KOREA WOMENS ISSUES

Men prefer to buy the sexual services of young girls to prevent a variety of diseases and AIDS transmission. Therefore, younger and younger children are lured into the sex industry. Some are locked up and forced to engage in prostitution. Crackdowns have resulted in 120 young people working for sex shops in Texas Village, Seoul being sent home between October 1996 and October 1997. (Kim Song-ae, " ‘Texas Village’ may become residential area," Korean Herald, 27 October 1997)........

Around the U.S. military bases, there are 18,000 registered and 9,000 unregistered prostitutes. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Korean police have been cracking down on prostitution in Texas Village, Seoul. According to estimates by police, about 1,000 women were engaged in prostitution in Texas Village, but the figure has been reduced to 200. (Kim Song-ae, " ‘Texas Village’ may become residential area," Korean Herald, 27 October 1997)

Sixteen sex shop owners from the Texas Village red-light district of Seoul were arrested and 78 others apprehended without physical detention. (Kim Song-ae, " ‘Texas Village’ may become residential area," Korean Herald, 27 October 1997)

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