When Prostitution Wasn't a Crime: The Fascinating History of Sex Work in America

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3. Prostitution has been a big problem here in Korea for a long time

When my wife went to college, she had to walk up a street from the subway to the school. Essentially the whole block was a red light district. Fast forward 15 years and I got a job at the same university she graduated from and we moved to the area. Most of it has been redeveloped (a new subway/train station with a mall opened next to the very old one) and only some of the old signs were left in front of buildings that were locked up.

The thing is that they chase the brothels (or whatever you prefer to call them) out of one neighborhood and they pop up in another.

There was a story in the paper here not too long ago about the police shutting down a brothel in an area where there is a high concentration of foreigners including a US base. They came in and literally took out all the toilets, sinks, and bathtubs. Just gutted the place.