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Real Reality
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:38 am Post subject: Brothel Bust Ignites Protest |
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Brothel Bust Ignites Protest
By Park Si-soo, Korea Times (September 2, 2008)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30424.html
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Jangan-dong is one of the best-known red-light districts in Seoul. Numerous sex-seeking males once set foot there every night. But the stream has been severely reduced since July 28 when the police began cracking down on the illegal business.
Since then, police have arrested six pimps and booked roughly 157 sex workers and customers. It has also confiscated hundreds of bathtubs, beds and even faucets installed at massage clubs and hyugaetels, about 100 tons in weight, to prevent them from resuming business. Twenty CCTVs will be installed around the street by November to monitor clandestine sex trading, according to the police.
At the height of the crackdown, a pimp identified as a Choi hung himself in his underground parking lot on Aug. 29. His will found at the scene condemned the head of Dongdaemun Police Station who initiated the operation for the alleged undue crackdown.... |
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Ruraljuror
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| At the height of the crackdown, a pimp identified as a Choi hung himself in his underground parking lot on Aug. 29. His will found at the scene condemned the head of Dongdaemun Police Station who initiated the operation for the alleged undue crackdown.... |
Way to stick it to the man there, Superfly.
American pimps are so much cooler.
And yes, the fact that on this board I can't post pictures of True Blue American Pimps (accept no substitute) right now makes me cry a little. |
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endo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| ``We are aware it's illegal. But there is no choice but to do this for a living at least for now. Please suspend the operation for a while and give us a chance to look for another job,'' Choi said in the will. |
Pimping Ain't Easy! |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:56 am Post subject: |
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to crack down on prostitution in Korea merely because it's "illegal" is assinine and of course laughable all at the same time.
it'd be different if there were community complaints about it, but that's not the case here.
the police chief is obviously some dickwad who's either recently joined a "Christian" church and has become brainwashed, or he's looked at how idiot morality crusaders in America's GOP become political stars.
or both. |
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Ruraljuror
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:00 am Post subject: |
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``We are aware it's illegal. But there is no choice but to do this for a living at least for now. Please suspend the operation for a while and give us a chance to look for another job,'' Choi said in the will.
Pimping Ain't Easy! |
Endo's comment is so much better than mine. Damn you Endo! |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:25 am Post subject: |
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What station is that near?
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Pimps in the district said they did not oppose the action but found it too harsh. They said they want to sit at a negotiation table with the police to find a practical win-win solution. |
I'd like to be a fly on the wall during those negotiations...
I wonder how many 'freebies" the cops would be offered.
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| ``We are the same Korean citizens as other lay people. In this sense, at least, the police should guarantee our rights to live. But now the police are relentless,'' a pimp Cho Hyun-hee told The Korea Times. ``Prostitution is a necessary evil. If the comprehensive crackdown continues, the red-light district in question will disappear in the end as the police wish. Instead, I bet, the sex trade would evolve into other secret forms to dodge police search and even sneak into residential areas. It would create further problems.'' |
The man's got a point. |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| All the Ho's need to hold a candlelight vigil. I'd join!! |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| Let me get this straight... there's a crackdown on prostitution that every whitey in the Republic knows will eventually fizzle out ... and yet some poor local pimp gets so worked up that he offs himself over it?? |
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Freakstar
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| Prostitution should be legalized the world over. Because whether it's legal or illegal, it will still occur no matter how hard the moral authority cracks down. There will always be women/men willing to sell their bodies to make some money and there will always be willing customers as well as pimps looking to capitalize on that. Vicious cycle. But can't be stopped. |
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crusher_of_heads
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| Choi is in a better place now. |
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Real Reality
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Sex Matters to Women Who Say It Doesn't: Study
Chosun Ilbo (October 26, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200510/200510260017.html
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Korean men and women have distinctly different notions of sex in a marriage, a survey suggests....
It found that a mere 4.4 percent of women thought sex was important in marriage, compared with 77 percent of men -- almost as many as the 74.8 percent of women who said it was unimportant. A substantial 20.2 percent said maybe it mattered (compared to 14 percent of men), but only 2 percent of married men said sex did not matter. When asked if prostitutes are needed to satisfy men's sexual needs, 20.4 percent of women and 61 percent of men agreed. |
Most Prostitutes Made W3-5 Million a Month: Report
by Tak Sang-hoon, Chosun Ilbo (January 12, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200501/200501120027.html |
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samd
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to crack down on prostitution in Korea merely because it's "illegal" is assinine and of course laughable all at the same time.
it'd be different if there were community complaints about it, but that's not the case here.
the police chief is obviously some dickwad who's either recently joined a "Christian" church and has become brainwashed, or he's looked at how idiot morality crusaders in America's GOP become political stars.
or both. |
I don't get this post.
You seem anti- prostitution, but you oppose a crackdown. What? I guess the Korean police can't win in your book - if they don't crack down they are incompetent, if they do they are 'assinine'.
Who says the community doesn't complain about it? You're talking rubbish. |
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cj1976
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The area in question is near Janghanpyeong Station. There is a street with about 20 or more anma places. Just along the street is a police station.
The pimps couldn't have been that surprised. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:42 am Post subject: |
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to crack down on prostitution in Korea merely because it's "illegal" is assinine and of course laughable all at the same time.
it'd be different if there were community complaints about it, but that's not the case here.
the police chief is obviously some dickwad who's either recently joined a "Christian" church and has become brainwashed, or he's looked at how idiot morality crusaders in America's GOP become political stars.
or both. |
I don't get this post.
You seem anti- prostitution, but you oppose a crackdown. What? I guess the Korean police can't win in your book - if they don't crack down they are incompetent, if they do they are 'assinine'.
Who says the community doesn't complain about it? You're talking rubbish. |
where do you get the idea I'm against prostitution?
it goes on all the time, in fact the one that's "illegal" is often a lot more pure and honest than the one that society tolerates, even "respects" - think Anna Nicole Smith, every single one of Diddy's hos, or almost any basketball players for that matter, or who was Mc Cartney's ho that took 25 mil?
as to community, well honestly I don't know, but who provides most of the area's customers?? it's not as if though they have to come to Seoul from all over Korea to this area to get some.
Hell, they could come to my town. I can't read Hangul, but my Spidey senses tell me that at least half of those brightly lit flashing signs hide hanky panky inside.
prostitution has become pretty much legal and accepted the world over, save for Puritan/Victiorian United States, and , laughably hypocritical places like Korea.
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