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[Canadian Club]

I've been in there with a friend before, but we were both dressed up- not T-shirts or sweaters.

[Kepler]

[PatrickGHBusan]

[fosterman]

that bar will be out of business soon enough.
because Itaewon is cool right now. but it wont stay that way like Hongdae
too many lounge bars and bars have opened up this year, koreans doing what the do best, over saturating the market. and now being selective of their clients, ohh because they only want to let in cool people.. ???
it just brings Itaewons image as a multi ethnic area down.

ohh well, either most Koreans will leave itaewon again, or they will increase and all the bars will be charging crazy prices, because" its western style"!
and foreigners will be like.. wtf.. but thats ok
3 alley, samryans, and seoul pub will always be open to foreigners.
so let the koreans have their cool bars in our town! I mean after all..
itaewon is only cool becuse FOREIGNERS are there right? our restaurants etc..

[Dodge7]

[littlelisa]

[v88]

For Korea this sort of thing is hardly unusual. And to be fair it happens both ways, but I think the table's a bit slanted in their favour.

And why call your place 24 London, put it in the foreign district (a place the government advertises as as a foreign tourist spot) then tell foreigners that you're having a Korean only party. Stupid and hardly the kind of thing that makes Korea look modern and progressive.

[cdninkorea]

What I always wonder about nightclubs which have a "no foreigners" policy is this: if a group of sexy, well-dressed 20-something women from, say, Japan or Russia were to show up, would they really say, "sorry, no foreigners"?

Also, yeah, the fact that it's called "London Lounge" and in Itaewon is pretty odd. Imagine opening a bar in Koreatown, LA, calling it "Busan Lounge" and not allowing Koreans to enter?

[aq8knyus]

So many posters have spectacularly missed the point here.

Its not about whether its a place worth going its about an admissions policy based on race. That is racism and should be condemned as such, now its not Mississippi burning but is just another little racist irritation that for those of us who love Korea find disappointing.

Solidarity against racism whether big or small, home or abroad, against Koreans or non-koreans. Is it really that difficult to understand?

[comm]

[Zulethe]

Gotta agree with those who already alluded to the fact that it's probably not ALL foreigners, it's just CERTAIN foreigners who are excluded.

I'd have more respect if the Koreans would say: "Not all foreigners are disallowed, just you in your rag tag wearing look at me I'm a hogwon swinging, drinking at 25, expecting 2500 bottles of OB, cheap, low class sleaze ball that we are deperatly trying to avoid."

[OBwannabe]

[transmogrifier]

I'm personally of the opinion that private businesses should be allowed to choose their customers on whatever basis they like, including race, but at the same time it is everyone else's right to boycott them or protest them or call them a piece of crap for doing so.

*shrug*

[GoldMember]

Every now and then we hear of a business that discriminates on the basis of race. The local Korean population know that the business discriminates. My question is, "Why doesn't the Korean population boycott the business?"
What happens if a Korean goes in and the persons non Korean spouse tries to get in 10 minutes later (busy parking the car)?

[Keeper]