The Munhwa Ilbo reports that despite the police’s 2009 “war on prostitution,” some Japanese men still regard Korea as a “paradise for prostitution.”
Male Japanese tourists, who once flocked to yojeong and red-light districts in the age of “gisaeng tourism,” are now reportedly heading to “full-salons” and massage parlors.
At one website frequented by Japanese, there are tons of user reviews of bawdy houses throughout Korea, and there are even many ad sites — which appear to have been opened by Koreans — to draw Japanese johns to the Land of the Morning Calm.
On Monday, info on Korean houses of ill-repute was so plentiful at a major Japanese portal site that you couldn’t count it. Every time you ran a search for “Korea” and prostitution-related words, you got a ton of personal blogs, entertainment establishment info sites and ad sites. There were even many sites with the word “anma” (massage), written in hangeul, with detailed info on locations and how to use said facilities.
One Japanese man who had visited a massage parlor in a back alley behind a broadcast company in Yeouido wrote, “You pay 170,000 won at the front desk when you enter and are brought inside. The fee includes sex and a massage.” Another post had the location of the business and, as the Munhwa Ilbo puts it, descriptions that are embarrassing to even say. The poster said, “There’s a massage parlor near Guui Station, Line 2… I paid 180,000 won and had sex with a 22-year-old girl, got a massage, sauna and even dinner.”
There are even ads popping up luring Japanese to Korean establishments. On these sites are the phone numbers of establishments and “course” and price info.
One Japanese blogger wrote on his site that when he visits Korea, he sometimes wants to get a regular massage, but he doesn’t know how to distinguish between a real one and one with a little extra, and sarcastically notes that he’s afraid that even if he asks at the hotel desk, a young lady will enter his room.
In fact, in neighborhoods where there are a lot of these sorts of places, it’s not hard to find signs that the Japanese have been there. Mr. Choe (60), a taxi driver the reporter met in Yeoksam-dong in Gangnam, said over the last month, he’s picked up Japanese tourists about three times, and all three times, he brought them to a place of prostitution. Mr. Lee, who drives a fancier taxi in Gangnam’s Tehran-no area, said not so long ago, he picked up a Japanese carrying an Internet map. When he got to the location, it was a massage parlor.
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The dark side of the cheaper won, I suppose.
Hell, nothing wrong with that. The last time I heard Korea called a “paradise” was when a Korean friend of mine referred to it as a “theif’s paradise.”
Paradise, by the way, was the name of my favorate massage parlor in Kang Nam. Any real Korean on this site will know what I’m talking about.
Hmph … there are a ton of those places named “Paradise” in Seoul.
You’ll have to do better than that.
Before anyone says it, I want to remind you all that:
It’s the Japaness people’s fault that there are prostitutes in Korea. They foisted the institution upon the pure Korean race peoples.
I don’t know why the Japaness people would be surprised about this.
Fixed it for you.
cmm, i don’t think that’s true. it’s not anyone’s fault. prostitutes exist. no one’s fault, especially not the japanese in this case..
if it was another sarc-ment, then could you up the quality a bit?
i think i speak for most people here when i say we possess a quality radar with a pre-filter for rubbish built in.
yuna, I know that you don’t like when I make fun of silly Korean prejudices against the Japanese, but come on doll, you know that 1) I like this place and the people, and 2) the ideas/prejudices that I roll my eyes at, well, deserve it.
The “sarc-ment” (nice portmanteau, btw) @4 is something that has been presented here dogmatically in the past, and that’s why I put it out there, to mock those who have said it in the past, before they can bring it up again. That’s how I’m upping the quality here, perhaps–to keep such rubbish from coming up again. You’re welcome.
Re “upping the quality” – feel free to skip all of my comments if they hurt your feelings or you find them offensive.
Re “the filter” – already taken care of. If my comment says “Japaness” instead of “Japanese,” assume I’m mocking one particular Korean-held anti-Japanese stereotype/blame-game-move or another, and cruise on by.
Yup nothing wrong, Japan is also paradise for prostitutes any way. Now days entire world is prostitution paradise except for North Korea.
Japenis still travel for getting experience with Korean sluts, they think they are better than 2nd graded Japussies.
Take it from the horse’s mouth. See I am ingratiating. I didn’t say horse’s ass.
Ummmm North Korea has quite a bit of prostitution and gambling along the border with China.
You’ve never been stateside. We’re still very backwards in that area. But Korea is much more progressive, as 1 in 5 Korean women, have worked in the “entertainment” industry according to one conservative estimate. Of course, you can’t pin that statistic on me because I am not a conservative. Take it out on Carr.
The only reason why the States does not need as much prositution–is all the feminists who believe its their duty to suck dick as a retaliation against centuries of male opression–sigh–it is what it is.
I have been to Korea before and prositution is a big business in such a tuff place to live.
I suppose Japanese men can get their jollies in the Philippines or Thailand for less… but Korea is only a two hour plan ride (ferry ride if it’s Pusan) and Korean women are a better facimile of what they have back home…
… and if Japanese men are anything like Korean men then they like whiter (or more melanin challenged) meat better…. that’s all I’m gonna say.
For pure prostitution? I don’t buy it. But, if that includes room salons (which may or may not include sex), kissing rooms (usually does not include sex), noraebang hostess (usually does not include sex), bar girls (usually does not include sex) then I’d believe it.
Frankly, I don’t buy it either, especially as we can trace the source to some govt. statistics cited here at The Hole.
Mizar5 please provide the source for 1/5 women in Korea engaged in entertainment business, wasn’t pop artists and dancing consider entertainment as well?
Also, my dear Mizar5, have you experience with Chinsnatch, Koreslut or Japussy? I have. I think Japussy is little tighter due to their small ass.
#11: Ah to be so young and naive…the states always pretend they are backwards in many shady practices, but the truth is that they are the masters. Truly.
#4: It was actually Professor Lankov that said that…
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