Host bars prosperous

About 100 "host bar," where mainly male staff cater to female customers, is growing in Korea, southern Seoul, attracted a total of over 10,000 customers per day, and many of them also illegal to sell sex to their customers, Seoul Shinmun reported Wednesday. Checkout 호스트빠.

It cites industry sources said that the total annual sales of host bars in the area are estimated at more than 30 billion won ($ 25 million).

But the figure could be much higher if the sale of the illegal sex trade and other illegal business practices included.

Many owners host bar is found to have obtained a business license to run a restaurant or karaoke bar, but switch their business to the host bar between 10:00 and 02:00

About 3,000 men in their 20s and 30s working in the area to serve female customers, but teenagers also worked there, were reported.

In a posh area of ​​Seoul, the trend has risen where all-night open bar purely to cater to women.

They called 호스트빠, and they provide a place where women go and spend - sometimes - thousands of dollars for the company of men. It is a booming business in South Korea and Japan with hundreds of places just in affluent Gangnam district of Seoul.

The men wore shiny suits and have every hair perfectly in place. The host bar is part of a growing industry that comes from a long tradition of geisha Japanese and Korean kisaeng houses. While traditions meet men, host bar serving entirely for women.

They are all-night bar drink that women often find male friends for a night.

An American woman, Emma, ​​who lives in Seoul decided to experience the host bar for himself and documented on his blog.

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