I sometimes wish that this webpage was more popular, but I have no idea how go about obtaining this higher level of popularity on my own. So I decided to simply blindly follow trends that seem to be working elsewhere and hope they work for me. Quick question that only people interested in the Korean blog scene will be able to answer: What’s the most popular Korea related blog? Probably the Marmot’s Hole. And what do they write about there? Well Korean related news of course. In the world of media what topic is continually the highest seller? Sex of course! So here today, thanks to the good peoples at Reuters and Yahoo News, we have this nice story about Korea, a Sex Expo, and people being denied visas! Like Hungry, Hungry Hippos, it’s fun, fun, fun by the ton, ton, ton!
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean sex trade show promised foreign women in steamy underwear, striptease acts and sex seminars but had to cancel the performances after losing its lingerie models to immigration laws, organizers said on Thursday.
The 2006 Seoul Sex Education Expo, dubbed Sexpo, opened on Thursday, however, with plenty of sex toys, lotions and audiovisual material.
“Immigration officials warned us if the models performed without having obtained the appropriate visa, they could be subject to deportation,” a Sexpo official said.
An immigration official said models from places such as Australia were planning to enter the country on tourist visas, but they needed performance visas.
The event, which runs through Sunday, had been heavily advertised.
Several male visitors were angry about seeing so many inflatable plastic women on display and no real ones.
“I came here for a show and all I have is this leaflet about sex toys. What’s going on here?” said one man in his mid-60s who asked not to be identified.
Sexpo has been held in other parts of Asia but civic groups in South Korea had pressed authorities to close the show on the grounds that it was offensive.
South Korea, however, already has a large and vibrant sex industry.
Wow! A Sexpo! Here in Korea! But there are no models to walk about scantily clad? How about some local girls? Or if they needed white women (since apparently Korean’s think that walking around in one’s underwear is a lot like teaching English, and even the worst white person is clearly more outstanding than a Korean person), why didn’t they simply look at the home shopping channel? Everytime I turn that channel on there are gangs of Russian women modeling underwear. I’m sure some of them would be willing to work at Sexpo doing esentially the same thing. Anyhow this was my attempt at popularity. If it happens to fail I’m going to go back to writing about ketchup ads from the 1970s, and North Korean cartoons (that only look like they were from the 1970s).
I feel like I’ve been vacuumed across cyberspace by the attraction of this post.
Great blog, though. I’m enjoying reading it for the first time.
Comment by Hyalucent — September 7, 2006 @ 1:02 am
First time “reading” that is… not meaning the first time “enjoying”. ^^
Comment by Hyalucent — September 7, 2006 @ 1:05 am
I found your blog from a link from The idiots collective blog.
You’ve been blogging since 1999? Wow.
It’s not easy getting noticed is it?
I only found the idiots collective from the korean wikipedia.
how many readers do you have? ( if you don’t mind me asking) I have maybe 30 or 40 at most.
Not sure what the best answer to popularity is. I think commeneting on other peoples blogs is a good start. People often follow links on more popular sites.
Comment by Jon Allen — September 19, 2006 @ 11:31 am
Jon,
I actually have no idea how many readers I have. I get somewhere between 100-300 incoming links a day, most of whom are people looking for some combination of the words, “asian,” “Korean” “girl” “Hot” and “Porn.” As for blogging since 1999, it’s kind of a lie. Most of the stuff prior to July 2003 was either hand written in a journal and later typed up here, or was an article I used to have on a now defunct website which I reposted here for prosperity.
Comment by Wyatt — September 20, 2006 @ 0:28 am
That’s not too bad hits wise.
I got a couple of hits from your site.
Comment by Jon Allen — September 20, 2006 @ 17:55 pm
In Southern California, we have this Korean home shopping show called HSK… I think it’s Home Shopping Korea. One day they were were selling bras and lingerie and they had one skinny black girl and another smallist hispanic gal wearing the goods. All the while, the two hosteses of the show were wearing theyir pinkish gray 3 piece lady suits. Not to mention, one of the ladies starts poking the models… poking her mammaries… and all the while, the models have these perfect big smiles. Teh girls must have been standing there, saying “Lady stop poking my b00bies”…. I could barely contain myself. It was the funniest thing.
Comment by Andy (美國土子) — October 11, 2006 @ 2:02 am
ok good
Comment by hani — May 17, 2007 @ 4:40 am
saad
Comment by saad — July 10, 2007 @ 17:51 pm