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Boodleheimer
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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:33 am Post subject: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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and can wine be bought cheaply there? other french goodies?
-- i heard a rumour a few months back of such an area of seoul -- but maybe they were just ragging on the newbie. |
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Paji eh Wong
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| There's a 'petite France' area near bangbae station, near the French international school. It wasn't cheap though. Don't ask me for directions, I went with my korean friend. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, it's near Bangbae. That's where the French woman hid her babies in a freezer. Nice little area. |
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Boodleheimer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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i really don't know seoul very well at all (been about 4 times) -- could i have more details?
thanks |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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| KWhitehead wrote: |
and can wine be bought cheaply there? other french goodies?
-- i heard a rumour a few months back of such an area of seoul -- but maybe they were just ragging on the newbie. |
Sure, French town is right next to "Wee Britain," across "Belgian Alley." |
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SeoulnPepe
Joined: 13 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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france.co.kr
French Cultural Centre. They show movies every Tues.
Regards,
Seoulnpepe |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| SeoulnPepe wrote: |
france.co.kr
French Cultural Centre. They show movies every Tues.
Regards,
Seoulnpepe |
Are they any good?
Do you have a link to info about the films they are showing, please?
ilovebdt
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I went to the 'French quarter' around Bangbae one night for dinner. It's certainly not very French and one has to search around a lot for an authentic French meal. But then again, we didn't really know where to go. Not very accessible so do lots of research or go with a local. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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| JeJuJitsu wrote: |
| KWhitehead wrote: |
and can wine be bought cheaply there? other french goodies?
-- i heard a rumour a few months back of such an area of seoul -- but maybe they were just ragging on the newbie. |
Sure, French town is right next to "Wee Britain," across "Belgian Alley." |
ha! Thanks, Jeju. Your reply helped me. I don't why it should be so, but never has an OP had such an extraordinary effect on me. First time I saw it, I snickered. I read it again as more people replied, and my reaction deepened to dismissive sneering. This went on to evolve into a steaming contempt and surly derision. God knows, had it continued I would have been overcome with an unreasoning urge to march out of the office and strike down the first person I encountered, some poor fool who had done nothing at all to deserve it. And I would never have been able to adequately justify my actions, my disgust and rage to the Korean police simply by providing them a link to this thread. So again, my deepest thanks.
| eamo wrote: |
| I went to the 'French quarter' around Bangbae one night for dinner. It's certainly not very French and one has to search around a lot for an authentic French meal. But then again, we didn't really know where to go. Not very accessible so do lots of research or go with a local. |
Great! More relief! I'm on the road to complete recovery! 
Bangbae-dong. About as much Gallic charm as a cement factory. |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| ha! Thanks, Jeju. Your reply helped me. I don't why it should be so, but never has an OP had such an extraordinary effect on me. First time I saw it, I snickered. I read it again as more people replied, and my reaction deepened to dismissive sneering. This went on to evolve into a steaming contempt and surly derision. God knows, had it continued I would have been overcome with an unreasoning urge to march out of the office and strike down the first person I encountered, some poor fool who had done nothing at all to deserve it. And I would never have been able to adequately justify my actions, my disgust and rage to the Korean police simply by providing them a link to this thread. So again, my deepest thanks. |
okay, glad i made you snicker. i was hazed, i guess.
so, where can i get good wine by the case at a cheap price? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Les babysicle! Prendez vous les babysicle! Babysicle ici! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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| KWhitehead wrote: |
| okay, glad i made you snicker. i was hazed, i guess. |
Maybe you weren't intentionally misled, I have no idea. I was emoting not at you but at the drooling, fanciful notions some people have (or maybe don't have, but I'll pretend they do) about the "exotic foreign flavour" of this or that neighbhourhood in Korea, and also at the fact that such notions are fanciful. I would honestly love for there to be someplace in this country that was authentically, historically French or anything besides rice & kimchee & 'rapid economic development'. But the best they've has managed is that Disneyesque, after-the-fact, mock-up of a Chinatown in Incheon. Grim. Yeah, yeah -- I know that Korean history and Korean attitudes have conspired against such a thing, and my griping about the lack of a true Parisian cafe culture with honest-to-goodness Froggies & Froggy architecture in Korea is about as logical as biatching about the absence of the same thing on the Moon. But still. Grrr!
You know it what it probably is? You know what I really think it is? I think it's that I need another vacation. Badly. Work says otherwise, and the fact that I took a vacation only three months ago also says otherwise. But somehow every little thing is getting to me these days. (Korea, you'd better watch your ass around me henceforth!  )
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| so, where can i get good wine by the case at a cheap price? |
We order wine from a few online shops, by the case, at low prices. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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| KWhitehead wrote: |
and can wine be bought cheaply there? other french goodies?
-- i heard a rumour a few months back of such an area of seoul -- but maybe they were just ragging on the newbie. |
If you want there is an importer i know who does decent prices for Wines
the cheapest ones are around 15.000 won.
Just pm me for his mailadress |
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SeoulnPepe
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JeJuJitsu
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: Re: Is there a "Frenchtown"-type place in Seoul? |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
You know it what it probably is? You know what I really think it is? I think it's that I need another vacation. Badly. Work says otherwise, and the fact that I took a vacation only three months ago also says otherwise. But somehow every little thing is getting to me these days. (Korea, you'd better watch your ass around me henceforth! )
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Me thoughts exactly. Man, I gotta lay off this site for a while... |
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