Le Prive

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Le Prive is the prototypical Korean club or "K-Club" in Los Angeles. Le Prive represents the most successful of the K-clubs in Koreatown ("K-Town") and is perhaps the largest Asian dance club in North America. The significance of this club has been reported in a variety of newsmedia including LA Weekly, Asianweek, and the Seoul Times. This dance club is a site to behold with gothic accents, gargoyles with lights piercing from their eyes, plush velvet couches, private karaoke rooms, a large dance floor with integrated floor illumination system, and a marble trimmed bathrooms. To further document its extravagance, a table for four will cost you $200 and includes a bottle of Crown Royal, a plate of fruit, and a bottle of Soda. The cost for a table of only women is substantially less.Part of the table charge includes the implicit understanding that your waiter will "book" your table with attractive female patrons after 11:00 pm.

[edit] "Booking"

Booking is a unique Korean club practice in which waiters will entice women, who then show physical resistance, to a table of men as a sort of "forced" socialization. Men at the table are expected to offer the guest a shot of Crown or other high end whiskey as the flirtations begin. Booked women who are otherwise disinterested will often use the line "I have to go to the bathroom but I'll be back....." to escape from having been "booked". Men occasionally get booked as well but this is not common practice. Depending on the number of bookings, and how attractive the girls, a generous tip is usually expected at the end of the night.

[edit] Demographics

Approximately 70% of the patrons are Koreans (Korean Americans and Korean immigrants), 20% are Chinese (Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants), 5% other Asians, 5% non Asians. The club hosts an average age range from 21 to 30, as well as a number of underage persons who have managed to sneak past the bouncer checking ID at the door.