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[matthagwon]

Why has itaewon become so trendy? We need to take back the night and turn it back into the 90s rough n tough place that koreans fear.

[optik404]

Damn, you old huh.

[sigmundsmith]

The same is happening in Kyungnidan and HBC. On the weekends it is difficult to walk into a place and find a table without it being full young Koreans taking photos of the unique food that they just bought and posting them online.

These places are loosing their identities and have now just become another hip place for young Koreans.

[Steelrails]

Shame on those Koreans for patronizing parts of their own country. Its not their country, its ours!

[World Traveler]

우외국인리 나라. Doesn't really have that nice of a ring to it. What slogan can we use? (?.?) *.*

[Fox]

[Stain]

[Hokie21]

[Stain]

[metalhead]

Yeah, what about those places in Koreatown that only serve Koreans? How dare they they!

[Hokie21]

[fosterman]

Koreans have moved in so rapidly like a gold rush and taken over every shop and opened a cafe, restaurant and bar in itaewon, fact is, Koreans wont last long here, because with Koreans come HIGH PRICES.
and with high prices you get koreans who want to be trendy but those trend setters move back to kangnam and hotels etc. and what is left are Koreans who want to be cool, and they don't want to pay Apku prices in Itaewon and then they will head back to Hongdae, because at the end of the day, Itaewon is still a dump! so now what will happen, we will have 100x more places than 5 years ago, and most of them going broke, while landlords think Itaewon is the hottest place in seoul and contiune to raise the rents and then in turn owners will raise the prices and then businesses will be closing.
take a look at Rodeo street in Apku now, "Ghost town".. empty shops everywhere and no one wants to move in as the prices are stupid, and more and more shops closing and less and less people walking around "EYE SHOPPING"
shincon ewha womens university- (Ghost town)
landlords refuse to drop the rents, they will rather keep their shops empty

foreigners can flock to our normal hangouts where 90% of Koreans dont go anyway, but all the Koreans who came running into the gold rush are gonna be left burnt, and everyone will be wondering what happened?

what happened is Koreans burnt the source which made Itaewon cool.
US! the foreigners, this is why Koreans came, to stare at us, and party to our music, our venues, our social style,
Koreans came in with money, and opened "WESTERN STYLE"
western style with no westerners LOL


but then koreans like to get cocky and they eventually force foreigners out, so foreigners leave, then your place collapses around you.
then you decide to try and bring foreigners back to your venue by offering them discounts, or what ever. but it's to late!

so you want ITAEWON. take it. let's see you make it cool.
how many bars and restaurants does that gay bald guy own now? LOL
MY ITAEWON!
wow he is so unique and cool. NOT

problem is, even if foreigners moved down to bogwandong, and started to set up bars and restaurants for the foreign population, Koreans would just move down there too and then take it over as well.

in my opinion Itaewon is fine, there are more venues to chose from than ever before, I don't talk to Koreans , so I don't care. I will go anywhere I am welcome , order my drink and stay to myself, they don't bother me I wont bother them.
Korean C blockers, well, they have always been here even back in the 90's, so I don't care.
naaa Itaewon is better now actually. more variety.
but most people are now struggling due to more venues and higher rents
but that's their problem.
not ours
one will close, and another will open because there is always some rich guy wanting to open something.

[Stan Rogers]

[matthagwon]

This last weekend in itaewon was good. Lots of drunk expats even seen an expat lying passed out on a bench in the subway station

[Steelrails]

Well at least Koreans in Korea are fair. They have no problem with foreigner only bars and special discounts for foreigners, but not Koreans. At least they seem to be consistent in that.

As for Koreatown, you do realize that Koreatown isn't just Koreans, right? Most Koreatowns are at most 40-60% Korean. Also, you can freely move into and out of Koreatown.