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| Most overrated club/pub/bar in Seoul? |
| Geckos |
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25% |
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| Three Alleys Pub |
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5% |
[ 1 ] |
| Joker Red |
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15% |
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| Hollywood Basement |
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30% |
[ 6 ] |
| Geckos Garden |
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5% |
[ 1 ] |
| Myungmulgwan |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Stompers (Hongdae v.2) |
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20% |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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 Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 2:20 am Post subject: Most overrated bar/club/pub in Seoul? |
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Personally, I hate all these places ...
THE NASH for Stella and a cheeseburger, baby. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 2:53 am Post subject: |
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I really like Gunter & The Three Alley Pub. Don't care for Gecko's that much, though I must admit that I love Gecko's Garden very much! Macondo's though is number one!
Harpeau |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 3:26 am Post subject: |
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I wanna vote.. but actually.. hmm.. i find them all good.. how am i gonna say the results on this one? i guess i'll throw a dart on this one  |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| The ones I do know, I don't dislike(even Stompers, which holds a special, rat-infested, cobweb-encroached place in my itty bitty widdle heart). The ones I don't know, they probably ain't that bad. I'm not big on Gecko's, though, whichever one it is that is always bloated with people to the point that I can't even move. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| The ones I do know, I don't dislike(even Stompers, which holds a special, rat-infested, cobweb-encroached place in my itty bitty widdle heart). The ones I don't know, they probably ain't that bad. I'm not big on Gecko's, though, whichever one it is that is always bloated with people to the point that I can't even move. |
I never cared for Geckos either for the longest time.. then one night somewhat recently one of my friends insisted i meet him there.. i sat down and started talking to quite a few really interesting people.. and now i'm kind of a recent convert.. however, i wouldn't generally want to be there if i didn't know anyone.. but if u know a few people already its not bad.. its kind of being at a big house party.. great if u know some of the people.. sucks bigtime if you don't.. but somehow you end up walking out of there having met a few new people somehow or another..
However my first few impressions weren't that great either.. it just looked like alot of really good-looking men (i.e. competition for any woman's attention) and highly undesireable.. but now i don't mind so much at all.. some interesting conversations i've had in that place.. and somehow i've managed to meet a few women as well for conversation which was kind of nice.. |
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posco's trumpet
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:23 am Post subject: still trying... |
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Last edited by posco's trumpet on Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:54 am; edited 2 times in total |
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sickboy
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Location: Miari Texas
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Geckos by far. Although, it was the shit during the World Cup...
3 Alley is great...
-sick |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Here is a funny story about Joker Red.
The first time I came to Korea, there was this Korean girl..let's call her...hmm.."Sehi".
Anyway, "Sehi" says "we go Jokkoled ba". I ask her "Chocolate Bar?"
She says "Yes. Jokkoled ba."
So we walk and walk and finally come to the 7-11 on the corner, and I say I will get the chocolate bar. I come out and she is grabbing my hand around the corner and then points up "Not Jokkaleduh ba.......Jokkaleduh ba"
Still to this day when I hear Koreans say "Joker Red Bar" I think "Chocolate Bar"... |
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Canadian Teacher
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:59 am Post subject: |
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Ahhh, Stompers. Proves that kitch, sleaze and filth are immortal. Heck, when the place burned down in 1994, they rebuilt it EXACTLY the same way. I think they even added extra dirt. I always hit it while I am in Seoul, what a dive. I love dives.
I still love Nashville. Why? Because in the ten years I have been going in and out of Seoul it is still EXACTLY the same.
Three Alley is cool but gets too packed on weekends.
Geckos is nice but the last time I was there the food was not great.
And let's not forget the worst of then all..Polly's Soju Kettle. Watch GI's fight! I used to booze it up there with my GI neighbours years ago, before I was married. A nice lot of guys. |
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rudyflyer
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Location: pacing the cage
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Nashville is still great for the food, best beef in Korea and as CT said it hasn't changed in the 7 years I've been in and out of Seoul. I do miss the kicker bar though, Koreans line dancing was funny even funnier than Koreans salsa dancing.
I prefer 3 Alley. Gunther is cool, beer selection is great, clientelle is a little better, spent a lot of time there during the WC. Yeah it gets a little crowded on Sat when I've been there |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 5:06 am Post subject: |
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STOMPERS!! is the biggest most loser place in the WORLD!!
I wouldnt even tell my enemy to go there!!
geckos emmmmm was good when it first opened now hardly ever order a beer just cruise in to see whats going on when doing the rounds,,
hollywood well that place had too many problems, RACISM was one and over priced drinks cover charge, and just arrogance, anyway their long haul has finally come to an end!!!
the place had like 20 people in thier saturday night at peak time, 200 or more at lime light!!
good bye hollywood, and good ridence...
3Alleys is fine!
most bars in Korea SUCK!!!!
still I go, cuz no where else to go, aint going to STOMPERS though!!
HELL NO!!! |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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hmm.. i've never been to Myungmulgwan or Three Alleys Pub.. where are they?
I'm surprised Hodge Podge, Route 66, Woodstock and a few others didn't make the list.. |
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saharzie
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 5:51 am Post subject: |
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Agree Stompers is utter *****...
Hollywoods i liked when it was dank and sleazy, now they have done it up and it looks stupid..people went to hollywood to pick up..now limelight is the place to go, and unless Hollywoods drops door cover, tehy will be out of business..
Matmata is my favourite club, small, sweaty and full of atmosphere;just like a house club should be although the music ca get a bid dodgy at times..in truth the music policy at most clubs in korea is a bit uninspired...
anyone ever go to those happy liquor pia joints?1800 won for a pint of cass..great place to get hammered..
and are there any licensing laws here?There seems to be so many empty bars..literally thousands of them in Sinchon alone..how do they make a profit?
why are there so many here??? |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: |
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There seems to be so many empty bars..literally thousands of them in Sinchon alone..how do they make a profit?
why are there so many here??? |
I can't figure that one out either.. and Shinchon is the GOOD place to be!! It seems throughout the entire city there are HOFS everywhere but nowhere the amount of people like Shinchon.. for example, even where i live and work which is about 15 minute walk to the subway station.. there must be 25 hofs or so.. then I go the subway station and there are probably another 75 or so around.. and the weird thing is most of them are exactly the same and nothing to them rather than nice theme and name - you know what i mean.. all marketing an image but completely failing to deliver with anything of value inside.. how do they keep afloat like that? i can't figure that one out either..
I'm thinking back home of great bars and ideas and everything else.. that actually did have an audience and such and still couldn't quite make it.. and here.. its the opposite.. no target audience, nothing distinguishable, half are empty, and they just stick around for who knows how long - at least it seems like that..
That being said.. everytime I go to Shinchon which isn't as often anymore as I don't live there anymore.. things go change around fairly quickly.. so who knows.. but still how does one close down and the next one start up almost exactly the same? |
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gmat
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Canadian Teacher wrote: |
| Ahhh, Stompers. Proves that kitch, sleaze and filth are immortal. Heck, when the place burned down in 1994, they rebuilt it EXACTLY the same way. I think they even added extra dirt. I always hit it while I am in Seoul, what a dive. I love dives. |
That, my friend ,was a funny paragraph  . |
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