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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: If you were Korean what kind of little shop would you open? |
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An underwear shop beside the Dunkin Donuts with pink paint and silver trim, waiting for underwearless bimbos? Or a cell phone shop where you sit and wait for people to come in and drop big money on the likes of a phone you're fiddling with, waiting...
Or a fruit truck. Looking like a fat Hawaiin munching on bananas within reach, too easily within reach getting bigger, and bigger...
Or a booze shop. Hundreds of amber bottles with delicious moodlighting bearing down on those ships of dreams going off to Cuba, Scotland, to meet Ralph....
I'd open an air shop. The first person to come in would get a free tube up their nostril and a sit down with some pure O2. They'd think they were in a glacier....then I'd go broke after trying to sell fake Harleys sized for midgets, 50cc.... |
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Lizara
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| I would look carefully around my chosen street, count how many of every kind of shop were there already, and then open whatever the most other people had already opened. That seems to be the style around here... |
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krisinkorea
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Location: Not too far from Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| One where clothes patterns and colours match. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:58 am Post subject: |
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A jae yuk dop bap shop.
The "Be-bop-a-lu-bop-jae-yuk-dop-bap" shop, selling nothing but.
It would be the best damn jae-yuk-dop-bap place in the world. People would come from kilometers around to have some succulent pork in pepper sauce with rice. We'd have good sides, too.
(I actually wrote this only to get the Little Richard tribute in. The nearby B-R would serve tutti-frutti. You could go there for dessert.) |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
| Or a booze shop. Hundreds of amber bottles with delicious moodlighting bearing down on those ships of dreams going off to Cuba, Scotland, to meet Ralph.... |
| Lizara wrote: |
| I would look carefully around my chosen street, count how many of every kind of shop were there already, and then open whatever the most other people had already opened. That seems to be the style around here... |
Ain't it great! 
Not exactly the booze shop Captain has in mind, but near me there are now _FOUR_ of those little franchisey wooden-exterior wine shops, you know the kind, all within walking distance of each other, where a year ago there were one. Or maybe none. So it's delicious mood-lighting bearing down on green bottles, not the amber ones. And display cases of sexy, sparkling, slender European stemware.
Four identical shops within a 10-minute walk may be nothing in Gangnam or the new satellite cities. But consider the basic-needs shops we DON'T have, it's rather amazing the sorts of things we DO have in wild abundance.
But perhaps not so amazing. My neighbours are that type of Korean who doesn't actually do anything to earn money, because their money earns money. Has done for generations, I suppose. A part of the capital that is almost completely Korean, very old-money (collaborator/chaebol/chun crony) rich, and very very drunk.
So yeah. If it were me, I suppose I'd open another damn wine shop. Can't fail. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Well, it's an interesting question as to whether opening a shop of a certain kind right next to another shop of the same kind makes economic sense. From a simple supply and demand standpoint it doesn't seem to, but it's done so often here you have to wonder. I could understand if all the shops were complementary and selling slightly different items. Like the furniture area in bangbae or something. But so often they're selling the SAME EXACT THING. Same with the markets. You get there and you're like "wow, such dizzying variety" until you start seeing the same junk pop up in stall after stall. If you took all the redundancy out of namdaemun it's end up being half it's size.
(during the writing of this post I learned the difference between 'complimentary' and 'complementary.' it was very edifying.) |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
Well, it's an interesting question as to whether opening a shop of a certain kind right next to another shop of the same kind makes economic sense. The same junk pops up in stall after stall. If you took all the redundancy out of namdaemun it's end up being half it's size.
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But it's all about competition! Competition is a great thing, the only thing! Competition is what made the U.S.A. the greatest country in the world!
On the other hand, nobody is allowed to compete with the U.S.A.
The Koreans seem to have the idea of competition, but have missed the essential core of it - competition without diversity is merely repetition. The same product in every store, with each store having nothing unique to distinguish itself from the next store, is pointless.
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Clock shop with no customers leaving me free to chain smoke and watch that checkers game they play on TV all day. |
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drkalbi
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| A I love Japan T-shirt shop. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd open a exercise/well being shop and I'd sell cigarettes there too. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd open the "Green Paint Store" and sell every color of paint except green. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Lizara wrote: |
| I would look carefully around my chosen street, count how many of every kind of shop were there already, and then open whatever the most other people had already opened. That seems to be the style around here... |
They call it the concentration effect.
If you know there are 4 wine store for exampl in an area, you probably go there instead of somewhere else
If you need furniture, you go to the area with most furniture shops
etc ....
it is called, making the pie bigger.
this is an economist 201 course  |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| I would open a kissing booth. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Avian Chicken. |
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