The South Korean Love Industry

With one of the lowest birth rates in the world, South Koreans are predicted to become extinct by 2750. Because of the rapidly ageing population this situation has created, elderly prostitutes known as Bacchus ladies have cornered a number of public parks as their working areas. Meanwhile, as the marriage rate falls and the country s younger generation continues to live at home well into their twenties, young people have been forced to book themselves into purposebuilt sex motels to avoid the prying eye