You may not think of how developed the custom industry in Korea was, but according to the data around 1953, the value created by the custom industry could account for 25% of Korea's GDP. You see that China's manufacturing industry is so developed now, but the proportion of manufacturing in GDP is only 26%! One can imagine how developed their customs industry was at that time.
You may think this stat is a bit scary, but you want to! They are in the service of United States GIs! These are rich masters, and the monthly salary of the United States soldiers at that time was hundreds of dollars! You can get a few hundred dollars at a good point, maybe you don't have any idea of the purchasing power of the dollar at that time, just take $10! At that time, you could buy nearly 150 packs of ordinary cigarettes, and you could buy nearly 50 catties of beef, and I now have 35 yuan of beef a catty, and the price after the fall is still down, if it was more than 40 catties a catty, 50 catties of beef! But it costs more than 2,000 yuan, good guys, according to this calculation, the salary of these United States soldiers is tens of thousands a month! A proper high-paying career.
And serving these United States GIs once can earn 3 to 10 dollars, or even higher, which is a proper high-paying career! That's why you can see that there are only more than 300,000 United States GIs, and nearly 300,000 Korea women who serve them! This is still incomplete statistics, there is data that the number of people may be as high as 1 million, but I think this data! It's still a little doubtful, but the words are divided into two ends, and the Korea government at that time relied on the entire revitalization of the economy.
What a thing! Even Korea government in order to protect the health of United States soldiers, these women must go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, and then take a health certificate to work.
Don't think they will be unhappy, but it is very enviable to have such a job at that time.
In order to better serve the United States GIs, their shops are directly located near the bases of the United States GIs, and these places also have some very serious names, called "Base Village" or "Barracks Village". Now Han Buki especially likes to go to the "Itaewon", which is a "military camp village" next to the Yongsan military base in Seoul, Korea at that time, if you went there at that time, the scene on the street can be described as "living spring fragrance", you can imagine it! I'm talking about limiting the flow again.
Although the custom industry is not as rampant as before, the current customs industry in Korea still accounts for as much as 4% of GDP, which is higher than the proportion of agricultural GDP, because the oil and water are too large, and there are many young ladies from Japan who have crossed the ocean to work in Korea.