A Summary of The Adultery Law Review

by R. Elgin on May 16, 2008

Choe Sang-Hun has posted a good article on this issue, featuring Ok So-Ri.

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1 Booyah May 16, 2008 at 7:31 am: “The debate over the adultery law triggered by the scandal has highlighted a paradoxical aspect of South Korean culture: the juxtaposition of straight-laced traditional values with increasingly liberal attitudes toward sex.

The government estimates the nation’s sex trade at 4.4 percent of its gross domestic product, with more than half a million women active in the business. Not far from school grounds, love motels offer short stays and such amenities for patrons as covering their license plates.

Pornographic Web sites proliferate in a country where 8 of every 10 households have broadband Internet. But in classrooms, sex education is discouraged.”

Children, today’s new word is ‘paradoxical’. Repeat after me, ‘pa-ra-do-xical’. It’s a nice way of saying ‘hypocritical’ when you don’t want your editors to be flooded with phone calls and hate mail from angry netizens. What? Pardon me? What’s a ‘netizen’? It’s a young man who doesn’t have a girlfriend, dear.
2 Seht Gecko May 16, 2008 at 11:40 am: “She admitted that she had had a sexual relationship with the singer, but not with the chef.”

I think that’s referred to as the “I Shot the Sheriff (but I did not shoot the deputy)” defence.
3 Buynow November 27, 2008 at 12:56 pm: The government estimates the nation’s sex trade at 4.4 percent of its gross domestic product,

The latest figure was 1.6% I believe, although this was made after the article was published.

Not that 1.6% is very good either, or that the whole thing is particularly measurable, but it is getting slightly better. Think it was 5.5% in 2002 or something.