By The numbers of people playing virtual golf was supposedly increasing in Korea because of the bad economy, well now we know the real reason:
Police have caught a group of video golf rooms which engaged in illegal business including selling alcohol and employing women entertainers.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (???????) uncovered 39 such video golf rooms in a targeted crackdown from the 29th of last month through the 9th, and has booked 36 owners on charges of violating the laws on food cleanliness.
Police investigators discovered that those businesses reported themselves as sports facilities and then engaged in illegal and immoral business including secretly employing women entertainers, selling alcohol, and introducing customers to prostitutes.
A member of the police said, “during a crackdown on brothels which took the form of legitimate businesses, small-scale perverted businesses increased in number. We will continue to inspect new types of immoral businesses.” [Korea Beat]
Why am I not surprised?
10:29 pm on July 14th, 2009 1
Boundaries. That`s the problem with Korean society now.
Farmers got rich and don`t know how to behave in their new status.
It will take at least one generation for Korean society to learn how to behave as prosperous people.
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1:19 am on July 15th, 2009 2
How do you know if it wasn’t just coincidence?
Maybe the police investigators just found a hole in one.
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4:51 am on July 15th, 2009 3
When reading about all this debauchery in golf rooms, singing rooms, barber shops, red light districts and love motels in Korea, always remember the official propaganda: it is the foreigners – not the Koreans – who are the sexual predators and perverts! Watch out for that white man!
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October 27th, 2009 at 12:39 am
You are moron thinking it’s only white men doing this…look around!
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4:53 am on July 15th, 2009 4
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5:00 am on July 15th, 2009 5
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6:01 am on July 15th, 2009 6
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7:40 am on July 15th, 2009 7
So they can tell their wives they have gone golfing, and if their wives follow or check up on them, they actually have.
First barber shops, then working late, now video golf. What’s next? What dress won’t prostitution slip into?
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7:53 am on July 15th, 2009 8
Makes my putter stand up!…Off to the 19th hole!! I hope they maintain their turf..the sandtraps may have crabs..
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1:54 pm on July 15th, 2009 9
Perhaps more than one of the “Related Posts” listed under this article are truly related!
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What will be the next “small-scale perverted business” to be used as a front for prostitution?
There seems to be an awful lot of Korean laundries in northern Virginia…
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5:17 pm on July 15th, 2009 10
The headline could just as easily have been:
“Real Golf Courses In USFK Linked to Corruption”
The story would be just as true and more compelling.
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5:59 pm on July 15th, 2009 11
Re James, post #3: I was once married to a Korean, back then I was at Camp Page. There were 3 red light districts we used to have to go through on courtesy patrol. If we saw a pair of size 15s we’d go in and make the guy go home. Back to the point, when I asked my Korean wife about the red light districts she said, “Those are all for foreigners, they made them.” I proceeded to try and explain that we kept the GIs out of there mostly, and how do you explain 3 districts, with 2 of them not even close to base? I don’t know if the message got through to her; but the fact is that the average Korean thinks it is all GIs and foreigners causing these problems.
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1:49 am on July 16th, 2009 12
#11 ” …the fact is that the average Korean thinks it is all GIs and foreigners causing these problems.”
I guess that doesn’t include all the Koreans that are either providers or customers of these services.
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5:26 am on July 16th, 2009 13
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