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SeoulPodcast » Blog Archive » SeoulPodcast #18: The Wild East Days — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:32:02 +0000

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By: redneck hickboy

redneck hickboy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:28:19 +0000

This whole ROK GOV reaction is just more proof that, if left to their own devices, the South would be basically the North.
It’s petty, defensive, shows a remarkably powerful drive to control any and all comments about their country made by anyone from the outside.. I could go on. And it seems that LP’s take is pretty accurate. Every place has its negatives and I”m sure the book has plenty of positives, too.

By: Yu Bumsuk

Yu Bumsuk — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:58:59 +0000

I saw LP Seoul at an airport bookshop yesterday and flipped through it. I didn’t find anything overly negative about its tone. It seems to paint Seoul as an intriguing, though somewhat different type of major city. I think this is a classic case of Koreans who can’t stand to have someone else write their narrative using a different background and value system.

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:24:07 +0000

“A new bus leaves every 10 to 20 minutes, tickets are dirt cheap. There you have it.”

Wrong. Witty, but wrong.

By: sewing

sewing — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:54:40 +0000

…There are similar books published in Japan, but there, they’re the size of telephone books! (And in that case, in Japanese only.)

By: sewing

sewing — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:53:51 +0000

#33: There is the monthly 5″ x 8″ 시각표, published by a private company, and available in many bookstores (at least Kyobo Bookworld, and those in or near train stations). It includes train, subway, intercity bus, ferry, and domestic plane schedules and fares (and even charts of expressway tolls), but all in Korean. Personally, I can’t travel without it. (It was still being published as of about two years ago; I assume it’s still being published.)

By: Acropolis7

Acropolis7 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:42:04 +0000

I think many of us may forget that many historic things worth seeing in Korea were flattened during the countries civil war.

By: Tripod

Tripod — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:32:24 +0000

“It also doesn’t seem to be a centralized system, so one has to find the bus terminal site in Cheonan, Bucheon, Wonju, etc. to get current fares, schedules, etc.”

A new bus leaves every 10 to 20 minutes, tickets are dirt cheap. There you have it.

By: Tripod

Tripod — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:30:16 +0000

#39,

“But, reading sewing’s post was a reality jolt! What if I couldn’t read, or didn’t have the time to learn Hangul?”

It still wouldn’t be an excuse. I mean, most of us have traveled halfway around the world to get here and people complain about not being able to read signs?

By: Tripod

Tripod — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:24:13 +0000

“Er. Yeah, I hate it when LP says things like “There is nothing to see here except the bus station.” I can’t believe that some privileged punk got paid money to write that.”

Yeah, that was my signal to use my guidebook as toilet paper.