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[pest2]

In Sokcho, in Gangwon do, there's a "nightclub" called, "A-le-bi-an--na-i-teu-seu". Arabian Nights. I went last night with my wife, her female friend who is the computer teacher at her school, and another woman who is the chemistry teacher at that school.

For starters, you have to 'buy a table'. The total for 4 of us was 120,000 won.

There was a fair size of people there; maybe 300 people...but.....The average age in that place had to be over 40. Ever been hiking in Korea? Imagine all the hikers in a techno club.

But the really funny thing was seeing them up n' act all crazy and *beep*. They're playing eminem, and ten 60 year old men jump up and start 'getting down'. Five 45 year old ajumas jump up on the dance floor above the stage to shake their booties.

Next, a young, 19 year old woman is out there alone. No one else is there. She starts taking off all her clothes. Everyone is cheering. Even the ajumas. She strips down to her bra... and stops. The men are cheering for more. The music ends. She walks away.

My wife and her 2 friends go out on stage and bunch of old Korean guys start 'grinding' against them. My wife, who is not Korean, tells them in Korean that she is not Korean... she says this because it appears that the K girls on the stage appear to be quite slutty; allowing all the old men to grope and grind them out there without a care in the world. The man replies that she is lying.

Anyway, Korea is the land of contradictions for sure. It's a conservative and chaste-seeming place to a foreigner looking in from the outside (maybe, again, because of the xenophobia?)... but I think to Koreans, Korea is not so much like that....

[twg]

[Smee]

In Yeosu yesterday there were posters on just about every building, literally, advertising for a nightclub that has nightly male and female strip shows. The Iceberg, on his blog, posted a very poorly shot video of one. In Gwangju they had a boyband doing a strip show. I saw mushroom.

It's a side of Korean culture many foreigners don't get to see.

[mrsquirrel]

I went there on a night away with the school.

Fucking horrible place, sweaty stinking hikers breathing soju and kimchi breath whilst getting down to beats.

We had a private room so no idea how much it came to but it can't have been cheap?

[Alyallen]

Ajummas and ajoshis just want to shake their groove thing like anyone else without the disapproval of their progeny. Good for them.

I've been to one of those clubs with my TKD instructor and 2 foreign classmates, both male. They were VERY popular there

[ldh2222]

Old people need to work their game too, right? Work off some of that stress haha.

Better than seeing them visit 20-some yr. old girls...

[pest2]

[pest2]

[Mix1]

I think I saw one of those Ajoshi discos before, don't remember where it was. The girl I was with said they were set up so older people could go party and cheat (I mean...go drinking and "rest" in a motel). Her father was into visiting room salons, and she was none too happy about it, so I don't think she had any problem shedding light on it. Could be just her opinion. I'm sure it's all good clean fun.
Anyway, it would be entertaining to see. Anyone know where any are?