South Korea Beats Japan in Trafficking Women

Once again the do gooders are blaming the US military for prostitution in Korea:

South Korea is edging out Japan as the new destination of trafficked women, most of whom are forced into sex trade, a woman rights advocate revealed.

Nuqui recalled that during her trip to South Korea in August, she noticed that those working in clubs near the US military bases were made to wear sexy outfits, perform on stage, and sell drinks to customers. If they refuse, they risk not getting their salaries.

Really nothing new here besides the fact that Korea beat out Japan this time in human trafficking. This is a little surprising considering Korea has 1/3 the population of Japan. This however, is a topic that continues to bug me.

Can someone please tell me how the US military is responsible for prostitution in Korea? The world’s oldest profession was alive and well in one of the world’s oldest countries, Korea long before the US military ever came here. Can also someone please tell me how USFK would even stop prostitution in Korea? Well, that is exactly what people expect the United States to do:

“We urge the United States of America to take a second look at the trafficking of women in Korea, as well as the reported involvement of US military personnel,” she said.

This is ridiculous because I see this over and over again where people expect the good old USA to stop prostitution in Korea. For example should USFK send soldiers down to the Red Light Districts in Mia-ri or Yongsan-gu and arrest all the Koreans there because the USA is expected to stop prostitution in Korea?

Does Korea and the Philippines have no responsibility as well for the prostitution problem? This is Korea and the Koreans are responsible for policing their own laws, not USFK. Plus 95% of the prostitution in the country happens away from US military bases. Even the smallest villages in Korea still have their own “massage parlors”.

The Philippines has a responsibility in this matter as well because the common perception is that the Philippine women are duped into coming to Korea. I’m sorry to burst some people’s bubbles, but most of these women know what they were getting into before they ever came to Korea. These women came anyway because they were desperate to get out of poverty and coming to Korea gave them an opportunity to earn more money than what they would have made in the Philippines plus the outside chance of marrying a US GI.

Often these women say they were duped to everyone that talks to them in order to draw sympathy from customers in order to have more drinks bought for them along with the fact that very few people would openly admit anyway to wanting to become a prostitute; especially girls from a staunchly Catholic country like the Philippines. So the do gooders take these stories and run with it. Think about it; how could these women not know that they would end up as prostitutes in Korea? For years it has been well known about the plight of Philippine women in Korea.

These facts have been discussed not only in the world media, but also the domestic media in the Philippines. Yet, the Philippine women keep coming. Why doesn’t the Philippines not allow their women to apply for the E6 Visa? They won’t do that because officially the Philippine government is against prostitution in Korea, but unofficially they sanction it by letting Philippine women get E6 Visas. The government allows this because the country needs these women to bring in the foreign hard currency to aid the economy. Plus it reduces the amount of unemployment in the country.

Yet with all of these factors out there, the USA is supposed to stop prostitution in Korea.