That would be great. It’d make it much simpler to go home to visit family.

If they had enough money, would they eat “onion salad”? I guess there are some who enjoys freebies but then there are some who do it because they do not have enough money to fill their stomach with the regular menu item. Poverty! What else?

Most Koreans are mortgaged up to their neck. If the foreign investments start leaving Korea as it happened in Japan in 1980s, the stock market and the house price will go into unending spiral down.

Korea will wind up where Mexico is at right now.

I’m actually encouraged to see such homoerotic banter. I always thought men were too homophobic to (pardon the pun) insert themselves into gay guy jokes.

Thanks for the link. My favorite part was the comment from the resort manager:

“This area is for reunification and for natural beauty,” Yoo said. “If you get rid of the political things from your mind, then you can appreciate all these good things.”

Yes - just get rid of those pesky ‘political things’, and everything will be good again. Oh, and by the way, please don’t forget to leave the USD300 per visitor with the front desk as you leave.

And, on that other topic: I wonder if there’s a connection between the checking out of the foreigners’ carts at Costco and the checking out of the foreigners’ ‘packages’ at the public baths and restrooms?

Funny–North Korea has a similar deal going: “The resort (Mount Keumgang) is expanding its duty-free stores, offering such items as an $18,600 (€13,900) Rolex watch — worth nearly 27 years salary for a North Korean worker.”

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap.....php?page=2

Don’t think they get the Onion Feast there, though.

Incidentally, Sangbong used to (and perhaps still does) have the most expensive item I’ve ever seen on display at a Costco anywhere: a Rolex Daytona for KW25,000,000. Now, why Costco would think that customers would buy this watch from them instead of an AD when price is similar is a puzzler. However, when Costco puts an item like that on offer to its general customers, I think we can pretty much give up the notion that its customers act the way they do because they’re too poor to afford an onion.