tiberry

I'm just wondering how many of you folks have ever heard this term and who knows what I'm talking about.

Hint: Any military guys out there that have been to Korea?

Cynthetiq

so what's your point? This isn't any different than going to a US strip club and buy a drink for the lady. Obviously she can't get trashed and still make money.

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EXPOSE OF A "JUICY GIRL"

The Korean Bar "Hostesses" at Osan were referred to by the American G.I.'s as "Juicy Girls". The term "juicy girl" was coined from the fact that they try to get G.I.'s to buy a drink called "juicy"'s which are merely some type of fruit juice. This fruit juice drink had a severe price of high as W12,000 (1989), but was essential for the income and survival of the Juicy Girl in the eyes of the Korean bar owner.

Let's look at the beginning of the life of a Juicy Girl. A Juicy Girl starts her life, usually far away from any big Korean city, and comes from a Korean family of low income. Many Juicy Girls go to elementary school, but either drop out, or become Juicy Girls after graduating from elementary school or high school. So how does a Korean girl become a Juicy Girl? Mostly by word of mouth, an agent of a Korean bar that is located near a U.S. military base in Korea will go out into the Korean countryside and present a "sales pitch". This pitch includes telling the young girls that they will receive free room and board, free clothes, money for food and necessities, and the bar owners will take care of them. Based on their current status and income, this option seems a better life for them, however the hardest part of the sales pitch is to tell the Korean girls that they have to dance nearly naked in front of American G.I.s on a stage in the clubs. This is extremely against the psyche of any girl, let alone a poor, conservative Korean girl from the farmlands. So, much money is given to the Korean girl's family to coerce her to come to the bars and dance. Usually, a Korean family will reject this shameful money, but as you can see in Korea, some families do "sell" their daughters to a nightclub. Also, there is threats and force put upon a poor Korean family to release their young daughter to a club.

Once the young Korean girl is brought to the nightclub near an American military base, she is given room and board, and bought a g-string, or bikini, to wear when dancing along with very gaudy boots, mini-skirts and other ridiculously gaudy and very revealing clothes. She is given lessons on how to gyrate her hips on stage, how to dance sexually suggestively, and how to erotically present herself on stage. This lesson is given to her by the other Juicy Girls that are already employed at the clubs. The other Juicy Girls act as role models for the new girl and teach her "the tricks of the trade." In addition, they fulfill the need for a Korean "unni" in a very strange and frightful environment. This is the point where many of these new, young, Korean girls turn towards drugs to ease the pain, shame, embarrassment, and low self-esteem of being a bar girl.

Now comes the financial binding agreement for the Juicy Girl, that will bind her for life to the club. The Korean owner of the night club will buy her room and board, clothes, and support, but for pay-back , she must do three things: one, she must dance usually 6 days a week from about 7 pm to 3 am almost everynight; two, she must try to get the G.I.'s to buy as many drinks as possible, preferably "Juicy" drinks which are merely fruit juice at about W10,000 per drink. A Juicy Girl told me that of every W5000 that she gets a G.I. to spend, she gets W1000 of that, and the Korean bar owner gets the other W4000 won. So, in order for a Juicy girl to make W1500000 per month, she would have to personally get G.I.'s to buy W7500000 in drinks. That's just her personally, one-on-one with the G.I.'s.

As you can see, that would be getting G.I.'s to buy her 750 Juicy's at W10000 each per month. That averages 25 Juicy's per night. A reasonable figure to accomplish if she is really pretty and sexy, as many a drunken G.I. will usually be stupid enough to stumble into a Korean Juicy Bar and start spending his hard earned cash like an idiot. Just think, though, W7500000 per month from only one G.I. gives the Korean night club owner W6000000 per month from only ONE G.I.!!!!!!!!! now multiply that by the 1000's of G.I.s that come into the nightclub per month. Do you think the Korean night club owners around the American bases are rich?

In reality, the Korean Juicy Girl never gets all of her hard earned money, the night club owner usually steals it from her. In addition, the money she receives is usually a one-time lump-sum payment of U.S. $10,000. Now, with this $10,000 comes room and board, clothes, and protection. And, she usually would end up dancing in the night club all the rest of her life to pay this back if it wasn't for the usual thing that happens in Korea: The American G.I.

Here comes G.I. Joe looking to get close to one of these Korean bar girls who is basically a free ticket to sex and more sex. So, G.I. Man goes to the Korean night club owner and says to him, "O.K., how much does Jee Hae owe you, I want to pay her "bar tab" off. Well, naturally if she owes the Korean bar owner $10,000, he's not going to say $10,000, he's going to say $15,000. So, American G.I. pays the Korean owner the $15,000 and he basically "buys" himself a Korean girl. Or, he asks the Juicy Girl herself, how much does she owe the club. She, also, will inflate the price in order to make some cash on her own. Either way, money is shifted hands and the American G.I. and the Korean Juicy Girl live together and sleep together in one of those quaint "ghetto houses" near any American Air Base in Korea.

As an epilogue, they either get married to each other, or seperate when he leaves Korea, or they get married and then when they get to the U.S. he/she divorces and go on with their lives. Lots of the Korean Juicy Girls get pregnant by American G.I. 's this way. This is also the way many Juicy Girls get abused by their G.I. "lovers" and vice-versa, I saw a lot of G.I.s with black and blue faces being hit by the Juicy Girls.

Anyway, although I did not partake in any activities with Korean Juicy Girls during my Korean Tour of Duty, my friends certainly did, and I was kept updated on their activities day-by-day, so the above depiction is at least as close as first hand knowledge as you're going to get. The Egg Boy does not lie, I only relay the story as I heard it.

Billy The Egg

serving the Korean Community since 1987

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Peetster

Very informative, thank you.

charlesesl

interesting ecenomic model

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eyeronic

Wow. Very nicely written. I admire your ability to write about such a harsh subject so objectively and with a newspaper article style. Thanks for educating me about something I'd never even heard of before.

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Mad_Gecko

Oh they can in the UK. - ends up costin' a bomb in champers..

Cool article though, thanks.

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