연락처 : EL 이메일 : essie_gaiser@gmail.com "In regular bars the guys who drink with me have only one goal - to have a one-night stand. But I don't want that, so that's why I come here, I want to have fun," she says. One of the women I meet at Bar 123 is Minkyoung, a waitressing manager for a five-star hotel. Sitting at a table at one end of the bar was one of their regular customers, a florist called Kim Nayu. She tells me she comes here every day to meet her favourite host and discuss issues she is having at wor


By offering women a "respectable" way to challenge traditional gender roles and flex their economic power, these new bars ask questions of Korean society that are becoming harder to ignore. This openness is posing a new kind of challenge to South Korean society, different from the sometimes seedy underworld of traditional host bars and their hinterland of male prostitution. Hostesses still make up a large percentage of the customers at host bars here, but at Bar 123, for example, up to 40% of the customers on a given night are now from other walks of life. It was the hostesses' need to let off steam after work, says veteran host Kim Dong-hee, that created the initial demand for host bars, with all-male staff. Hosts are hired by bars like this one to provide companionship and entertainment. Officially that means pouring drinks for their customers, talking and dancing with them, and singing karaok


We have been in this field for several years with a lot of experiences and knowhow. ANMA is one of the most common type of full service facilities in South Korea. The term ANMA probably comes from the Japanese term anmo which itself originates in China. The term means massage but in these Korean facilities it takes on a special connotatio


"Honestly I'd be lying if I say I haven't been tempted to take things further with some customers, because we're human, we're men, but there are rules." "Men want to have visual pleasure and want to feel things, they're tactile. Women like to talk and to listen. And that's why I thought of opening a bar like this - a kind of dialogue bar." "The human element of Korean society that existed before simply doesn't exist today. People are focused on technology, people are focused on their jobs, they aren't focused on human relations anymore. Jasper Kim says South Korea's notoriously long working hours have left many Korean women feeling lonely, while the country's technical advance has left many people feeling detached. "After talking to a girl for an hour we basically know how much money she makes and what she does for a living. We've already analysed her personality and what 19성인 she's willing to give." 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 wome


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"Talking to friends would be cheaper" she admits, "but they don't listen as much. They're busy, and in a hurry to talk about themselves. Here, people will pay attention to me and they'll listen to me." In Korean culture, he says, there is a lot of pride and negotiating a price for sex is never done explicitly. One of his customers talked a lot to her husband about him and when the three of them met, Sung-il and the husband became close friends. "Honestly I'd be lying if I say I haven't been tempted to take things further with some customers, because we're human, we're men, but there are rules." "Men want to have visual pleasure and want to feel things, they're tactile. Women like to talk and to listen. And that's why I thought of opening a bar like this - a kind of dialogue bar." "The human element of Korean society that existed before simply doesn't exist today. People are focused on technology, people are focused on their jobs, they aren't focused on human relations anymor


There’s lots of viewing decks to see Seoul at night, including the Locks of Love area. DDP is impressive during the day, but at night all of its buildings are illuminated. Seoul is one of my favorite cities to explore at night, especially as a solo travele


Seoul is the capital of South Korea and home to most of the country’s population. That means Seoul is also home to most of the prostitution in the country. While sex shops can be found all over Korea the bulk are located in and around Seoul. "Even when Seungri goes to serve in the military, we will cooperate with the Defense Ministry to continue on with investigations," Min told reporters. After the news broke, Seungri, 29, announced his retirement from show business on his Instagram account and apologized to fan