THEDEMONESSS asks
How is the night life in Korea?
Are the clubs any different from those in North America
and there other common nighttime activities other than clubs and bars
Whooh~fun nightlife topics
Alright, we'll specifically talking about Korean style night life
because there is a big foreign scene in Korea
for example, Itaewon
ITAEWON FREEDOM
Didn't plan that very well
That is dedicated to foreign style audience so you can get typical bars in that area
But we're going to talk about Korean style bars specifically
Let's start with BARS!
Korean bars are nothing like North American bars
No, like they are kind of like it but
indoors, dark , they play music
They have titles for Boobi Boobi, Simon
WELL, pretty awesome bar
Boobi Boobi means just physical contact between couples
by the way, you shouldn't write that in English
because that has different meanings to foreigners
False advertising, I went there
not what I was expected
NO BOOBIES AT ALL
So Korean bar layout is very different in our sense
that it's not a big open room with the bar
where you kinda like stand around with your drinks awkwardly
and trying to make eye contact and flirt with people
It's kind of set up like a restaurant
so when you go in, you should be going with your friends
you're not gonna go like alone and get a table
So everyone is sitting at their own tables, doing their own thing,
they're playing their own game
And the only time when we saw a table socialize with another table was
when like university students drinking and playing games
In a game it's a consequence for them to go another table and
try to pour them a shot or get them to pour them shot
But otherwise, there is no interaction between strangers
Long story short, you can't go
AYAH~GIRL, Can I buy you a drink?
Not in a Korean style bar at least
And the only thing that differs a Korean bar is the layout
so you might have a table and see the whole giant space
or you might have a private room that you go,
a little boo actually like closes up
There are walls around so you can't see what other people are doing
very very privatized
When it comes to menu, there is something called anju
and anju means buying food to go with your drink
and YOU MUST DO IT
There is a secret card rule
You just can't get a drink on its own
We went there and was like we want some bottles of soju
and they were like, "You must buy anju"
"Well I don't wanna anju"
"Well…you must!"
Let's move on to dance clubs and night clubs
There is a reason we say this because there are two very different things
I learned the hard way, when I was still teaching
I did a lesson on going dancing and I used something like
"Why don't we go to a night club?"
and everyone in class was like
"HAHAHAHAHAH"
and I was like, "Alright, from the giggles I've said something awful"
And it turns out that night clubs have different meanings
in Korea it means where you specifically go to pick people up
a dance club is totally different, it's like a place you go dancing with friends
Now, something we find it hilarious and odd about Korean dance clubs
is a system of organized dances
like whenever two of us go dancing, we dance out anything like
"I don't know this song"
but we try to have some rhythm going on when we are dancing
if we're lucky, we're not the best dancers so we just wing it
Oh one that techno song everyone organized dance to
Whenever this song come up, all the Korean people there know the exact dance to
it's like this soccer dance,
hop and cross and hop and cross legs
and then they kick to an imaginary ball
EVERYBODY DOES IT
I'm looking at this… How do you know this?
But whenever there is a song that doesn't have an organized dances,
people won't dance to it
They would stand around and drink
and as soon as the organized dance comes up, everybody's up and start dancing
The first time you see it, you'll be totally amazed and
feel like a doosh that you can't dance with them
and you might break your ankle
trying to join them
like Martina did
Night clubs are laid out in a special way for you to meet other people
And places are made to specifically do this are called
BOOKING CLUBS
Booking clubs you go do and you'll be actually seated at a table with your girlfriends
and guys seated in different tables
and every booking clubs is different
some of them will have like a waiters that hook you up with other table
they will be like
"Look at those sexy ladies over there"
and then you go to their table and sit down because the waiter has hooked you up
So the waiters are like the way man there
they are the ones who tries to facilitate relationship building process
Now the next level apart is that is something we've never experience ourselves
but we've been told a lot about are
HOST CLUBS
You mean like kiss kiss fall in love
No you don't have honey seem pie
Although it's based off of that
Anyone who sees J dramas, you've already seen hosts clubs
They basic idea here is that you are paying people
who are working there to pour your drinks and flirt with you
and have conversation
But there are two different kinds of host bars
there are all male host bars which are women to go to
This host bars are filled with very good looking Korean men
and very good looking Korean women
The hosts that is, the host are very good looking
If you are not into dances, there are other night life activities that you can take part in
Primarily eating!!
There are a lot of outdoor padieo at summer time where you could just sit down
and grill out some meats with your friends
drink a whole bunch of soju and beer
and just have a good time with your friends doing that
Don't forget the after drinking,
YOU MUST GO TO NORAEBANG
That is a huge part of Korean culture
EAT, YOU DRINK A LOT AND GO TO NORAEBANG
and drink a lot, and you get totally drunk
and you fall asleep somewhere on the ground in 4 am
and nobody robs you
You don't have to drink a lot
I know some people who drink a lot
but you can enjoy food and noraebang without drinking
YES YOU CAN
but you are in the wrong country for it if you do
So that's was a short user guide, rundown what nightlife in Korea is like
there are a lot of things that we could go into more detail
but we can't cram into a short video
If you don't have money and can't afford to do any of those things
go to Hongdae and hang out in the free park
just sit around and drink and stuff
That's what we like doing, we like hanging out in free park in Hongdae
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I'm gonna do the techno dance now
READY??
I think all the Korean people are watching actually stood up
and start dancing, automatically it's not fair