I think I have the answer for you: Kumgang shoe store in 강남. Go out exit six, and walk maybe 600 meters down the road. You can’t miss it. If you get to Kyobo Bookstore at the big intersection, you’ve gone too far.

Big-size shoes are on the 3rd floor. They are nice people. I’ve shopped there for a few years and always get what I need.

Good luck.

It may take them time to come around. But if you happen to have it on when they show up, maybe… :)

I’m probably going to have to give the whole Buffy thing some time, because they’re blinded by Edward’s sparkliness. :)

Unfamiliar with Vampire Lore? Och, that’s sad.

I certainly can imagine Mormonism + vampirism mixing well in the hands of someone who understands both, but when she only knows Mormon, I’m more, er… leery?

I haven’t read the book yet, but it does seem clear from the movie that Meyer is unfamiliar with vampire lore, which makes the whole thing even more silly.

And given my other interests, I’ll be interested to see how Meyer’s Mormon background shows up in her writing.

Thanks, but given the number of problems I’ve had buying shoes online — yet another WRONG pair was shipped to me, this time from Amazon, and I have to pay shipping back, and had to pay a tarriff on them too, so thank heaven they were on sale! — I think I’ll make do with what I can find in-country until my next trip to North America next summer. I’m sure I can find a Korean cobbler advertising online, if not by recommendation!

It does annoy me that there’s an import tarriff on shoes into Korea (and clothes) given how hard it is to find decent bigger-sized items. By difficult, I mean endlessly infuriatingly hard. Ah well…

Cuccu,

Twilight as in Stephenie Meyer’s book/movie/whatever? I’ve pretty much heard nothing of that over here — seems less portable than Harry Potter somehow, and unsurprisingly. Weird, though: Meyer claims she was “inspired” by a dream in 2003. But this was a major plotline for the first few seasons of a major TV series in the 90s. It’s weird. She claims never to have seen an episode of Buffy, but… um… hard to believe. I mean, she claims never to have seen a single vampire movie, or even to have read Dracula. (She admits to reading Rice, though.) That’s kind of weird… so was she just never interested in vampires until she started cranking out novels about them? Or is this standard lawyer-dispensed advice being acted upon, to fend off the possibility of a lawsuit from Whedon?

(And as an absolute tangent, I should add that I know it’s not fair, but I have a kind of nasty habit to judge people whose names are “properly” spelled in a way other than the usual one. “Stephenie” looks wrong, as does “Mandie” or “Laryssa” or “Ronnald.” Not that I blame the person stuck with the misspelled name, but I do kind of imagine doltish parents, and a correspondingly doltish upbringing. It’s not fair, I know. But I register the reaction here, as it predisposes me to question her claims as to total ignorance of all things vampire save Anne Rice and random Bela Lugosi clips.)

Or maybe it’s just my indignation at the idea someone can write good genre work without, you know, reading from that genre. Scratch that, my indignation that readers would fail to see the difference between work written by someone versed in a genre, and work by someone who isn’t.

Ah well… haven’t read the books, but I won’t be spending money on them, either. Any book of which someone can say, “Vehicles are also very important in the Twilight books,” where “vehicles” means “cars” (and not, say, other imagined conveyances, and where “important” means glamorized in that cheesy way that cars so often are in many American films) is unlikely to appeal to me.

Maybe after the Twilight craze passes, you can entice them into the world of Buffy?

As to kinds, I like Ecco (in fact was online today looking at a boot I lust after), but I don’t know if they’re soft enough for you. Two possible options-”Ancona” in the casual section and “City Austin” in the business section might do, but might be too casual like the Terra Planas http://www.ecco.com/int/en/collection/men/casual/80054/00101/detail.do
(warning- flash stupidness)

Hopefully somebody nearer by can recommend a cobbler!