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Contents:
- THE COMPLITED LIV OF GAY MEN SOUTH KOREA
- IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
- GAY LIFE SOUTH KOREA
- GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'
- SEOUL GAY BARS
- ‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
THE COMPLITED LIV OF GAY MEN SOUTH KOREA
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)Acrdg to anthropologist John Cho, sgle gay men South Korea retreated om gay life the wake of the 1997 Asian bankg crisis and began to ncentrate on makg money, while married gay men beme much more active the gay muny.
IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
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The ma issue of beg a gay man South Korea, said Cho, is how to fd a boyiend and a gay muny, the two thgs that create the basis for a gay life.
Internatnal Instute, UCLA, April 2, 2013 — After a of sexual eedom as homosexuals the 1990s, said anthropologist John Cho, sgle gay men South Korea beme nsumed by fancial worri followg the 1997 Asian bankg crisis (also known as the “IMF crisis”).
GAY LIFE SOUTH KOREA
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Cho, who spoke at a lecture anized by the Center for Korean Studi, noted after this crisis, sgle gay men their thirti and forti retreated om gay life to ncentrate on makg money, while married gay men began to play a much more active role the gay muny.
GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'
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In the absence of the “fence” of the fay (an exclive group of belongg that helps people navigate the adversi of life), sgle gay men began to regret the time they had spent on love their youth, said Cho, feelg they uld no longer afford “the luxury of love.
SEOUL GAY BARS
” The speaker, who nducted his rearch South Korea between 2007 and 2009, explaed that many sgle gay men then curred big risks, eher by changg reers or by takg signifint gambl their pursu of higher e.
‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
In the 1990s, he explaed, the media began to ver gay issu and TV shows began to clu gay characters—exposg South Koreans to more rmatn about homosexualy.