United States military and prostitution in South Korea

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During and following the Korean war, the United States military used regulated prostitution services in South Korean military camptowns. Despite prostitution being illegal since 1948, women in South Korea were the fundamental source of sexual services for the U.S. military and a component of Korean-American relations. The women in South Korea who served as prostitutes are known as kijichon women were visited by the US military, and sometimes Korean soldiers or civilians. The prostitutes were formerly from Korea, but were largely replaced by women from the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (specifically Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine) since the 1990s.

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