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[Alphabet_Stew]

I need to buy an ipod for someone as a gift.

Where is the best/cheapest place (besides the internet) to go to in Seoul to purchase a very good IPOD? technomart? Yongsan? Apple store?

What should I be asking for, what is a good IPOD?

and where is the apple store in Seoul?

[Xaiko]

I have no advice but I know the apple store is somewhere in myongdong

[Richard Krainium]

Costco has the best prices without haggling. I read on Dave's someone got a better deal at Yongsan, but they haggled well.

FYI, the 32gb Touch goes for 419,000 at Costco.

[dumpring]

There's an apple store in Gangnam next to Kyobo bookstore. Costs something in the area of 220k won for an 8gb nano though, so i'd say hit Costco or Yongsan.

[Alphabet_Stew]

Ok, Thanks for the replies.

The apple store was selling a 8GB IPod Touch for 299,000won. (No case, no adaptor, no coating)

I went to Technomart and found a small "Apple shop" in Technomart who offered me a 8GB IPod Touch, leather case, apple charger/pc connector, apple earphones for 325,000won (after haggling).

I asked another vendor at Technomart and after haggling got a 8GB IPod Touch, leather case, apple charger/pc connector, apple earphones and film coating for 300,000won - so I took it.

There was a guy selling a good one quite cheap on the Buy/Sell/Trade forums - but he is not answering anyone -
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=187940

[SeoulNate]

Yongsan far and away if you can haggle.

Last weekend I haggled the guy down to 375,000 for a 3rd gen 32g Ipod Touch for my girlfriend. Took about 5 minutes and the only concession I made was to buy the case and screen protector from him at 12,000 a pop.

You got ripped off on the 8gig. Not so much on the price, as it is 199 US and with the conversion + those extras, it would be similar. But the 8 gig blows. It has half of the processing power and is very noticeably slower.

Anyone else who is considering the ipod touch, pay the extra 50-75 bucks and get the 32 gig.

[orosee]

Another official Apple Store in the COEX mall, Samseong station.

[AsiaESLbound]

There is an Apple store in Gangnam in the Shinsegae above the Central City bus terminal. It's on like the 4th floor next to a Starbucks in men's casuals. I'm shopping for an IPOD 160gb classic as my 80gb classic was stolen last Friday out of my office while I was using the restroom and we had guys cleaning up a big water mess from the storm. I seen they are a whopping 380,000 won or about $310 here, but around $100 less back home such as on Ebay. I gave $275 for this 80gb classic about 3 years ago at a Walmart. I feel I got my monies worth and had upgrading to a 160gb already in mind as I also use it as an external hard disk, but it still worked and would had sold to one of you for about 150,000. Ah well, I will have to shell out and be more careful next time around. I despise thieves and crooks.

A good rubber tough case for around $60 is the rarest part of my missing IPOD as I didn't see those for sale in Seoul. http://www.theistore.com/images/products/speck/toughskin_n3_side.jpg