Though US officials publicly condemn prostitution, they are perceived as taking little action to prevent it, and some locals suggest that US Army authorities prefer having commercial sex services available to soldiers. This government involvement was in the past motivated in part by fears that the American military, which protected South Korea from North Korea, would leave. The US military police provided for the security in these US camp town prostitution sites, and detained the prostitutes who were thought to be ill, to prevent epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases. The government registered the prostitutes, who were called Western princesses, and required them to carry medical certification. This was the result of negotiation between the Korean government and the US military, involving prostitution for United States soldiers in camp towns surrounding the US military bases. militaryįrom the 1960s until today US camp town prostitution has existed outside US military bases (for example outside Camp Casey and Camp Stanley). Main article: Prostitutes in South Korea for the U.S. Despite legal sanctions and police crackdowns, prostitution continues to flourish in South Korea, while sex workers continue to actively resist the state's activities. The amount of money traded for prostitution was over 14 trillion won, much less than 24 trillion won in 2002. The number of prostitutes dropped by 18% to 269,000 during the same period. The sex trade involved some 94 million transactions in 2007, down from 170 million in 2002. According to a survey conducted by the Department of Urology at the Korea University College of Medicine in 2015, 23.1% of males and 2.6% of females, aged 18–69, had sexual experience with a prostitute. Prostitution in South Korea is illegal, but according to The Korea Women's Development Institute, the sex trade in Korea was estimated to amount to 14 trillion South Korean won ( $13 billion) in 2007, roughly 1.6% of the nation's gross domestic product.
Overview of the legality and practice of prostitution in South Korea
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