You'd think that amongst the many thousands of K-Pop singers a few have to be gay. But being a public figure and being gay in such a homophobic country as South Korea must be extremely difficult So well done to 22-year old Holland, a young singer who only made his debut this year and who has come out openly as gay. His video Neverland ended up with a million views on iTunes on its release day. The number of views is now nearer 10 million.
At the end of this article there is a long video with an Australian TV station (very cute interviewer!).
I was in Seoul many times in the 1980s and early 1990s. I never saw one guy anywhere near as cute as the plethora we now see in the boy bands, in the Seoul bars and clubs and just walking down the street. I wonder which came first. The boys starting to take an interest in their looks, or the boy bands leading to a mini-revolution in men's looks and grooming.
Again going back to my earlier visits, there were a couple of gay bars I attended and one bathhouse which had an upstairs sleeping area that was to all intents and purposes for sex. None was especially easy to find. I visited them all and cannot recall one Korean guy I really had any interest in! Not even the waiters and porters in the hotels did I find interesting. They just were not nearly as attractive as the Thais, Japanese and Chinese I had more occasion to meet. Now there few I do not find more than attractive!