paye you the equivalent of W2,500,000 a month if you are lucky and then deduct W700,000 for accomodation. You got to live on less than what we make in Korea in a country where the cost of living is twice as much. You can find cheap accomodation at places set up only for foregeners, but you gotta be in the know, and you gotta be quick. How long do you think it's gonna take for you to be in the know.

The one advantage they do have over us in Korea is the visa situation. I think you own the visa, and you can walk out of a job if you dont like it without getting a letter of release. You also don't get smartarse elementry school kids trying to practice their english on you or making snot nose remarks when you walk past them. Level of politeness exceeds that of Korea, and of couse it's cleaner.

Taxis are unaffordable. Costs you W10,000 to go the same distance as W2000 in Korea. Myongshills are out of your price range too. Minimum price for a guys haircut is W10,000, and those are at the crappy places. Subways cost the earth. Price is double that of Seoul's subways. Buses are a rippoff too. You can travel on a local bus in Korea anywhere for the one fare you paye when you get on. In Japan you take a ticket when you get on and paye the driver when you get off according to the distance you have travelled, and believe you me the prices almost triple iff you stay on untill the end of the route.

God---ed inner city buses treble the f---ing prices when there are national holidays. Christmas and New years and other national holidays are the times when the prices are sure to be tripled.

To get a bank account it takes a month, and you can't get a new bank book, unless you go back to the issueing branch. They are reall cracked in the f---ing head in that country when it comes to banking and financal transactions

Interesting comment about the *beep* houses over there too in previous posting. Korean ones are open so you can pick your girl. Interesting that in Japan you take what you get after you paye your money. Typical

[rai]