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The Love Hotels-"World Inns"
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In the late '90s a large number of love hotels sprang up in the bed-room communities surrounding the city of Seoul, such as Ilsan, Bundang, and Seongnam. By the summer of 2000 it had become too much for local residents to take, and large demonstrations broke out.
One of the problem is that many of the love hotels had been built near public schools. Irate residents demanded that the hotels be removed from their areas to prevent the "unethical contamination" of their children.
The demonstrations succeeded in calling attention to the problem all across the country, and some towns even passed laws prohibiting love hotels from being opened in their areas. They made it a national issue and concerned citizens everywhere demanded that restrictions be placed on where love hotels could be built. Opponents of love hotels took their fight to the Internet by taking pictures of license plates and people going in and out of the places and then posting them online.
Realizing that something had to be done about the problem, the Seoul city government came up with an ingenious plan whereby they could kill two birds with one stone. With the 2002 World Cup just two years away, they decided to turn hundreds of the motels into lodging places called "World Inns" for World Cup visitors.
The city had already been wondering what to do about the serious shortage of affordable hotel rooms for World Cup visitors, and this plan provided the perfect solution. They were able to solve the room shortage problem while getting rid of this moral headache at the same time. The new World Inns were equipped with online booking systems and translation services for foreigners. Facilities were planned to be about the same as those of one-star hotels.
Most people expected that even after the World Cup was over, the World Inns would remain as affordable lodging for visitors rather than revert back to their shady beginning as places for illicit quickie sexual bouts, but nobody could be sure. They hoped that perspective owners of love hotels would think twice about opening up in their neighborhoods.
Q1) What is your opinion of the love hotels in Korea? Explain your opinion.
Q2) Do you think it is undemocratic to put restrictions on where love hotels could be opened? Explain your answer.
Q3) Angry citizens demonstrated because love hotels were built near schools. If a love hotel was built near your child's school, would you go out and demonstrate too? Why or why not?
Q4) Opponents of love hotels are bringing the fight to the Internet by posting pictures of license plates and the faces of people who go into the places. Do you think this is a good idea? Why or why not?
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