only spent a couple of days in korea in may.
there's an interesting arts scene and some interesting
late night bars... but didnt make it to any as i was there
midweek....never found any real record shops but there
are supposed to be some nr. the university.
there is a brilliant late night market in seoul that opens
from 10pm and closes at 5am and consists of a mile
of six to ten story buildings filled with shops with
everything / anything trendy-wise, ie clothes, shoes.
bags, tshirts at half the price... ask around for the market
its overruns for factories that make stuff for japan and
europe but the only thing in those markets music wise
is local korean pop and jpop and lots of weird soft porn
dvd;s and vcd;s which may not read in europe or the states
as they have different tv frequencies....
net connection is pretty awesome in korea, and most
koreans are into on-line gaming and there's a big
napster equivalent over there but all the sites are in
korean....it's definitely NOT like going to tokyo or hong kong
(monitor records is pretty cool in hong kong) and the
biggest music in korea is new age ambient and jazz
try the lotte centre - altho i missed it, i heard there were
some record shops there.
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