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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: So the Japanese DID introduce brothels to Korea! |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2008/06/165_26554.html
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Buying and Selling of Sex
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The Japanese working girls, known as ``karayuki-san'' (``those going overseas''), plied their trade across Asia, from Sydney to Vladivostok, from Shanghai to Singapore, usually supervised by Japanese brothel owners.
A Japanese prostitute and brothel remained ubiquitous components of urban life in the Asia-Pacific for the decades between 1870 and 1920, and remittances from these girls, who duly sent their earnings back home, were said to be the third biggest foreign currency earner for Japan at the turn of the 20th century.
Of course, neighboring Korea became one of the areas where Japanese prostitution flourished. Contrary to the now common misperception, typical commercial sexual encounters in Korea before 1900 did not involve a poor Korean girl serving some lusty Japanese male.
If anything, the situation in which a Korean male purchased sex from a Japanese female was probably more common. Until the 1910s, the vast majority of prostitutes operating in the country were Japanese.
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds to me that the Japanese just brought prostitution to the masses; the wealthy already had access to it.
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| In this regard it was different from Korea, where in old times only the rich and famous could afford to buy expensive sexual services from gisaeng girls, while the ``low orders'' usually had no access to commercial sex whatsoever. |
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Justin Kimberlake
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Sure, take away Korea's only historically noteworthy invention... |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| It may have started out as an undeveloped industry in Korea, but it quickly became a world leader. Much like semi-conductors and cloning. |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| It may have started out as an undeveloped industry in Korea, but it quickly became a world leader. Much like semi-conductors and cloning. |
and plagiarism |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Prostitution is in every country and has been since way back when. No one country started it....it just happen...it was in korea before the Japanese ever thought about korea. Korea's history books mention prostitution going back thousands of years. |
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expat2001
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: So the Japanese DID introduce brothels to Korea! |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2008/06/165_26554.html
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Buying and Selling of Sex
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The Japanese working girls, known as ``karayuki-san'' (``those going overseas''), plied their trade across Asia, from Sydney to Vladivostok, from Shanghai to Singapore, usually supervised by Japanese brothel owners.
A Japanese prostitute and brothel remained ubiquitous components of urban life in the Asia-Pacific for the decades between 1870 and 1920, and remittances from these girls, who duly sent their earnings back home, were said to be the third biggest foreign currency earner for Japan at the turn of the 20th century.
Of course, neighboring Korea became one of the areas where Japanese prostitution flourished. Contrary to the now common misperception, typical commercial sexual encounters in Korea before 1900 did not involve a poor Korean girl serving some lusty Japanese male.
If anything, the situation in which a Korean male purchased sex from a Japanese female was probably more common. Until the 1910s, the vast majority of prostitutes operating in the country were Japanese.
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Anything bad in korea , is the result of foreign influence.
Koreans blame all their mistakes on everyone else. |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Ecept the author of the article is a Russian, and an expert on North Korea. |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: So the Japanese DID introduce brothels to Korea! |
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| expat2001 wrote: |
Anything bad in korea , is the result of foreign influence.
Koreans blame all their mistakes on everyone else. |
Is prostitution seen as a bad thing in korea? |
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