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Thisisthatguy99 t1_jb24583 wrote

Reply to comment by Azrael_0802 in TIFU by not checking how much drinks cost at a hostess bar by guutarajouzu

When I was stationed in South Korea, we called them Juice bars.

Basically, a female hostess/waitress will sit down and have a conversation with you as long as she has a drink in front of her (in Korea the women were only allowed to have non-alcoholic drinks). The women’s drinks are way over priced, and depending on how much she likes talking to you is shown by how fast she will drink the drink. But once you stop buying drinks for her, and her last drink is empty, she moves on to the next guy.

Because of the job, these women are talented at making the men they talk to feel wanted and like they are available to meet up outside of the bar… usually they aren’t. But they make money based how how many drinks the guy buys so they learn the skills to keep a lonely guy there, or get him coming back again and again.

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guutarajouzu OP t1_jb4e88t wrote

Yessir, this was in Korea. A LOT of the actual prostitution-linked Juicy bars have disappeared, leaving the most determined ones to operate slightly nore covertly. A lot of people still call the hostesses 'Juicies'.

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Thisisthatguy99 t1_jb8nbvg wrote

Glad to hear the human trafficking ones are mostly shut down, and hopefully any that are left will be shut down too.

Back in 2005, there were a lot of them in Pyeongtaek, and though the military warned us about them, they weren’t doing anything to shut them down. Only way the girls could get out where to find someone willing to buy their passport back from the bar owner. Actually had a coworker do that with a Russian juicie.

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guutarajouzu OP t1_jb9vlwb wrote

Agreed. If it's genuine change, it's going to be a slow process. A LOT of the trafficking and exploitation is gone but it still exists and is sufficiently hidden and/or ignored. Both Pyeongtaek and Osan have REALLY cleaned up though, which is heartening. Now it's a lot of actual Korean gals working the hostess life

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