After a decade of crackdown, South Korea's sex industry has resurged, sex workers go 'underground'
A decade after South Korea's 2004 anti-sex-trafficking law, red-light districts such as Cheongnyangni 588 have declined, but sex work has resurged in underground forms including massage parlors, hotel escorts, and online transactions. Sex workers report increased autonomy but also client violence. P
South Korea · 2026-07-21 · thepaper.cn
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