USA - your term, isn't it?

[Astroboy]

Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases

Now, a group of former prostitutes in South Korea have accused some of their country’s former leaders of a different kind of abuse: encouraging them to have sex with the American soldiers who protected South Korea from North Korea. They also accuse past South Korean governments, and the United States military, of taking a direct hand in the sex trade from the 1960s through the 1980s, working together to build a testing and treatment system to ensure that prostitutes were disease-free for American troops.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/asia/08korea.html?_r=1&ref=world

I don't know why NY Times says "Ex-Prostitute", instead of "Ex-Sex Slave." :blush:

Either way, it is certain that Korea was a country of Sex Slave/Prostitute. :blush:

[Adulado]

While I'm against Korea depending on the US too much for self defense like the current government (Lee Myung Bak), I question the sincerity of these women if they had the liberty to refuse to be in those places. But even Japan had its share of shameful events like Geishas going to Korea in the early colonization in the end of the 19th century and also after Japan's defeat. Also I don't agree with your lack of gentlemanness talking about women in a condescending way.

[Uncle Frank]

If this thread becomes a contest of "pissing into the wind" no one will win and the thread will get closed. Be nice be factual and don't get personal.

Uncle Frank

:okashii:

[pipokun]

These days, camp towns still exist, but as the Korean economy took off, women from the Philippines began replacing them.

They, Koreans and NYT, should tackle the present first. They can save the women now.

[EdZiomek]

I am on the side of airing out the sincere, passionate opinions of others.

In the case of women being used against their will, or as part of a political campaign of appeasing the American forces, or whatever, these are very serious opinions that absolutely SHOULD be explored.

I cannot state my full opinion here, it is way too sensitive, but these truthful (can I use that word) stories are among the big untold tragedies of the conflicts America has been involved with.

In my polyanna world, I think America wins not by guns, but more by "rock and roll music", blue jeans, and even "greedy capitalism", and by the way, WOMENS/ RIGHTS, WOMENS' RIGHTS, WOMENS' RIGHTS!

Let the truth be the Light!