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[Gwangjuboy]

I can't quite believe it. In Daejon there is a bar named after one of the most vile men ever to grace this planet. For those that know the city, it is down the road from say department store. To prove the name isn't just an oversight, the bar is covered in swastikas, and even has a huge portrait of the man himself. This really is disgusting. I will write to the Israeli Embassy.

[Harvard Material]

Yeah...there was an article in the Korean Herald a day or so ago about an Italian wine company selling Hitler wine! The lable said "Ein Volk, Ein...", can't remember exactly - one country, one leader, etc...

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer. Charming. I wonder if they market passover wine.

Ken

[indytrucks]

That type of bar is nothing new.

There was that Nazi bar in Sinchon that got a lot of press a couple of years ago ... swastikas hanging inside etc.

What surprises me is the location. Daejon? Geez.

[kangnamdragon]

Unfortunately, I am not surprised. It does not mean Hitler is a hero. It may be for the shock value. They know Hitler was on the side of the Japanese, so he could not be a hero here.

[Tiger Beer]

I recall reading about the Nazi Bar in Shinchon.

This reminds me.. I have two German friends who live in my same neighborhood. Not often, but occassionally, once in awhile (not all the time so don't let this be spread that all Koreans think this way).

BUT.. people would ask them where they are you from.. and they'd say 'Germany'.. and a couple times they'd have Koreans say back 'Hitler #1' without missing a beat. I think the few times this happened it was moreso because an immediate correlation than anything else.

Needless to say, my two German friends seriously did not like this at all!

[inexhile]

In Pohang there is a Hitler shop with all matching insignia. It sells hip hop threads. About 100 metres further down the road you hit the Hess bar...........I think maybe Boys from Brazil was based on a true story, he just changed the country. Here it comes.

[Mr. Pink]

[batman]

There used to be an Adolf Hitler bar in Seomyon, Busan a couple of years ago. It was right across from the 666 bar.
The Hitler bar in Seomyeon was also decked out with Nazi insignia. Also had some pictures of WW2 Soviet Soldiers (talk about historical inaccuracies).
The owner of that bar wanted a symbol for his bar that was immediately identifiable with Germany.
After all of the bad press (which the majority of my Korean students did not understand as they admired Hitler for his charisma and for what he did for his country (kind of like Park Chun He) the owner of the bar changed the name of the bar to Dolf Ditler (stupid, I know).
What really made the bar, though, were the fatigue-clad dancing girls they used to have in the front window.
Gave me the idea to open the 'hirohito bar' in Toronto's Korea-town when I get back home.

[Homer]

This is old news...the topic has also been beat to death...ressurected...beat to a pulp again..put back togheter, tossed in a blender and chopped up...and disposed of...yet here it is again!

Perhaps the OP should have taken a deep breath, though about why a bar like this was opened before knee jerking a response....this is how the other threads on this got started too....

[matko]

So why was it opened?

I heard it was for the 'fashion'

Are you defending that, Homer?

[ratslash]

[rapier]

Korea is ripe for a Hanguk Hitler. The thinking of the people, their master race attitudes etc would all provide an easy run for such a monster, if only Korea wasn't a pinprick on the map sandwiched between china and Japan.
They made not admit to it, but most koreans admire hitler in a juvenile, ignorant, schoolboyish kind of way.

[Plastic B]

The Hitler Bar in Kungdong, Daejeon is LAME. I mean, there may be swatika all over the joint, but I was hoping for an 'Arbeit macht frei' motto over the doorway when I went in there. They have a website if you want to check it out, but I wouldn't bother apart from the fact that a mate of mine has his ugly mug up on it somehow. When we walked in there, more from disbelief than anything else, it was so crap we didn't even stop for one drink...mind you, it did look clean and efficient!

[rudyflyer]

heck there is a Che Guervera bar here in Gwangju, sure the exile community in Miami will love that one. Sure they don't know he was a communist