Help with reliable online shops for Japanese and Korean stuff

[ginger001]

I usually buy at Yesasia and CDJapan... I know sooner or later I'll buy at Amazon.co.jp, and I've bought at Senasian once... and of course always handy Ebay... but,

... I'm in desperate NEED of knowing more good places to buy Asian stuff. That means jpop and kpop music, dramas, collectibles (I'm especially fond of photobooks), so please if you know some place, share it with me because I need to have more back up places since in my opinion YA is getting a bit too expensive for me!

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my bookmarks

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http://hanbooks.com/ but I think ultimately it's more expensive than YA (but hey, Korean books \o/). International shipping fees are killers, imho.

http://www.dvdasian.com/ Lots of dvds.

Only for MBC's dramas http://www.mbcdvd.com

Iirc when City Hall could only be pre-ordered from http://shop.innolife.com at the beginning and many people bought it from there. It's a Chinese site. From what I was told it was reliable and very popular, but I can't vouch for it since I've never bought anything from there. Should you need assistance in buying dvds and/or opening accounts, Im sure I can find the link with the tutorial that was posted at soompi.

And I don't know if Kyobo ships overseas, but I'm fairly sure they sell dvds and cds

Re: my bookmarks

[ginger001]

Thank you so much!!! I'm pretty sure I'll use one or two of them in the future.

However I'm still short of online shops for kpop and jpop music...

Again thank you!

Re: my bookmarks

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Innolife sells Korean music. One of the comm I'm member of recs YA or DVD heaven, which has LOTS of k-music, and another comm recs CDjapan and brandx.jp (in japanese) but I've never bought from them.

Oh and there's also Amazon Japan ^^ iTunes carries some j-pop, not much though. Again, I can only vouch for YA, itunes and amazon. Oh oh oh and HMV has an online Japanese site which sells lots of Japanese things and they ship to Europe. I've bought stuff from the UK version of that site and they are reliable. Again, can't vouch for the Japanese version, but hey, I suppose if the service if good from one it follows that it should also be good from the other.

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

I came across this post while checking your journal. I use CDJapan and Yesasia most of the time, but have also tried Sensasian, HMV Japan, and Play-asia.

I haven't had any problems with HMV or Playasia. Sensasian can be cheap, but the dvds are a bit iffy. Sometimes they have good subs, and sometimes totally incomprehensible subs. And you never know beforehand which are the good ones and which aren't.

[ginger001]

Thank you! ;) I've just checked Play-asia and looks good. HMV I am already tented to buy there so I probably will in the near future.

Totally agree with Senasian ;)