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PeterDragon
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: Bookstores in Songtan? |
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| Does anyone know if there are any English-language bookstores in Songtan? It's slightly easier to get to from Seoul from my backwater locale here in South Gyeonggi. |
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absolutmike
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| I live in Songtan and have not seen any English-language bookstores. If you dont want to go to Seoul, Libro bookstore in Suwon at the subway station has a small English book selection. |
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PeterDragon
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Well, when I'm in Seoul, I generally go to What The Book in Itaewon, the Foreign Books shop in Noksapyong, or Kyobo.
I guess most of the people in Songtan have base access, reducing the need for a civilian neighborhood bookstore. I gotta get me an army girlfriend or something. |
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shipley
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:08 am Post subject: |
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just curious....
what is the non-military foreign population like in songtan? used to go all the time a few years ago but only ever met military foreigners
just wondering! |
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PeterDragon
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| shipley wrote: |
just curious....
what is the non-military foreign population like in songtan? used to go all the time a few years ago but only ever met military foreigners
just wondering! |
They're pretty much all Filipinos on entertainment visas, working in bars. Mostly juicy girls, but a few of them are also playing guitar or singing in a band a bar entertainment. Then you meet occasional other foreigners who own/manage ethnic restaurants--- the soldiers have more of an appetite for ethnic food than would Koreans, and some restaraunters have gone there to make a buck. There's a lot of private sector defense contractors there too. They're not technically military, but they may as well be. Unless you like hanging out with neocon soldiers and having half naked Filipinas who have boyfriends beg you for money, I wouldn't really go there for the "foreigner scene". The shopping's pretty god there, though. |
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shipley
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| we used to go there all the time for the food (closer than seoul) - all i remember is military and juicy girls - must've been a different experience for the teachers around there when the bar scene has a curfew! |
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