Just a little background info on this uniquely Korean social practice, courtesy of Galbijim:
Booking or Booking Clubs (부킹) are nightclubs where arranged dating is made, where Korean men and women will sit at their own respective tables with friends, men will see a woman that they’d like to meet, in which they will pay waiters to entice the woman, who then shows obligatory physical resistance (regardless if she is interested in the man or not). The waiter then takes her to a table of men as a sort of “forced” socialization. Men at the table are expected to offer the guest a shot of whiskey as the flirtations begin. Booked women who become disinterested at the table will often excuse themselves to go the washroom and re-join their table of girlfriends. Men occasionally get booked as well, but this is not a common practice. Depending on the number of bookings the table of men get, and how attractive the girls are, the wait staff can usually expect to see a generous tip.
Booking or Booking Clubs (부킹) are nightclubs where arranged dating is made, where Korean men and women will sit at their own respective tables with friends, men will see a woman that they’d like to meet, in which they will pay waiters to entice the woman, who then shows obligatory physical resistance (regardless if she is interested in the man or not). The waiter then takes her to a table of men as a sort of “forced” socialization. Men at the table are expected to offer the guest a shot of whiskey as the flirtations begin. Booked women who become disinterested at the table will often excuse themselves to go the washroom and re-join their table of girlfriends. Men occasionally get booked as well, but this is not a common practice. Depending on the number of bookings the table of men get, and how attractive the girls are, the wait staff can usually expect to see a generous tip.
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Shinhwa member and solo singer Andy shared his humiliating experience of getting mistaken for a nightclub manager on the 13th Feb episode of MBC variety show “Let’s Sleep Here Tonight”.
“On the day after we ended our 5th album jacket photoshoot, we all headed to a nightclub, and through a booking, three girls came over to our table and they were excited to see that it was the Shinhwa members.”
“The girls knew the names of all the members, except for mine. So one of them asked, “Who is this oppa?”, and her friend said, ‘Ya, you made a mistake, isn’t this the manager of the club?’ “
After that Andy only spent another 30 minutes at the club and headed back to the dormitory to drink soju with the managers instead. “They advised me to work even harder.”
Source: newsen.com
Chi trans: 草木番茄@andy4ever
Eng trans: midnightgirl13@absolutshinhwa.wordpress.com
“On the day after we ended our 5th album jacket photoshoot, we all headed to a nightclub, and through a booking, three girls came over to our table and they were excited to see that it was the Shinhwa members.”
“The girls knew the names of all the members, except for mine. So one of them asked, “Who is this oppa?”, and her friend said, ‘Ya, you made a mistake, isn’t this the manager of the club?’ “
After that Andy only spent another 30 minutes at the club and headed back to the dormitory to drink soju with the managers instead. “They advised me to work even harder.”
Source: newsen.com
Chi trans: 草木番茄@andy4ever
Eng trans: midnightgirl13@absolutshinhwa.wordpress.com
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