A Quick Intro to Gay and Lbian Seoul | Disverg Korea

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL
• GAY AREAS SEOUL??? - SEOUL FOM
• THE BEST SEOUL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEOUL
• SOUTH KOREA STGGL TO NTA NEW OUTBREAK AMID ANTI-GAY BACKLASH
• GAY SEOUL SEOUL CY GUI
• A QUICK INTRO TO GAY AND LBIAN SEOUL
• GAY SEOUL
• THE MOST FABULO AND ALMOST-GAY HOSTELS SEOUL! ??
• SEOUL’S 12 BT GAY BARS JONGNO

THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL

In May 2020, a Covid outbreak – and, y’know, homophobia – meant Jongno 3-ga emptied out overnight. The stutns are very much hidn  pla sight, and there really is somethg for everyone, even the cy’s gay senrs.

This beme all the more apparent May 2020, when a Covid outbreak h the club scene Seoul’s more famo, but smaller gay district Itaewon. That led to wispread homophobia that seemed to spread even faster than the vis.

But now the dt has settled a b, Jongno 3-ga – for s the epicentre of the untry’s LGBTQ+ rights movement – has once aga bee an important refuge for the gay muny. ‘Sce there are many bs Jongno that ter to all ag and needs, ’s been able to pull through Covid rtrictns cludg bans on large gathergs,’ said Chun Jung Nam, an LGBTQ+ activist and owner of gay bar Friends.

GAY AREAS SEOUL??? - SEOUL FOM

‘It’s South Korea’s gay mec that even heterosexual people know about,’ said Chun. I will be Seoul for 2 nights and was wonrg if anyone knew of the bt gay plac togo to? I thk Itaewon is most famo place for gays..

If you want to go to gay clubs.. And there is gay hill right next to Kg club..

Yeah, Pulse Itaewon is the most popular gay club Seoul. There are also a bunch of gay bars up near Kg Club as SeoulHyena has mentned.

THE BEST SEOUL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEOUL

The gay scene starts very late (after midnight). 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.

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.

If I get tted, my pany will most likely fd out I’m gay. ”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.

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

“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. Gay Seoul Seoul Cy GuiSouth Korea’s pal cy of Seoul is both fiercely morn and uniquely old school.

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Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers South Korea. Although an creasg number of Koreans are g out of the closet every day, most gays and lbians keep their orientatn a secret om their fai and -workers, even as younger generatns bee more tolerant than their parents.

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Gay and lbian travelers who publicize their orientatn should expect some shock and even some hostile reactns.However, you will see same-sex iends walkg around hand--hand or arm--arm.

A QUICK INTRO TO GAY AND LBIAN SEOUL

Public display of physil affectn between same-sex iends is actually more mon than between heterosexual partners.Seoul, Ban, and Daegu have gay neighborhoods wh clubs, bars, and snas, but they generally mata a low profile. Vis (click on the "Korea" lk) for -pth rmatn and current events.The Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA; tel. 800/448-8550 or 954/776-2626; ) offers an onle directory of gay- and lbian-iendly travel bs and tour operators.

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Brish travelers should click on the "Travel" lk at for advice and gay-iendly trip ias. Blame on the Korean culture’s strong Confucian unrcurrents or s hab of disuragg so-lled “alternative liftyl, ” but gay and lbian Seoul rarely means venturg beyond the closet. It’s easy to miss the sr of ty Seoul bs that ter to gay men.

THE MOST FABULO AND ALMOST-GAY HOSTELS SEOUL! ??

Another tertg take on Jongno’s gay scene is loted beyond the bars. The nattily-drsed men of girth who ngregate at the Fraser Su’ ground floor fé are known as “bears” gay parlance, and their proverbial n is lled “Gay Bean.

On the other si of the Nagwon Ar is a le of pojangmacha snack rts where 90% of the ctomers on a balmy summer eveng are also young gays. The nattily-drsed men of girth who ngregate at the Fraser Su’ ground floor fé are known as “bears” gay parlance, and their proverbial n is nicknamed “Gay Bean. For them, the clost Seoul has to a Wtern-styled “gay-borhood” is about 60 meters of asphalt pched at a 30 percent gra.

Loted the expat enclave of Itaewon (이타원), the strip, known affectnately as “Homo Hill, ” is fun, if even a ltle fabulo. Led wh a half dozen hole--the-wall bars and dance clubs wh mpy nam like “Always Homme” and “Eat Me, ” ’s a popular weekend statn for a cur (and mostly harmls) mix of young gay Koreans and English teachers, their straight girl iends and the ocsnal U. Pl Seo, the hill’s unofficial “mayor” and the owner of five gay-iendly Itaewon bs, cludg the Why Not?

SEOUL’S 12 BT GAY BARS JONGNO

Today, a new generatn of queer activists is ntug to ph for change for gay and lbian Seoul, and beyond.

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