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wild sphere · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:16 am Post subject:

hey, are the hookers still W10,000. long time, superfly? Cool

desultude · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

Everyone in East West had to go upstairs at midnight for half an hour during "curfew." Was like prohibition.

Every month, Leno and Letterman used to alternate the 10:30 time slot.

Anthrax Ninja, and " yea Mom, all my stuff arrived...even my stuffed bear."

Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

Do you remember when Park Chung Hee was President?

Do you remember when seeing ajimas wearing honboks was a coomon site?

Do you remember when women never ate with men ans walked behind them?

That is how it was here in 73.

masuro · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:

Seeing people in hanbok would be nice. It's a shame people have thrown away their culture in favour of Western fashions and habits.

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I remember when suddenly every grocery store seemed to have spaghetti, but none had the sauce. One of the first PC bang that opened (Syberia?), if not the first, was essentially created to cater to foreigners who used it to email back home. Korean SUVs all pimped up with gold plated hood ornaments, huge bumper add-ons, step ladders, and cell phone antenaes. Plush toys blocking the view of every window in cars. The Red Door store in Ittaewon was doing brisk business, so was the owner's daughter's store a few doors down the street (black market stores). Only coffee to be found was instant.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I wasn't even born in 1973... hmmm... but my husband knows and lived through it. He was 17 then! (yeah he is 20 years older than me) Razz

masuro · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject:

A very cute baby and a great name!

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Well spotted, TB.

This thread has reminded me of a lot I'd forgotten. My first trip to SK was in 1998, and the pubs closed around midnight. There was an air raid drill every month then. I remember being holed up in KFC at Noryangjin for an hour. The trippy thing when I'm in Seoul now is when I go back to old dives and bars and they've all gone or changed to haberdashers. Every one of them. The rotation of half-decent old places for completely crappy new places all the time is a pisser. Meet an old friend you haven't seen for two years and 90% of the time they've moved and changed jobs and changed phone numbers and... y'know. Can't stop progress.

Tower records is no longer in Kangnam? When did that happen? Laughing

masuro · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

I remember ...

... the tragic day when my beepee went missing

... DDR game rooms on every corner

... a big night out for western food from Incheon was to the TGIF in Chongno

... H.O.T. and S.E.S. Man, that Kang-ta was THE MAN!

... Reggae Pub and Woodstock as the place to be on Saturday nights

... taking the subway home from Kimpo after my holidays

... Incheon had a foreigner population of about 25, Seoul about a hundred any any whitey you saw out in the sticks was a Jehovas Witness or just plain weird. Cool

Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

also, when I was here, there was a 12 midnite curfew and if caught outside you could be shot on site.

When you climbed one of the lil mountains you could buy a pin for your hat in the village. Each lil mounatin had its own pin design. Of course you wore these on your climbing hat or vest. I thought this was nice.

Makele houses were normal. You would go into these lilttle shops and drink it out of wooden bowls. It was quite good but very deceiving as you never felt drunk until you stood up.

Bathrooms were generally separate from the house and there was the big clay pots to wash with.

The circular charcoals were the norm for heating - I think more people died from that than the fans (ha ha)

Korea was gewnerally very very poor!

They loved Park Chung Hee.

Their hatred for the US was not verbalized.

ALways saw leaflets on the ground from their neighbors.

The US Army was much much more worse than they are now! The G.I.'s refer to time as the wild west.