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[BigBlackEquus]

I am looking at used cars, and browsing used car sites, and what do my virgin eyes behold??

GAAACCCKKK!!!

What is the Korean obsession with this?? Look closely!

http://www.mycar114.co.kr/

[thekingofdisco]

that looks very, very wrong... !

[BigBlackEquus]

The last time I was that surprised was when I saw that baby photo of the same thing sitting in the window of the photo shop in Itaewon...eeewww! Someone told me that Korean fathers will take a photo of that and pass it around the office at work as if it's some sort of trophy.

Yikes!

This, along with the envelope thing, is one cultural phenomena I would probably never embrace.

[AbbeFaria]

I pass a photo studio on the way to work everyday and they've got their display ones up at the window. Low and behold, starting just this last week I see a naked baby boy in the window with his little baby junk just hanging out for all to see. I almost tripped over my own feet. And it's still there, in all it's disturbing glory. I like it here but this is still a damn weird place sometimes.

-S-

[Ya-ta Boy]

I heard about the nickname go-choo early on and was, shall we say startled, when I heard that parents ask little boys to show off their go-choo. For example, grannies on the street have it shown to them and stroke it. I asked a friend who had an 8 year old son about it. He said, Sure. Everyone looks at it. He said he'd gradually stopped asking his son to show his go-choo to him because the boy was getting to the age where it embarrassed him.

I think it's odd only out of its cultural context. I consider that picture on a page of car ads to be out of its cultural context.

[JongnoGuru]

Live here long enough and you'll become desensitised to all that. After you've seen your 1,000th photography studio with the bigger-than-life-sized "go-chu prince" photo in the window, it just won't register anymore. I can't imagine now seeing that website in the OP and thinking it sufficiently peculiar to launch a thread about it, but then I can well imagine thinking that years ago.

Out of its cultural context? Oh, I don't know. What is that site anyway? "My Car Pride"... Yeah, so between the ads and such, you've got Korean men, probably most of them young fathers, showing off pics of their cars, and some proud dad put his son's go-chu pic up there. (BTW, the damn thing looks weird, doesn't it? But then I don't make it a habit of checking out willies, whatever the age.) And guess what? I've seen similar (though not so ... erm, gross-looking) photos on fairly technical Korean websites about home theatre installation... "My Bowers&Wilkins in-wall speakers", "My Meridian power amp", "My son's go-chu". It would be out of place if it were a commercial website, but if it's only some netizen-driven "My Blah-Blah Pride" thing, then it's just the Korean cyber-village you're looking at. Male gender-worship and perhaps a little startling/primitive from a Western perspective, but we all know Koreans just see it as cute and not as sexually perverse in any way.

(Hey guys, did I just sound a bit like the Home-Boy right there? Okay, get this...)

C'mon people, it's not like you haven't seen this in Canada!

[Return Jones]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[bellum99]

Nope. I am not an anthroplogist, so I can say it easily. It is weird and they should stop doing it. I heard some old Asian people in Western countries get in trouble for stuff like this.

I can just see it at the playground:

Asian Man: You play good.
Boy: Thanks.
Asian Man: Let me see your ...........
Boy: What?? (runs away to tell mom who will call police)

[BigBlackEquus]

They seem to have replaced it with the typical Doumi picture. I'm still in shock. Jack, it seemed to be covered with some funky rubber thingie; probably due to circumcision.

[vlcupper]