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Movie
Theaters
Museums
Street of attraction
Life style

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There are only a
handful of movie theaters located outside of downtown, but surely more will be
built soon. Downtown there are two very large theaters, Hanil Gukjang and the
Joong-ang Cinema. Both of them are set up sort of Western style, which makes it
very easy for foreigners to use them. They have multiple screens and shows
start at about 10:30 at the earliest and on weekends there are usually late
showings around 11 or 12. During the week the 9 p.m. showing is usually the
last one. In the future I will try to make a map just to direct you to the
theaters. There several budget theaters, where tickets are 4 or 5,000 won
instead of 5,500. These theaters will show sex films some or most of the time,
depending on the location. Normal first run theaters are: |
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Telephone
(+82-53)
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Daegu
Gukjang (one
screen,but it's really big)
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(+82-53)
427 - 5060
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Sine-Asia (two screens)
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(+82-53)
253 - 3581~3
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Academy
Gukjang
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(+82-53)
427 - 6561
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Jae-il Gukjang (two locations half a block apart, 3 screens):
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(+82-53)
425 - 2816
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Cinema
M
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(+82-53)
755 - 0404
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Ja-yoo Gukjang (two locations, two screens, quite a walk
apart) |
(+82-53)
422 - 7735 (+82-53) 427 -
6007
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Hanil Gukjang (seven screens) |
(+82-53)
600 - 2000
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Joong-ang Cinema
(six screens ) |
(+82-53)
252 - 0046
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Man-gyung-gwan (two screens) |
(+82-53)
257 - 2042
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The others are all
second run/cheap or sex movies. In case you didn't know, Korean theaters have
assigned seating. Check your seat number, cause your fellow patrons will be
really uncomfortable to get you out of their seat. When buying tickets ask for
the show number (as in first show of the day, second show of the day) like
this: "Sa-hwae du-jang ju-seh
yo" (Please give me two tickets (du-jang) to the fourth show (sa-hwae).
Usually there is a different window to buy tickets to each show, so line up with
the poster for the show you want to see.
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