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[coolsage]

A cheese 'culture', so to speak, will arrive on these shores more or less simultaneously with a wine culture; a signature that soju and kimchi and spitting in ashtrays has given way to a more international perspective. For those who've traveled, and are bringing back to this country another view, I sympathize. The plum wine that exists here is a decent product (in fact I'm enjoying some as I write); but I wouldn't shampoo my dog with the grape wine made here. The climate is amenable to producing a good wine; all it takes is a collective desire to move up the alcohol chain. (And Koreans, having no imagination of their own, will follow the Japanese example, where this phenomenon is already taking place.)

[paperbag princess]

isn't emart a major dept store?

[lunachick]

[fidel]

Cheece, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Yesterday Do you mean to tell me you have gone through life spelling cheese (and pronouncing it also I suppose) as cheece. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHAHA

HA


Gotta stop laughing now.....having a coronary...
dear god noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Cheece hahahahaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahaaa......

[Arthur Fonzerelli]

[shawner88]

[Yesterday]

[fidel]

Someones feeling a bit 'cheeced off'. An intelligent answer as always from 'Yesterday'. I know your embarrassed and humiliated but hey, that's life (or your life to be exact). A little bit defensive are we? Well sticks and stones and all that. Never once have I claimed that I have been here for seven years, go back into search and read all of my posts.

I'm sorry if my sense of humor eludes you, but I have an 'English English' humor, not one of those 'American English' ones.

[Yesterday]

actually I tend to think of this site's purpose as more of a "discussion" site for for issues arising in residing/working in Korea.....

so yes I do get "cheesed" off by lamers who tend to only try to put others down to make there own miserable life's feel more fulfilling and worthy....

I did check your previous posts..... suggestion: how about making your own "useful" conversation topic instead of picking up threads that are over a week old and already done to bits???

[fidel]

Yesterday wrote

[Swiss James]

I don't know about waiting around for a cheese and wine culture to develop- my local joint has got a selection of 8+ reds and 5+ whites with a cheese platter on the menu. The cheese is 6,000 and the wines 25,000 and up.

[fidel]

One reason why cheese is still an expensive commodity in Korea is that possibly (not 100% sure), it's a protected market and thus attracts higher tariffs/import taxes than other products. Korean farmers are a savvy lot and stop at nothing to keep the status quo or to improve their lot. Same as most businesses in the world I suppose. Japanese cars are a good example of this protectivism. The import taxes make their cost prohibitive to most Koreans, thus their scarcity over here.

[paperbag princess]

i live in a slumy, cheap-ass area... arhg. i want cheese now..

[Zed]

Do you think there'd be much profit in starting up a cheese smuggling operation?

[paperbag princess]

let's do it zed!