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Contents:

• GAY DISTRICTS SEOUL : ITAEWON, JONGNO, AND MORE!
• THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL
• GAY SEOUL SEOUL CY GUI
• SOUTH KOREA STGGL TO NTA NEW OUTBREAK AMID ANTI-GAY BACKLASH
• GAY SEOUL
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SEOUL
• SEOUL GAY MAP
• SOUTH KOREA BAR DISTRICT OFFERS A SAFE HAVEN FOR GAY SERVICEMEMBERS
• GAY DISTRICT SEOUL (CY)

GAY DISTRICTS SEOUL : ITAEWON, JONGNO, AND MORE!

Seoul has emerged as a hub Asia for LGBTQ+ culture and nightlife, wh several gay districts that offer a variety of venu and activi. Let’s check out gay district Seoul, and have a ia where to vis and have fun ? ContentsSeoul Gay District 01: Itaewon Nightlife hub for bars, clubs, and ternatnal dgHomo HillUsadanro-14-gilSeoul Gay District 02: Jongno Historic and most popular gay district for KoreanSeoul Gay District 04: Gangnam Upsle district of Seoul, and where gay cise clubs are clteredGay District 04: SillimOther Gay VenuConcln Seoul Gay District 01: ItaewonNightlife hub for bars, clubs, and ternatnal dgItaewon is the most well-known gay district Seoul. Itaewon is also home to several gay snas, which are popular among lols and tourists HillHomo Hill is a small hillsi street Itaewon that is led wh gay bars and clubs.

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SOUTH KOREA STGGL TO NTA NEW OUTBREAK AMID ANTI-GAY BACKLASH

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Authori South Korea are stgglg to nta a new ronavis outbreak lked to the pal’s nightclub district as a backlash agast the untry’s gay muny creas, promptg fears LGBT people will fail to get tted out of fear of beg Korea had been praised for s novative efforts to nta the panmic, gog om the send most fected regn outsi Cha to havg jt a handful of s before the latt outbreak a week the creasg number of s related to nightclubs Seoul is raisg ncerns about a possible send wave as well as over the high level of eply entrenched homophobic attus the nservative 35 new s, 29 were found to be lked to Itaewon, the pal’s gay district, acrdg to officials om the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (KCDC), brgg the total number of s related to the clubs to emergence of the clter prompted officials to ph back the re-openg of schools by one week, wh stunts ially set to return to class stag startg mister Park Baeg-beom said the lay was “evable” orr to guarantee the safety of stunts.

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GraphicAfter Kookm Ilbo, a lol media outlet wh lks to an evangelil church, reported that bs vised by an fected man over the long weekend were gay clubs, many other South Korean media followed su, revealg not only the inty of clientele but also some of their ag and the nam of their media enzy reached a new level when another fected man was found to have been to an LGBT sna Gangnam, promptg a slew of homophobic ntent newspapers and reportg, along wh South Korea’s e of the trace and tt method, has led to members of the gay muny reportg feelg sred to get tted and even suicidal. “I adm was a huge mistake to vis the gay district when the rona suatn was not fully over, ” Lee Youngwu, a gay man his30s, told the Guardian “But visg the area is the only time when I n be myself and hang out wh others siar to me. ”On Saturday the prime mister, Chung Sye-kyun, urged the public to “rea om cricisg a certa muny as will not help efforts to nta the ronavis spread” Jong-geol, the general director of Korean gay men’s human rights group Chgai, told the Guardian that the group had begun unsellg and legal aid servic for those affected by the crisis, addg that Seoul cy officials asked the group to enurage gay men who had vised the clubs to e forward to get tted.

“I unrstand that civil servants want to fd a nvenient way to do their jobs but they should realise that South Korea’s gay people do not all belong to one, sgle group. “It took me a whole week to get up the urage to get tted, ” M Jaeyoung, 27, told the Guardian, “I had to practise sayg ‘oh, of urse I’m not gay’ and even rerd myself several tim to sound natural.

As turned out, I was not fected but I cried when I got that text not bee I was happy not to be fected but bee I really hate beg a gay man this untry. This is not yet Bangkok or Taipei for gay nightlife, but certaly 's a place you will not regret puttg on your statn map. Acts such as sodomy, or oral terurse were nsired unmentnable urts and other public foms, so tradnal nservative society has had nothg to say about homosexualy.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SEOUL

Consequently is legal to be gay South Korea, but many people prefer not to e out to fay, iends or -workers.

To lols don't dite gay inty, and sexually ambiguo K-pop stars have bee mega-star idols, both here and far beyond the homeland, on Youtube. Some see their style as remiscent of the flower boys, the Hwarang (화랑) of 6-9th century Silla, bands of youths selected for their bety and traed martial arts, an associatn tged wh homosexual nnotatns. Among the hundreds of gay bars this cy, those loted this foreigner-iendly queer enclave at the center of Yongsan district are the most likely to have staff and ctomers who speak English.

Nearby alleys are led wh a multu of eveng street food tents (pojangmacha) terg to crowds of men both gay and straight, most party mo. A number of tents by ex 4 of Jongno 3 Ga (종로 3 가) near many of the gay bars, serve up anju food and cheap drks for an animated throng of gay men, late to the night. TravelGayAsia onle travel gui lists gay bars, nightclubs, snas, spas, beach, shops and more, Seoul, Ban, and many other ci Asia, pl Atralia and New Zealand.

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The Korea Queer Film Ftival (KQFF) screens for four days July, focg on the diverse liv and sir of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals livg Korea.

SOUTH KOREA BAR DISTRICT OFFERS A SAFE HAVEN FOR GAY SERVICEMEMBERS

The Kimchi Queen is a blog/onle magaze wh gay liftyle news, upg events, mic, movi and entertament reviews. Almaz (136-6 Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Itaewon), gay neighborhood warm-up cktail bar/lounge, before the clubs hangout.

Always Homme (Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Itaewon), Homo Hill cktail bar, tourists and expats mix, younger lols; open durg the week, and late on weekends until 5am.

A\V Take-C (236-1, 3F, Nagwon-dong, Jongno-gu, Itaewon), gay bar, expansive cktails menu, popular wh lol bears; visors wele. Bar (41-1 Myo-dong, Jongno-gu, Jongno), 2nd floor gay cktail bar, mostly Korean olr guys, English-speakg staff, ee WiFi.

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BB (Big Brothers) Bar (10 Sa-daero 26-gil, Jongno), gay we and dive bar, cktails; ternatnal iendly mix; bears. Bottoms Up (Usadan-ro 37, Itaewon), Tuday-Saturday gay/mixed mic/vio bar/lounge, food; big wdows overlookg Homo Hill. Club Octagon (152 Nonhyeon-dong, B1/B2, Gangnam-gu), gay-iendly mixed dance club, good sound system, pretty people, stage shows.

Glam Club (116-1 Itaewon, 2F, Yongsan), opulent, upsle gay-popular lounge, Techno/Hoe gut DJs, baret shows, Asian-spired tapas. Gnome (50-2 Supyo-ro 22-gil, 2F; Donui-dong, Jongno), gay fe/bar, roofck views, cktails/beer/we/whiskey, snacks. Gray Club (191 Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu), big weekend unrground gay Friday/Saturday dance club, techno mic, go-go boys and stage entertament until 7am; bear events, drag shows.