Virtual Golf Hookers
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency have targeted “screen golf” rooms that mix driving range golf with a virtual video-game-type screens. Some of these South Korean golf rooms sell alcohol and employ women entertainers in mini-skirts.
The virtual golf rooms measure the distance the ball travels, and the newest golf rooms feature game systems that can reproduce famous courses in 3D.
In a crackdown late last month, the police pinpointed 39 video golf rooms and booked 36 of them for violating laws on food cleanliness. Many of these video game rooms reported themselves as sports facilities, but took part in activities like selling alcohol and introducing customers to prostitutes.
Police say that these types of “perverted businesses” have increased in number. “We will continue to inspect new types of immoral businesses.”
Korea Beat › “Screen Golf” Rooms Getting in Trouble [Korea Beat via ROK Drop]
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What exactly is immoral about prostitution anyway if they make sure the girls are clean of any STD's? I can really think of no valid reason. It hurts nobody.
SacGamer
@shoppinghero: This guy was starred for this comment?
I'm sorry, but I thought we were going to star people who make proactive comments and add some intelligence to the discussion.
Someone finally finds a way to make golf interesting and the man has to go and mess it all up.
I've never even heard of these golf places. Definitely going to make a pit stop in winter.
@Sutekh_Slain: Heartclick for you. lol
imdstig
@shoppinghero: Only if you're incredibly lucky, most golfers just hit the sand trap.
Um........
So.. this is all the cops have to do there? really?
Ur-Lord-Crypy
@BattleMagnum: Maybe they were talking about the prostitutes? o.o
@shoppinghero: I aced all 3 holes in the course.
@ShadowOdin isn't american: ShadowOdin: gamer, kotaku commentator, warpoet
I wondered why my boss went to play screen golf weekendly. Now i know. He's SOOOOO seeing this article tomorrow.
Hey, baby, take a look at my nine-wood! And now, my penis.
miquonranger03
@shoppinghero:
Hole in ones are hard. It really depends on how I grip my shaft, and how well I'm stroking my balls that day.
Kazaam_McFresh
As always, pics or it didn't happen.
Particularly the mini skirted girls part.
If you think this is bad, you should see what they do in Starcraft rooms!
Hardcore
@MugiMugi: Seoul is the best city in all of Japan.
I, proud citizen of Not-America, know that to be true.
@ShadowOdin isn't american: Seoul is not in Japan it's the capital in South Korea. :P back to your school bench :P
@ShadowOdin isn't american:
... I don't want to dissapoint you and ruin your routine, but uh, Seoul is in South Korea. Not Japan.
Amathev
Perverted businessmen? In my Japan
*puts on Kabuki-facepaint*
Hooooh
THEY...will be punished, with a man's punishment.
As the cherry blossom fall to the ground to signal the end of spring, so too must the buds of mankind struggle to find solace in strife.
If only my ancestors could look upon me and smile. Feeling pride over the egg that became a dragon in a skies of yesteryear.
Then you will have found happiness and the guise of a sunflower.
@Antiterra: I just wanna see what a girl can do with the golf balls. Maybe poke an eye out.
@shoppinghero: ZING!
i wonder how many hookers have been hit with golf clubs on accident?
pandafresh
Insert hole in one joke here....
Talk about placing the flag back into the hole after you're done.
Squirrelbot3000
@InconspicuouslyConspicuous: It's not working for me, either. I thought it was an Internet Explorer thing, so I switched back to Google Chrome (what I usually use), but it's not working either... also, it refuses to let me edit anymore. No matter when I hit the edit button, it tells me that time has expired.
Dangeresque
@Dangeresque the Observer: dam how do you star? I've tried to star a few but it's not working... will try later..
InconspicuouslyConspicuous
@CyricZ: HA HAAAAAH, balls.
/Phil Ken Sebben imitation
@punderland: That was epic, bro. Shit, now I've got THREE people I want to give stars and it's only 4 am.
@shoppinghero: Damn, bro, that shit was a par seven. You don't fuck around, huh? Or maybe you do, huh-yuck, huh-yuck.
...Yeah, that's the best I've got. Didn't bring my A-game, I guess. Or at least, I hope I didn't- if this is my A-game, that has more troubling implications.
@Sutekh_Slain: Well that's the one half of me I should oppress with my other half...
The president with the last names seems to be doing fine
InconspicuouslyConspicuous
@ourovoros: Nope. They follow the 4 second rule.
@InconspicuouslyConspicuous: It's an in-joke amongst koreans. You typically expect a South Korean president to be corrupt. It's a wonderful surprise if they're not.
@BattleMagnum: Why? Aren't prostitutes worthy of the same culinary hygiene as the rest of the world?
ourovoros
@oby: Agreed.
However: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_sells
@Sutekh_Slain: Perhaps other countries are readily in the news for us to make the same judgements about them too?
/sarcasm
It seems Korea is getting a bad rap in the media these days... I wonder when the US will return to the limelight...?
InconspicuouslyConspicuous
Well, you gotta do something to make golf entertaining.
(I kid, I kid... Buy PGA Tour 10 on the Wii!)
@Sutekh_Slain: Pencils sell also, but you don't see them being sold in virtual golf rooms. You know why ? Because it makes no sense unless it's a pencil warehouse covered as a sports facility. You see the link between pencils, sex and virtual golf ?
Shifty business is shifty.
@shoppinghero: Very impressive. It usually takes me a couple tries before I can get it in. I always hit it too hard and make the process last longer than it really needs to be.
"Man, doing it a on a golf course sure feels great, just be careful with my balls."
Pew Pew BOOM
@Sutekh_Slain: Usually, where there are hookers, there are politicians. Kill two birds with one stone.
Hey_Blinkon
Hole in one
Sex sells. As an aside. I think the Koreans should first focus on their presidents before clapping innocent hookers in cuffs.
Sounds like a perfect night out to me =)
Hutchy
Oh, the ways "measure how far the ball travels" could be taken in this situation.
CyricZ
Apparently they make a bad cup of tee.
punderland
"Rue wrote:
Love that they found found prostitution going on and charged them on violating food cleanliness."
Now that's just wrong.
BattleMagnum
japan has all the fun..... God dam u denmark