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[legalquestions]

I've got a friend coming up for a visit from Ulsan, and he goes on and on about the streetwalkers down there. Is there any place I can take him here in Seoul (I have a car) to check out the street walkers? Itaewon? Seoul Station? etc?

[zpeanut]

sorry but i have to ask, what is a street walker?

do you mean a hawker stand? the people with carts that sell food?

if so, man they're everywhere. Heaps in myongdong, dongdaemun.. Theres a really famous one in Insadong that sells hot-dokk.

[Ruraljuror]

[cdninkorea]

From what I understand, there are no streetwalkers in Seoul. You can walk through the red light districts though; despite all the hooplah about the crackdowns, the RLD at Yongsan is still open (was curious and wandered through today; window shopping only )

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Had this conversation with a friend over beers tonight as to why there are no street walkers in Korea. In my five years here and outside of Songtan and Itaewon, I have seen a total of one; a 30-something woman in Hwajeong late one night, obviously short of a rent/hagwon payment, hoping to make it up by catching a drunken salary man on the way home. The only reason we could both conceivably see for the lack of street hookers was that the prevalence of prostitution here precludes such a form, and as such you are limited to rub-and-tugs, room salons, anmas and hyo gye shils.

[BigMikeAbroad]

[losing_touch]

[bangbayed]

There's usually a toothless halmoni lurking around Itaewon station at night - and daytime too now that I come to think of it. Not sure if she's worth a trip up from Ulsan.

[billybrobby]

Yeah, that old lady by Itaewon station is the only one I've ever seen. I think she manages to hide herself from the cops by being atrociously old and ugly.