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MyLostTemple
United States2921 Posts
Hey everyone, i'm at the Arirang TV station right now, we need at least another week before they can get my work visa. Once they get that in we'll start recording the show. Until then they're showing old recordings of me from the Seoul Estars Festival. Anyways, I have a few questions about Korea for the Korean TL.net members.
1) Where are amature SC tournaments held? Are there any held with cash prizes? What do i have to do to participate in the Courage League? I don't plan on winning, i just think it would be fun to play in.
2) Are there any Arcades in Korea? I can only find PC bangs. There has to be at least one Arcade in Seoul. I'm looking for Beatmania IIDX (or any bemani machine).
3) My first broadcast covers Lucifer vs Grubby in the War of the Worlds tournament Season 2. Jason and I have already studied the games twice, but i want more expert analysis from someone who's better than myself. Would anyone be willing to discuss the games with me via PM or on this fourm?
4) Where can i find a list of bars and restarants in the Nambu Terminal area. That's where i'm living.
5) How much would a top of the line gamer PC cost in koera? Excluding the montor. Delta airlines lost my PC (yes i'm very fucking pissed) and i may have to buy a new one. If they don't find it within a week i may have to give up hope.
Thanks :D
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Are they compensating you for the stuff they lost!?
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51558 Posts
1) You have contacts like Rekrul right? Ogogo might know of some (he is a top amateur player now).
5) Maybe get an XNote laptop or something? I guess their cheap over there.
And from what I saw on Arirang, they (the casters) say the users korean name and not their screen name when casting, for example.
".... and Kwanro with the nice flank on Pusan, he is literally demolishing his units"
will turn into
"... and Han Sang Bong with the nice flank on Park Ji Ho, he is literally demolishing his units"
so I think you might have to get used to this.
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First thing you need to do is find some real life contacts for these kinds of things, TL.net is really not the place and is only going to help you so much.
1) Your best way into courage league is to suckup to Dan's roomate Spunky. He has the power and connections to get people in.
2) They are everywhere. Open your eyes next time you go out.
4) I used to live right next to nambu terminal and this is not a special area at all for eating or drinking. There are 2 places worth mentioning, the first one is a sul lung tang (flavorful soup with beef, very good for hangovers, costs like 6000won each). I will give you directions there: imagine you just walked outside of the nambu bus terminal, there is a big intersection, on your right side across the intersection, there is a pizza hut (trees partially cover the sign), walk across the intersection towards it and then keep walking straight past it, walk past the starbucks, past the department store, past the local food market, across a little mini street and then another 1-2 minute walk straight and you will see a well lit restaurant with automatic sliding glass doors on your right. It's open 24 hours and the sign says something like 설넝탕 (cant remember the name exactly, never looked at restaurant signs). The second place is very close to the first place. It has delicious galbi sal and is open until about 10pm every night, it costs like 15000 each (cant remember exactly, didn't look at prices often, always purposely forgot my money and got rekrul to pay). The directions are the same as the first place except you keep walking straight another 2-3 minutes, past a few more restaurants and another mini street, you will see an family mart market(might have been LG) on your right and a galbi restaurant immediately after that, you open the glass door manually and there is a little bell attached to it that you will hear when you enter. This place has a red sign and I have no clue what it's called. I have the number to a few delivery places on my phone, ask me on msn if interested.
5) PCs are very cheap in Korea and they will be delivered right to your door step. You can get the best of the best for 1.5k and something that would probably more than suit your needs for less than 1k. Ask a competent Korean friend to help you order it online and then go to the bank with him to help you transfer the cash to pay for it.
You have pretty bad luck with your luggage on an ongoing basis.
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They really should compensate you for the PC - one of the luggage guys probably pinched it
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2.) There are ALOT of arcade rooms in Korea, you just got to look in those tight street areas.
5.) Korea has cheap computer parts. It's BEST to build one and cost WAY cheaper. If you are able to read Korean, danawa.com should compare prices for you. If not, you may try checking out Yong San. Be aware of rip offs though. It's basically like a bargain place. Say one store gave you a cheaper price, they'll drop theirs.
Hope to see you in Arirang TV, I'll be going to Osan AB in May so I'll be definitely checking out the progamming scenes.
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2) There's a really good arcade in Gosok terminal. It's inside the mall (forgot the name) connected to the subway station and it's very hard to miss.
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On January 24 2008 13:12 KoveN- wrote:
They really should compensate you for the PC - one of the luggage guys probably pinched it
if you show proof to delta airlines, they will have to reimburse you
one of my friends' computers (apple) got lost in transit luggage, so he went and argued with the airport peeps - they reimbursed him around $2000 and he got a newer comp (the original was around $2000, but with the advent of new tech, apple didn't make his old comp anymore haha)
i hope you get your comp back. looking forward to hearing some quality commentating~
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
i think tasteless has finally realized that asking me non stop mundane questions about seoul is never going to get him anywhere
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
2) There's a pretty big one in COEX mall. I've not ventured inside myself though.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
On January 24 2008 18:58 Rekrul wrote:
i think tasteless has finally realized that asking me non stop mundane questions about seoul is never going to get him anywhere
looll wtf
so mean?! 
