South Koreans addicted to prostitution

Chinese are well known for their hosptitality and kindness toward neighbors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

they don't want to work for no body, they want sex with guy's to get money. that's there life style. try to show they are rich. compete with one another who had the most money.

SGdisciple wrote:

If you are a student of English, you cannot miss this saying "Those who cannot practice preach." It means that these Ph.D folks, quite bright for what they are, usually offer nothing but largely academic notions.
Well, since now I have told you that I am Burmese American, is it fair enough that I don't speak this from a Korean point of view?
Kenji
You got to learn to accept the loss of a debate more gracefully. Phill has had a logical post and other folks have concurred that "prostitution is every where" and the point is "prostitution for a living" is a gulf different from "comfort women" get it???

Are you kidding me here? How could you even say TO SOMEONE ELSE to learn how to gracefully accept the loss of a debate. You have been lsing big time for awhile here. It's like your brain is not processing the information put before you. You just keep repeating the same things over & over, wasting time & space~ and not even refuting points properly. Kenji has made so many brilliant points & observations on Korean society; so much so, that I wish we could email about stuff.
Anyways, please quit boring people to death with your nonsense. You don't seem to get what's being talked about here.
You also seem, very much to me, to be Korean, but lying about it. Why? I love Koreans, and married one. But I am very open-eyed about certain issues in Korean culture, and don't do the knee-jerk "defend at all costs! defend & attack, very illogically!!"

THere would have never been a Japan problem if the United States did not allow Japan to colonize Korea. It is basic historical fact. It is the Taft-Katsura Agreement. Look it Up

RORRING on FROOR RAUGHING - "hugest"??? youre an idiot mate.

Modern-Day Comfort Women: The U.S. Military, Transnational Crime, and the Trafficking of Women (by Donna M. Hughes, Katherine Y. Chon, and Derek P. Ellerman)

Introduction
The U.S. military bases in Republic of Korea (commonly known as South Korea) form an international hub for trafficking of women for prostitution and related forms of sexual exploitation. The trafficking of women is a lucrative moneymaker for transnational organized crime networks, ranking third, behind drugs and arms, in criminal earnings. The traffickers recruit and transport women to meet the demand largely created by U.S. military personnel and civilian men in South Korea and the United States. In some cases, the U.S. servicemen themselves are traffickers working with Asian organized crime networks.
This paper will examine three types of trafficking that are connected to US military bases in South Korea: Domestic trafficking of Korean women to clubs around the military bases in South Korea, transnational trafficking of women to clubs around military bases in South Korea, and the transnational trafficking of women from South Korea to massage parlors in the United States. Although, the three types of trafficking will be discussed separately, in reality, they sometimes overlap. For example, in one case a Korean woman was the victim of multiple acts of trafficking: She was abducted at age 14 from her village in South Korea, and was repeatedly raped and exploited by soldiers of the South Korean army. An American soldier brought her to the U.S. through a sham marriage, where she was then trafficked within the U.S. on a massage parlor circuit (Gallagher, 1995).

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/modern_d...

Report No. 49:Japanese Prisoners of War Interrogation on Prostitution

PREFACE
This report is based on the information obtained from the interrogation of twenty Korean "comfort girls" and two Japanese civilians captured around the tenth of August, 1944 in the mopping up operations after the fall of Myitkyin a in Burma.
The report shows how the Japanese recruited these Korean "comfort girls", the conditions under which they lived and worked, their relations with and reaction to the Japanese soldier, and their understanding of the military situation.
A "comfort girl" is nothing more than a prostitute or "professional camp follower" attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers. The word "comfort girl" is peculiar to the Japanese. Other reports show the "comfort girls" have been found wherever it was necessary for the Japanese Army to fight. This report however deals only with the Korean "comfort girls" recruited by the Japanese and attached to their Army in Burma. The Japanese are reported to have shipped some 703 of these girls to Burma in 1942.

http://www.exordio.com/1939-1945/codex/Docume...

Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations

Six million American soldiers served in Korea between 1950 and 1971, and upward of one million South Korean women worked as "sex providers" for them in the "camptowns" that sprang up around U.S. bases, says Katharine H. S. Moon in Sex among Allies. The scope of these sexual contacts means that the image of each society held by the other is very much shaped by sexual conduct and relationships, she argues. But Moon demonstrates as well that conflict over prostitution played an especially pivotal role in U.S.-Korean relations in the early 1970s, when the authoritarian rulers of South Korea feared withdrawal of U.S. troops under the Nixon Doctrine. South Korean leaders, in rhetoric that eerily recalls the suffering of the "comfort women" who served the Japanese during World War II, sought to mobilize these prostitutes as "personal ambassadors" to Americans, seeking to instill in them the idea that they were performing patriotic acts in meeting the sexual needs of foreign soldiers and thus encouraging the U.S. army to stay in the country.

Moon, a political scientist, has written a model work of international [End Page 499] history. Her archival work draws from both U.S. and South Korean military sources, buttressed by interviews with middle-level military officials from both nations. Historians will be particularly interested in the nuggets Moon has unearthed in U.S. military reports as early as 1965, which pessimistically reviewed the prospects of reducing military prostitution because of its economic importance to South Korea and because many American officers believed that such "fraternization" made GIs more committed to fighting in Korea.

Perhaps most important, Moon has interviewed current and former prostitutes in Korea to ensure that "the voices of living Korean comfort women of the many U.S. camptowns ... will be heard" (p. 16). Moon presents harrowing case studies of the economic and social conditions that led Korean women into military prostitution, their daily work lives, and the abuse they often suffered at the hands of pimps, customers, and government authorities. But she also shows the struggles, dreams, and, at times, political sophistication of these women.

Moon's narrative thus combines high-level diplomatic history with social history "from the bottom up." Her particular concern is to develop the connections between gender and foreign relations, a growing field pioneered by such scholars as Cynthia Enloe and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Moon's contribution is to show the importance of a particular group of women as actual "players" in global politics, rather than to discuss, as many such studies do, simply the "gendered ideology" and the gendered consequences of international policy. Moon's focus on interracial sexual relations rooted in military life and conducted between a dominant and a dependent society adds greatly to recent similar work by Gail Hershatter on China, Beth Bailey and David Farber on Hawaii, Ann Laura Stoler on colonial Asia, Luise White on colonial Africa, and Saundra Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus on GIs in Asia.

Sex among Allies also stands out as international history not only in its attention to the nuances of relations between states, but also in its careful delineation of fault lines within each society. Thus, Moon shows that the plight of Korean prostitutes was not due only to Korean weakness with regard to the United States. Just as important were the ruthless exploitation by Korean club owners, the government's use of prostitutes as a tool in negotiations with the United States, and Korean culture itself, which has long stigmatized those who had intimate relations with outsiders. Moreover, many Koreans have not been unhappy with the creation of a prostitute caste because it shields "normal" Korean women from U.S. soldiers.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world...

Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations.

Six million American soldiers served in Korea between 1950 and 1971, and upward of one million South Korean women worked as "sex providers" for them in the "camptowns" that sprang up around U.S. bases, says Katharine H. S. Moon in Sex among Allies. The scope of these sexual contacts means that the image of each society held by the other is very much shaped by sexual conduct and relationships, she argues. But Moon demonstrates as well that conflict over prostitution played an especially pivotal role in U.S.-Korean relations in the early 1970s, when the authoritarian rulers of South Korea feared withdrawal of U.S. troops under the Nixon Doctrine. South Korean leaders, in rhetoric that eerily recalls the suffering of the "comfort women" who served the Japanese during World War II, sought to mobilize these prostitutes as "personal ambassadors" to Americans, seeking to instill in them the idea that they were performing patriotic acts in meeting the sexual needs of foreign soldiers and thus encouraging the U.S. army to stay in the country.

Moon, a political scientist, has written a model work of international [End Page 499] history. Her archival work draws from both U.S. and South Korean military sources, buttressed by interviews with middle-level military officials from both nations. Historians will be particularly interested in the nuggets Moon has unearthed in U.S. military reports as early as 1965, which pessimistically reviewed the prospects of reducing military prostitution because of its economic importance to South Korea and because many American officers believed that such "fraternization" made GIs more committed to fighting in Korea.

