Seouled Out

29 5 / 2012

(Source: ilovemusic7, via loveyourchaos)

28 5 / 2012

shinaelee asked: do you know any lesbian hangouts around sinchon? just curious hehe

Yeahhh!! There’s a ton! There’s a relatively new one that opened around Christmas called Cubey Hole and the rest are generally on this tiny little alley. I think the most famous one is called Pink Hole around there. You can try to google them but if you need directions let me know! But fyi the ones on the little alley don’t allow men in at all, even gay men so if you want to bring male friends you should go to the lesbian bar in Itaewon at the top of homo hill.

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28 5 / 2012

Why the Seoul subway etiquette vidoes piss me off

Seoul subway has started broadcasting short little videos called “10 subway etiquette”. I tried to find it on youtube but I can’t so if you don’t live in Seoul, you’ll just have to take my word.

Most of the videos are fine. There’s one about which direction to walk so you don’t do that awkward little dance when you meet someone coming in the opposite direction and you keep accidentally going the same way. There’s one about not using your umbrella to hold the subway door open if you’re sprinting to make it. Fine. Fine fine fine.

The one that is not ok is the one that shows high heels and then men’s shoes next to the high heels. Then the mens shoes inching closer and closer to the high heels. Then the high heels running away with a message that loosely translates to “Just run away” or something like that.

I don’t know why I’m surprised but I mean c’mon. Stop teaching women to run away and start teaching men not to be aggressors. This mentality that it WILL happen so let’s direct the lesson at this woman rather than try and stop this kind of behavior just sickens me. Fuck you Confucianism. And fuck you patriarchy. And fuck my boyfriend who told me if I keep writing posts like this I’ll never fit into Korean society.

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