Veteran Korean journalist Kim Hyung-geun, who goes by the name Hank Kim, has written an informative guide to Korean customs and culture that worth reading before the visitor makes his or her first trip to Korea, Ask a Korean Dude: An Authoritative and Irreverent Guide to the Korea Experience (2012, ISBN 978-89-97639-00-7 03040). The book […]
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Korea’s Jeju Love Land: the Sexiest museum in Asia?
South Korea’s wild museum of sex is full of art, humor, and is politically incorrect to the extreme
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee on how not and why not to overpay Thai women
You can go broke really fast by paying too much for dating Thai women
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Sex at the Margins’ by Laura María Agustín
The author of this book on the prostitution “rescue industry” caught our eye here on a WoWasis blog post earlier this year, when we reported this comment in her own blog, quoted from a Thai women’s organization: We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry being […]
Read the rest of this entry »The tuk-tuk driver took me on a wild goose chase in Bangkok
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: The tuk-tuk driver took me on a wild goose chase Dear Pa Farang, I agreed to pay a tuk-tuk driver 50 baht to go to a temple. Instead, he drove us around to two different gem shops.you to gem shops, and finally […]
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I just had 2 friends from England visit Bangkok and there were some magical moments during their stay that will certainly become local legend. One particular evening stands out in my mind as it is a perfect illustration of how different one’s priorities become after living in Paradise as long as I have. There is […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee on errant condoms, guiltless sexual faux pas, and Valentine’s Day
Used condom accidentally suspended from a ceiling fan sends Khun Lee’s date fleeing in terror
Read the rest of this entry »Grey Man: yet another Sex Trafficking NGO found to be falsifying data
NGOs investigtaing alleged sex trafficking continue to be challenged in providing truthful information
Read the rest of this entry »Dr Laura Agustín and Thai sex workers: Anti-trafficking Rescues are Our Biggest Problem
Perhaps the most controversial topic we write about here at WoWasis is the excesses of the NGOs and governmental bodies involved in policing the sex trade in Asia. $30,000 Pedophilia NGO scam: if allegations are true, who’s watching the Watchers? NGO Pedophilia controversy heats up in Cambodia and Is it time for a website to archive […]
Read the rest of this entry »Macau’s King of Gambling’s Tricky Abdication
Stanley Ho’s massive Macau empire is proving difficult to divide up among the Ho family because of arguments and lawsuits.
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