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On January 24 2008 18:58 Rekrul wrote:
i think tasteless has finally realized that asking me non stop mundane questions about seoul is never going to get him anywhere
Gotta give us new guys a break.
Remember I kept asking you how to say the same word that one night, I dunno why I kept forgetting it, and I don't remember it now.
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Theres an arcade at like every mall here in seoul
World cup stadium
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Hungary11305 Posts
I can try helping with the game analysis, can you link me the Vod / replays?
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MyLostTemple
United States2921 Posts
Here's that pic of me u wanted dan
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Melbourne5338 Posts
You don't have html privileges, you want the one with the [img] tags.
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United States33571 Posts
2) There's a big cluster of arcades in 노량진/Noryangjin. Also, there is a pretty famous arcade near Isu/이수 station (Afreeca internet TV often broadcasts tournament streams from here).
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I'm gonna try courage for fun as well b4 joining army, so if you are up for it pm me the best time u want. So i can set it up for me/friends/u.
To join in courage league it's like $10 btw, pretty cheap i think.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
on that night out drinking with me pr tastless honestea midiana nd susie in susies blog, fun fact:
everyone cheers i take a drink from my jack and coke and dont drink the shot of jack in my shot glass cuz i dont feel like binging too fast, then peurtorican goes "WTF DAN DONT BE A PUSSY TAKE UR SHOT"
so i'm like ok and i down my shot and tell him TAKE URS NOW then someone interrupts me but i keep my eye on PR then he pours his shot into a glass with water and takes a tiny sip, then 30 seconds later i called him out on it and he goes NO I DRANK IT I DRANK IT then im like wtf no u didn't u retard but then tasteless interrupted with his jabber
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United States22883 Posts
I have a totally random question about Korea. Why do they use metal bowls and chopsticks vs Japan/China's wood/porcelain? D:
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wood absorbs water, and we all know stagnant tepid water lead to the possibility of contracting some random disease
metal avoids this, thus is a little more hygenic
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United States22883 Posts
Yeah, I don't think that's it.
My guess is it started with excess scrap metal from WW2.
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On January 25 2008 02:55 Jibba wrote:
Yeah, I don't think that's it.
?
sounds reasonable.
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United States22883 Posts
On January 25 2008 02:57 Spike wrote:? sounds reasonable.
No, that's an advantage to using metal, but that's not the reason they started using them. If it were that simple, then every SE asian country would use them, but the others don't.
EDIT: Another possible reason from some web forum
I read that Koreans used metal chopsticks because the metal would change color if the food was poisoned. I asked a few of my Korean students in Japan, and they said that that was the reason. There are probably other reasons too.
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when idra comming to kor?
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I think he said mid February on the Blizzard board (yeah I know, don't ask).
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MyLostTemple
United States2921 Posts
On January 24 2008 19:33 nevergg wrote:
2) There's a pretty big one in COEX mall. I've not ventured inside myself though.
That one fucking blows, i need one with IIDX machine (beatmania)
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yakii
Korea (South)1448 Posts
On January 25 2008 02:27 Jibba wrote:
I have a totally random question about Korea. Why do they use metal bowls and chopsticks vs Japan/China's wood/porcelain? D:
Using wood chopsticks in restaurants have been prohibited in Korea to protect natural environments.
metal bowls are to keep rice warm, I guess.
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yakii
Korea (South)1448 Posts
On January 24 2008 12:32 MyLostTemple wrote:
5) How much would a top of the line gamer PC cost in koera? Excluding the montor. Delta airlines lost my PC (yes i'm very fucking pissed) and i may have to buy a new one. If they don't find it within a week i may have to give up hope.
Thanks :D
If you want to build your own Computer this site will help you to calculte the costs.
btw, Good luck in Korea 
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Yo dude,
I looked to play IIDX while I was there too... I looked in probably 5 different arcades in a bunch of different sections of Seoul: I didn't see one machine, only ripoffs. Then I realized, that every Bemani game was a Korean version rip off there, so it seems like they may have gotten in a lawsuit with Bemani? They have their version of Beatmania, and Pump It Up instead of DDR and junk, I was pretty sad.
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On January 25 2008 02:55 Jibba wrote:
Yeah, I don't think that's it.
My guess is it started with excess scrap metal from WW2.
LOL
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United States5262 Posts
On January 24 2008 19:33 nevergg wrote:
2) There's a pretty big one in COEX mall. I've not ventured inside myself though.
It's right next to the movie theater in CoEX.
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On January 25 2008 07:57 jkillashark wrote:Show nested quote +On January 24 2008 19:33 nevergg wrote:
2) There's a pretty big one in COEX mall. I've not ventured inside myself though. It's right next to the movie theater in CoEX.
Doesn't have it.
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Will you go watch the PL finals live on sunday tasteless?
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United States33571 Posts
coex arcade blows and costs too much, don't go there -_-
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