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Do Koreans Dream of Electric Sleep?: The Ferret Does South Korea

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"Gun... Line... Box... Batman T Batman. Ooh! The place where I eat!" - A Westerners guide on how to look for a gimbap in South Korea (gimbap is a sort of sandwich made using some form of filling wrapped in rice and seaweed). I fear I might be one trip ahead of myself in terms of titles. Prague was named Gangnam Style, then I travel a stones throw from Gangnam. Now I'm making Blade Runner references, yet I'm told my next trip might make it an even more apt title. Let me, however, clear up a few things right now, as this was the most common only question I was asked by friends who knew of my visit. No, I did not go to Gangnam. It's a posh upper class area that I suspect is rather uninteresting, out of the way from central Seoul, and not worth my limited time in the capital. Nor did I meet PSY. The population of South Korea is only a little short of the population of the UK, and that's assuming he was even in the country. Dude's kinda international th