Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea will hold an adult expo next month. Japanese AV actresses were scheduled to participate in the opening ceremony, but local women and citizen groups publicly protested. According to South Korea's "Chosun Ilbo" report on the 13th, seven women's groups including the "Suwon Women's Hotline" and more than 30 citizen groups held a joint press conference in front of the Suwon Railway Station Square on the 12th: "We strongly condemn the use of women's bodies and sexuality. An adult expo that commercializes behavior is an act of sexual exploitation and will only further spread prostitution in society."
According to reports, the adult expo hosted by a Korean adult cultural product production company is scheduled to be held on the 20th of next month. It will be held at a private exhibition venue in Suwon City until the 21st. After paying the admission fee, adult tourists can participate in the event, get autographs from Japanese AV actresses on site, watch their underwear fashion shows, and take photos with them. The expo was held once in Gwangmyeong Province in December last year. The organizer of the
event said that in South Korea, the prejudice that "adult works equal illegal content" is deeply rooted, which makes adult culture more hidden and develops in an "unhealthy" direction. The organizer emphasized that the research results of the American "Scientist" magazine showed that as the use of adult cultural products increases, sexual crimes are actually decreasing. It is now time for adults in South Korea to freely enjoy healthy sex and share adult culture correctly. Only by forming such a social atmosphere can the public's views on sex be changed.
However, the protesters believed that the event targeted women for sexual consumption and used women's bodies to attract attention, which was a "serious sexual crime." The event claims to address men's sexual desire issues but is also a site for sexual exploitation of women, and protesters demand an immediate end to this commodification of women.
It is not uncommon for Japanese AV actresses to receive attention in South Korea. According to South Korea's "Daily Business News" report, a well-known Japanese AV actress recently uploaded a video titled "First time going to a Korean traditional market" on a video website. The video recorded her visiting a hat shop in Daegu's Seomun Market and asking about something. When asked about the price of the hat, it was asked for 200,000 won (10,000 won, approximately 54.6 yuan), and was finally sold for 130,000 won. This incident sparked heated discussions on the Internet in South Korea and Japan, with many netizens criticizing the store for "deceiving foreigners." (Ding Ling) â–²
