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I am shipping some products to Seoul, Republic of Korea for the first time. It seems like a cool place. I've never been but it seems fine. Out side of K-Pop, Samsung, LG, Kia, etc. I don't really know much about South Korea. Has anyone been there? Live there?
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Feb 27, 2024 22:35
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beef's wife is south korean and still lives in south korea, iirc
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Feb 27, 2024 22:36
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they have starcraft there which is pretty cool
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Feb 27, 2024 22:48
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Branch Nvidian posted:beef's wife is south korean and still lives in south korea, iirc Oh really cool. Paging Beef to the Seoul thread. I repeat, Beef to the Seoul thread. Over.
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Feb 27, 2024 22:53
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Feb 27, 2024 23:12
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I was shocked when I first learned its not pronounced say-ool
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Feb 27, 2024 23:24
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i had a notion to visit reykjavik and seoul this year, but iceland is currently being turned into magma, and i realized i'd be super overwhelmed in seoul I like to watch the Seoul Walker channel videos where somebody just walks around the city though
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Feb 27, 2024 23:33
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AlbertFlasher posted:Oh really cool. hello yes my wife lives in seoul and grew up in gangnam. what would you like to know
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Feb 28, 2024 01:23
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does she know psy
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Feb 28, 2024 01:26
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Beeftweeter posted:hello yes my wife lives in seoul and grew up in gangnam. what would you like to know you mean from the song?!
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Feb 28, 2024 01:26
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echinopsis posted:does she know psy she knows of him but doesn't think much of him akadajet posted:you mean from the song?! yeah
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Feb 28, 2024 01:39
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all i know about korea is they love corn syrup
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Feb 28, 2024 01:43
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also bob dobbs is dead is actually a korean, i'm just married to one. he can probably answer questions too
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Feb 28, 2024 01:46
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i believe that peep no longer postulates from that particular polity, perhaps
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Feb 28, 2024 01:48
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Jonny 290 posted:i believe that peep no longer postulates from that particular polity, perhaps yeah but he probably knows more about the country than i do
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Feb 28, 2024 01:49
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AlbertFlasher posted:I am shipping some products to Seoul, Republic of Korea for the first time. It seems like a cool place. I've never been but it seems fine. ive been there.
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Feb 28, 2024 05:16
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Jonny 290 posted:i had a notion to visit reykjavik and seoul this year, but iceland is currently being turned into magma, and i realized i'd be super overwhelmed in seoul you wont be overwhelmed just go. you dont have forever
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Feb 28, 2024 05:17
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fart simpson posted:you wont be overwhelmed just go. you dont have forever yeah. and i don't know what specifically jonny thinks would be overwhelming, but if it's the density, that's just going to get worse. same with bright ads and signs and poo poo all over the place
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Feb 28, 2024 05:23
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i spent 8 hours in an airport in South Korea, it seemed nice
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Feb 28, 2024 05:23
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rotor posted:i spent 8 hours in an airport in South Korea, it seemed nice their public transportation infrastructure is in general very nice
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Feb 28, 2024 05:24
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah. and i don't know what specifically jonny thinks would be overwhelming, but if it's the density, that's just going to get worse. same with bright ads and signs and poo poo all over the place i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly
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Feb 28, 2024 05:29
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly you'll do fine. because of the internet lots of koreans speak at least a little english now, and it's good to leave the us. it's not a good country
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Feb 28, 2024 05:31
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Yeah. i havent ruled it out i do need to work on this clean livin weight loss thing for a few months though lol before i'd be comfortable goin. do you still have to do dumb poo poo like go to a walgreens for a passport photo etc? i should get started on that
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Feb 28, 2024 05:35
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nah i have to update my passport too and saw that you can take your own photo now actually lol
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Feb 28, 2024 05:39
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly just use the translate app included with your apple iphone. you can even download languages so you can use it in airplane mode and not use data
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Feb 28, 2024 05:42
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huh. neato
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Feb 28, 2024 05:44
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly everyone speaks some english now thanks to The Internet, plus there's a million good-enough translators. Not speaking the language is not a big deal. Learn to say "please" and "thank you" and "sorry" and you can point a lot and you'll be fine.
