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julian_w

Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Location: Somewhere beyond Middle Peak Hotel, north of Middle Earth, and well away from the Middle of the Road
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject: Funny 'cos it's true - NZ writer visits Seoul |
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Graham Reid is a rock and social journalist from New Zealand. He just visited Seoul and had some really interesting, and funny observations.
Read all about it, or, his first post of a few, anyway, here.
For the next ones, click on the sign to the top right of that page where it says 'Archive'. |
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Bibbitybop

Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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I pushed one zero too many at the ATM at the airport and now have 100,000 won in my possession (about $NZ1300 I think) |
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julian_w

Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Location: Somewhere beyond Middle Peak Hotel, north of Middle Earth, and well away from the Middle of the Road
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Live rates at 2008.05.14 00:30:40 UTC
1,000,000.00 KRW = 1,249.645 NZD
South Korea Won New Zealand Dollars
1 KRW = 0.00124964 NZD 1 NZD = 800.227 KRW |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I quit reading when he mentioned all the well-behaved tykes in Seoul. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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"Why do restaurants in homogeneous Korea advertise themselves as" Korean restaurant?"
never thought of that before... why DO they bother with that?
"Land of Morning Calm"
hahaha... more like land of the morning honk-fest blaring fruit truck clusterfeck! |
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Bibbitybop

Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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julian_w wrote: |
Live rates at 2008.05.14 00:30:40 UTC
1,000,000.00 KRW = 1,249.645 NZD
South Korea Won New Zealand Dollars
1 KRW = 0.00124964 NZD 1 NZD = 800.227 KRW |
Yes. But he wrote one hundred thousand, not one million. I'm not going to be able to sleep until this author admits his mistake, apologizes and correct it. |
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moosehead

Joined: 05 May 2007
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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He's a bore and there were typos in the article - award winning?
must have been the same folks who awarded Seoul as the Design City -
get real - and architecture?? here???
it was one of the first things I noticed and miss the most - there is no significant architecture here - !!  |
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