Survive & Thrive in Korea
Seoul is a city teeming with millions of people. So many millions that I believed the gay population would be bursting at the seams making queer seoul apropro. Years ago, as a freshly minted expat, I pictured a gay Asian mecca analogous to San Francisco. How naïve. Still, undaunted, I waded through the deceiving sea […]
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Get sucked back into the 80’s with “Take Me On”, a night of music and dancing outside of the hill. On Saturday, June 8th put on your Converse and neon rainbow colors and head to Club Powwow in Noksapyeong. This blast from the past includes two live Korean bands, Yukari and Electricity Flowing, followed by […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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