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Haebangchon nights.
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The ultimate accessory.
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Bonny's Sunday Afternoon madness!
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Even the ajummas are showing up dressed to the nines in Haebangchon now.
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The very picture of the gendered consumption of the Other in the foreigner ghetto in Seoul. The #2 commuter bus is in the background, too.
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This former "foreigners ghetto" is getting more upscale every day. "Ladification" like a mofo.
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Highly gendered consumption has created market forces that turnedg my beloved Hungry Dog diner man cave into a juice bar filled exclusively with girly girls. Because Korean girly girls are not really hungry dogs.
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Besides the food, another reason this place has become the best restaurant Haebangchon has to offer.
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No way! Same girl I caught earlier in the day in haebangchon! Check the next picture!
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Spring nights in Gyeongnidan offer Consumption and Romanticism.
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Regramming the Kobawoo Supermarket in Haebangchon.
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Bumped into my boy Sam Okyere AT SFW, also former next door neighbor here in the HBC. I know the two most famous Sams in Korea!
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Met two japanese tourists in HBC today, where the Hungry Dog once was. Now it is a Juice bar filled only with girls. From everywhere. They were armed with selfie sticks, smartphones, and were ready to tour! They asked me where to go. I told them to hit Ho
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Samdidas and pants in Haebangchon.
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Haebangchon nights.
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Gentrification (ladification) in Haebangchon, Seoul.
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Haebangchon attracts young Korean women looking for trendy experiences of the Exotic Foreign Other. Ridiculous burgers one can't even eat exemplify this. After the picture, the Leaning Tower of Burger fell on its side, much to the consternation of its con
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Hipster-mobile racing through Haebangchon.
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Out for a walk in my hood, met other walkers. The Haebangchon is fast becoming naturally Korean cool. Happy day, happy family! Spring is here, in full effect!
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Haebangchon has gotten strangely übercool. As Seoul's foreigner ghetto grown up from the "Freedom Village" it was when it was a refugee area for North Koreans during and after the Korean War, I never envisioned ending up here, but it is a pretty cool com
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Haebangchon.
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Coffee shop doggie.
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Ladies and gentrification, Haebangchon.
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Girl Talk. Not a guy in the place, except for the servers. Just another part of the ladification (gendered gentrification) that has swept through the neighborhood.
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Gentrification (ladification) is here when you can do Korean sogaeting (arranged dates) in the area.
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Friday night in Itaewon.
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5pm open for dinner at Linus's BBQ in Itaewon, when 29 young women in their 20sand 30s walked in, along with exactly one man. Itaewon has become a place for the consumption of the exotic other, especially through food and its environs.
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Midnight in Itaewon.
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Itaewon, the once-notorious haunt of foreigners' and hookers and GI's and gay people --all the social outcastes -- now gentrifying. Well, in this case, a process of ladyfication, to coin a phrase. Koorean girls meeting in groups of 4-6, sampling, consumin
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Christ in Itaewon.
