“R and R” on a “hardship tour”: GIs and Filipina entertainers in South Korea

Eddy* was a twenty-year-old GI who had heard a lot about cheap sex in Korea. By the time he arrived in the country, he felt compelled to try the “thirty-buck-a-trick” experience negotiated through a pimp on the street. He explained, “I had to do it. I have heard so much about it that I had to do it.”