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jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

I have a job offer near Hoegi , but I want to live on the 2. Is Wangsimni a good spot to live? By 'good' I mean 'po jang machas abounding".

nosmallplans · Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Location: noksapyeong

Wangsimini has that huge mall surrounding their train station. That could be fun I suppose.

That said, it's my understanding that the neighborhood around Hoegi station has a lot more food.

eIn07912 · Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Location: seoul

i live near the wang. its really poor actually. u'd be surprised just how many older buildings and villas there r. not many new or even semi new apartments. and its expensive. id suggest just about anywhere esle. its poor and ur paying through the nose for it.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Thanks for the heads up.

Being near the 2 is huge for me though, I'm really leaning towards Wangsimni or Sindang but I don't know what those places look like. Guess I'll just do a walk around.

Hightop · Joined: 11 Jun 2003

Back in the day lots of poor people used to live along chunggecheon downtown but when they sealed over the stream to build a road they moved all the poor people to the area around wangshimni/yongdap. Many of those families still live there and it has not developed much since then. That was untill the new emart/mall around the subway station arrived last year. Hangyang University is also close by so thats a bonus, near a university = cheap food. Sindang is a really good location, you can walk to the Dongdaemun area, buses everywhere and its famous Laughing

for dokboggie. But yeah places can be had for cheap around wangshimni and I would imagine a little more around Sindang.

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

Sindang has a lot of offal stores around there. An Emart as well and there's one in the new sang or Wangshimmi mall.

ciccone_youth · Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Location: Japan

Wangsimni is not so bad, now with the new shopping mall and E-Mart. Kind of old and run down around... I used to live in Hoegi, ugh. Such an ugly neighborhood, but has its charms. I lived near KyungHee University, so it wasnt so bad right there, but still.

dean_burrito · Joined: 12 Jun 2007

Wangsimni is on the up. Plus the IMAX you can get a 2 beer plus nacho special. But Sindang is a little closer to some better areas but only by 2 stops.

----Where is this dogbokki restaurant in Sindang?