No Regret

Sexual Identity Collides With Economic Need

The best thing in “No Regret” is the brothel. Down a dingy alleyway in Seoul, South Korea, the “host bar,” as it is euphemistically known, is announced by a sign that suggestively promises “X Large.” Inside, young men fresh from the provinces cavort with their jaded city colleagues for the delight of an all-male clientele. There is karaoke, binge drinking, lap dancing and intimate entanglements in private rooms, along with fistfights, trash talking, broken hearts and bonhomie. [...]

di Nathan Lee, articolo completo (1603 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Village Voice 25 luglio 2008