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UPDATE: I visited Homo Hill after Identity festival (July 16, 2022) and I can confidently say – Homo Hill is still VERY MUCH busy and none of the bars closed permanently! I have yet to visit the Jongno gayborhood and lane tent area, but will definitely update here when I do.
I hate to have to attach this disclaimer, but this information is pre-COVID, pre-2020. As restrictions just ended for businesses, clubs, etc. and nightlife curfews, Itaewon and Jongno are just coming back to life. We’ll acquire to see what’s out there together – many places simply didn’t construct it due to having to shut before 11 PM for two years.
Seoul is very gay, but most visitors have no idea. Yes, you can easily discover information about Homo Hill here. But that’s the simple part. And there’s a system. Most gay Koreans exist a verrrrrrrrrrry unlike life than us openly gay Westerners. Unfortunately, homosexuality isn’t understood by Korean society. Yes, the super Christians disagree day and bedtime about the devil that is creature gay, but the average Korean just literally doesn’t grasp it. While younger people have traveled, are more start and know homosexual people, it
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A Gay Guide to Itaewon
Itaewon is Seoul’s party district. Most gay bars and clubs in Seoul can be found in Itaewon. It’s known as Homo Hill for a reason. It should be the first port of phone for all foreigners in Seoul. The gay scene in Itaewon gets going quite late. But you'll find plenty of things to do in Itaewon at all times of the day. Seoul is very much a 24-hour city.
South Korea is one of the most technically advanced societies on ground. Seoul is a megacity of ten million people. It’s at the forefront of so many industries, including cuisine, fashion, tech and increasingly pop.
K-Pop has brought the culture of South Korea to a global audience for the first time, and many of us have been stunned to discover how camp it is! Although the pop stars might be camp, being queer can be tricky business in South Korea.
How gay-friendly is Seoul?
South Korea is a socially conservative region. Although homosexuality is legal, LGBT+ South Koreans don’t have full legal equality. In legal terms, South Korea is some way behind Japan and Taiwan. So, how do you explain K-Pop? The K may as well withstand for (k)camp.
It’s not unique to see male South Korean pop stars affecting fem
How Seoul’s LGBTQ+ district came back from the brink
The traditional arts and crafts on Insa-dong, the coffee shops of Ikseon-dong, the avenue vendors selling everything from skewers to rice cakes everywhere you look: saunter around Jongno 3-ga (pronounced jong-no-sam-ga) and you’d be forgiven for thinking this was a beautiful traditional, albeit slightly eccentric, little corner of Seoul.
But accept a closer stare and you’ll locate that the neighbourhood – which we just named the third coolest in the world – is abode to some 100 or so bars catering to Seoul’s LGBTQ+ community. These institutions are very much hidden in plain sight, and there really is something for everyone, even the city’s queer seniors.
Despite South Korea’s dynamic and tech-savvy image, its attitudes towards queer people cannot be said to be linear. In this socially conservative country, Homosexual people here are still made to feel invisible.
This became all the more apparent in May 2020, when a Covid outbreak strike the club scene in Seoul’s more famous, but smaller gay district in Itaewon. That led to widespread homophobia that seemed to spread even fas