I was in Korea for the first time for a friend’s wedding. I noticed that Korean women were rather conservative in terms of dressing and behaviour. I pointed this out to my Korean friend and she just laughed.

For her hen-night, she had decided to have it in a popular nightclub called BOSS. It was to be my first clubbing experience in Korea. I was impressed the moment we walked into the club. The bouncers and waiters were the best dressed I’ve ever seen in a club. It was a huge club and small candlelit tables with a cocktail food platter each filled the floor. Around the floor were Japanese doors with neon lights illuminating them. It was definitely the snazziest club I’ve seen. Then I noticed something strange. All the tables only had women. There were no men except for the waiters who were milling around.

I was walking to our table when one of the waiters grabbed my waist and opened one of the Japanese doors in front of me. Inside were four men! The waiter started pushing me in. By that time I was freaking out. I had no idea what was happening and was swearing profusely. Since I was using a certain swear word that is internationally known, the men freaked out too. They told the waiter that it was okay and to let me go. I was still in shock and had no idea what was happening. My Korean friend rushed to me, said something in Korean to the waiter and took me away.

I found out that this was a “club” in Korea. People go to meet the opposite sex. It was their way of speed dating! The waiters would just pull a girl from her table and send her to one of these rooms…and the girl happily obliges. She would go in, have a drink and just chat, apparently. If she doesn’t hit it off, she leaves. She’s got the whole night to check out the other rooms. It was the most bizarre thing ever. As I was so mortified by the earlier experience, I got a ‘NO BOOKING’ sign put at my table, so that waiters would know not to approach me!

I spent the entire night sitting at my table, eating dried cuttlefish and watching girls come and go from these rooms. Oh, and they are so efficient these Koreans. If you really “hit it off,” there’s actually a ‘JOLLY HOTEL’ on the second floor of the club. At breakfast, I saw a few young women giggle shyly. Little do they know that I had already seen Korea by night.

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