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When I first moved to Korea in 2003, the first thing I did was track down the local music scene. I was lucky enough to make it to a big punk show with 14 bands for only 10 bucks, just a few weeks after landing.

Back then it wasn't very well known that there were bands playing non-K-pop music, but if more people had known, they might have been really angry. I saw the punk scene as being almost exactly the same as in Edmonton, my hometown, only the hardcore bands were a lot more friendly and everyone was Korean.

Read about my first punk concert in Korea, on 27 December 2003:
http://blog.korea.net/?p=20632