By GI Korea on June 5th, 2011 at 4:12 am

ROK Drop Open Thread, June 5, 2011

• USinKorea
  4:23 am on June 5th, 2011 1

  –sigh– In right location now — but – too old (for Hongdae) – and too married…

• Retired GI
  4:46 am on June 5th, 2011 2

  Yes, free sex – no lying – promises for “meaningful” long-term support. Bad Bad Bad. What were they thinking . I know what they were thinking . I like it! Too bad Korea is not yet ready to be the country of love

  But as with #1, it would not serve to my advantage.

• Retired GI
  4:53 am on June 5th, 2011 3

  I like the flyer. Doggy style!!! We are so repressed we can’t even show the poster, even tho it is so obvious. That is sad. Is that a christian thing or a muslim thing. Simply a personal thing?

• Those weren't bran muffins, Brainiac...
  5:00 am on June 5th, 2011 4

  

  Trust me this will start with flower girls and end with ugly gay guys in leather chaps spanking their monkeys in public… Look at Haight-Ashbury 1968 and Folsom Street 2010…

  Who needs a festival in Hongdae or anywhere else for sex? Only gays. And only in areas where they’re looking to recruit.

  Stupid amateurs. And who drinks Tequila? Seriously?

  This will end very badly for any Waygooks foolish enough to show up nearby…

• ChickenHead
  6:39 am on June 5th, 2011 5

  “To start things off what does everyone think of sex parties in Hongdae?”

  I think this type of party attracts a few nasty girls and a lot of loser guys.

  I see no reason to attend.

  Besides, as there is only one diick in my fantasies, my sex parties were exclusively Ladies Night.

• LG DACOM Stinks, Royally
  6:48 am on June 5th, 2011 6

  Sorry to interrupt all of your NASCAR fan blather, but 2ID got rid of the beret last week. That’s real news.

• Teadrinker
  6:59 am on June 5th, 2011 7

  ““I naturally assumed that nightlife in Hongdae has changed, but this is going too far. This club is bringing down the already bad image of clubbing culture. It should cancel the event,” said one netizen.”…who is probably a virgin.

  #4,

  What’s with the homophobic rant? You see that poster and the first thing that pops into mind is gay sex? Dude, you’ve got issues. Don’t even bother arguing with me, I can’t fix you.

  #5,

  “I think this type of party attracts a few nasty girls and a lot of loser guys.”

  Probably why they want the guys to drink tequila…Get so drunk they end up leaving early before they realize the place was a sausage fest.

• kangaji
  7:24 am on June 5th, 2011 8

  Wow, pretending to be shocked about what really goes on at Hongdae.
  All of this is so surprising.

• Teadrinker
  7:48 am on June 5th, 2011 9

  #8,

  Yes, the religious zealots sure are influential here. The funny thing is that the majority of South Koreans aren’t religious at all. Yes, a minority dictating how the majority is living their lives, a reminder that democracy is still in its infancy here.

• Chris Hiler
  2:07 pm on June 5th, 2011 10

  Though I’m not particularly religious or self righteous I really have a low tolerance for exhibitionist style sex. There’s no way I would attend now. If I were in my early 20s I may try as a spectator but I would not participate. At 51..the “novelty” has worn off.

• Tim
  3:25 pm on June 5th, 2011 11

  Hooray for this coming out of the underground scene where it’s been for years. I remember being part of a sex party (a sixsome actually, 3 couples) back in 1999 that was lots of fun.

• Lemmy
  6:07 pm on June 5th, 2011 12

  How sad

• Laidback Larry
  2:37 am on June 6th, 2011 13

  When HIV and AIDS hit Korea it’s going to be the end of this kind of loserville stuff.

• Laidback Larry
  2:39 am on June 6th, 2011 14

  The women who show up for these advertised activities are usually used up biker chicks that were kicked off the back of Captain America’s hog years ago. You want to take that home to mama?

• Robert
  3:22 am on June 6th, 2011 15

  LG DACOM Stinks, Royally –

  2ID did not get rid of the beret. Where are you getting your information?

• kangaji
  5:57 am on June 6th, 2011 16

  http://www.economist.com/node/18774722

  Economist argues that you can stop the spread of aids by spending $15,000 a year on each victim.

• Orbit
  3:01 pm on June 6th, 2011 17

  mostly ugly girls and horny desperate loser dudes will be there

• ChickenHead
  3:40 pm on June 6th, 2011 18

  Orbit,

  You took the words right out of my… er… post number 5.

• kushibo
  5:13 pm on June 6th, 2011 19

  Don’t be a wimp, GI Korea. Print the uncensored version of the posters.