Perhaps most important, Moon has interviewed current and former prostitutes in Korea to ensure that "the voices of living Korean comfort women of the many U.S. camptowns ... will be heard" (p. 16). Moon presents harrowing case studies of the economic and social conditions that led Korean women into military prostitution, their daily work lives, and the abuse they often suffered at the hands of pimps, customers, and government authorities. But she also shows the struggles, dreams, and, at times, political sophistication of these women.

Moon's narrative thus combines high-level diplomatic history with social history "from the bottom up." Her particular concern is to develop the connections between gender and foreign relations, a growing field pioneered by such scholars as Cynthia Enloe and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Moon's contribution is to show the importance of a particular group of women as actual "players" in global politics, rather than to discuss, as many such studies do, simply the "gendered ideology" and the gendered consequences of international policy. Moon's focus on interracial sexual relations rooted in military life and conducted between a dominant and a dependent society adds greatly to recent similar work by Gail Hershatter on China, Beth Bailey and David Farber on Hawaii, Ann Laura Stoler on colonial Asia, Luise White on colonial Africa, and Saundra Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus on GIs in Asia.

Sex among Allies also stands out as international history not only in its attention to the nuances of relations between states, but also in its careful delineation of fault lines within each society. Thus, Moon shows that the plight of Korean prostitutes was not due only to Korean weakness with regard to the United States. Just as important were the ruthless exploitation by Korean club owners, the government's use of prostitutes as a tool in negotiations with the United States, and Korean culture itself, which has long stigmatized those who had intimate relations with outsiders. Moreover, many Koreans have not been unhappy with the creation of a prostitute caste because it shields "normal" Korean women from U.S. soldiers.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world...

From the world statistics of rape, my thailand is not on the list. The top Asian country of committing rape is South Korea, you should consult at least reliable source i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
High rape country is USA, and the number of raped US citizen women is equivalent to the number of Thai sex workers, but the difference is that raped women live in misery all their life.

Thai female workers at office in Thailand are hardly raped because we grant license to brothels, an option for Thai men to enjoy sex freely.

Anon wrote:

Rapes (per Capita)
Korea, South: 0.12621 per 1,000 people
Thailand: 0.0626305 per 1,000 people
Kyrgyzstan: 0.0623785 per 1,000 people
Sri Lanka: 0.0599053 per 1,000 people
Turkey: 0.0180876 per 1,000 people
Japan: 0.017737 per 1,000 people
Hong Kong: 0.0150746 per 1,000 people
India: 0.0143187 per 1,000 people
"A study found that only 2.2 percent of rape victims reported the assault to the police and an even lower percentage (0.8) sought medical or psychological help. "
(1)0.12621 per 1,000 people divided by 0.02 unreported rates of incidence yields 6.31 per 1,000 people (including male).(Remember the lower tendency to report the rapes, compared to the casual harassments.)
(2)6.31 per 1,000 people divided by 2 yields 6.31 per 500 females aka 1 per 79 females.
(3)1 per 79 females times 0.3 ratio of women aged between 15 to 40 to the total female population yields 1 per 23.7 females aged between 15 to 40.
(4)If the trend continues for 20 years, 1 per 1.185 south korean women could be raped.
Assumptions may be altered so the result includes women younger than 15 years old, or older than 40 years old. Also, the women raised in impoverished areas may be raped multiple times. Then, 1 out of 3 to 5 South Korean women could have a record of being attacked at some point of her life.
Number of foreign males in South Korea are just not enough to contribute to this trend, so the primary and foremost group of the worst serial rapists should be South Korean males.
Rape and harassment
Rape is a serious problem in South Korea. A total of 6,359 cases were reported in 1999. Most cases go unreported, because of the stigma attached to rape. A study found that only 2.2 percent of rape victims reported the assault to the police and an even lower percentage (0.8) sought medical or psychological help.
Violence against women and sexual harassment have continued unabated, despite heightened public awareness created in recent years by South Korea's growing women's rights movement and laws against domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace enacted in 1998 and 1999, respectively.
In 1997 there were incidents of domestic violence in 31.4 percent of South Korean households. That year, the Korea Research Institute for Culture and Sexuality, found that almost half (45.5 percent) of female high school students had been sexually molested by males, with fondling of breasts and genitals the most common offenses

From where your information is? From the world statistics of rape, my thailand is not on the list. A highest Asian country of committing rape is South Korea, you should consult at least reliable source i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
High rape country is USA, and the number of raped US citizen women is equivalent to the number of Thai sex workers, but the difference is that raped women live in misery all their life.

