Sunday, May 31, 2009

Shanaenae is big in Korea

So I went to Yongsan this weekend with Gina, Chris, Abi, and Casey. Yongsan is the big electronics market in Seoul. This means there are hundreds of booths, side by side, selling the exact same electronics as the ones next to them. With all this competition, they MUST be willing to haggle. Down the road from the main electronics mall is a strip of booths selling black market dvd's. For about 35 dollars American, I bought the first four seasons of Lost (a $200 value?), Zach & Miri Make a Porno and My Sassy Girl (I dunno, some movie Casey wanted). This is not the point of the story. The point is, this booth had everyyyyything. New movies, classic cinema, and every season of every TV series imaginable. This includes:

-Martin
-Perfect Strangers
-The Greatest American Hero
-Dr. Who (new and old)
-A Different World (Remember Whitley? That terrible Southern accent?!?)
-The Wayans Brothers Show
-Roc
-Every incarnation of CSI, NCIS and Law&Order
-all 658 seasons of the Simpsons/South Park
-Get Smart
-Growing Pains

I assume I'll have a suitcase full of pirated DVD-R's upon my return to America.

1 comment:

  1. welcome to what was my heroin way back when!

    i shipped a big ass box home the first time i was here full of bootlegs.

    you buy martin and i'll buy perfect strangers and we can have marathons, ok?

    p.s. i have a feeling the american "my sassy girl" won't be as good as the korean version. always like that.

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