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Hi all,

Can anyone suggest shops where I can buy magic supplies in Korea? A few years ago, a Korean friend of mine called a magic school (they have schools for everything over here) to find out where I could buy some supplies because I was going to be on a TV show and thought that I could use a dove pan. The owner of the school refused to tell her anything. She said he was worried that I just wanted to find out how tricks were done. Forget about the fact that I specifically asked about a dove pan, which indicates some prior knowlege about magic. My friend basically said he didn't want to share the monopoly he had on magic. Silly.

I have been buying from on-line distributors, but sometimes I just want to actually see and touch the things I'm buying before I lay out the cash.

So if anyone knows about a shop in Seoul or Bangkok (I'm going there for a month in January), I'd appreciate a heads up.

Thanks!

Just did a quick google power search and came up with this for you... hope it's helpful


BIZMAGIC CO LTD
COREAL BLDG, 6F
190-10 BANGYEE-DONG SONGPA-GU
SEOUL, KOREA
82-2-3433-1768
Email:ksy@bizmagic.co.kr
http://www.bizmagic.co.kr
Retail


This next link has about 4 shops in Bangkok about half way down the page

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/A ... s/fnm/asia


and finally

http://www.bangkokmagic.com/

Man-oh-man!

Kamsahamnida and Kapungkrap! (Thank you in Korean and Thai.)

I'll check out the Seoul shop this week.

A warning - I spent a fruitless and frustrating afternoon in Bangkok trying to track down a magic shop I'd found the address for on the internet.

You will however encounter men selling and demonstrating gimmicky tricks on the side of some of the main streets. A few of these effects are actually not bad - I got a coin into lightbulb and a lightening box (coin into rubberbanded nesting boxes) for very little. The downside is, if anyone's been to Thailand on holiday, they may well have bought one too...!