Comments on: Dong-A Ilbo talks with Korean prostitutes in the United States

By: Arghaeri

Arghaeri — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:05 +0000

Bluejives,

Not being American I’m perfectly happy to blame them for anything that they’re due but it take the biscuit to blame a country only a few hundred years old, for a profession thousands of years old. Even if they were influential in the contempary situation in korea, they can’t buy the service if there aren’t “traders” willing to sell.

PS Please remind me how many wifelets did the instution of the korean monarchy support long before america ever came to korea.?

By: michael

michael — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:42:36 +0000

Again, aside from the debate over legalizing prostitution, Korea could put more effort toward supporting women in education and employment, and then maybe there wouldn’t be the insane number of prostitutes here, with a surplus to export to the U.S.

Just sayin’ is all.

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:03:19 +0000

This probably means the Japanese are to blame for introducing Korean racialism as well. Those awful Japanese.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:59:57 +0000

Bluejives: I believe its fashionable nowadays to blame the Japanese for introducing contemporary, institutionalized prostitution to Korea. One of the more interesting aspects of my visit to Gunsan is that according to locals, there used to be two red-light districts, one for the Japanese (complete with its own geisha house) and one for the locals.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:32:20 +0000

Curzon said

Why the fuck did they put Gong Li in that film? I saw the wrinkles on her neck and I almost shat a fucking brick. She is 45 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND LOOKS EVERY YEAR OF IT! Only a dumbass American would cast her in that role.
Why the fuck did they put Gong Li in that film? I saw the wrinkles on her neck and I almost shat a fucking brick. She is 45 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND LOOKS EVERY YEAR OF IT! Only a dumbass American would cast her in that role.

Curzon, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you use that sort of language at CA.

Wrinkles I can deal with. It’s unnaturally taut foreheads and cheeks and puffy lips that I hate. The faces of most actors over 40 look like frozen mannequins on screen. Gong Li has not only had injections to her face - which is why her wrinkled neck stands out in contrast - she’s pumped up her chest almost as big as Pamela Anderson’s.

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com has hilariously scary photos of major Hollywood stars who’ve had their faces and bodies mutilated by cosmetic surgeons. Looking at Meg Ryan’s tensely tight face and bee-stung lips, I can see why she’s not getting much work anymore. Paris Hilton has had everything altered but her chest.

If I ever tie the knot, I will put in our wedding vows a promise to grow old with dignity and not turn our faces into frozen masks.

By: bluejives

bluejives — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:03:05 +0000

The seeds of contemporary, institutionalized Korean prostitution were sown over 50 years ago, by the sustained heavy presence of the US military. In fact, the same pattern repeats itself in almost every spot on the globe where the US military imposed itself as a significant presence: Europe, Asia, and even within the US mainland itself. Las Vegas started out as a holdover stop for troops being transported to the West Coast.

Now that modern Korea is attempting to shed itself of this particular legacy of the Korean War and the subsequent Cold War, where else are the prostitutes going to turn, except for the nation that caused the original source reason of the problem?

By: Zonath

Zonath — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:24:27 +0000

She is 45 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND LOOKS EVERY YEAR OF IT!

Actually, her bio states that she was born December 31, 1965. Which means she’s 40 fucking years old. And even if she does look 40, (or 45) so what? That’s a damn fine 40.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:29:33 +0000

Curzon, even at 45, Gong Li is a fine, fine woman. And word on the street is that Colin Farrell agrees.

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:52:37 +0000

Curzon, to the Marmot them fightin’ words.

By: Curzon

Curzon — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:15:48 +0000

But Americans, stupid creatures they are, couldn’t tell how old Asian women were, so they could make 20,000-30,000 U.S. dollars a month.

Dude, it’s true. Anyone seen Miami Vice? (Nominated by me as worst movie of this century.) Why the fuck did they put Gong Li in that film? I saw the wrinkles on her neck and I almost shat a fucking brick. She is 45 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND LOOKS EVERY YEAR OF IT! Only a dumbass American would cast her in that role.