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Title: I can see this is not up to date by just reading the table of contents....
Review: I did not read this book. I am living in Korea and have been studying Korean for more than a year. I once embarassed myself by refering to a coffee shop as a 'Ù. These days, regular coffee shops are known as a work very similar to the english "Coffee Shop". Dabang have a different connotation. That of the kind of "coffee shop" that is actually a cover for company that sells sex. Noone refers to regular coffee shops as Dabang. The back cover of the book says "completely up to date". Yet in the table of contents of this books it says "Meeting friends at the Dabang". There are so many great new Korean books coming out these days. Why buy something that was published in 1996? Korean culture has changed drastically since then.
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