In this way, KT profits from the same industry it morally condemns. I'd like to know a lot more about the methodology of the MoGE survey. The article doesn't mention anything about random sampling or anything along those lines. While that doesn't mean it isn't a proper survey, there have been many cases cited of online voluntary participation essentially online polls that do not go through the rigors of making a random sampling but instead survey a self-selective group of those more willing to be open about some topic, which often is not a true representative sample.
Post a Comment. Tuesday, November 18, 6. The ministry questioned 2, female students in the southeastern port city and found Among the female students who received the offers, only 35 percent said they ignored them.
Nearly 20 percent said they were actually engaged in the sex trade, while the rest said they were "intrigued" by the offers. Perhaps some of the girls intrigued by such offers might not be if there was a viable sex education program in Korean schools. But it's obviously a case in point showing how serious online sex trading is," a ministry official said. It also shows that many teenagers are vulnerable to the online sex trade, he said. It's "difficult to generalize. Perhaps it's higher in Busan where Mee-hae Kong did the research for her article Material Girls: Sexual perceptions of Korean teenaged girls who have experienced 'Compensated Dates' , which can be found here ; it would be interesting to see a similar survey done in Seoul.
As for vulnerability to the online sex trade, this Kuki News article in Korean on the same topic illustrates this vulnerability a little more concretely by relaying the story of third year high school student 'A' from Daejeon who in August was offered , won to meet a man for sex. Curious, she met the man, Mr. Kim, a doctor, at an officetel and slept with him.
He then offered to pay her , won to meet once a week, and she met him 7 times, earning 1,, won. Then he was caught. For some reason the Korea Times didn't want to illustrate the problem at hand with such an example. Also worth noting is that the survey is of both middle and high school girls, and they gave interesting answers about their views of selling sex. It's a Crime,' Asked about the reasons for the frequency of sex transactions online, 37 percent cited easy accessibility and 33 percent anonymity.
