Unless by “International” you mean “taking money from tourists without ceasing to be 100% by Koreans and for Koreans”.
Seriously? “Ask a Korean friend or colleague” for help if you want to order tickets over the phone? Seriously?
More at FeetmanSeoul, who reported last year as well that Seoul Fashion Week is making a weak effort at creating a fashion week worthy to run with the big boys in Milan, Paris and ButWe’reComparingOurselvesToTokyo.
Weak sauce, Seoul Fashion Weak. Pun intended.
12/10/2009 at 6:30 pm Permalink
Wait – wouldn’t it kinda hard for those tourists to even KNOW about the thing? Sorry, but all the Seoul ‘fashion’ I need can be found on the streets of Gangnam, Myeongdong… not that I paid a lot of attention to it anyway.
Korea, that foot you’ve been shooting must hurt by now.
12/10/2009 at 9:27 pm Permalink
Cmon, guys. Does this sort of thing really still bother you? Aren’t you used to it by now?
Although there are exceptions, the vast majority of the time when Korea calls something “multicultural” or “international,” it means nothing of the sort and is merely a moniker attached in order to allow the promoters/companies involved to pretend that their event is relevant to people outside of Korea.
13/10/2009 at 4:03 pm Permalink
I usually just get my tickets from scalpers.
13/10/2009 at 6:21 pm Permalink
Seoul Fashion Week *is* in fact intended to be an international event, and there are in fact people in the industry who travel to these things. This is not one of those things that only matters to locals, or that we shouldn’t expect them to be on the ball with. It is really, shockingly lame. While these sorts of things can have rough starts (I remember PIFF having problems the first few years with ticket vendors who didn’t have enough experience in English to sell tickets to foreigners, and would try to get them to go away by just repeating “sold out!”) but these things generally get wrinkled out eventually. SFW isn’t doing much to correct what is a known problem.