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During the 1970s, the state imbued military pros ution with a patriotic bent, in which pros utes were used to regulate U.S.-R.O.K. military relations. Here, the state identified pros utes as “[diplomats] fulfilling [their] duties to the nation by keeping U.S. interests engaged” (Cho 2008: 107). The roots of militarized pros ution lay within the architecture of a nation with a prolonged history of military engagements. In the case at hand, military pros ution amongst Korean women and American G.I.s can be traced as far back as 1945, at the onset of the first U.S. occupation of South Korea. Following an uncertain liberation from a long history of Japanese occupation, and economic des ution, many women resorted to pros ution as a means of survival.
That was the world I was in.