360 Sounds Record Store Day and 40th Party
This weekend is a big one for 360 Sounds, one of Korea’s longest-established DJ collectives. Running for over 7 years and still going strong (they even have the Stussy t-shirts to prove it), you can catch at least one 360 Sounds member DJing at some of Seoul’s coolest clubs on a regular basis. This coming Saturday...
In Pictures: Unionmade II Cover and Destroy at 1984
VLUF are eminent on the Seoul subcultural party scene for their warehouse raves, particularly after their recent collaboration with House of Vans. The crew recently threw the second volume of their second party series, Unionmade II: Cover and Destroy, at uber cool garage basement venue and print publication shop 1984 in Hongdae. Here are the...
In Pictures: Social Underground #12
Social Underground did us dirty by making everyone wait 42 days for this month’s event. But we easily forgive them because this past Saturday’s SU party was definitely well worth the wait. Club Exit was a full house and for good reason; SU brought in nothing but the finest to celebrate their first installment of...
Bbang in Hongdae
There’s no dearth of music venues in Hongdae. On any given night, there are hundreds of gigs taking place in the brightly lit, super-hip space between Hapjeong and Sinchon. To catch live music in Hongdae, you needn’t even cross a single threshold, with buskers occupying virtually every street corner or open space. Hongdae is Seoul’s...
Events in Seoul This Week: 22/NOVEMBER/2012
Happy Thanksgiving US readers, we will be eating lots today in your honour. It’s freezing this week so make sure the weather doesn’t get you down by reading our post on 10 Reasons to Love Winter in Korea. If you’re too cynical for that to cheer you up then we also have an article on...
The Meet Market: For Queers and Their Allies
When we heard about The Meet Market we thought it sounded like an interesting, alternative and necessary event for the Seoul nightlife scene. We were eager to find out more so got in touch with kim thompson, one of the event organisers, and grilled her about what The Meet Market is all about, her opinion on being...
