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carpetdope
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject: Host Bars - Korean hunks by the hour |
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South Korean host bars - for women
By Lucy Williamson
BBC News, SeoulSouth Korea's rapid economic development has meant some startling changes within its conservative social structure, including the rise of so-called host bars, where wealthy women pay the equivalent of thousands of dollars for male company.
In the dim light of an underground room, a dozen perfectly groomed young men kneel in rows, calling out their names.
Muscular, with shiny boy-band hairstyles, they cram side by side into the narrow space, waiting for us to make our choice. Outside in the corridor, more of their colleagues are arriving for another night at work. It is 2am, and we are their first customers.
Hidden beneath the pavements of Seoul's ritziest postcode, Gangnam, the men at Bar 123 are part of a growing industry, which grew out of the long traditions of Japanese geisha and Korea's kisaeng houses but with one crucial difference - the customers here are all women.
Known as "host bars", these all-night drinking rooms offer female customers the chance to select and pay for male companions, sometimes at a cost of thousands of pounds a night.
One of the women I meet at Bar 123 is Minkyoung, a waitressing manager for a five-star hotel. She says she comes to host bars once or twice a month.
Minkyoung is very pretty and her clothes are immaculate. She does not look like someone who would need to pay for male company. But the allure of host bars can be subtle. Here, she says, she has more attention from her male companions, more choice and, crucially, more control. |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19570750
If they're anything like their Japanese counterparts then they haven't washed their hair in a billion years. |
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fosterman
Joined: 16 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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I heard some Korean men tried to get those places closed down.
probably the same guys who go to room salons hahahaha |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Wonder if they want any waygook lovin'? I mean the rich ones? Ha ha. |
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Dodge7
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| Wonder if they want any waygook lovin'? I mean the rich ones? Ha ha. |
Not your "lovin" I'm sure. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Host bars in Korea have been around since the early 1990s. I remember one Yonsei Univ. undergrad who was making good money as a host before his host bar got busted in 1994.
Surprisingly, a lot of beautiful women hit host bars but I hear most of the clientele is comprised of women who work at room salons and such. |
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