Well, Granddad Needs to Get Some, Too

by Robert Koehler on February 27, 2009

And whoever thought Jongmyo Park was such a happening place…

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Bipolar Mindscrew February 27, 2009 at 3:57 pm: That’s a strange article. Makes you wonder what the correct solution is. In most cases, cracking down on the pros doesn’t do any good… charging the Johns? Too old… The STDs are enough punishment at that age anyway…

The drug-sellers on the other hand… should be put in jail. Fake viagra and snake pills? Might as well grind up mummies and spiders…
2 red sparrow February 27, 2009 at 4:41 pm: “Might as well grind up mummies and spiders…”

What do you think the fake Viagra is made from?

And I must say: My, my, my… those durty ol’ codgers! But I wish there had been a similarly equipped park where I grew up. Perhaps Mr. Schmidt next door could have had something to occupy his time instead of obessessing over whether or not I trampled the plants in his garden retrieving my football.
3 mateomiguel February 27, 2009 at 5:01 pm: This was pointed out to me by a coworker like 3 years ago. the Korea Times is really behind the times!
4 wrenchbender February 27, 2009 at 7:48 pm: Well, an old codger’s gotta get some too. More power to them.

Getting into a womans’ axe wound isn’t free, you pay for it one way or another; you either rent it or put mortgage payments when you get hitched.
5 SomeguyinKorea February 27, 2009 at 10:01 pm: The first time I ever went there, I saw an old guy approach a young lady who seemed to be waiting for a friend. She seemed quite annoyed by what he whispered in her hear.
6 CactusMcHarris February 27, 2009 at 11:37 pm: Notice to all – ‘old codger’ is redundant – it’s similar to saying ‘old adage’.

I am now off the Sonagi Syntax Soapbox.

I had always meant to learn how to play changgi, and now there’s this added incentive (if I weren’t married, that is).
7 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 February 27, 2009 at 11:37 pm: what’s more degreating?

young man forced to have sex with a grandma,

vs

young girl forced to have sex with a grandpa?

I can’t imagine anything attractive about grandpa.

Young girls will visibly flee away from pot bellies and bald hair.

these guys got it.

plus, they have low testosterone levels and varying degrees of erectile dysfunction.

any girl who marries more than 10 years her senior is basically gold digging and lying to herself.

how old is Jang Donggun? 45? Like 5 more years before he starts dribbling urine?
8 Bipolar Mindscrew February 27, 2009 at 11:44 pm: wjk, I thought you promised to go away…
9 JohnT February 28, 2009 at 12:27 am: You won’t think such thoughts when your older wjk.

Although in many cases your gold digging comment is valid, it’s not always the case.
10 dogbertt February 28, 2009 at 12:58 am: “Bald hair”?
11 CactusMcHarris February 28, 2009 at 1:13 am: #10,

I’m sure he meant ‘Balled Hair’, which is what you have when your hair has been balled….like Coolio’s was when he had his one hit ‘Fantastic Voyage’.

Of course he could also have meant balled head…but I don’t wish to discourse on that subject.
12 dogbertt February 28, 2009 at 1:24 am: Coolio’s a baller — true dat

I object to you characterizing the Great One as a one-hit wonder — you seem to have overlooked “Gangsta’s Paradise” — how could you forget Michelle Pfeiffer’s amazing turn in the video?
13 SeoulFinn February 28, 2009 at 1:48 am: I think that it was a quite good article. Was it surprising? No. Was it interesting? Yes, at least to me it was.

We have to remember that the article is talking about women, and mostly immigrant women at that, who are not

a) that well educated
b) not that young anymore
c) not that fresh and beautiful anymore.

All these factors (okay, b and c) combined make them less desirable for younger customers. Lets face it, how many 30, 40 or 50-something men go for paid sex with women of their own age? Not that many.

I can understand why these women are doing this. A waitress earns around 5000 won per an hour, right? (If they even get hired as so many younger women are willing to wait at tables too.) These older women receive relatively good money for a few minutes easy “work” with old men who can’t be that hard to please.

Do I condone this industry? No I do not. But that does not mean that I don’t understand both sides of this problem. We men are horny until the day we die… and that’s a fact!

Let them old men and old women as well, have their fun. But get those illegal, fake and very likely dangerous drugs from the streets. Oh, and don’t be silly, cover thy willy!
14 CactusMcHarris February 28, 2009 at 2:03 am: #12,

I doth beg thy and The Great One’s pardon.

#13,

Thanks to your posting, I am now wondering how to translate into Korean ‘Oh, and don’t be silly, cover thy willy!’.
15 Acropolis7 February 28, 2009 at 10:06 am: #7. 50 is considered still very young in the west. Im only 29, and am astonished at how in Korean culture even my age is considered getting older. Guess its a huge cultural difference.
16 SomeguyinKorea February 28, 2009 at 8:47 pm: #15,

I think it might have something to do with the population age. In Korea, the greatest number of people are in the 20 to 40 age group. In Canada, the number of people in that group is equal to that of the 40 to 60 age group.
17 globalvillageidiot February 28, 2009 at 9:06 pm: In addition to there being tons of hookers there, I’ve been told that Jongmyo Park – and the surrounding area – is Seoul’s gay cruising hotbed. Strange how that didn’t make it into the article…
18 SomeguyinKorea March 1, 2009 at 8:31 pm: #17,

I’d be surprised if many of those septuagenarians are cruising the park for a young stud.