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Feb 28, 2024 05:45
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be the idiot fish out of water tourist you want to see in the world
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Feb 28, 2024 05:46
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alright it kinda sounds like fun now i dont want to monopolize the thread tho. post some cool things to do and see in Seoul
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Feb 28, 2024 06:16
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly im a stupid white guy who only speaks english, and i was sent to seoul for almost a month last year for work. it was kind of cheating because the business hotels are set up for foreigners, and all the stuff nearby is tolerant. the hotel employees had perfect english, and most places (train station, department store, etc) have a functional amount. at restaurants i could point at stuff on the menu, or google-translate-from-camera to read anything text-only. all the signage is in korean/japanese/chinese/english, and smaller ones that are cut down still have korean/english pretty much by default. naver maps has really good transit integration, and also works fine in english. punch in where you want to go, and it'll tell you which bus to get on, and where the stop is. pretty good. the train stations have automated kiosks for loading your transit card or buying individual tickets, and they always have an english option. like it's not perfect, there is a little more friction than if you were wandering around the states, but i didn't think it was hard at all if you spend a lil time paying attention and thinking about what you're doing. and most of the time it doesnt even need that lol
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Feb 28, 2024 06:22
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i am super disappointed that i didn't get to go to a baseball game when i was there. seems like that woulda been a good time
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Feb 28, 2024 06:23
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly u should try to go to a place where you dont understand whats happening around you and you just gawk at the flow. it builds character and puts hair on your chest
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Feb 28, 2024 06:52
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like this past weekend i went to the biggest buddhist temple around here for the holiday and there were tens of thousands of people walking through with their incense and praying at the shrines and security guards with megaphones yelling at you to keep moving forward etc. jonny you should seek out experiences like this that are far far away from arkansas hillybilly life and just bask in it for a few weeks. you dont need to understand a word of whats going on, its just cool to put urself through experiences like that 
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Feb 28, 2024 07:00
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fart simpson posted:like this past weekend i went to the biggest buddhist temple around here for the holiday and there were tens of thousands of people walking through with their incense and praying at the shrines and security guards with megaphones yelling at you to keep moving forward etc. jonny you should seek out experiences like this that are far far away from arkansas hillybilly life and just bask in it for a few weeks. you dont need to understand a word of whats going on, its just cool to put urself through experiences like that i am not one who should give anyone advice, but yeah this is part of why i don't really have specific advice on what to do there. i spent most of my time just wandering around, trying to see new things, focusing on Being There rather than doing anything in particular maybe not the most fulfilling advice for someone excited to do activities, but it's mostly what i did
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Feb 28, 2024 07:06
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there are lots of places in seoul which aren’t over stimulating. it's only as stimulating as you let it be. if you've been to any large american city, it's about that level of stimulation. really good spicy food and tons of drinking too, highest recommendation
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Feb 28, 2024 07:25
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i live here its weird. people very much over-estimate how many people speak english well (or at least are willing to try to speak english). there is a problem where in school they only learn english readng and writing, very little speaking, and they seem to get insanely embarassed about their poor english so wont even try. also if youre a foreign woman they will treat you like absolute poo poo
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Feb 28, 2024 07:35
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AlbertFlasher posted:I am shipping some products to Seoul, Republic of Korea for the first time. It seems like a cool place. I've never been but it seems fine. my sil lived there for two years and loved it she also met her husband there who turned out to be a tramadol addicted domestic violence enthusiast, but thankfully yeeted him quickly that’s my SK story
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Feb 28, 2024 08:14
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Impress the locals by eating hot food, because south korea invented spices
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Feb 28, 2024 09:50
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bump_fn posted:i live here its weird. people very much over-estimate how many people speak english well (or at least are willing to try to speak english). there is a problem where in school they only learn english readng and writing, very little speaking, and they seem to get insanely embarassed about their poor english so wont even try. common ESL thing
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Feb 28, 2024 09:51
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Jonny 290 posted:Yeah. i havent ruled it out I’m an extremely anxious traveler so I don’t discount that but I’ve also never been upset that I traveled. I always schedule like two days to hermit up in my hotel after landing and I’m always walking around exploring like 2 hours after checkin. You can take your passport photo yourself these days.
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