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- From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
- Subject: Re: Interested in Homosexuality in Korea
- Message-ID: <BxsA27.3o1@NCoast.ORG>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:44:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: NCoast.BxsA27.3o1
- References: <1dnj5mINNhfq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov11.080149.11304@news.yale.edu>
- Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
- Followup-To: soc.culture.korean
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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- As quoted from <1992Nov11.080149.11304@news.yale.edu> by lim@omega.chem.yale.edu (Dongchul Lim):
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- > cf379@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (J. Alan) writes:
- > :
- > : I'm researching this topic and would appreciate receiving the
- > : views, comments, and experiences of any readers of this group.
- > :
- > : I will not share what you send me with anyone else, and
- > : I guarantee full anonymity. Thanks in advance for your
- > : kind cooperation.
- > :
- > : J. Alan
- >
- > What an interesting research topic!
- > But I doubt if there're many homosexuals among those who
- > subscribe to this news group, since korean society, maybe
- > the whole asian culture, is a bit closed to sex.
- > How about posting this article in alt.sex.*.
- > The only thing that I heard was gays frequently showed up
- > at bars around US military bases such as Itaewon.
- > Does anyone have more interesting story?
- > -DCL
- >
- When I was stationed in Korea, I went to Yongsan to visit my best friend and
- meet his fiance. She was supposed to meet us in the officers' club. While we
- were waiting for her, we thought we'd have some fun and see how many people
- we could drive out of the lounge. This is a game that we played in college.
- We'd go to the local Pizza Hut and see how many farmers we could cause to leave
- by playing music on the jukebox that they hated. We decided that we'd play a
- couple of dollars worth of the "Village People". I don't recall if anybody
- left, but we amused ourselves at small cost.
-
- When his fiance arrived we were laughing about the music. She asked us what
- we were laughing about. Thinking that she would understand, we told her that
- we were the ones who had put in "In the Navy" 15 times. She replied something
- to the effect of, "Oh yes, that is a good song". This of course left us
- momentarily speechless. When we recovered, we said, "It was a joke!". The
- following dialog, or a close approximation followed:
-
- "Why is it a joke?"
-
- "It's the Village People!"
-
- "Yes, I know."
-
- "No, it's the VILLAGE PEOPLE!"
-
- "Yes, AND?"
-
- "You know who THEM, don't you?"
-
- "Yes, they are an American band."
-
- "And...?"
-
- "And what...?"
-
- "You know, they're kind of... unusual."
-
- "Yes, they all time dress up as Indian, and policeman, and...."
-
- "That's not what we meant, they're... FUNNY".
-
- "Oh yes, they wear funny costumes and dance!"
-
- "That's not what we mean by FUNNY".
-
- "What do you mean then?"
-
- (We look at each other exasperated)
-
- "Hmmm, well they're GAY."
-
- "Of course, show folk are very lighthearted!"
-
- (At this point, my friend whispers in his fiancee's ear what "gay" means in
- English. Suddenly a stunned look crosses her face and she says with great
- solemnity,)
-
- "I think that there are NO people in Korea like that...."
-
- I think that may sum up popular perception of homosexuality in Korea.
-
- PS - Not long before that, I had payed Korean KSC workers at Camp Casey. One
- of them was wearing lipstick, makeup and fingernail polish. The other workers
- snickered behind his back, but seemed not to go out of their way to bother him.
- Seeing as how "there are no people like that in Korea" he was obviously
- Slovenian.... :)
-
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