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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject: 3 Mandarins For 8500 Won! Special Offer - 14 For 30,000 Won! |
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I have not been able to believe my eyes a couple of times during the last week...
First of all I was shopping in a local convenience store and saw three mandarins for 8500 won. Yesterday I was flicking channels on the TV and saw an extended advert for Mandarins from Jeju Island. They were very proudly advertizing two boxes, each containing between seven and nine mandarins, for the eye-watering sum of 30,000 won give or take a few hundred won. What's more, this is a special starter price!
To my fellow Brits, that is about one pound for one mandarin!
To our American, Canadian and Australian friends, that is well over one of your lovely dollars for one mandarin. To our Kiwi friends you are looking at around two dollars... |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| What the hell am I going to do with three Chinese workers let alone 9 of them? |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
| What the hell am I going to do with three Chinese workers let alone 9 of them? |
nice  |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
| What the hell am I going to do with three Chinese workers let alone 9 of them? |
Build a miniature railroad. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah.. those are called *hallabong* and they come from Halla Mountain in Jeju Island. Overpriced BUT really, really tasty. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| But you can sometimes buy them off the street for 1000 each. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
| What the hell am I going to do with three Chinese workers let alone 9 of them? |
Mandarins were the elite of Chinese society... not the workers... that's why they're so expensive.  |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| My wife bought 2 potatoes yesterday for 2 000 Won. That is a 1000 Won each for freaking potatoes.Shit here are just getting crazy pricey. |
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vampirepirate01
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Incheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: 3 Mandarins For 8500 Won! Special Offer - 14 For 30,000 |
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| ABC KID wrote: |
| To my fellow Brits, that is about one pound for one mandarin! To our American, Canadian and Australian friends, that is well over one of your lovely dollars for one mandarin. To our Kiwi friends you are looking at around two dollars... |
No veiled nationalism there. none at all. |
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Zantetsuken
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Fruit is ridiculously priced here...especially nowadays. I've seen freaking apples in the supermarket go for about 3000. That better be some apple.... |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Typhoon wrote: |
| My wife bought 2 potatoes yesterday for 2 000 Won. That is a 1000 Won each for freaking potatoes.Shit here are just getting crazy pricey. |
no no no, she bought 2 Irishmen, apparently |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| Hallabong are the best fruit ever |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| Zantetsuken wrote: |
| Fruit is ridiculously priced here...especially nowadays. I've seen freaking apples in the supermarket go for about 3000. That better be some apple.... |
Get this. I was in a Lotte boutique mart, in the basement of a Lotte department store, yesterday. They had individual, wrapped apples for 8000won each. I wish I'd taken a picture. That is truly amazing, unfathomable pricing.
On a side not, they also had avacadoes. Which I've never seen here. |
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it's full of stars
Joined: 26 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| Zantetsuken wrote: |
| Fruit is ridiculously priced here...especially nowadays. I've seen freaking apples in the supermarket go for about 3000. That better be some apple.... |
Get this. I was in a Lotte boutique mart, in the basement of a Lotte department store, yesterday. They had individual, wrapped apples for 8000won each. I wish I'd taken a picture. That is truly amazing, unfathomable pricing.
On a side not, they also had avacadoes. Which I've never seen here. |
That would confirm that Korea is a superior nation. More expensive = better, correct. |
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D-Man
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| Typhoon wrote: |
| My wife bought 2 potatoes yesterday for 2 000 Won. That is a 1000 Won each for freaking potatoes.Shit here are just getting crazy pricey. |
Thanks for doing the math on that one!Very helpful!  |
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