There are an estimated 50,000 women from South Korea working in the sex trade in Japan. In the United States, there are an estimated 30,000 South Korean women working as prostitutes.
Media reports state that the number of South Korean women working as prostitutes in Japan was caused by a 2004 crackdown on the sex trade in South Korea, thus sending women to Japan. With the increase in South Korean prostitutes, the prices for sex has reportedly gone down.
In 2012, it was reported that men were paying around $125 (10,000 Japanese Yen) for a 60 minute session. Previously, the rate was $187 (15,000 Yen) per hour.
(See more prostitution prices from around the world here)
Source: Kazutaka Shimanaka, “Enough Korean hookers in Japan to fill a stadium,” Tokyo Reporter, May 30, 2012.
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Korean prostitutes will ask the compensation for their pension as claiming they were trafficked by the western governments for COMFORT WOMEN. History repeats.
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There have bee so many Korean immigrants in the North America, Japan, and Australia so Korean prostitutes are welcomed by the Korean communities there. Local males may prefer local prostitutes because Koreans are so ugly and stink. Korean immigrants may don’t care for the ugliness, kimchee, and some poor local male who are not afford to get local women go Korean sex bars.