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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| That looks like a really classy brothel there. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like someone has been paying attention to the board.
Korea Times
Korea Herald
How long till it makes CNN? Any bets? |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Not to sound too naive, but it's truly laughable that they can operate so openly as to have "*beep* bake sales" when just a couple of years ago there was that sparkplug police captain who claimed that prostitution was illegal in Korea and that she was going to drive it out of the Miari District. |
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dutchman
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: My backyard
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| That looks like a really classy brothel there. |
You have to see in the evening when the alley emits this beautiful pink glow. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| dutchman wrote: |
| dogbert wrote: |
| That looks like a really classy brothel there. |
You have to see in the evening when the alley emits this beautiful pink glow. |
Alas, I must remain outside what surely are the gates of heaven itself.
Anyone knows what the penalty is for any unlucky non-Korean who finds himself in an off-limits area? Rubber bullets? Mace? Jail? |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting articles- thanks, peppermint.
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| ``As there is widespread belief that foreign workers spread AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Korean customers are being driven away,�� said Chon Kyong-bong, a brothel owner who conducted business in Miari for more than two years. He is serving as the head of the owners� committee that adopted the resolution of not accepting foreigners. |
Perhaps if they're really concerned about the spread of AIDS, they could bar any Korean man who has visited prostitutes in South and Southeast Asia. But then, that would be blaming adjoshi. Far better to pander to locally-held prejudices and "widespread beliefs". |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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My favorite part of the Times's article:
``Although we feel bad for the migrant workers who are here in a foreign land, we have to think of the health of our employees, who have weak immune systems since they drink a lot of alcohol while working,�� Chon told The Korea Times.
To paraphrase Shaggy (or maybe Tiger Beer), like...wow!
If they really care about the health of their employees (which they obviously don't), why allow them to drink so much while on the job?
That is easily the most idiotically vexing statement I've read that hasn't come from the mouth of someone named Bush or Rumsfeld.
Editt: Fixxed my spaelling
Sparkles*_*
Last edited by Tiberious aka Sparkles on Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Seoultrader
Joined: 18 Jun 2003
Location: Ali's Insurgent Inn, Fallujah
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'd be cool if one of you mods could integrate the various threads on the Miari matter.
About time the helios thread got some competition...shows where your minds are, you dirty birds.  |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Proprietors of brothels in Hawolgok-dong, northern Seoul, commonly known by its nickname of an obscure origin "Miari Texas Village," have come to a new business policy of denying service to migrant workers who they look at as potential transmitters of SARS. |
So this newpaper says that only migrant workers are off-limits. Most migrant workers are from southeast Asia are they not??
Westerner's arent' a health risk are they?
I've never been to Texas Village but I don't see why they would turn a westerner away.
Anybody else got these kinda balls to go for a visit?
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd be cool if one of you mods could integrate the various threads on the Miari matter. |
Wish we could, but the board software only allows us to *split* threads. We can't merge, or move individual posts from one thread to another. It's a major annoyance.
The several "Helios" threads would be great to have combined, to be sure. One option is to lock all but the main one. |
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Seoultrader
Joined: 18 Jun 2003
Location: Ali's Insurgent Inn, Fallujah
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Here's the most recent Miari-visit account of a poster named "Douglas" on another board (the URL of which will remain my dirty little secret, hehe).
Just want to confirm what "assetman" said. I went to Miari over the holiday weekend and, unfortunately, it was closed to foreigners. (I'm American.) As you leave exit 10, there are five or six alleyways leading off to your right. Well, all but the last one had banners overhead saying that foreigners were not allowed. The ajumas at those alley entrances would not look at or speak to me. When I got to the last entrance, there was no banner, but the ajuma put her hands on my stomache and pushed me back -- not in a threatening way, just her way of saying that I couldn't come in there.
Anyone know what is up with this, and how long it will be before we can get back in there?
It was a disappointing thing to see. |
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BTM
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Back in the saddle.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Seoultrader wrote: |
| Here's the most recent Miari-visit account of a poster named "Douglas" on another board (the URL of which will remain my dirty little secret, hehe). |
WSGForums, right? Come on, Seoultrader, this is the 21st century. There's no such thing as 'secret' URLs. 
What I assumed about this - that the brothelownerscum were wanting to ban brown people (ie SE Asian migrant workers in particular) - seems to be backed up by the Times/Herald pieces. Of course all foreigners are evil, so any non-Korean gets included under the umbrella.
Not that I care, other than on principle. If you have to pay for it, you're pathetic, I reckon. |
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Seoultrader
Joined: 18 Jun 2003
Location: Ali's Insurgent Inn, Fallujah
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| BTM wrote: |
| Seoultrader wrote: |
| Here's the most recent Miari-visit account of a poster named "Douglas" on another board (the URL of which will remain my dirty little secret, hehe). |
WSGForums, right? Come on, Seoultrader, this is the 21st century. There's no such thing as 'secret' URLs.
What I assumed about this - that the brothelownerscum were wanting to ban brown people (ie SE Asian migrant workers in particular) - seems to be backed up by the Times/Herald pieces. Of course all foreigners are evil, so any non-Korean gets included under the umbrella.
Not that I care, other than on principle. If you have to pay for it, you're pathetic, I reckon. |
Hahaha...I thought it'd take at least a day till someone figured it out. Totally agree with you, it's pathetic to have to pay for it...but oh so fun to WANT to pay for it 
Regular guy on date: "Say, Sally, that's a mighy nice dress you're wearing. Shall we dine on some lobster?"
Whoremongers: "Nice boobs. Let's go." |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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What do you think the odds are that someone speaking a certain language...say, Japanese, would have absolutely no trouble entering one of these places (assuming they were sick of the upscale Seoul karaoke clubs and wanted to "go slumming")--my guess is that "foreigner" would be most welcome.
I imagine their signs should have been more accurately put: "No big-noses and southeast Asians allowed." |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Cthulhu wrote: |
| I imagine their signs should have been more accurately put: "No big-johnsons and southeast Asians allowed." |
Fixed. |
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