Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques18 year old David is a Korean-American who lives with his first generation immigrant family in L. A.’s Korea town where they run a small shabby restaurant and attend Mass regularly. He still lives at home and helps out in the restaurant like the good son that he is, and even accompanies his parents once a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesYeong-nam doesn’t seemed too overjoyed to be the new precinct Chief of Police in a remote fishing village far from Seoul. When she has a briefing with the local area Superintendent soon after she arrives we learn that there has been an undisclosed ‘incident’ that has prompted this unwanted transfer. Now she is advised that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is not a prequel for Richard Curtis’s 1994 Oscar Nominated Smash Hit which had two more weddings, but actually a dark and somewhat hit and miss comedy about some of the issues of living as a gay man in Korea today. Closeted handsome Min-Soo is a gay young hospital doctor who wants to stop … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFlight attendant Won-Gyu returns home to South Korea for the first time in two years. He calls his ex-boyfriend out of the blue, but their reunion is far from successful because of some unresolved issues. Back in his Hotel room he goes online and hooks up with Tae-Jun a motorbike courier and the two men … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAn overweight teenage schoolboy with an alcoholic father and an absent colorful mother takes up the Korean version of sumo wrestling to win the big prize to pay for the sex-change operation that he so wants. He has an infectious personality that helps win over his doubting teammates who physically tower over him ….. but it … Continue reading
