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[cj1976]

There's only so much fun you can have listening to thumping techno without taking drugs. Isn't that the main reason people back home go to these clubs?

[PigeonFart]

Other people have mentioned the culture thing, and that's an important point.

The Korean people are overly-concerned about what others think, they're not well travelled, they rarely talk to someone who wasn't born within 300km from their house. Therefore the problem with Korean nightlife is the Koreans themselves. Foreigners are more open to meeting new people. Koreans like to be with the same people they're with every other week.

The atmosphere in a place is much better when there are more foreigners, at least from my perspective. Maybe Koreans like their nightlife, i dont know. They probably have never experienced anything different.
I think a place that has a 50% foreigner/korean crowd is a good place. Of course it's easier for foreigners to let their hair down in Korea because they're far from home. Maybe i'd be more of a wall-flower or uptight if i was in my own country.

Another problem with korean nightlife is that there are too many places to go. So often many clubs are half empty (even on a Friday night!).

Although i do like the fact that Koreans binge drink. At least that livens them up a little bit.

I go out to meet people! Watch the koreans the next time you go out. How often do they approach strangers? (rarely).
If a stranger approaches them, how do they respond? (with slight fear).

Give me a North American *beep* anyday.
p.s. I've noticed significantly less Candian women out in Hongdae these days, compared to a year or two ago. Where are they going?

[seoulsucker]

[methdxman]

[neilsputnik]

Joey Negro 23 October at Heaven. I'm..... THERE.

Been meaning to catch him for a while and always missed out for some reason or another.

Woop Woop.

[northway]

[RMNC]

It's weird, since getting back home, I've seen Koreans go to EDM clubs in the states... and they still just hang out in their little group, never socialize with anyone else, never dance with anyone else, just each other. It's very... Korean.

Don't expect to have Koreans coming up to you often, usually it's up to you to run up alongside them and try to tell them how beautiful they are and that you want to buy them drinks or whatever. Assertiveness is key.

[Ralphie]

[Globutron]

[Fat_Elvis]

[northway]

[crescent]

[seoulsucker]

[machoman]

koreans in america are very exclusive as well. the asian community is pretty small where i'm from, so every asian pretty much know each other. i was in two different asian clubs at my uni and there were all kinds of asians in that club bc we were all friends, connected somehow. but, zero koreans. i never had any korean friends. i had chinese, taiwanese, cambodian, laosian, filipino, japanese, viet friends, but never even met a korean person.

then, i come to korea and i meet a korean american dude from my suburb who literally lived 10 minutes away and asked him how come we never met, and he said he only hung out with koreans.

but, i think the younger culture is changing, there seem to be less boundaries now. my younger sister is now in the same club as me (she's 7 years youger) and there are koreans in that club now.

[machoman]

oh, but i do have to add that asian groups in the US tend to be exclusive too. i tried to incorporate my non asian friends with my asian friends but it never works. i always had to have 2 sets of friends. asian friends, and non asian friends.