Daily Xtra Travel - Your Comprehensive Gui to Gay Travel Seoul

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL
• GAY NIGHTLIFE
• GAY AREAS SEOUL??? - SEOUL FOM
• THE BEST SEOUL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEOUL
• ANTI-GAY BACKLASH FEARED SOUTH KOREA AFTER RONAVIS MEDIA REPORTS
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• SEOUL GAY MAP
• GAY DISTRICTS SEOUL : ITAEWON, JONGNO, AND MORE!
• GAY SEOUL
• GAY SCENE SEOUL? - SEOUL FOM

THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL

Special thanks to Ross, Travelg Gay, jtsurf12, spartanalum, PJack, gymtoy, Chichubby3rd, byungdohsuh, Demian71, boyboy1976, Gabrielkr, njbear1965, rayrrr, geme, cyrc_84, sglenote, KokAsianBear, themeant, FloridaBoy, bigozibear, ratte, Specter, Byungdohsuh, Graeme, Ken, Jyong, Robbie, Louis Y., John S., Charlie, and David! Seoul has hundreds of gay bars spread around a handful of neighborhoods, but most tourists bee faiar wh Itaewon, a foreigner-iendly enclave that seems to have people om every untry on the pla wanrg around, along wh many Amerin and Korean soldiers.

GAY NIGHTLIFE

The gay heart of Itaewon, nicknamed "Homo Hill", has seen an explosn of foreigner-iendly, upsle gay bars, a nvenient lotn. Queen UTOPIA VERIFIED MAR 2018Loted on Homo Hill between Trance and Always Homme, Utopia Map793-1290, email. Large wdows look out over Homo Hill and a strip of gltery bubble chairs le the pat for good weather ont row seatg.

The clientele is VERY mixed both as to orientatn (gay, lez, bi, straight, other) as well as ethnicy, wh beg the one of the most popular LGBTQ night spots for foreigners Korea.

Jongno is Seoul's biggt gay enclave, wh more than a hundred clubs and venu loted the center of Seoul the Nagwon Dong neighborhood to the north and east of Topkol Park (Inpennce Park). But, Jongno is changg wh the tim and newer addns to the gay neighborhood tend to be larger, more open and more ternatnal outlook. In the eveng, the lan and alleys of this nsely packed, low-rise area, bee filled wh food tents, tipsy salarymen, and thoands of gay men gog to and om their favore havens.

GAY AREAS SEOUL??? - SEOUL FOM

But if you're alone, try some of the bars listed below where you'll be at ease wh a more ternatnal gay bar system and iendly, English-speakg staff to wele you. They n help you fd other gay bars, snas, gay cema, and jjimjilbang (cisg spac) the neighborhood.

THE BEST SEOUL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEOUL

Korean, English and Che languag are spoken here, so, for foreign visors, 's a good place to get updated rmatn about gay culture Korea. The gentle and cute owner and his staff speak English well and are pleased to fill you on the gay scene. More Seoul Listgs:General Informatn | Massage and Spas | SnasKorea Gay & Lbian Rource Listgs by Cy:other ci and provc.

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There are also a bunch of gay bars up near Kg Club as SeoulHyena has mentned.

ANTI-GAY BACKLASH FEARED SOUTH KOREA AFTER RONAVIS MEDIA REPORTS

Fears of a homophobic backlash and the forced outg of gay people are growg South Korea after a man fected wh ronavis was reported the media to have attend clubs Seoul’s gay district. Members of the gay muny said they fear efforts to out them after a major media outlet, Kookm Ilbo, reported that the man had been gay clubs the pal’s Itaewon district.

Homosexualy is not illegal South Korea but discrimatn remas rampant, wh most Korean gay people choosg to keep their sexualy hidn om fay members and lleagu. “I don’t ually go to gay clubs and ’s been two years sce I vised Itaewon [Seoul’s gay district], ” Hong Yoo-j, a 35-year-old IT worker told the Guardian.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

“But I read on gay muny webs that Youtubers are jog gay apps to out gay men live.

