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Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Nothing said by Koreans and accepted as fact would surprise me in this country. That's all I have to say on this topic. Very Happy

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Um . . . Korea's AIDS problem has been well-documented here and in the papers. Somebody can search for the article that said 2 new Koreans each day contract AIDS. There was also a huge 10-pager here about it over the summer.

Obviously Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries have contributed to this. (Thailand's AIDS problem is no secret to anyone, sorry to say). But let's not forget we're talking about Korea here. Koreans are known sex tourists, who bring the disease back with them. That plus the general unwillingness to wear condoms---the negative implicatiouns that go along with it---have caused the disease to spread around pretty quickly.

The stereotype that foreigners have AIDS is an old one. Part of it probably comes from all the 3D workers that come into the country (obviously some of them are bound to have AIDS). Then you've got the stereotype that westerners are sex addicts, coupled with the unnatural fear of anything foreign . . . well, there you go.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Jeez, let's leave Thailand out of this thread. What a sideshow.

And if someone here is familiar with or working in Mokdong, can you verify or add to the OP's statements?

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Ah, JG, I think we merely need to sit back and congratulate the OP; the troll worked brilliantly - a provocative title, an unverifiable outrageous claim, a URL to be posted later... Genius.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

Octavius Hite · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

Just so you all calm down as to with who has more AIDS. AIDS is a gloabl disease, there is no country that hasn't been affected by this plague. This "website" if it exists is just an example of stupidity and probably why the person or people who designed will probably get HIV as a result of their own ignorance. For those of you interested in learning something other than what the Korean's or Wikipedia has to teach you, you can go here:

http://www.unaids.org/en/

or the best documentary in the world on HIV is here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/view/

fandeath · Joined: 01 Nov 2004

I agree with Woland.

I am still waiting for evidence of the OP claim. When do we get a link?

frankly speaking · Joined: 23 Oct 2005

First of all, I must say that most of you that view Thailand as a sex country are ignorant low class people. Yes, Thailand does have a problem with HIV and AIDs. But one of the reasons that Thailand has so many reported cases is that many people get tested. Koreans do very little HIV testing. I imagine that the number of Koreans with HIV is more than 3x the amount that is known.

Other countries that have a higher HIV rate per capita, Russia, India, rural parts of Africa.

I have lived in Thailand more than half of my 39 years of life and I have never seen a prostitute ever. The reason is, I don't go to the few areas that focus on such things. If you don't go to night bars or massage houses, you don't see those things.
Do you view Amercia and americans based solely on what happens in Las Vegas or Hollywood's depictions.

The truth is that any and all prostitutes regardless of race or nationality are at high risk for HIV/AIDS. Especially those that don't use condoms. Why just focus on Thai people (that shows your ignorance and racist attitudes)

Because for the many years neglecting the problem of HIV aids in prostitution the problem reached a great epidemic but for the last 8-10 years there have been a lot of programs to combat the spread.

For the final record, the majority of HIV AIDs being spread currently is as a direct result of IV drug use and not prostitution.

To signal out a country and its people as the cause and spread of AIDS is not only ignorant but dangerous. It is a global problem and anyone and everyone can be affected and infected.

I don't know what country you are from Green Tea but I bet I could easily find some negative stereotypes about your culture and race.

In my family, my sister never even kissed her husband until the wedding day. Thai people and women are more proper than women from your country. There are low class people in Thailand but most people are pure and good intentioned. Not low life prostitutes. If you view the women in my country as prostitutes, you might as well call my mother, sister, wife and daughter all prostitutes.

Lets see how long you would live after you said that. Perhaps you should rethink your perception and notion of an entire culture of people. That goes to the rest of you that think of my country as a sex holiday. There is more purity here and more tenderness than found almost anywhere in the world.

Most women in Thailand don't even know what a *beep* looks like until they are married. Could any Western women say the same.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

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jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

I'd also like to mention to the people suggesting Thailand as a source that China is just as likely, if not more so, to be the transmission point these days.