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Bonny's Sunday Afternoon madness!
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SF Chinatown. Looks like the foreigner's ghetto, Haebangchon, in Seoul. Today, I'm THAT GUY, I'm the tourist.
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Bok-soon. Doggies are well-cared for in Korea. For the most part. Dogs are now a function of conspicuous, concupiscent consumption.
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Even the ajummas are showing up dressed to the nines in Haebangchon now.
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In a nutshell, this is what separates the present generation from the past. The wages of disposable income: a consumer identity, sense of entitlement to leisure as opposed to one of deferred gratification, and the folly of youth in a culture that believes
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Sunday night for two GIRLS walking through the Haebangchon hood. In Korea nowadays, it's hard to say they're "just friends" anymore, although the one thing about the extreme heteronormativity combined with social denial of many just plain obvious lesbian
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Spring nights in Gyeongnidan offer Consumption and Romanticism.
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This former "foreigners ghetto" is getting more upscale every day. "Ladification" like a mofo.
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The very picture of the gendered consumption of the Other in the foreigner ghetto in Seoul. The #2 commuter bus is in the background, too.
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Highly gendered consumption has created market forces that turnedg my beloved Hungry Dog diner man cave into a juice bar filled exclusively with girly girls. Because Korean girly girls are not really hungry dogs.
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Haebangchon has gotten strangely übercool. As Seoul's foreigner ghetto grown up from the "Freedom Village" it was when it was a refugee area for North Koreans during and after the Korean War, I never envisioned ending up here, but it is a pretty cool com
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Out for a walk in my hood, met other walkers. The Haebangchon is fast becoming naturally Korean cool. Happy day, happy family! Spring is here, in full effect!
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Great catch of a girl and her dog. The most important fashion accessory and consumer product of them all.
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Met two japanese tourists in HBC today, where the Hungry Dog once was. Now it is a Juice bar filled only with girls. From everywhere. They were armed with selfie sticks, smartphones, and were ready to tour! They asked me where to go. I told them to hit Ho
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Besides the food, another reason this place has become the best restaurant Haebangchon has to offer.
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The new area undergoing "Ladification" due to highly gendered consumptive desire.
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Real Mexican restaurant in haebangchon! And it's surprisingly good. Had chorizo tacos. Korean Mexican has come light years in a shirt amount of time. Still, I asked about tamales and only got a "Huh?" and a quizzical look. But she said she's gonna look in
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The real Itaewon still lives, despite "ladification."
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A spiffy morning in Haebangchon.
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Girls getting churros and pictorial evidence of eating said churros, as well as recording their time spent in the newly trendy "foreigner ghetto" area of Seoul where knowing where the new foreign foods are mark one's imagined cosmopolitanism, despite the
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Coral pink is giving way to orange these days as colors once thought too gauche for public consumption have gone normal.
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No way! Same girl I caught earlier in the day in haebangchon! Check the next picture!
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Haebangchon girls on a Sunday afternoon.
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The art of stealth with a 20mm on a full-frame body requires 1) knowledge of the Force and 2) 'nads of steel. Shit is easy if you're across the street with a Hubble Telescope on your camera. At 20mm, you can smell the smoke.
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She got the blues. And a matching Sisley bag. The new face of Haebangchon on the weekends.
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In Korea, smoking used to mark "bad girls" and was something done literally under or behind cover, although nowadays it is more a sign of rejecting these older social norms of disparately gendered notions of gender-appropriate behavior.
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Because of more disposable income among more young single women entering and staying in the work force longer, trendy patterns of cultural consumption, and driven by a notion of "multiculturalism" that finds expression in culinary tourism, the foreigners'
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Consuming trendy foreign foods is gendered as a female thibg to do here. Even an American sports pub is dominated by women chatting both with each other and on their cell phones much of the time.
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"Springtime for hipsters." It's warm, and gaggles of Korean kids are out sampling the exotic foreign foods and clutching each other while marveling at all the "scary"foreigners milling about, while white foreign folks take this first opportunity to do iro
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Mustang Sally in Itaewon.
