Saturday, July 26, 2008

Suncheon love motel to be converted into dormitory.

Some people in town aren't happy about a love motel being turned into a dormitory for high school students because they don't think students should be living in that part of town. [Editor's note: Is there a part of town that doesn't have love motels?] I don't recognize the motel in the picture, but if it is 동외동 as mentioned in the article, that's the closest thing, I suppose, to Suncheon's red light district. There are motels and massage parlors all over town, but that neighborhood has the only street in Suncheon I know of where the women are on display in the windows and will call out to passersby. Anyway, this week the Suncheon News has been running this bizarre cartoon on the theme:



A longer article is available from NoCutNews.

* Update: Here's another article, this time with a picture. It's a year old, so I'm not exactly sure where this is, but I'll have to keep my eyes open.

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