The search for a viable print shop for my book goes on. I'm about to shove off and head across town to the old print shop at Sookmyung Women's University—the shop that helped me in 2006 with Water from a Skull (another book I plan on putting up on Amazon in both e-book and print-on-demand form, probably next year).
I tried finding a local print shop last night; Naver listed it as closing at 8 p.m., but when I got there a little after 7 o'clock, the place was already closed (this often happens in Korea: shops and restaurants will close before the stated end of operating hours if they feel there's no business coming in—their way of saving money, I guess, but the net effect is that you can never take stated business hours literally, when they're stated at all; this contributes to Korean society's not being based on trust).
So I'm trying Sookmyung today; I seriously doubt they'll remember me, as it's been sixteen years (the staff will doubtless have changed, too), and I'm not even sure the print shop still exists. If it doesn't, well, there's gotta be a print shop somewhere. The hunt continues.
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