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[madoka]

In a couple of weeks, I'll be staying in Korea for six weeks as part of a working vacation. I already have a place in the middle of Seoul (near City Hall), I don't drink, and I'm married. I've got a budget of $10K for spending money. Since I should be working, I don't want to travel out of the country. Any recommendations?

[Demonicat]

Drinking the good shit
Room salans
High class hookers
Good food
Buy a custom silk suit
Get your teeth whitened
That should do ya

[Chuvok]

[Yesterday]

so you have 370,000won per day to spend...

do you also have to pay for hotel, transport, food (gifts for your family and wife) with that money?

or is it all for play and entertainment whilst you are not working?

[madoka]

1. I've got a closet full of nice suits and tailored shirts already.

2. I've already got an apartment, so the money is just for food, shopping, and entertainment.

3. Yes, I should buy gifts for the family.

4. I'll be bringing over 2-3 computers to work on, so I don't need any computers.

5. I've got relatives and friends that are dentists, so they take care of anything I might need.

6. I like to shop.

If I have anything left over, I suppose I'll leave it in a bank account in Korea for the next time I'm there.

[Ginormousaurus]

I'm curious/jealous. Why is it that you must spend all that money? Is your company giving you a daily living expense account?

[D.D.]

Big time Troll.

[some waygug-in]

First off, give all your dosh to someone who doesn't need to ask how to spend it....namely me.

Then check out this site as you'll probably need it.

http://www.geocities.com/aliciainelpaso/stories/liveonnothing1.htm

[bobbybigfoot]

[madoka]

I don't know why people would think I'm a troll. That would be really weird to troll about spending money.

[loose_ends]

If OP isn't a troll, he or she is just a total retard for choosing Korea as place to spend a working holiday with a 10K budget.

Gosh, there are so many other places.

[linky123]

Stay at a 5 start hotel for 6 weeks... wait, you don't have enough money for that.

[Hyeon Een]

Ignoring the negative comments..

I suggest hitting up some of the high class Korean restaurants. In particular I recommend the restaurant Sog pa rang (석파랑). The English spelling is probably terrible haha.

Anyway it's just through (north end) of the Ja ha mun tunnel not too far from Gyeongbuk Palace. If you get the king's banquet set it is about 170,000 a head but it is a fantastic feast of about 15 courses. If Korea had Michelin stars it'd get 2 or 3. It's that good and highly recommended. The manager speaks better Japanese than English though so if you want to charm him into giving you a free bottle of liquor I recommend speaking Japanese or Korean haha. His English is fine though.

I'm sure if you ordered wine and there was a group of you you could spend $1000 or more easily in there. It's in a lovely place that used to be a Prince's house, and they have a villa outside that used to be some king's second wife's house or something. You can hire that to yourself if you want to be real classy and show offy haha. It's a beautiful restaurant and the best Korean food you'll ever eat in your life. I've been to a few different Korean banquet restaurants and that's the best.

If you want decent western food I recommend the Bulgarian restaurant in Itaewan. Ask someone else the details because I can't remember offhand. Unless you spend a lot on wine it'll be hard to spend more than $60 a head though.

There are also a bunch of super expensive restaurants around apgujeong way with fancy bulgogi or Korean barbecue, but they're not worth going to in my opinion because the atmosphere is often lousy, the wine menus are terrible and they're way overpriced. Even with money to blow you might be disappointed haha.

There's a few nice joints out in Samcheongdong as well. I was in a wine bar in one the other day and you could spend up to around $6000 on a bottle of wine if you were so inclined. I recommend the bottles around $40-$100 a piece though.. much better value unless you have the tastebuds of a sommelier and money to burn.

[madoka]

[madoka]