Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Keepongoing]

I never have but my students have told me about them. Basically, women go into a club and are led to tables of men. The men buy them drinks and chat with them. Apparently, the waiters can be insistent on them sitting with gentlemen. I am just curious about this because I can not envision such a set up in a Western country.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[jkelly80]

I went to one in Bupyeong where the DJ put on a mask and stripped, using a silk shawl to cover his junk, and then showed his cheeks to the crowd. I had no idea what the hell was going on, and I never will.

[Silk]

They are mostly for young people, not really adult maturity level age. So even though the girls and guys in the booking club might be over 18, it's really more like a high school dance where the waiters help the shy girls mix with the shy boys.

If you can't envision it happening in western culture, it's because you are picturing confident, adult people taking part in it.

[RACETRAITOR]

[HyundaiGenisis]

Your not missing out on much if you dont ever go to one. It's a 5 drink minimum per table and the prices are really high for drinks, and I believe it cost around 10,000 won or so for the waiter to bring over 1 or 2 girls. If your from the Seoul area you are better off just going to Hongdae, most of the girls speak pretty good english.

[xCustomx]

They do have them in the states. I went while I was still in college with 10 of my Korean friends. However, we were denied entry at the first location, even though all the girls were wearing dresses and all of us guys wore slacks, dress shirts and ties. The bouncer, named Turbo (this was in LA K-town), sent us down the street to another place.

We paid about $150-200 to get in, but that included a fifth of JD and a fruit platter with strawberries, watermelon, apples, etc. It was a fun experience and I'd recommend going at least once

[Keepongoing]

[seoulsucker]

"Hooking up" is tough in normal Korean-style bars. People usually go in groups, sit together and don't interact with other people.

Korean "nah-ee-tuh" clubs are simply there to compensate for some Koreans' lack of open socialization skills.

[pidgin]

[pidgin]

And to the Op:

I think "booking club" (rather than 'room') is the most commonly accepted nomenclature among Konglish speakers

[Goku]

I'd love to work in one of these places.

I'm great at conversation starters and I can be really charming on first meetings. Although, after about 5 hours I get very dull and they discover underneath this glacier is only a whole bunch of horny polar bears.

ANYWAYS, think of these places would hire English speaking Weigooks? Using english as a facade? Oh yeah...

English speaking Booking clubs. An excuse to practice "English".

Thinnly veiled way to hook up with foreigners. Because honestly, who doesn't want to learn English? no one could blame a Korean for wanting to learn more Engrish without looking like a *beep*.

I bet you could really rake in the dough. Get some uber thirsty foreigners... Think about a pretty blonde bombshell "oh god I could use another soda". Korean men would flock to buy it for her even if it costed 10,000. Cause even if it was a stupid purchase they could always justify it as education costs.

That's ONE thing I've really noticed. Koreans (generalizations of course) are willing to justify spending an exhuberant about of money for education.

[Alan Partidge]

I went to one when I first got here. It was quite fun in that it kind of resembled a nightclub from home in that you could drink, dance and mingle a bit (table service bars here make that a bit more difficult). The table service and booking were different for me.

We didn't get any women sent over because the waiters didn't seem keen to do it. I was still pretty young, so I was happy enough to drink and take my chances on the dance floor (as I would at home). I danced with an ajumma in a cardy and she bought me a drink. That was about it.

It was funny when we arrived though, one of the guys I was with (who I later realised was a prize tool) was trying to swear at the waiters because they put us right next to the speaker and didn't send any women over. He kept saying ship pal instead of shibbal.

I'd recommend going if only to see for yourself.

[samd]

You've been on Dave's for 5 years and you don't know about booking clubs??

[xCustomx]