Seoul Nightclub Fights Discrimination Charges After Denying Entry to Foreigners
It will be interesting to see how this turns out:
The nation’s human rights watchdog has recommended a nightclub to stop denying entrance to foreigners based on their race or skin color. The owners of the facility, however, refused to accept the recommendation, saying they have had numerous “problems” involving foreign customers.
According to the National Human Rights Commission Korea (NHRCK), Wednesday, an Indian American filed a petition last year after he was barred from entering the nightclub due to being a foreigner while his Korean American friend was not.
Korea Times
The NHRCK said it concluded that the club’s rejection of his entry was clear discrimination based on the petitioner’s race and skin color, as the staff of the club did not check ID cards showing nationalities and allowed the entry of the Korean American.
In July, the commission recommended the club stop deciding customers’ entry based on their race and skin color.
However, the club said it would not follow the recommendation.
You can read more at the link.
When I was in the service, I went with a friend to an “after hours” party in Utica, NY. When I arrived, the guys at the door looked me over pretty good before letting us inside. When I did get inside, all conversation, music, and dancing stopped.
Then a very nicely-dressed fellow walked up to my friend and suggested we leave immediately.
We did.
This scene was repeated in other countries with other levels of suntan.
I don’t know about that south-Asian guy in the story; but I have been the only white guy in clubs full of Blacks, Mexicans, Koreans, or Southwest Asaians and believe me, I’m here to harass others because I didn’t put up a fight and screech about racism.
There’s a time and a place for that. And it isn’t a good idea to force yourself on angry drunken “racists”, regardless of your personal beliefs or how much you want to see pretty Korean girls dancing. Which is the only reason he wanted to go there.
If it was just music, he could use Spotify. If it was just booze, there is no shortage of bars in South Korea.
Yeah…
I have been denied entry to Korean clubs because of my white privilege.
I simply explain in ultra-polite Korean that I understand the situation, I will spend money, and I will not be a problem. I also insure that anybody with me will be under my strict control. A couple times I slipped the doorman a ten to intensify my point.
…and I have never been denied entry.
Doormen have instincts like a cop. They know who is a potential problem… such as darkies and GIs in hoodies sporting an attitude and trying to look bad as fùck.
Me with a small group of short-hair, high-cheekbone, well-dressed non-Koreans are not a problem. It doesn’t hurt to have a few 20-something blondes in pencil skirts.
I sympathize… as some of the shìt foreigners pull is irritating… and it is harder to deal with them than Koreans… and they are cheap bastàrds who preload at Club GS25 anyway.
Soooooooo… this is a non-issue.
It isn’t a matter of race alone as it is a matter of gender and race, specifically men; men who aren’t the same race as the host facility. It’s the good ole “Not with our women!” story.
Door bribes aside I’ll wager good money that any of the clubs in Korea that practice this policy have no issues letting women from the same foreign nations in the door.
Happened to me one only once (I’m not a big bar/club dude) in Uijeongbu, dude told my Korean friend that I couldn’t go in but she could. I told her to tell him “I’m cool if they don’t want my money, I really don’t like hanging out with pussies who can’t get girls anyway” and we left. He gave me ye ole “shibal… blah blah…” and we laughed in his face as I put my arm around my fried acting like we were a couple (we were both married and there was no hanky panky) while we walked away leaving him in his puddle of ineptness.
Guys wanna be bitches, let them be bitches.
Side note… Setnaffa’s white? Heh I thought you were Hispanic. 😛
“as I put my arm around my fried acting”
I prefer baked acting. I feel it is more heart-friendly.
Son of a…
See? I made fun of Flyingsword in another post for a typo, and karma bites me on the ass. 😈
Smokes,
I’m not really certain of my “pedigree” beyond four generations, although my LDS kin have tried to trace the ancestry. I think I’m as American as Heinz 57 sauce and have a dash of this and that in the mix. I am more Native American than Senator Warren; but decline to mention that as most of us had more “blonde Swede” than “dusky savage” in our visage…
I don’t claim Hispanic for the same reason. It’s in there; but not really noticeable.
It might be worth noting that my father, upon hearing me talk about Korea and even buying a Kia (a sad mistake in ’96) told me I was “half Korean.”
I don’t care what I’m called, as long as it’s not “collect”…
I just assumed because you used to use that avatar of the old Hispanic guy in the hat for years, add in the name and there you have Kindly Old Juan Setnaffa, humble coffee grower in Colombia working hard to support his 11 kids. 😎
LOL… Yeah, I used to drink a LOT of coffee. No, more than that… And yet, I never thought Reagan looked like Juan that much… 😉
It’s cool. I was kind of a fan of Viva Max, too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvOxFV8XrM
Smokes, all I had to do was wait……wasn’t sweating it out at all.