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[cmxc]

Corporate spending on call girls and karaoke soars
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2014/08/123_163106.html

Given that Korean females continue to have a significantly greater likelihood of becoming a prostitute than becoming a manager at a Korean company, how should the Korean education system do more to improve the situation for women in Korea?

How can the foreign ESL instructor community benefit its female students?

[jvalmer]

[edwardcatflap]

You know there are different levels of management in your average company and lots of different departments right? I somehow doubt a company of 1000 people would only have a total of one manager.

[cj1976]

"In 2004, the government passed an anti-prostitution law that prohibits the buying or selling of sex services."

Then promptly went to a brothel to celebrate. The problem could be that Korean men are taught to be women haters, and Korean women aren't empowered enough yet to do anything about it.
Or it could be that the women are using what they were given by nature and plastic surgeons to get some quick cash.

[KimchiNinja]

[liveinkorea316]

I doubt there was much of an increase worth putting in a headline. More likely better auditing and disclosure is picking up spending that was previously unrecorded.

The article said a 50% jump. It's more likely 5-10% increased and 40% that they found wasn't being recorded.

[edwardcatflap]

[Stain]

[tob55]

I read the article and it is really much ado about nothing. Of course prostitution is the oldest profession in the world (at least I have been told that), and laws tend to do little to affect the continual quest for people to be satisfied in some way when they are being 'entertained.'

It appears that the author of the article was actually attempting to make a point about something else when referring to the topic of the writing. The last few statements in the article point to contact and communication with the NTS for other apparent reasons than just wanting people to know the executives at the big corporations are just a bunch of sex crazed horndogs. Go back an read the article, then let me know what you think.

[edwardcatflap]

[Weigookin74]

I doubt it's increased; it's just being reported now. I'm sure it was prob worse 20 or 30 years ago. Women in Korea are slowly becoming aware of their rights, but it's a long steady climb. I did read before the 2008 financial crash that some big companies were taking their top brokers out to hooker sex parties and the feds did nothing about it. Prob more tame than here or other countries, but nonetheless, it'll only change if people demand it change and holler about it in the streets.

[jvalmer]

[Enduro]

When I worked at a PS years ago and we would go out for the school dinner, it would eventually split up with all the male teachers and female teachers heading off to somewhere different. The head teacher of the school, who was female, would always accompany the male teachers. I was told later that it was an attempt to thwart any plans for getting hookers.

[jvalmer]

[Enduro]

This was out in the boonies in Paju. Most of the girls looked like you could push their face into a batch of cookie dough and make gorilla cookies