Comments on: A Profile of Itaewon

By: K

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:31:19 +0000

Maybe Canada needs to be overrun by the US for once to learn the importance of manpower to military, aye?

By: J

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:00:38 +0000

to birth control,

not that I'm a fan of Korea in particular, but your exasperatingly ignorant post is obviously biased and in need of some correction . Visit any big city and you'll see the same level of garbage in the streets as Seoul. Don't speak about Koreans as if they're 'in need of education'. Also, the reason Seoul is overpopulated is because of the economic and industrial development concentrated in the area since the seventies when the country first started to establish itself. The rest of the country is pretty much empty in comparison. It has nothing to do with Koreans needing to 'learn about sex education and birth control'. Korea is actually in the top 3 of OECD nations with the lowest birth rate. It appears that you are the one in need of some education. If you keep your unknowledgeable mouth shut maybe you'll escape appearing like a complete moron.

By: Birth Control

Birth Control — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:01:11 +0000

Please educate Koreans to learn how to use a garbage can. Too many Koreans litter. Also, Koreans need to learn about sex education and birth control. South Korea has a population of 48,000,000 people. It's overpopulated for the size the country has. Canada has a population of 33,000,000 and look how big Canada is. There needs to be more recycling bins in Itaewon. Please recycle your beer cans after you drink them. As a matter of fact, recycle ALL your garbage and educate the Koreans to do the same.

By: Cool Old Maps | ZenKimchi

Cool Old Maps | ZenKimchi — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:13:54 +0000

[...] stuck out when I glanced at the Seoul map was the mention in the Stars and Stripes four-part piece on Itaewon that it used to have pear orchards. Well, they’re right there on the [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:12:32 +0000

Leave the place to the Muslims and Nigerians. It is a nasty place full of flies.

By: Itaewon, Sparkling! » The Hub of Sparkle!

Itaewon, Sparkling! » The Hub of Sparkle! — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:19:21 +0000

[...] HT: ROK Drop [...]

By: White Rice

White Rice — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:16:25 +0000

Interesting story. I am still on the fence about the place. Some friends visited Seoul and stayed up at Hilton. Hilton sent them to Itaewon for BBQ. They left me a message and I met up with them. Food was good. Environment was more Westernized than most BBQ joints (ajumma spoke some English, menu, signage, etc.). One friend who had been to Korea before wanted some after-dinner Soojeonggwa (???). Ajumma never heard of it. Could've easily been our pronunciation, so we wrote it out in hangeul. Still nothing. Made us wonder where we were…

By: USinKorea

USinKorea — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:04:32 +0000

Here is my brief view from the expat language instructor side.

I never went to Itaewon except for one brief trip in day time with another teacher to buy some ties early in my time in Korea (1996).

Over the years, I met some other Canadian and American instructors who'd go to Seoul specifically to go to Itaewon a couple weekends a month or so or even more regularly the closer I lived to Seoul.

It was easy to see Itaewon was a Spring Break type place – like Panama City when I was in high school and college — a place where people went (that wasn't their home) to go crazy binge drinking and other forms of debauchery. And where people would do (bad) things they'd never think to do – that were even out of their character – because they had entered a morality free zone – a place where you felt like you could not only get away with anything but were supposed to as part of having fun.

Itaewon was also the main place, it seemed, where some teachers I knew would buy their drugs.

I never cared to visit the place.

But, then again, I never particularly cared for the entertainment sections of cities I lived in — areas where everybody was Korean. When I was in college, I didn't mind such places much, and I don't look down my nose at people who still head out to those kind of places, but by the time I went to Korea, they weren't the kind of places I particularly cared to go to.

By: Unsatisfied LG DACOM

Unsatisfied LG DACOM — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:31:31 +0000

You're right, Tom. Americans lie to themselves about this, but you're right.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:24:37 +0000

"Koreans who hang out in Itaewon are usually trashy,"

Agreed! But like I always say, flies are attracted by shit.