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• Korea Queer Customs Festival
• The Seoul Lgbtq+ Film & Video Festival

• Cinemas
  There are at least several gay DVD theaters open in the Jongno 3-Ga area. If you are looking for older men, with the odd young businessman type, there's one just a compact walk north on the street east of the little plaza off the small alley next to the (usually closed) east gate of Topkol Park. Take the street (not the alley) north, cross the next street, and continue on just down the little street to the east of the musical instrument market (turn right at the two telephone booths at the foot of the extended stairs going up to entrance and then assist down). Just where the long stairs come down on the north side, turn right down the small street and stroll down a block or so to the DVD sign. Take the steps to B/F. This has a younger crowd and has much better lgbtq+ flicks as well as some private and semi-private rooms for more intense action. The towelettes, condom

  UPDATE: I visited Homo Hill after Celebration (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 highway tent area, but will definitely update here when I do.

  I hate to have to append 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 contain to see what’s out there together – many places simply didn’t generate 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 inhabit a verrrrrrrrrrry distinct life than us openly gay Westerners. Unfortunately, homosexuality isn’t understood by Korean society. Yes, the super Christians object day and late hours about the devil that is entity gay, but the average Korean just literally doesn’t realize it. While younger people have traveled, are more unseal and know queer people, it
  
  

  South Korea’s capital capital of Seoul is both fiercely contemporary and uniquely vintage school. Belonging to a country isolated and under military dictatorship until the 60s, both the capital and the country have undergone rapid growth since embracing globalism, tech and democracy. A sprawling hub of contrasts, Seoul is where sleek skyscrapers and 5G WIFI rise high over serene palace compounds flanked by ramshackle hanok villages. Where a riverside bike path can either lead you to a fish market or a K-pop concert, and where cosmetic surgery adverts plaster the sides of lean-tos selling boiled eggs and kimbap. While Korea is ultra-quick to pick up on trends, the state remains behind neighbouring nations when it comes to LGBTQ rights, as conservative Confucian roots perish hard and politicians pander to Christian fundamentalists. Despite this, increasing international guide and openness among the younger generation has helped design space for gender non-conforming events and wider acceptance. For your definitive Seoul male lover guide, you’ve appear to the right place.

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  The traditional arts and crafts on Insa-dong, the coffee shops of Ikseon-dong, the street vendors selling everything from skewers to rice cakes everywhere you look: walk around Jongno 3-ga (pronounced jong-no-sam-ga) and you’d be forgiven for thinking this was a pretty traditional, albeit slightly eccentric, little corner of Seoul.

  But take a closer glare and you’ll find that the neighbourhood – which we just named the third coolest in the world – is home to some 100 or so bars catering to Seoul’s LGBTQ+ community. These institutions are very much veiled in plain sight, and there really is something for everyone, even the city’s gay seniors.

  Despite South Korea’s dynamic and tech-savvy image, its attitudes towards queer people cannot be said to be progressive. In this socially conservative country, LGBTQ+ people here are still made to feel invisible.

  This became all the more perceptible in May 2020, when a Covid outbreak hit the club scene in Seoul’s more celebrated, but smaller gay district in Itaewon. That led to widespread homophobia that seemed to spread even fas