What the Book!

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We’re both English majors, so we love books. Love em! Unfortunately, it’s not all too easy to find a good selection of English books here in Korea; the bookstores will have a few, but a big part of those few are the original books of popular Hollywood movies. If you want to read something with a little more depth, those bookstores may not be your first option. What you should be checking out instead is our new favorite bookshop, What the Book in Itaewon. It’s a bookstore full of books written in English, used and new, as well as magazines. What’s better is that they have a really useful website if Itaewon is too far for you, or you’re just too lazy to go there.

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http://www.facebook.com/KRAZYKOREANFRANK Frank Yi

hahaha what the book
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=223701621 Andy Morris

But God help you if you want to sell those books back to them. We tried selling a buttload and got 30,000 in store credit, only to be told that it was invalid on the books we actually wanted to buy. I haven’t been in there since, but they sure as shit didn’t have any signs telling you that.
Aqua Fina

Wow, “Reading Rainbow” theme…sure brings back memories…..=)
Kayley Suk

Oh my gosh! I remember going on a field trip there! Before, we went to Petra’s (it’s a fantastic middle-eastern restaurant nearby, you should do something there), then we went to what the book. Everyone was in stitches by the time we were on the stairs, we thought it was a joke before.
Also, with the books, sometimes I have that problem. Usually, though, Kyobo does it for me–you probably have heard of it by now. It’s a bookstore in City Hall. The building is actually an office building or something, but there’s a floor dedicated to books. You can find stores too, I think Martina will lovelovelove the Artbox, there’s cutesy stuff everywhere. Last year, I even got a snowman lamp-made out of hot glue chunks. Anyways, there’s a big Foreign Book section. And a food court, where I fulfill my longing for gummies.
Also there’s the bookdepository.com, the books come quicker than Kyobo, and there’s free shipping! The downsides are that since they’re in England, it’s really slow, it takes like a week or two to come. And the books are pricier than Amazon, but the free shipping really more than makes up for it–I mean, Amazon’s shipping can be more than the price of the book itself! And there ARE no gummies to buy there. Sigh.
Well, hope that helped.