Thai female workers at office in Thailand are hardly raped because we grant license to brothels, an option for Thai men to enjoy sex freely.

oh really?:O

My god. So many dipshits and chickens. Afraid of using their own names when stating shit.

I lived and studied in china for 3 years now. I have had 10-15 normal girls and 5-6 protitutes in bed . Atleast.. I never met any that was forced and even went to cinema and dining, with 2 of the protitutes.
And even IF there was 10 mil in china, that's a very low percentage of the, 1,4-1,5 billion people living here...

Tbh u guys gotta stop your low esteem hatred ..it's boring... For every protitutes there is, there is 10 buyers. And in china, there is more that does it for getting a higher pay, then being forced into it...
I dont deny alot is forced, and yes most is Asian. But why Asian? Because this is the race of people , that is in the highest demand .

Personal exp

Korean prostitutes ask for pension in half century later, blame on the Western governments as being liable for trafficking them for comfort women.

SGdisciple wrote:

Anon
Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and it will exist as long as the human race, unless of course, everyone is just as rich as Bill Gates or that Mexican billionaire Helim Slu and that all women prefer a dildo over men in terms of sexual partners. Then there will be no prostitution.
Germany has legalized prostitution. So has the Netherlands. Prostitution is also legalized in the state of Nevada.
What is more, my cousin living in Germany has told me that thousands of German men would drive across the border to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for cheap prostitution.
If you count Japan as the West, then you are living in denial because Japan does have this practice big time with women from the Philippines working in Japan as prostitutes. The Economist newspaper had run an article regarding this practice in Japan in the past.
I don't get my info from sound bite. I have cousin and friend who have worked in lived in Japan for close to a decade during the 1990s.
In case you are curious, I am not Korean.

The oldest profession is not prostitution; it is men selling women's bodies (pimps).

reality wrote:

Korean prostitutes ask for pension in half century later, blame on the Western governments as being liable for trafficking them for comfort women.

Thats right! didn't matter if they were protiutes or not to start with. forced them into whats rightfully japanese slaves anyway OHH I'm sorry "comfort woman" for those brave Japanese soldiers. Who are they to come forward now and demand such thing, oh I'm sorry that's what they been saying all along...

Mmmmmmmm...
Ima get some fun this summer.
I also hear that in Korea women don't have many opportunities so they have to resort to prostitution for college and money.
And by money I mean like jobs.

Billy wrote:

Mmmmmmmm...
Ima get some fun this summer.
I also hear that in Korea women don't have many opportunities so they have to resort to prostitution for college and money.
And by money I mean like jobs.

You probably know better than these hehehehehehe

Countries With Highest Rape Rates

Lesotho 91.6 per 100,000
Trinidad and Tobago 58.4
Sweden 53.2
S.Korea 33.7
New Zealand 30.9
United States 28.6
Belgium 26.3
Zimbabwe 25.6
United Kingdom 23.2

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice , CDC, Koss, Gidycz & Wisniewski College Study, United Nations
Date Verified: 7.26.2012

Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases

Now, a group of former prostitutes in South Korea have accused some of their country’s former leaders of a different kind of abuse: encouraging them to have sex with the American soldiers who protected South Korea from North Korea. They also accuse past South Korean governments, and the United States military, of taking a direct hand in the sex trade from the 1960s through the 1980s, working together to build a testing and treatment system to ensure that prostitutes were disease-free for American troops.

While the women have made no claims that they were coerced into prostitution by South Korean or American officials during those years, they accuse successive Korean governments of hypocrisy in calling for reparations from Japan while refusing to take a hard look at South Korea’s own history.

The New York Times interviewed eight women who worked in brothels near American bases, and it reviewed South Korean and American documents. The documents do provide some support for many of the women’s claims, though most are snapshots in time. The women maintain that the practices occurred over decades.

The New York Times