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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| RMNC wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| 1)As mentioned, a lot of people are just trying to have a good time. These are people who might have been friends since middle school and reminiscing, perhaps they are all back in the same town for a weekend and this only happens twice a year. Again, not everyone is on this burning quest to get laid 24-7. |
The humanist in me wants to believe you but the realist in me knows it's not true. Everyone's always trying to get laid 24/7, and would if there weren't a real world out there that they had to live in. |
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Not everyone goes out to the bar to meet singles. |
True, most of us couldn't care less if she's taken.
It has a lot to do with age. Up until I was 30 that's pretty much all I cared about. There may have been times when I had a girlfriend and just went to a bar to see my friends, but for the most part when I went to a bar getting laid was always in the back of my mind. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:21 am Post subject: |
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Why do the exist?
So guys can meet girls, and girls can meet guys.
You can't have a more simply money-making formula than that. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:50 am Post subject: |
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Booking clubs aren't meant to be speed dating. Just a place to get casual sex. If anyone's ever been inside one, you know you gotta give the waiters / bouncers a 50-100 bucks and they're bring girls to your table. If she's not hot enough, you argue with them maybe slip them some more money and they're go out and hook you another batch.
Nobody marries someone they met at a booking club. If they did, they'd lie through their teeth to everyone they know on how they first met. For marriage there's a lot more culturally acceptable options. Like Family arranged marriages, Dating sites, "Life consultancy" companies (Similar to an arranged marriage except minus the family influence), and blind dates. |
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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Location: kOREA
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| rumdiary wrote: |
| Have you ever tried meeting ladies at a hof? |
There are club/booking hoffs where groups of guys and girls are encouraged to join other tables without the bouncer/middle man.
Lines are around the block on friday nights......it's popular in konkuk, but the 40 minute wait to get in is annoying.
As for booking clubs....
Most korean men lack confidence to aproach....however, they're willing to spend money to get around that.
lower class booking clubs are dying....the rich ones will be around forever since it's the easiest way to hook up hotties with rich guys while emptying their bank account.
If I was rich and korean, I'd do booking clubs all the way...
I wouldn't be surprised if most Korean rich dudes met their trophy wives in booking clubs. |
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DejaVu
Joined: 27 Jan 2011
Location: Your dreams
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| I for one can't stand drinking with people who are constantly trying to hit on girls and make their bar choices based on singles, especially when they start getting really stupid and blue-balled. "Chill dude, its okay to sit down, relax, have a beer and talk about life." There's a time and a place for all things. |
If you're ever in Busan and would like to get a drink, let me know.
Though I try not to make a habit of spending time with foreigners, in the occasions that I do, I prefer to do it with people who aren't completely awful. It's much harder than I thought to find such people... |
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wd
Joined: 18 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject: Book club |
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Yeah I tried a booking club once in Changwon when I first arrived in Korea called "Newcastle" its pretty famous out here...with a group of Korean girls and the waiter grabbed me threw a flashlight in my face and asked the girls if I spoke Korean(which of course I didn't)..then he got nervous because he said he couldn't speak English and he wasn't sure if the the guys at the tables could. So some guys noticed this and Instead they came to our table..and tried what little English they knew on me...blah blah blah..but dancing was fun.. 
On another note..and I feel the same way ...I spend more time with Koreans and Gyopos than I do Expats for obvious reasons...spending alot of time with expats defeats the purpose of coming out here anyway...I have the travel bug and a hunger for experiencing the country and it's hard to pull people out of the bar..much less get them to travel around with you and have them interact with Koreans...I'm guessing they have been here longer than me and they gave up..*sigh* |
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litebear
Joined: 12 Sep 2009
Location: Holland
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| DejaVu wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| I for one can't stand drinking with people who are constantly trying to hit on girls and make their bar choices based on singles, especially when they start getting really stupid and blue-balled. "Chill dude, its okay to sit down, relax, have a beer and talk about life." There's a time and a place for all things. |
If you're ever in Busan and would like to get a drink, let me know.
Though I try not to make a habit of spending time with foreigners, in the occasions that I do, I prefer to do it with people who aren't completely awful. It's much harder than I thought to find such people... |
Uh oh, looks like we have a little romance brewing on dave's  |
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swashbuckler
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| minos wrote: |
There are club/booking hoffs where groups of guys and girls are encouraged to join other tables without the bouncer/middle man.
Lines are around the block on friday nights......it's popular in konkuk, but the 40 minute wait to get in is annoying. |
do you happen anymore info about these sorts of places, specifically the ones in konkukdae?
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| winterfall wrote: |
Booking clubs aren't meant to be speed dating. Just a place to get casual sex. If anyone's ever been inside one, you know you gotta give the waiters / bouncers a 50-100 bucks and they're bring girls to your table. If she's not hot enough, you argue with them maybe slip them some more money and they're go out and hook you another batch.
Nobody marries someone they met at a booking club. If they did, they'd lie through their teeth to everyone they know on how they first met. For marriage there's a lot more culturally acceptable options. Like Family arranged marriages, Dating sites, "Life consultancy" companies (Similar to an arranged marriage except minus the family influence), and blind dates. |
Booking Clubs vary in quality. The skanky ones yeah you can probably hook up with them but not the luxury ones in Gangnam. You meet girls but the girls are college students, workers, etc. Normal girls from normal backgrounds that are above average looking. Plenty of guys have dated girls and had relationships through girls they met at booking clubs. Of course they lie about it, i mean people lie if they met someone through online too. Also at booking clubs it's the girls that get up and leave. The waiter brings girls but the girls can decide to stay or leave. If you don't like a girl just ignore her and she'll be gone in a second. The higher end booking clubs are pretty expensive usually around $1000 for a mid-sized room. You can't go on weekends unless you book well ahead in advance.
For even more money you can go to 10 Pro which is a Room Salon. Here the girls line up and you can choose which girl you want for the night. The high end 10 Pros will almost definitely NOT have sex with you and a lot of them will refuse foreigners...in fact most of these kind of places will. These girls will sit and talk with you, pour your drinks, basically make you feel like you're best thing since soju. That's what most of these guys go to these places for anyways. It's to rant, rave, get drunk with pretty girls, have their egos stroked and have a sympathetic ear to talk smack about their boss, their wife, their kids...some of them go to impress other people or do business deals. |
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