Love Hotels Welcome World Cup Visitors
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.21.02 | 7:55 PM ET
The Honeymoon Park Inn, the Eros Motel and the Valentine Motel will welcome soccer fans arriving in South Korea next week for the World Cup—but not because the hotels’ owners necessarily want to. These “love hotels” and many others—so named because they usually house couples in search of a little privacy and some funky erotic art—are being commissioned by tourism authorities to play host because South Korea simply doesn’t have enough hotel beds to house the 650,000 visitors expected. The hotels often rent the same room five times a day. Not so during the World Cup, so they’ll likely lose money. To add insult to injury, owners are also being asked to change out some of their rooms’ more risque art. “They don’t want the places to be vulgar,” Lee Jung Yeon, manager of the Romance Inn, told the Los Angeles Times. Vulgarity? They’re worried about vulgarity? They obviously haven’t spent much time with many soccer fans.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
