Daily Archives: July 9, 2008

Minis in Daejeon!

After much searching I have finally found the second minis store in Daejeon!

The first one I ran into told me about this store.  Even this store is pretty substandard by international standards.  There are only Japanese minis and no Western minis such as Dungeons and Dragons miniatures.  See my post about my hobbies for more on this:

https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/about-my-hobbies/

I am absolutely amazed that a city the size of Daejeon only has two minis stores!  There are literally dozens of these stores in Taipei and at least a dozen of these stores in Taichung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taichung) which should be comparable in terms of consumer choices to Daejeon but actually there is no comparison.  Overall I like Koreans a lot more than Taiwanese but have to say Koreans outside of Seoul seem to live in a much narrower consumer world in terms of hobbies and food compared to Taiwanese outside of Taipei.  Seoul is the heart of Korea in every way, much more so than Taipei relative to Taiwan.

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Krazy Korean Ties

One of the pecularities of Korean fashion are ties with really wild patterns that are also bejeweled.  Major brands such as Gucci seem to make a Korean version that is not available elsewhere.  The source of my international tie information is:

http://www.tiedeals.com/new.htm

I promise you that the wildest tie on this site does not begin to compete with what is going on in Korea!  Below are some pictures I took in Daejeon, South Korea today:

The red ones at the top are filled with rhinestones in addition to their wild pattern!  You really need to click on the picture to get the full effect.  This weekend I plan to do a hard target search to find the Kraziest Korean Tie!

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