I’m surprised that after being in Korea for three years I haven’t had a post like this. I think I’ve taken the Korean Emoticons (smileys for us North Americans) for granted. The emoticons that you use are like your children. You just get used to them and kind of treasure them like old cartoons from…
Queer Seoul Series An Expat Guide to Queer Seoul Part IV: Power of Pink I hate to sound cliché’ but people really do need people and Babs had it so right. That’s what’s it all about: People, community, socializing and sharing. It’s always easier to get along in the world when you’re surrounded by like…
Queer Seoul Series An Expat Guide to Queer Seoul Part III: Vex in the City When it comes to gay night life in Seoul my online endeavors revealed it all revolves around Itaewon and Jongno. You can think of Jongno as an older gentleman, dignified, set in his ways who likes to partake of the…
Queer Seoul Series An Expat Guide to Queer Seoul Part II: Thar be gays, in Dem Online Waters, Matey! Trust me when I say that the internet is where all the gay people are at. Those two million souls I’d been looking for? Found them. Well, I’m sure it’s not exactly two million and change…
Queer Seoul Series An Expat Guide to Queer Seoul Part I: The Hidden Ten Percent Seoul is a city teeming with millions. Millions! Wikipedia puts the number of Seoulites in the metropolitan area at 23 million. Now as an expat I naively thought that meant the gay population of Seoul would be bursting at the…
Okay, we all know or come to know that living in Korea will mean facing shall we say unpleasantness, from time to time. There’s is a long list of greivances that the foreign community in Korea has including but not limited to: Yellow Journalism Objectification Inequality Unreasonable suspicion Mistreatment Now some people ignore it, others…
We had a simple plan: Go out, Get smashed, Dance, and see some Drag Queens. None of that necessarily had to occur in that exact order. In fact my friend and I pretty much have three out of four of those down pat. It’s the Drag Queen part that often eludes us as, unfortunately, the…
So one of the first things I noticed upon settling in here was that I had a cable television in my room with a rather intimidating amount of local channels on it. Although this didn’t come as a surprise, I must admit I did stick to my tried-and-trusted BBC/CNN/Discovery channel combo that seems to be…