“The pany where I work is a regular Korean pany, which means they are very anti-gay.

I have taken part nversatns where my boss and lleagu said all gay men should be put to ath a gas chamber, ” he said. “If they fd out that I was at a gay club, they would most likely tell me to leave unr some other pretext or make my life there a livg hell so I would have no choice but to leave.

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Early the ronavis panmic, some of Itaewon's gay bars and transgenr clubs bee a lightg rod for ntroversi, wh dozens of s traced to people who were flted for not disclosg to health thori that they had spent time Gn-ho, owner of the Havana Lounge & Pub, worried the disaster may prove to be greater challenge than anythg the area has seen.

In his early 20s, after leavg bs school to follow his ambn of beg an artist and performer, Heezy Yang was drawn to an out-of-the-way area of Seoul’s Itaewon district known as Homo Hill, a longtime haven for LGBTQ people South Korea. Nowadays, those lights are off, the bars and nightclubs are closed and the ually buzzg streets are uncharacteristilly quiet after a ronavis clter wh more than 130 s shed unwanted attentn on the neighborhood—sparkg a surge homophobia, activists say. “You nnot be pletely ee other areas, as ee as you n be on Homo Hill, ” Yang tells TIME.

SEOUL GAY MAP

One newspaper, the Km Ilbo, garnered cricism for articl that ed language pictg gay men as promiscuo and prone to risky sexual behavr.

Activists argued that the newspaper unnecsarily highlighted that the ial subject of the outbreak vtigatn had vised a gay club an effort to stir up homophobia.

Authori are now seekg a way to ntue such trackg while beg reful not to advertently disclose rmatn that uld lead to neighbors and lleagu learng an fected person vised a gay bar. Homosexualy is not illegal South Korea, but openly gay public figur are rare. On Tuday, Hong Seok-chun, an actor and televisn personaly who is creded as beg South Korea’s first openly gay celebry, publicly weighed on the tensifyg suatn, postg a photo of Itaewon on Instagram and implorg anyone who has spent time the area of late to get tted.

GAY DISTRICTS SEOUL : ITAEWON, JONGNO, AND MORE!

“Now the are the most famo clubs Korea, ” says Kim, a gay 30-year-old rint of Seoul, who asked that only his surname be ed bee he is not out to his fay or employer. The district also has Homo Hill, featurg gay bars, drag shows, and gay snas. A clter of ronavis s nnected to clubs equented by South Korea’s gay muny has sparked an outpourg of hate speech towards the untry’s already-embattled LGBTQ populatn.

The suggtn that the outbreak is lked to the cy’s gay scene has sparked a huge backlash agast the LGBTQ muny, cludg the 29-year-old man believed to be at the center of the clter.

Lol media has emphasized his sexual orientatn and reported that the clubs he vised are gay venu, although the venu do not openly scribe themselv as such on their official webs or social media acunts.

GAY SEOUL

But as the news broke, several South Korean media anizatns reported that the bars the 29-year-old had vised were gay bars. That is also a ncern of one 25-year-old Seoul, who intifi as gay and who asked to be anonymo out of fear of discrimatn, who says he was at two of the Itaewon clubs nnected wh the outbreak early May.

GAY SCENE SEOUL? - SEOUL FOM

“Gays are also feelg like there’s this double standards, where they are beg asked to be upstandg cizens and ‘get tted for your untry, ’ meanwhile the untry treats them like dirt.

Homosexual sex is illegal the ary whether happens on or off base, and regardls of whether one party is not an enlisted soldier – somethg that is not the se for heterosexual sex. “Korea is such a homophobic place, the clubs are really a haven for the people, ” he says.

“I would hate to see them shut down permanently bee of this vis or homophobia.

Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn.

" (read more here)The bt advice is for gay travelers to act and drs nservatively at all tim.

For safety, gay upl should not brg attentn to their relatnship public, for example, by holdg hands, even tourist areas, hotels or aware that hookg up wh guys via datg apps has risks. There have been s of homophobic people g the apps to lure gay men to meetgs at which they are attacked and robbed.