After watching the glaring amount of cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy in the american belief systems these days, one has to wonder how much the koreans are matching us. Could this be a sign that their society is progressing in our image? Do they also have widely popular cable news sources that reinforce false facts and promote unwarranted stereotypes about foreigners living in the USA like we have in america? Lets hope not, for the sake of americans living over there – ‘specially those that are more sensitive to being wrongly blamed.

From reading here, foreigners are physically blocked from patronising red light clubs in some places and if they make it into a club, the girls are similarly blocking advances by turning their backs to them. A GI’s salary isn’t enough to float girlie clubs today, so all the facts are proving the “blame america” notion wrong. If koreans have ceased blaming GI’s in favor of blaming “foreigners” for prostitution over there, then consider that a small measure of progress for consolation. Things will eventually evolve – maybe the timeline it will take over here for americans to take in all the facts and not believe the financial crisis was caused by minorities getting home loans because the banks were “forced” to give them. But things might be hopeless if koreans also match american tendencies to block any new information, once they’ve come to their belief closures.
(like here http://tinyurl.com/79ahq6f)

Why would koreans still want to blame america for the prostitution business over there? It takes a more mature society to get and weight all the facts fairly instead of conveniently blaming the usual foreign scapegoats. But also consider one important fact that i dont see mentioned anywhere (and wonder if koreans use this logic in their argument). Starting from the korean war till recent history, the GI’s were the primary customer base responsible for the rise of that industry over there (and everywhere else in asia near US bases – bar none). Lets be honest – would the business be at as high a level today if the prostitution infrastructure hadn’t been laid so extensively early on – to accommodate the GI’s everywhere? It was large enough to be a safe investment for certain businessmen because it had a rich client base with an infinite demand.

I wouldn’t agree with the thrust of this earlier comment here tho,…
“…without the sex trade for the last 60+ years, the Korean Penninsula would still look like it did in 1950 by and large, because the money would not have flowed as readily to jumpstart thier economic, technological, and building/export booms! From The Ho Houses to Hyundai, its all intertwined, and without the good ole GI, well, it would all be moot!”
I doubt hundai and the ship building industry there could siphon off enough money from the sex trade to be so successful – or that they would even need that, given how obtaining big $$$loans would be easier and necessary.

One thing in the comment has some credence. If there had been no large sex trade industry over the last 60+ years, how would korea look today?

Prostitution is going to be evident in any society, but how much of it could you expect to see if it had been the koreans alone who were responsible for laying the groundwork of that industry, in their own country?

Stupid autocorrect! Be more intuitive!