Comments on: Undiscovered Korea — Incheon’s Chinatown http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/ Korea... in Blog Format Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: loan payment http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-40060 loan payment Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:07:13 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-40060 <strong>loan payment...</strong> loan payment loan payment - loan payment Q: What is the difference between Texas and yogurt? A: Yogurt has culture. Q: What do you say to a New Yorker with a job? A: Big Mac, fries and a Coke, please! ... loan payment…

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]]> By: Brendon Carr http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-36793 Brendon Carr Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:43:39 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-36793 <blockquote>There was a bit of a Chinatown in Seoul until 1993. It was located behind the Central Post Office and was the area beside the then Republic of China embassy....Upon diplomatic recognition of the PRC by Korea the embassy passed into the PRC’s hands. I recall on the embassy’s grounds were the Chinese schools for the community. The community decided to move out rather than send their kids for PRC-oriented education. Most moved to Taiwan and some to Incheon.</blockquote> Seouldout's memory is incorrect. The Chinese community school in Myeong-dong is right where it's always been -- across the street from the Republic of China's embassy grounds which were wrongfully appropriated and given to the PRC.

There was a bit of a Chinatown in Seoul until 1993. It was located behind the Central Post Office and was the area beside the then Republic of China embassy….Upon diplomatic recognition of the PRC by Korea the embassy passed into the PRC’s hands. I recall on the embassy’s grounds were the Chinese schools for the community. The community decided to move out rather than send their kids for PRC-oriented education. Most moved to Taiwan and some to Incheon.

Seouldout’s memory is incorrect. The Chinese community school in Myeong-dong is right where it’s always been — across the street from the Republic of China’s embassy grounds which were wrongfully appropriated and given to the PRC.

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-36761 Sonagi Wed, 31 May 2006 18:29:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-36761 Seouldout, Some of the community may have relocated to Yonhee-dong in Western Seoul. Near the back gate of Yonsei University is a Chinese school flying the flag of Taiwan. Other than a Chinese restaurant, there are no Chinese-oriented businesses although in the alley leading to the west gate is a small Korean restaurant owned by a bilingual Chinese-Korean family. There are probably a number of assimilated ethnic Chinese families in the neighborhood. Seouldout,

Some of the community may have relocated to Yonhee-dong in Western Seoul. Near the back gate of Yonsei University is a Chinese school flying the flag of Taiwan. Other than a Chinese restaurant, there are no Chinese-oriented businesses although in the alley leading to the west gate is a small Korean restaurant owned by a bilingual Chinese-Korean family. There are probably a number of assimilated ethnic Chinese families in the neighborhood.

]]> By: tae1822 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-36754 tae1822 Wed, 31 May 2006 15:54:29 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-36754 Some of the houses in China town have bricks that were brought in from China dating about a 100 years or so back from what I've heard. If you check out the alley ways, it's something you could probably see on the outskirts of Beijin. It's a love little area and if you head up the hill and on top make a right you could get some real good chinese food. Some of the houses in China town have bricks that were brought in from China
dating about a 100 years or so back from what I’ve heard. If you check out the alley ways, it’s something you could probably see on the outskirts of
Beijin. It’s a love little area and if you head up the hill and on top make a right you could get some real good chinese food.

]]> By: seouldout http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-36749 seouldout Wed, 31 May 2006 13:54:27 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-36749 This was an excellent write up and everyone harps on about giving a high school senior booze. There was a bit of a Chinatown in Seoul until 1993. It was located behind the Central Post Office and was the area beside the then Republic of China embassy. Mostly Chinese restaurants and a few shops selling Chinese goods--one of the few places were black tea (in tins!) and oyster sauce could be purchased. Upon diplomatic recognition of the PRC by Korea the embassy passed into the PRC's hands. I recall on the embassy's grounds were the Chinese schools for the community. The community decided to move out rather than send their kids for PRC-oriented education. Most moved to Taiwan and some to Incheon. Sadly, nothing special about the food. This was an excellent write up and everyone harps on about giving a high school senior booze. There was a bit of a Chinatown in Seoul until 1993. It was located behind the Central Post Office and was the area beside the then Republic of China embassy. Mostly Chinese restaurants and a few shops selling Chinese goods–one of the few places were black tea (in tins!) and oyster sauce could be purchased. Upon diplomatic recognition of the PRC by Korea the embassy passed into the PRC’s hands. I recall on the embassy’s grounds were the Chinese schools for the community. The community decided to move out rather than send their kids for PRC-oriented education. Most moved to Taiwan and some to Incheon. Sadly, nothing special about the food.

