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KMK: Linus BBQ

November 17, 2014July 29, 2023 Brian Dye7292 Comments

BBQ in Korea is bountiful. You can’t usually walk a few blocks without coming across the sizzling smell of pork wafting down the street. Of course, it’s nothing like the BBQ back home in the states. Here in the land of the morning calm folks serve up BBQ primarily as samguypsal which is thick slices […]

KMK: Santorini

September 30, 2014July 29, 2023 Veniese Wilkinson5044 Comments

There’s two spots called Santorini in Itaewon. I previously reviewed the one on the main Itaewon street: Santorini Taverna. Contributor and Author Veniese tackled the original Santorini located amidst the back streets behind the Hamilton Hotel. Among the maddening crowd of restaurants and bars behind the Hamilton Hotel is a monument to mediocrity, Santorini […]

KMK: Boiling Crab

September 23, 2014July 29, 2023 Brian Dye921Leave a Comment

When I thought of Seoul Cajun Crab never crossed my mind. Seafood? Yes. Cajun? No way. Well, not anymore. Recently, some friends and I checked out one of the locations of Boiling Crab. This branch, plopped right on the edge of Itaewon, has a creaky old town feel. The place is small and bare bones, but that […]

KMK: Sugar Daddy

September 16, 2014July 29, 2023 Brian Dye8162 Comments

Sometimes, you know, a guy just wants to be pampered. Feet up, slouching in a comfy chair, face to face with a sweet pleasure so guilty that Fat Princess would take you down in a submission hold to devour it herself. Admittedly, that’s a dessert that’s near impossible to find in Seoul. I’m not talking about some bogus strumpet […]

KMK: Healing Hands

September 1, 2014July 30, 2023 Brian Dye748Leave a Comment

If you’re anything like me then sometimes all of the frustrations, weariness, and obstacles that come from living abroad eventually build up into numbness that has to be relieved. Or, maybe you’ve had a soreness or strain from the gym? Perhaps, it’s an ache from an old injury? Well, Thailand may be far away but […]

KMK: Queer Seoul

January 6, 2014July 29, 2023 Brian Dye1011Leave a Comment

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 […]