With the Chosun Ilbo concerned about the "worsening" sex trade outside US military installations in Korea, I thought it would be interesting to compare what GI and Korean red light districts are like.  Here is what the sex trade for Koreans is like:

Yes, the red light districts in Korea is nothing more than window shopping […]

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How many times have some of you heard this sob story from a "juicy girl" in the ville?:

To “Uri,” struggling to find a job in her country, a newspaper advertisement that promised her a successful career as a singer in Korea and lucrative income seemed an opportunity that would not knock twice.
The 24-year-old Filipina, […]

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That sure didn’t take long to get off the sex tourism list:

The United States Congress has deleted South Korea from its list of nations described as favored destinations for sex tourists.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) included Korea in the list of sex tourist nations in its reports on June 20, 2007 and Jan. 10, 2008.
After […]

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The Marmot already has an excellent posting on this issue, but what I found interesting in this Chosun Ilbo article is that for an article on sex tourism in Korea they felt the need to include a big, blown up picture of soldiers walking through the TDC Ville:

I have never seen foreigners going to the […]

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Via Korea Beat comes news that despite the anti-prostitution law, police are busting more prostitutes than ever:

Three years have passed since the Special Anti-Prostitution Law went into effect but prostitution-related crimes are not decreasing and every year since there have been a greater number and variety of prostitution-related businesses.
It was announced on the 25th that […]

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Crackdown time again, this time it is on sex tourism:
South Korea Wednesday announced a crackdown on its nationals evading the country’s tough anti-prostitution law by buying sex abroad instead.
The government will revise the law so that its citizens caught buying sex in foreign countries will have their passports confiscated, the gender equality ministry, the justice […]

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This is seriously jacked up:
Police have arrested three suspects on charges of detaining a middle school girl and forcing her into prostitution with 800 men including a college professor and a doctor. According to police, the suspects held Jeon, a 14-year-old middle school student, against her will in motels in Gwangju, South Jeolla province and […]

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Is anyone surprised this issue hasn’t been corrected yet?:

Korean sailors’ sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Kiribati, a small island country in the Pacific Ocean, is continuing despite major international reports about the sex trade a few years ago, the National Youth Commission said yesterday.
Three girls even gave birth to babies of Korean sailors because […]

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From the Chosun:
Police made clear their zero tolerance in enforcing Korea’s new anti-prostitution laws in the first bust of an establishment offering manual sexual favors.
The Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors’ Office on Wednesday booked the owner of a sports massage parlor in Dogok-dong in Seoul’s Gangnam-gu district for violating the Special Law on Prostitution. The […]

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This is one of these only in Korea stories, from the LA Times:
The law giving only the legally blind the right to become registered masseurs was introduced under Japanese occupation in 1913 and reaffirmed by South Korea 50 years later, a way for the state to give the visually impaired a chance to earn a […]

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UPDATE: Robert has more sob story translations from the original Donga article.
From the Donga:

Albuquerque is a city of 500,000, which is built in the middle of a vast wilderness in New Mexico. The Detention and Correction Center that I visited on September 18 was in the middle of its downtown area unlike my imagination. […]

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One man in South Korea thinks more families in Area 1 would curve the prostitution in Area 1:
Encouraging more military families to follow soldier spouses and parents to Area I would cut vice around U.S. Army bases here, says a missionary who works with soldiers in Dongducheon.
In recent years the Army has taken steps to […]

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