  Orbit, now that this has gotten into the English-language media, it will attract a different clientele. It may chase off certain types of women (those who think American guys are thirty times more likely to carry HIV) and attract certain types of men who couldn’t have found out about it (and known what it meant) through the original channels.

• Retired GI
  7:33 pm on June 6th, 2011 20

  Who has brass balls? GI Korea or Kushibo. *KUSHIBO* Yea baby, show the art work!

  Kill PC! Kill PC! Kill PC!

  Mission Statement: Offend someone today.

• archieb
  4:41 am on June 7th, 2011 21

  The Korea Times reports that this week’s orgy has been postponed. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/06/117_88265.html

• kangaji
  7:57 am on June 7th, 2011 22

  Yappari… As expected

• jslim
  4:45 am on June 8th, 2011 23

  why the promotion?
  this happens in most hongdae clubs anyway
  you go, you meet, you drink then you swap body fluids

• Glans
  2:50 am on June 9th, 2011 24

  Thomas Drake, a former manager at the National Security Agency, was charged under the Espionage Act for, among other things, submitting classified documents to the Defense Department inspector general. But federal prosecutors have decided to withhold those documents from the court, so it will be harder for them to prove their case. The Obama administration has four other espionage cases, including that of Bradley Manning. Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project criticizes Obama for prosecuting whistle blowers. Ellen Nakashima reports at the
  Washington Post.

• Glans
  5:36 pm on June 9th, 2011 25

  Hong Hei-Kyung may be an old favorite here at the ROK Drop, but I just discovered her on Youtube

• Glans
  7:00 pm on June 9th, 2011 26

  The Spratly Islands – China doesn’t want its neighbors searching for resources there. Here’s the AP report at the New York Times.

• ChickenHead
  9:50 pm on June 9th, 2011 27

  This is why we can’t have nice things.

  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/apparent_thieves_chop_down_tree_ntBGSshJc1MPXn9zJL3J2L

  Short version: A bike is chained to a big tree. A group of bored guys take turns chopping down the tree. At the end, one guy gets on the bike, rides around in circle and then throws it on the ground and they all go away.

  Idle hands do the devil’s work. These guys need some of those Jobs Americans Won’t Do.

• kushibo
  10:12 pm on June 9th, 2011 28

  I’ll admit I was watching the video while doing something else, but your description doesn’t match what I saw.

  It was one guy chopping down the tree. The other people tried several times to stop him, but eventually gave up when the guy kept persisting (and he had an axe; maybe not the best thing to do to keep physically blocking him).

  After the tree gets chopped down, the chopper leaves. The other people later leave. Then after several others come and take a look, another guy (not the chopper) frees the bike and rides it around in a circle and leaves it (i.e., doesn’t steal it).

  I have no problem with having chain gang labor doing our tough Jobs Americans Won’t Do, but it seemed like only one guy there was deserving that opportunity, not a whole group.

• ChickenHead
  10:41 pm on June 9th, 2011 29

  Kushibo,

  I now think you are right. I actually watched it again and did, in fact, see only one guy actually chop down the tree.

  I played it on another screen and didn’t study it the first time. I should have paid more attention and the fault is mine.

  I think a large group of properly motivated guys can stop one chopper… but I wasn’t there… so there may be more to the story.

  None-the-less… this is why we can’t have nice things.

  One scumbag ruins it for everyone and nobody is willing to insist on what is right.

  In the States, I occasionally pointed out the error of people’s ways in a respectful and gentle manner… generally with excellent results… but, of course, it’s not worth an axe upside the head…

  …although the quiet confidence of of a concealed-carry Glock 19 probably helped my case.

• Glans
  2:16 am on June 10th, 2011 30

  Hillary Clinton is the subject of a graphic novel by Jerome Maida. He says,“I am writing Hillary Clinton from a perspective of someone who did not admire her at first and throughout the process of research has come to admire and be utterly fascinated by what is a tale that most have not reported on.”
  Elise Labott has the story at CNN.

• Retired GI
  4:48 am on June 10th, 2011 31

  I like Hillary Clinton. She has big brass balls. They used to belong to Bill.

• Glans
  4:30 pm on June 10th, 2011 32

  Dana Rohrabacher says Iraq should pay the US the cost of the war. From AP in the NY Times.

  “Big China, bad behavior” – South China Sea dispute flares up. Vietnam will conduct live-fire naval exercises. Read Michael Wines in the New York Times.

  Is NATO relevant?

• Glans
  9:15 pm on June 10th, 2011 33

  Choi Sung-bong’s Youtube video has gone viral with 4,737,710 views.

• Glans
  8:36 pm on June 11th, 2011 34

  China’s claims in the South China Sea — this BBC story has a map.

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