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 | |  |  | Other Place to Go: Sindang : dog-butchers and bargains | |  |  | |  |
This is a traditional Korean neighborhood, located just behind the Dongdaemun market complex. On weekends, the buying and selling spills over into Sindang, and clogs the streets with a huge, anarchic flea market. Stalls line the roads selling secondhand clothes, antiques, junk, fishing rods, old record players, huge live sea turtles flapping around in buckets, traditional medicine, vibrators, porn tapes (very underground in Korea!) and illegal blackmarket Japanese pop music (still banned here over wartime bad feeling). There aren`t many tourists around, its mainly wizened old locals and savvy Korean bargain-hunters and the lowkey, yet bustling atmosphere could hardly be more authentic. In addition to all the market wares, keep your eyes out for little neighborhood shrines, crumbling old apartment blocks, food stalls, and fragrant arcades selling kimchi, fish and spices...and of course, dog meat! If you dig around in the sidestreets you`ll find several dogbutchers serving up Korea`s most controversial specialty-but beware, it has become quite a sensitive topic and brandishing your camera at the rows of skinned puppies on metal hooks might not get a very positive response! Leave a Comment
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| | | | Other Place to Go: Nami Island | | | | | |
This is not exactly off the beaten path for the locals but it's not mentioned in any of the guide books either as far as I know. This island was featured in a popular tv series and has been a huge hit with the locals ever since. The island is only 6kms around and is full of natural surroundings - huge Redwoods, avenues of Silver Birches, open fields and during the autumn, lots of red Maples. This attracts huge crowds which tends to negate the beauty of the place a little, and it definitely destroys the tranquility (especially the speed boats racing around the island for the tourist dollar). I wouldn't recommend the weekend, but if you have a spare day during the week, check it out. The bus takes about 1.5 hours (5,000 Won), taxi (about 2,500 Won) and then the ferry and entrance (5,000 Won). There are restaurants for lunches and snacks. Leave a Comment
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| | | | Other Place to Go: Central Asia Town in Seoul | | | | | |
You can see Cyrillic (Russian) words everywhere in the Central Asia Town located in Guanghee-dong, downtown Seoul. In this area, signboards of restaurants, fried chicken houses, cafes and video shops are all written in Russian. You can even see a Cyrillic warning of a ferocious dog at the end of an alley here. The town is only four to five years old, a newcomer among the foreigners’ districts in Korea. But it has a different history from other similar communities in Seoul. Currently, most foreigners’ districts which have recently been established are located close to industrial complexes such as Kuro in Seoul and Banwol in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. However, there is no industrial park in Guanghee-dong and neither do many foreigners come to visit the area. How then was the Central Asia Village formed here As soon as you enter the district starting from Beolwoomul Road, you feel as if you are in a remote foreign country. In particular, New Gumho Town, a 10-story building standing on the roadside, has put up an office information board completely written in Russian. The building’s elevator wall covered with Cyrillic commercial stickers give visitors a brief illusion that they are in a store in a city of Uzbekistan. Most companies in this building, also known as ‘Mongol Tower,’ are forwarding agents, with a few employment agencies for job seekers from Central Asia. Hidden in the small alleys crossing Beolwoomul Road are the truly ‘exotic’ features of this area. Both sides of the alley are filled with rows of restaurants carrying Cyrillic signs, all of them frequented by Central Asians seeking to ease their homesickness with home-style food and drink. Among them, a Russian restaurant named “Cry NodNoi” on the Samsong street behind the Guanghee Building has become popular among Koreans who want to taste exotic food. “Cry NodNoi”, meaning ‘my hometown place’ in Kazakh, serves Russian and Kazakh food. Leave a Comment Other Contact: Foreigners’ Towns in Seoul1
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| | | | Other Place to Go: Knife Gallery - Insadong | | | | | |
knife gallery. about by Korean knife,Japan knife,China Knife, Western knife, Damascus Kinfe, Custom knife, Swiss army knife, Military Knife, Throwing knife,kitchen knife , Dagger, Jungle knife,Rescue knife, survival Kinfe, Hunting knife, Fishing knife, Cooking knife and all type of knife gallery. attraction point of Insa-dong Subway 3 Line Anguk Stn, Gate 6 Subway 5 Line Jongno 3-ga Stn, Gate 5 Phone: 02-735-4431,4432 Website: kim@knifegallery.co.kr Other Contact: Fax : 02-737-4911 Leave a Comment
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