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[Smee]

There's a "Rommel Hof" in Mokpo.

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/04/mokpos-rommel-hof.html

[Beeyee]

Sweet, I wanna go there.

[Kuros]

Well considering that:

A) Rommel ran the Afrikan campaign while demanding his Germans and Italians to strictly observe the laws of war and take the best care of prisoners (and the British reciprocated)

B) Rommel ultimately was ordered to kill himself on Hitler's orders

I see no problem with a hof named after Rommel.

[rollo]

There was a hof in Gimhae named Hitler. It was not one of the infamous hitler bars with the murals and pictures of Hitler. It was ran by a nice lady who wanted a German name for her bar. that was in 2003 dont know if it is still there.

[RACETRAITOR]

The ironic part is that it's a jazz bar.

I think there was also a Rommel in Daejeon.

[Yaya]

Certain Koreans just cannot shake their weird fascination with Nazi culture. Around Ewha University in the 1990s, there was a "rock cafe (young people's disco)" named Rommel. I went there once and didn't pay much attention to the name but then I saw pictures of Nazi tanks and that freaked me out.

I also remember in Myeongdong seeing a "ppiki (street tout)" for a nightclub dressed as a Nazi officer giving out flyers. I was like, WTF!

The examples can go on and on.

[Zutronius]

I live in Mokpo but never really go to that part of town often. Kind of surprising to see and hear about the fascination with Nazis by Koreans. I do want to see what the place is like though.

[michaelambling]

[Smee]

It's down the street from E-Mart, which in turn is a couple blocks from Hadang You're at the bus terminal and you walk straight---under that overpass through the park---for two blocks unitl you get to the E-Mart. Turn left and go straight about three blocks. It's on your right. You can get a map on the original post.

[michaelambling]

[orosee]

Oh, for a moment I thought they might refer to the former mayor of Frankfurt (actually Erwin's son).

Think I have to get there before they taker it down and have my photo taken, just to piss off some people back in Germany

Not sure what I'd do about another "Hitler" or perhaps a Himmler bar... an "Eichmann Hof" might also be a bit tasteless. But considering that Rommel is one of the few still popular war figures in a country that has been trying desperately to bury its Nazi past... I guess I'm okay with a Rommel here and there.

To be fair, I wouldn't expect to find bars called "Bomber Harris" in Cologne, Hamburg or Dresden (or anywhere else in Germany), but in Korea anything goes as far as its not related to local history.

[ekul]

[Pwillig]

They should've called it the Desert Fox.

I'd totally go there if they had drinks called Afrika Slammers or a Patton Smackdowns.

[michaelambling]

[orosee]