Do Juicy Girls Really Know What They Are Getting Themselves Into?

Via a reader tip in the Open Thread comes this latest prostitution article in the Korea Times.  It seems like every couple of years some Korean reporter recycles the same prostitution and human trafficking angle to bash USFK with:

When Klarys (an alias), a 27-year-old from the Philippines, applied to come to Korea on an entertainment visa, she envisioned herself doing what she always wanted ― singing onstage.

But she says the E-6 visa was taken by her Korean promoter upon arrival and that the vision rapidly began to slip away. And very quickly, she says, so did control over her life.

The club she was taken to outside a U.S. military installation had little to do with music. Rather, she said it was a gateway to a seedy industry of entertaining soldiers ― a world where activists claim sex trafficking is not uncommon.

“For me, it was an opportunity to go abroad,” Klarys told The Korea Times. “But I got here and I was dancing on a pole. We were forced to go out (and have sex with) with whoever. You can’t say no.”  [Korea Times]

Considering how long women from the Philippines have been coming to Korea she likely knew full well she was going to be working in a sleazy bar.  As far as prostitution she can say no but the way the club system is set up she will likely make no money if she can’t sell the drinks:

She estimated that thousands of them now work in “juicy bars” outside the bases, saying soldiers ― despite the military’s “zero-tolerance policy” toward prostitution ― buy glasses of juice in order to spend time, flirt and dance with the women. Those women who fail to meet a quota for juice sales are often subject to “bar fines,” meaning they are told to sell their body to account for the shortfall, she said.

I usually say read the rest at the link but don’t bother because it is more of the same of juicy girls saying they were virgins before coming to Korea and expecting to sing and dance and not be involved in prostitution which then forced them to get hooked on drugs.  If you can believe it they make a claim that is all the girls from the Philippines that go to Japan, sing and dance and are not involved in prostitution.  So the article is the typical media BS to bash USFK with when the solution to human trafficking is quite simple, get the ROK government to stop issuing the entertainer visas to women in the Philippines.  But wait that would also dry up the far larger supply of Filippinas sent to work in Korean brothels, which the article makes no mention of.

I continue to maintain that the best way to handle the issue of human trafficking is to put clubs that hire third country nationals off limits.  Most of the Filipina’s working in these clubs know what they are getting into and human trafficking in general has been greatly reduced in Korea in recent years.  However, as long Filipinas are working in juicy bars there will continue to the perception of human trafficking that will follow USFK that the media will continue to jump on.  By forcing the bars to employ Korean workers it would pretty much make the human trafficking issue go away because Korean nationals would be much harder to traffic in.  The people that will lose if bars with 3rd country nationals are put off limits are the bar owners that will make less money because they will have to pay Korean women more money for doing the same thing these Filipina women are doing.

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BenjoDitch
9 years ago

Yea, & the Pope is not catholic, if you had no idea as to what would be required of you as an “Entertainer.” What is the difference if they are selling it for 300 pesos a shot in the PI, or for even more in Korea…nothing…

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

This has been beaten to death so, YES THEY DO. Proof? They almost universally extend their contracts, over and over again. Also, last I checked, the Philippines has internet and phones too.

BenjoDitch
9 years ago

They know exactly what they are getting into, even if they lie to both their selves & everyone else…since it is really a step up in life to be tooting on someone else’s horn, besides Filipino clients, their families actually brag about how someday their daughter will buy them an “Air conditioned Honda Trike,” & is working her way through, I mean up to, management…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

In the pre-internet days, there were some girls who did not fully know…

…Exhibit A being the 16 year-old cousin of a GI’s girlfriend, traveling under another cousin’s name, who was told all she had to do was talk to GI’s to make big money. I was there for the after-curfew screaming match. The general opinion was it was pretty shytty for the 20 year-old cousin to trick the 16 year-old cousin.

…Exhibit B… traditionally, a girl from the deep provences would wind up in the foreign or domestic prostitution business. At some point, she would go back to her villiage with a cell phone, makeup, clothes, and jewelry. She would claim to be an entertainer rather than a prostitute, of course… much like American girls who dabble in pr0n are all “actresses”. Some American guys (and parents) buy this… or rationalize it to themselves. The provincial Filipinos/Filipinas are a couple orders of magnitude less sophisticated… and actually believe there is a job that pays big money to be an “entertainer”. The girl gets a finders’ fee to bring the new ones into the business… and she will lie to get that fee… and with a lack of outside information while they discuss it on a dirt floor in a bamboo hut somewhere in the jungle, it all seems reasonable.

In these post-internet days, it is hard to believe too many juicies don’t know the deal… though the deep provences still do exist.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“In the pre-internet days, there were some girls who did not fully know… ”

“In these post-internet days, it is hard to believe too many juicies don’t know the deal”

Your pre/post Internet “exhibits” are meaningless since either situation could’ve happened in the past or does happen in the present (:|

chicken/snakehead is such an Egghead!

Ummm, don’t you know that even today there are MANY people who don’t have/afford/want the Internet or access to it and if they do/did have no idea about what or where to check on the Internet for such information? You’re such an Egghead!

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

tbone, have you ever been to the Philippines?

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