'Sponsors' pay university students for sex

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

By Kim Susan Se-jeong

In mid-February, a 22-year-old female university student held a birthday party with 10 male and female friends at a karaoke in southern Seoul. A man in his 30s, who sat next to the student, left after paying four million won for the evening’s entertainment, which included costly liquor and payment for a DJ.


“He’s my sponsor,” said the student when asked about the man’s identity. “He pays for my apartment in Gangnam, a 30-million-won deposit and 2.5 million monthly rent.” Her brand-name clothes and bag also come from her sponsor.
“I like living like this,” replied the female student when her shocked friend told her to stop seeing the man.

The “sex sponsor” culture which once shook the entertainment industry is now spreading through universities. A number of students exchange sex for money due to financial stress. It is difficult to apprehend those involved because the transactions occur in secret and are usually arranged online. Also, students may be less willing to report sex sponsors to the police because both parties are considered guilty.

Three university freshmen went to a police station in Seoul earlier this month, saying they were scammed by a sex sponsor. A man found the three women through their personal websites and promised them six million won each in exchange for five nights of sex. When he refused to pay them after having sex, the women went to the police for legal help, according to police. But a police officer said, “You can all be charged with prostitution.” The three students left the station without pressing charges.

“There are many cases where sponsors contact students through their personal websites or homepages,” said the police officer. “It’s not uncommon for sex sponsors to target students that are financially unstable. Moreover the number of scams has increased.”

On the other hand, there are also cases where students look for sponsors, at times through part-time jobs at expensive bars.

“A 22-year-old who used to work at our store found a sponsor who paid for her full-body cosmetic surgery and even an online shopping mall,” said the owner of a bar in Gangnam. “Students working at high-end bars can find rich sponsors, regardless of their gender.”
“This is a tragic outcome of capitalism, an increasing wealth disparity, or gap between the rich and poor and greed to become rich,” said Lee Yu-jin, senior researcher at the National Youth Policy Institute. “This happens because university students struggle with tuition costs and unemployment, even after being admitted to university.”


Source: koreatimes

Comments

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

wtfuckery

[steelsigns.livejournal.com]

So technically if you were posing as a 'sponsor' to get sex, you'd be able to get off scot free since your victims can't report you without implicating themselves

[nissy-angel.livejournal.com]

dear lord

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Always take money upfront! Anyhow I don't see anything bad in prostituting yourself if you are doing it for your own will and not because it's your only option to get food on your table.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

i came here to say the same thing.

nothing wrong with prostitution if you're not being forced into it.

[analyze.livejournal.com]

so basically if you're a guy looking for free sex you contact these women and promised them that you'll sponsor them, and when you refuse to pay them there will be no legal implications at all for you?

wow this is so fucked up

[johnnyquest89.livejournal.com]

“Students working at high-end bars can find rich sponsors, regardless of their gender.”

not just guys, everyone's invited to partake.

[burnbook31.livejournal.com]

what

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

mmmmaybe they should look at the price of education

what's the typical sentence for prostitution? I guess it doesn't really matter, there'd be a huge stigma against having that on your record no matter what, but I was thinking that depending on how their law defines rape, the guy could probably get done for that + breach of contract (if your consent is predicated on receiving payment, you haven't really given consent if you don't get paid). Then again it would be the word of a woman against a man in a korean court and I don't see that holding up basically ever.

[cottonowl.livejournal.com]

There was a small documentary about something similar in France I think, except they were openly calling it prostitution.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I remember seing it (or a similar one at least)

[rawbabyoctopus.livejournal.com]

what the fuck...

[purring-feline.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE FUCK.

[suhbangshinki.livejournal.com]

oh heaven help us :/

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

I've heard of this culture, but in the UK these student are doing escort gigs, which is legal as long as you don't pay for the sex, but it's pretty much a given that the money isn't paid for company but sex. I knew a girl that did it, and she was basically loaded, she made about 500 quid a night.

[madelyn93.livejournal.com]

how do you draw the line between escorting and sex though? i wouldn't pay 500 quid just for a pretty girl to drink with me.

[rikli.livejournal.com]

it's not only happening in korea, i suppose?
but i think it's basically most like finding yourself a sponsor-lover, one at the time and he pay for your rent, cloths etc. at the other end it's simply sexfor money stuff, like a real prostitute, but if u not take money in advance... wouldn't be surprised rly, c'mon

[kazu-kumaguro.livejournal.com]

I'm not completely agree but they should make prostitution legal, it's better because in the worst case the girls don't have to find backups (who are usually gangsters and will give them further problem).

[tiddlywinks103.livejournal.com]

Sugar Daddies are not new concepts, unfortunately. This situation is much more predatory, though. Laws would have to be changed drastically to fix this.

[asth77.livejournal.com]

reminds me of "The Good Women of China" by Xinran!
it's exactly the same situation as the students in China in the 80s.

[aeryro.livejournal.com]

nothing unheard of..

[johnnyquest89.livejournal.com]

well paying for a education > a taxi cab to see oppars.

[johnnyquest89.livejournal.com]

err rereading this if I'm to be koreaboo politically correct do i add unnirs/hyungrs/noonars?

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

Don't rappers do that as well?

[mamchan.livejournal.com]

what? i think you mistook "rappers" for "pimp"/"sugar daddy"

[itskimbitches.livejournal.com]

Legalizing prostitute is like a slap in the face to the victims of prostitution. It's not as simple as money and sex. Some ppl are so naive.

[lobotronic.livejournal.com]

legalizing prostitution would grant access to victims of prostitution to seek legal or medical help where otherwise it would be denied. With a legal profession, those being taken advantage of can get legal assistance to get out. It won't solve all the problems involved, but issues like child trafficking and sexual abuse would decrease considerably if the sex workers were able to legally sue and get out of the line of work.

[goldynchickie.livejournal.com]

So basically he's her sugar daddy?

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

unfortunately thats nothing new :/
some students in germany also prostitute themselves so they can pay their tution fees (and their rent/food/expensive bags) but they're doing it in brothels so its legal..
but wtf @ korea

[pon-pon-pink.livejournal.com]

i've heard about girls from my university making a shitload of money just for stripping on a webcam. i don't remember the website anymore but i was like "dayum! i need that money!" even some exchange students coming to that university who found out started doing it. but i never knew students here in germany do it in brothels... :0

[ari-meh.livejournal.com]

happens everywhere, tbh.

[lobotronic.livejournal.com]

The scamming sponsors are disgusting, tbqh, but the practice of having a sugar daddy is not wrong to me. If both parties come to a mutual agreement, the girl is a legal adult, and the man doesn't pressure or harass her, I say go for it. And yes, this is a form of prostitution. But sex work is nothing to be ashamed of.

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

same happens in japan called enjou kousai (compensated dating), while it's basically an escort service, prostitution happens too. and i guess the same happens everywhere in the world. just the laws and regulations in korea are shit rn and basically ppl forced into it or ppl being scammed while doing it have no right to report whatsoever.

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

lol my friends told me to do kousai coz apparently they think i look good enough for that shit but im like yer nah dont want no old dick