Saturday, September 8, 2007
Korean conservatism at its finest
There are such places in this ultraconservative country where people bathe together naked. Let me explain. They're called jimjongbangs (loosely transliterated). And after a good tennis workout I call them magic! Up 5 floors in a ordinary building nakedness lurks. First, the men and women are separated. You enter a preliminary locker area where you take off you shoes. Then exchange that key for a bigger locker key-this is where you get naked. Leave your clothes behind, and join the Koreans in your birthday suit. Enter the water facility and watch the water flow. Once in, have a seat and shower sitting down-mirrors abound. Once rinsed off jump in the hot tub. Choose between the 39 C hot tub, 41 C hot tub, or the third...An everyday changing concoctions of green tea, peppermint, or today it was Suk (I have to find out what that is). Then hop over to the wet sauna, dry sauna, cold pool with jets. Here nakedness is commonplace, parents with children, children playing with other children, men young and old. It was a good experience. So in a very anti gay conservative country, bathing naked with the same sex, old and young, it completely acceptable. Interesting.
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