Prostitution in South Korea

The prostitution in South Korea is illegal but widespread and established: men have made in 2015 to 23.1% experiences with prostitutes, women 2.6%. According to the Ministry for Equal Treatment and Family, the number of sex workers is around 500,000 (2013), while human rights organizations estimate that there are over a million people.

history

In historical Korea , sex work was generally not organized in the form of brothels until the country's borders opened to Japanese migrants in 1897 ; however, even the Kisaeng women often performed sexual services for representatives of the elites of the class society. With the Japanese colonization , the Kisaeng caste was abolished; According to the culture of the occupiers, two forms of prostitution were introduced, the forced prostitution of comfort women and commercial prostitution.

Three years before the Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty of 1905 , the first red light district was established in Busan by Japanese authorities to prevent sexually transmitted diseases from spreading. The first brothel in Seoul followed in 1905 . In Busan, the red light district became the largest in Asia in the 1970s and 1980s. At its peak, 120 hostels housed around 2,000 sex workers.

Prostitution for the US military

After Korea was occupied by the United States' armed forces in 1945 , the installed military government legalized prostitution the following year. As early as 1953, the number of sex workers was 350,000, of which around 60% were registered in the immediate vicinity of the military bases.

In the Second Republic of Korea , as in the entire period after the occupation until the 1980s, a system of medical control of women workers was in place.

Prostitution in society

Youth prostitution

The number of street children in 2012 was around 200,000, 60 percent of whom  were female. The proportion of people who had experience of prostitution was 50%.

Poverty prostitution

For older sex workers, the term “ Bacchus Ladies ” has become established, the name recalls the actual acquisition of 50 to over 70 year old women, the sale of a drink - which is named after the Roman god Bacchus .

See also

• Prostitution by country

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Koreans Reveal Average Age Of First Sexual Experience Through Survey , koreaboo.com, July 20, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
2. ↑ Palash Ghosh: South Korea: A Thriving Sex Industry In A Powerful, Wealthy Super-State , International Business Times - Website, April 29, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
3. ^ Grace Cho , Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War , 113. University Of Minnesota Press, Nov. 11, 2008, ISBN 978-0816652747 . Link to Google Books . Retrieved November 29, 2015.
4. ↑ Hong Seong-cheol: A History of the Red Light District ( [BOOKS IN BRIEF] The history of prostitution ), koreajoongangdaily.com, September 8, 2007. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
5. ↑ Jennifer Chang: SKorea's secret: Runaway teen prostitution ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Al Jazeera website, November 7, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2015. 
6. ↑ Lucy Williams: The Korean grandmothers who sell sex , BBC website, June 10, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2015.