Shi Chong (City Hall Area near Songtan)
An area on highway 1, a click up the road from Songtan going towards Pyongteak is jumping with BBS's. I stopped at one right off highway 1 past a big crab sign on the right as your going towards Pyongteak from Songtan. Gas Can had an earlier post about it. It was 100,000 Won for a decent massage, wash down on a plastic bed in a secret shower room, CBJ, Missionary and finish with Doggy. She wasn't a bad looker either. There are a few other BBS in the area that I want to try. Namely, one block to the right as your going south on highway 1 is crowded with young Koreans, Restraunts, Clubs and BBS's. It's worth a look. Anyway fella mongers, keep it real and keep posting!
Travaholic
Thank You for the Information
Moody,
No I am not the old guy that lives in the past, although I wish we could reverse some of the modern thinking and attitudes - especially in education!
I have visited Korea at least every other year since the early 70s (when Song Tan Si only had the main street paved) and while it was slowly modernizing the attitudes had not changed much until the late 80's and early 90's (after the Olympics). They were always helpful, especially if you spoke even a little Hongul. I made many life long Korean friends, and even married a Korean girl. And I did invest in the Korean ecomomy by buying property in Seoul, Song Tan Si, Taegu and Pyonteak. My partner is a Korean I had met in Viet Nam and he is more like a brother than a friend or partner. I invested the money and he rented and maintained the properties, then we split the profits 50-50. When I took him on as a partner, he was driving a taxi and living in a one room apartment with only outside plumbing and barely getting by.
Over time we built this into a very good business and I purchased more and more properties. I realized that he was spending all his time managing these properties, so I insisted that he take an additional 10% maintence fee before the 50-50 split. He refused, so I started a college fund for each of his kids instead. When I was not stationed in Korea and after I retired, I knew he was looking out for our best interests. When I returned for a visit, he always insisted that I stay with him, although I had my wife's family to stay with.
My last visit in January was strange! First of all he didn't even ask me to stay with him, although he had recently built a very large house. But he did book me into a nice hotel at a Korean's price. He didn't meet me at the airport (something he has always done before). After two days, he finally came to visit me in the hotel and I sensed a drastic change in his attitude.
I have always trusted him COMPLETELY, and he had never betrayed my trust before. But now I felt he was different and after visiting several other friends, they also seemed different. Was it me? Maybe I was getting parnoid, and I was a little sick at the time too. After a week, the feeling still hadn't gone away, it had gotten stronger, so I started checking. A visit to a Song Tan Si orphanage revealed that he had made a much smaller donation than what was specified and what he showed on the books. A visit to the different base housing offices revealed that my properties had been vacant very seldom (but the books showed a 25% vacancy) and that the rents being charged were 25% higher than what he was showing on the books. We had even gotten some warnings about not repairing the properties in a timely manner, although he was showing a 15% increase in maintenance costs. The strange thing was that this fraud has all started happening in the last 2-3 years. I am very dispirited over this turn of events and have hired an outside auditing firm to find out just how much he has stolen from me. I haven't gotten the results back, but have been told that he has been less than honest. Now I will have to decide whether to press charges or not. At the very least, the partnership is over.
If he was the only one that had a change of attitude (and morals) I would not worry too much, but I also found it among many of my other long time friends. Now I am trying to decide whether it is time to sell out and reinvest else where (possibly South America). Property values have increased HUGELY since I bought them.
I doubt that I will want to travel back to Korea very much in the future just because of the change in attitudes I experienced during my January trip.
Sorry to have "vented" like this, but if others have also invested in Korea, my advise is to watch the books closely. It seems like it is now okay to cheat an American, even if they are more than friends.