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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: Seoul fourth most expensive in Asia |
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Seoul is 4th-dearest in business travel poll
Business visitors to Seoul need $447 (470,000 won) per day in living expenses at a five-star hotel, according to a report by Business Travel News quoted by the Korea National Tourism Organization yesterday. Tokyo was Asia's dearest, at $612 per day, followed by Hong Kong and Osaka. The cheapest destination for a traveler who wants the best, Kuala Lumpur, the survey said, at only $166 per day.
JoongAng Daily (October 7, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200510/06/200510062252378139900090409041.html |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| haven't we had this thread two or three times already? |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Seoul is expensive if you stay in 5 start hotels, and eat in the very best restaurants. For Joe citizen though, Seoul isn't expensive. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| Seoul is expensive if you stay in 5 start hotels, and eat in the very best restaurants. For Joe citizen though, Seoul isn't expensive. |
The resident DJ will be along shortly and prove to all that Seoul is more expensive than London. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| Seoul is expensive if you stay in 5 start hotels, and eat in the very best restaurants. For Joe citizen though, Seoul isn't expensive. |
The resident DJ will be along shortly and prove to all that Seoul is more expensive than London. |
Ah bless the DJ. Don't you miss his leopard skin fezz though?  |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| Seoul is expensive if you stay in 5 start hotels, and eat in the very best restaurants. For Joe citizen though, Seoul isn't expensive. |
The tourism group cited the survey in support of its complaint that high prices are deterring tourism here.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200510/06/200510062252378139900090409041.html
Joe citizen is never a tourist, right? Joe citizen never travels abroad, right? |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| Seoul is expensive if you stay in 5 start hotels, and eat in the very best restaurants. For Joe citizen though, Seoul isn't expensive. |
Does Joe citizen buy food, clothes, household goods, and entertainment?
Seoul Ranked World's Fifth Most Expensive City
Prices in Seoul were the fifth highest in a survey of 144 world cities. The international consulting firm Mercer Human Resource Consulting (MHRC) said Monday its survey showed Tokyo unchallenged at the top, with Osaka climbing from fourth to second. It collects data in about 200 categories like housing, food, clothes, household goods, transport fees and entertainment costs. It computes the indexes using New York as its 100 benchmark.
Chosun Ilbo (June 20, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506200015.html
World's most expensive cities
Survey: Tokyo and Osaka take top spots, followed by London, Moscow and Seoul.
CNN/Money (June 22, 2005)
http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/21/pf/costliest_cities/ |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Seoul can be extremely expensive - fruit, groceries (at least from E-mart etc) and electronics are bloody expensive to say the least. Actually, fruit isn't if you know where to go, but even then it's certainly more expensive than my country of origin. But in terms of eating K-food, subway, taxis, drinking...Seoul is cheap as chips. And when you get paid a Seoul salary, it's not expensive generally although would be if you bought six bags of groceries from Emart every week!  Comparing the price of bread in one city to another is always pointless, as $200 per month in Romania would get you further than $2000 per month in Tokyo, as I'm sure those stats take into account. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| [b]Seoul Ranked World's Fifth Most Expensive City/ |
It's not the world's fifth expensive city. The survey you refered to only looks at about 150 different cities, and it is used as a guide to determine how much allowance those on business trips should be given by their companies when on a business trip. Most cities in England are more expensive than Seoul, but only London appears in the list. (they don't look at any other cities in England) |
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