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Research indicates that child prostitution can be found throughout South Korean society. Karaoke bars, ""ticket'" teahouses (where children are found to provide sex), massage houses, restaurants, video-viewing rooms, nightclubs and brothels are locations where child prostitution is known to exist. The age of the children victimised is decreasing. There has also been an increase of the procurement in sexual services through the use of electronic media (cyber sex) and "telephone chat rooms". Prostitution using new media accounts for approximately bout 10% of total child prostitution.
According to the Supreme Korea Public Prosecutor's Office, more than 5000 teenage girls were arrested in prostitution in 1998. Seventy percent worked in saloon bars, 804 girls were found in brothels, and 341 girls were under 15 years old, including 3 girls under age 11. South Korea's first female police chief Kim Kang Ja estimates that of South Korea's 1.2 million prostitutes, 500,000 are minors.
Officials from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration estimate the number of Filipinos in the entertainment industry in Korea to be around 1,000, and that those prostituted around the U.S. military bases totals approximately 600. The officials attest that the women recruited are very young and mostly from Central Luzon, specifically the Pinatubo area.
In an area known as "Texas Miari" named for the American soldiers who popularised the area, it is estimated by Police Chief Kim Kang Ja, that 80% of the 1500 prostitutes were underage victims of prostitution. While some of the area's brothels have been closed down due to police action many are still in operation and many more exist in other parts of the country.
The lack of opportunities for women in South Korea is a factor contributing to the problem of underage prostitution. According to statistics collected by the Christian Science Monitor, 91 percent of male college graduates found employment in 1998 compared to 57 percent of women graduates. Furthermore, the wages earned by employed women are far less than those earned by men. Where women can earn as much as $4000 a month in prostitution, those working as store clerks or secretaries are not likely to earn much more than $600 per month.
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