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'Cuz that's what friends are for...
Yes, rain, sleet, or snow. Ramen for lunch in slippers. This is Korea.
Couture cute in Seoul. Phone, socks, and slippers.
The female office worker lunch look. Cute dress, Samdidas slippers.
Korean Samdidas Choos. THE choice of the streets.
Samdidas street model. Koreans love wearing socks and slippers. EVERYwhere.
The Korean Office: 8:36 AM. On the way in.
In my newly supercool neighborhood, a young office worker couple enjoys the
The utmost respect for a true diehard fashionista. Broken leg in a cast from a car accident or no, she was COMING to Fashion Week, DAMMIT. One fashion shoe with frilly sock and a cast and shit, for real. Look of the day, no joke! I did make her walk a bit
Throwback Saturday. My absolute favorite picture from SFW. Gender taboos have come a long way, baby. Traditionally, women are supposed to only smoke under a roof, not ever outside, out in public. This young lady in the picture IS ladies, nowadays. Not al
Spied this fashion point in another one of my Bruce Gilden meets Winogrand runs through the DDP complex. Interesting (and fun) to see a display of sexiness that used to be considered way too brazen for public consumption but is now part and parcel, for ma
Broken down into its constituent semiotic elements, this display of nationalism mixed with tradition to fill the public space of The Seoul City Hall space with as much sonic interference as possible was partially successful, yet extremely confused. Of pa
Kimberly Maria Buxton turns modernity and tradition topsy-turvy as this publicity photo for her graduation performance as the first non-
Shoes off, Spirited conversation at the bus terminal.
The fashionable office. Dress and bag by Yang's and model @bokyoungjulieko.
Office girl lets it all out after work in Myeongdong,2010.
On the way out of the office Friday at midnight, saw some detritus from the party people wash ashore at the front gate, where a drunk girl sat in the subzero cold, drunk and crying, calling her apparently EX-boyfriend. Ah, first world problems. Anyway, i
Tats are officially no longer a social no-no now in Korea. Especially taken to Seoyl Fashion Week street fashion runway-level.
It's official. It's a THING. I saw the elevator opened, SHE entered. I wanted that thing on her head. It. Would. Be. Mine. Openly had one chance. I couldn't turn or even aim. I just turned the camera over behind my back and squeezed off three Hail Mary sh
Young lady has her fashion shit together. Wish I was able to pull off sartorial savior faire when I was 17. I was just trying to keep up, not beachhead of the game. And that's doubly hard assuming girl in Korea. In Korean high school!
As the first show begins the makeup room with the models for the next one has to turn off their lights. But the primping must go on.
Ave Maria.
This mannequinned Maria left me Langing for more. In the Seoul Metropolis of 2007.
Kimberly Maria Buxton (김보라) is slated to become the first non
Soju with lunch ain't no thang in Korea. Ajussis can get started early. I'm sure that's why these guys are so charming at home.
It's the smug assuredness of the out-of-control ajussi that ruins it for everyone.
The ajussi strut.
The ajussi tango.
Ok. Had to throw in a batch or normal high school girl at SFW. I saw girl on right buying cotton candy at a food truck and going SQUEEEEE!!!!! so I was like let's go take a picture of that. As they walked over a group of creepy ajussis sloppy seconding my
The Drunken Grope maneuver.
At the bootleg dvd stand, I chortled aloud, not QUITE spitting up my drink in laughter, but almost. The Audible Chortle Prize for best, most awesomest Korean porn title goes to 발기 챔프! I think that's my picture of the day, hands down. Or hands up. Erm, or
Walking by with my camera out in Itaewon, door opened and suddenly it was the Nineties Itaewon again. Girls wanting me to buy them drinks in the bar. I said I didn't have any cash. She parried by saying I should use my card. At $15 a drink, of course. But
Really? Do we need all this? LOGICAL OPTION #1: The semiotic, subtextual link between alcohol and girls actually makes a LEETLE sense (e.g. DRUNK GIRL=GREATER LIKELIHOOD I MIGHT STICK MY PENIS INTO A HUMAN VAGINA BEFORE SUNRISE), but the lazy application
Girls smoking. It's a thing. Can't pass it up.
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The most oppressively pressing question people ask one another and themselves. Especially now that Itaewon has become a girls/couples area.
Friday night in Itaewon.
Midnight in Itaewon.
5pm open for dinner at Linus's BBQ in Itaewon, when 29 young women in their 20sand 30s walked in, along with exactly one man. Itaewon has become a place for the consumption of the exotic other, especially through food and its environs.
The newly developed, tony part of Itaewon is now populated with women of a more conservative stripe you wouldn't have seen dare step foot here at night twenty years ago. She was part of a church group of all women from church, from which we poached her fo
Itaewon nighttime negotiations.
Girl just went HAM on her face and did a total transformation live in a 30 minute ride. Was a fascinating and entertaining way to spend my ride from Itaewon to Kodae. Girl got skills! Seriously, though, liquid eyeliner on the subway? You gotta respect THA
The real Itaewon still lives, despite
Two of the coolest people I've ever met on the streets and emblematic of
A little everyday pretty fashion in Itaewon today.
The transgender club Trance in Itaewon in 2002, when it was just about drinks and dancing and was just cool. And speaking of performative gender identities, no one does Korean women better than certain Korean male drag queens and the trannies who GET the
The owner of the club. Trance in Itaewon, 2002.
Haebangchon nights.
Spring nights in Gyeongnidan offer Consumption and Romanticism.
The Geonguk University arrea has the charm of outside-Seoul rusticity smack in the middle of the big city. In Seoul, one can order bbq and get drunk on rice wine outdoors on summer nights. Old school style.
Evening showing of The Space Between Us. Horribly trite. Barely watchable. By comparison, same theater, same time previous night, packed for Beauty and the Beast. Methinks Korean audiences ain't feeling this weird sci-fi, teeny date movie. Oh, and that's
A night to not remember...
Some shadiness always going down at night in Seoul. But my name's Bennett and I ain't in it.
Hite night.
I've seen these strange, lumbering creatures form in the dead of night near universities and other alcoholic watering holes.
Afterwork date night in Myeongdong.
Haebangchon nights.
Night shower. Seoul, 2007.
A hard day's night. Hongdae, Seoul, 2008.
Yongsan Nights.