]]> By: railwaycharm http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-36745 railwaycharm Wed, 31 May 2006 11:22:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-36745 So, do tell, authentic Chinese food in this burb? So, do tell, authentic Chinese food in this burb?

]]> By: wooj http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-33925 wooj Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:17:15 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-33925 It's OK, Shelton Bumgarner. Simply buying and giving that guy a bottle of soju couldn't have done much harm. When I was in high school, it was usually the very smartest 모범생 with top grades that were also best at unwinding and partying after exams, such as eating chips and drinking soju on the 옥상 of our high school building while evading the 숙직 아저씨. My buddy and I also liked to sneak out my dad's whiskey and watch Korean soft porn, even drank 동동주 at a 놀이터 while discussing various female anatomical parts. The buddy is now a member of the Korean judiciary system. It’s OK, Shelton Bumgarner. Simply buying and giving that guy a bottle of soju couldn’t have done much harm. When I was in high school, it was usually the very smartest 모범생 with top grades that were also best at unwinding and partying after exams, such as eating chips and drinking soju on the 옥상 of our high school building while evading the 숙직 아저씨. My buddy and I also liked to sneak out my dad’s whiskey and watch Korean soft porn, even drank 동동주 at a 놀이터 while discussing various female anatomical parts. The buddy is now a member of the Korean judiciary system.

]]> By: Ray http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-30231 Ray Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:29:29 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-30231 <i>I do find it quite amusing how you guys love the “are you still beating your wife” line of reasoning. Can’t a dude just be nice to a kid and share some soju with him? If I were in the States, I would never buy an underage kid soju — or beer for that matter — but Korea can be so wacky sometimes, I didn’t see the harm in doing it once. I guess my error was to write about it here.</i> There you go. Afterall it was only a friendly gesture, and besides, do 18 year old kids in Korea get carded for liquor anyway??? Couldn't this kid easily buy liquor for himself? I never got carded there, (I was 19, going on 20) but I'm an obvious foreigner so I probably look old enough anyway. My Korean friends of mine who were about my age never had any trouble. <i>And in the future, I won’t buy anyone who can’t prove to me they’re The Legal Drinking Age in Korea anything other than water. It’s more expensive than soju, anyway.</i> Not even a Coke? Man... they have gotten to you. :) Like you said, your only mistake was posting it for this crowd to read... I do find it quite amusing how you guys love the “are you still beating your wife” line of reasoning. Can’t a dude just be nice to a kid and share some soju with him? If I were in the States, I would never buy an underage kid soju — or beer for that matter — but Korea can be so wacky sometimes, I didn’t see the harm in doing it once. I guess my error was to write about it here.

There you go. Afterall it was only a friendly gesture, and besides, do 18 year old kids in Korea get carded for liquor anyway??? Couldn’t this kid easily buy liquor for himself? I never got carded there, (I was 19, going on 20) but I’m an obvious foreigner so I probably look old enough anyway. My Korean friends of mine who were about my age never had any trouble.

And in the future, I won’t buy anyone who can’t prove to me they’re The Legal Drinking Age in Korea anything other than water. It’s more expensive than soju, anyway.

Not even a Coke? Man… they have gotten to you. :)
Like you said, your only mistake was posting it for this crowd to read…

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-30220 sanshinseon Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:17:04 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-30220 The booze is far from any big deal. I started drinking at 16, in a normal American suburb. Right across from Busan Train Station is the "Sanghae-Mun" [Shanghai Gate], very similar to the ones in Shelton's repetitive photos. The streets behind it may be intended to be a kindova Chinatown, which would make it Korea's 2nd one -- in reality it's just kindovan International District, with far more Russians in evidence than Chinese... The booze is far from any big deal. I started drinking at 16, in a normal American suburb.

Right across from Busan Train Station is the “Sanghae-Mun”
[Shanghai Gate], very similar to the ones in Shelton’s
repetitive photos. The streets behind it may be intended
to be a kindova Chinatown, which would make it Korea’s 2nd one — in reality it’s just kindovan International District, with far more Russians in evidence than Chinese…

]]> By: random guy http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/03/05/undiscovered-korea-incheons-chinatown-2/#comment-30214 random guy Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:32:46 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2507#comment-30214 wonder why wordpress keeps ignoring my bold end tags. annoying. wonder why wordpress keeps ignoring my bold end tags. annoying.

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