Booking or Booking Clubs (부킹) are nightclubs where arranged dating is made, where Korean men and women will sit at their own respective tables with friends, men will see a woman that they'd like to meet, in which they will pay waiters to entice the woman, who then shows obligatory physical resistance (regardless if she is interested in the man or not). The waiter then takes her to a table of men as a sort of "forced" socialization. Men at the table are expected to offer the guest a shot of whiskey as the flirtations begin. Booked women who become disinterested at the table will often excuse themselves to go the washroom and re-join their table of girlfriends. Men occasionally get booked as well, but this is not a common practice. Depending on the number of bookings the table of men get, and how attractive the girls are, the wait staff can usually expect to see a generous tip.
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