At least he looks like he died happily. Not pictured is a butcher standing off to the side hacking chunks of pig face off a stack of heads piled on cheap card table set up on the sidewalk.
The Nakwon Arcade is a building that straddles a major thoroughfare in Insadong, the craft district of Seoul. It's like a massive guitar center made up of a hundred or so smaller shops. I walked around acres and acres of musical equipment trying out hollow bodied electric guitars. I realized today that I hate haggling. I know it's customary and people enjoy the exhilaration of it or something but it just feels like arguing to me. Tell me how much it is and I'll tell you if I want to buy it. End of transaction. Anyway I would just ask for a price then walk onto the next shop, waiting to get quoted the cheapest price I'd found online. It turns out Epiphone used to be headquartered in Korea before moving to China so almost everywhere sold Casinos, the model I was interested in. I bought this from a straightforward Korean rocker dude who immediately quoted what I wanted to hear.
nice axe.
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