Latin Flavor
My body slightly aches … and I kinda want to curl into a ball under my desk right now and sleep (^_^). I’ve been dancing hardcore lately getting ready for the first salsa party thrown by the renamed Salsa English-speaking group here in Daegu. We are now called Latin Flavor!
As some of you remember, I started taking Cuban salsa within the first few months of being in Korea. We had a great performance that year, it’s always fun dancing in a rueda and switching partners through calls and responses.
I recently took up New York-style salsa, which…. though I know I should know more about it, I feel like a kid who just lost his training wheels. Some time within this year I think my body changed. I suddenly get easily dizzy from being spun..which is clear red flag in this current performance we are trying to perfect. Slowly, but surely I have to learn how to spot turn, and become the dancer all little girls want to be. I just have to get over the fact that I want to pass out every time we practice (^_^;)
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We have set up our classes at Babalu Salsa Club in Downtown Daegu. We are currently teaching SALSA (new york style) and BACHATA.
The classes run from 7:30-9:00pm and a social dance from 9:00-2:00am.
Schedule looks something like this every SATURDAY @ BABALU:
Class + party + drink = 10,000 won
7:30-8:00 – Beginner’s and review of previous steps
8:00-9:00 – Salsa class (Beginner’s will have someone helping them separately)
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Sex Trafficking in Korea
We teamed up with an organization called Not for Sale that “creates tools that engage business, government, and grassroots in order to incubate and grow social enterprises to benefit enslaved and vulnerable communities.” We will have a booth there that will be accepting donations for the Not for Sale Korea group.
- “Korea is both a destination and source for human trafficking. The Korea Women’s Development Institute said in a 2007 study that the sex trade industry was worth 14 trillion won ($12.4 billion) and consisted of 269,000 Korean prostitutes.” [source]
- Statistics and documentation say that there are over one million South Korean women alone that are being forced into red light districts and other forms of prostitution in South Korea. [source]
- South Korea is a destination country for women trafficked from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.), the Philippines, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries for sexual and labor exploitation. Some women and girls were trafficked to become brides for South Korean men or to work in child sex tourism. Some victims were recruited by false promises of employment in the entertainment industry but were later coerced into exploitative conditions [source]
- In South Korea the sex industry accounts for 4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. [source]
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Free to Dance
For those in the Daegu area, I invite you to come out and try something a little different. I know it can be intimidating, but we would love to have you there. And to all my friends…you best be there, or you will get cut 😉
Here is our article from the Daegu Compass:
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