Avoiding Risks in Vietnamese Prostitution: A Guide for Travelers

베트남의 불법 매춘은 특히 설치 범죄와 에이즈와 관련하여 방문객에게 심각한 위험을 초래합니다.

### 베트남 매춘의 위험성: 함정과 에이즈 감염 주의
* ⚠️ 베트남 여행 시 가장 주의해야 할 점은 현지 여성이 가장 위험하다고 생각하는 **매춘** 관련 문제입니다.
* 🗣️ 베트남에서는 매춘이 불법이지만, **카라오케, 마사지샵 등에서 흔하게 발생**하며, 외국인은 쉽게 피해자가 될 수 있습니다.
* 🚨 특히 데이트 앱을 통한 만남은 **사기 및 공갈**의 위험이 매우 높습니다. 사진과 다른 여성이 나타나거나, 추가 금전 요구 및 허위 신고로 돈을 갈취하는 경우가 많습니다.
* 💰 **최대 200만~300만 동(약 80~120 USD)**의 금전적 피해를 볼 수 있으며, 심각한 경우에는 **미성년자와의 성관계**로 인해 최대 7년의 징역형을 받을 수 있습니다.
* 👧 미성년자와의 성관계는 **중범죄**이며, 국적에 관계없이 엄중 처벌됩니다. 상대방의 나이를 확인하고 미성년자임을 의심되면 즉시 만남을 중단해야 합니다.
* 💉 2023년 기준 베트남의 에이즈 감염자 수는 **23만 명 이상**으로, 성관계를 통한 감염률이 **82%**에 달하며 한국보다 10배 이상 높습니다.
* 💔 에이즈 치료 지원이 부족하여 감염 시 **평균 수명이 7년**에 불과하며, 안전한 성관계를 위한 **콘돔 사용**이 필수적입니다.
* 🇰🇷 베트남에서 매춘 관련 범죄에 연루될 경우, **최대 200만 동(약 80 USD)**의 벌금을 내고 풀려날 수 있으나, 미성년자 관련 범죄는 예외입니다.  **법을 거론**하면 과도한 금전 요구를 줄일 수 있습니다.

Hello. This is Bluever, Wise Vietnam Life. What you should be most careful about when you visit Vietnam?

Worst air pollution, 10x foreigner-only overcharges, etc. There are many things that are notorious in Vietnam,

But even if you experience them once, it won't shake your life, cause financial damage, or lead to insurmountable problems.

I think the thing you have to be most careful about in Vietnam is...whatever I think a local woman finds most dangerous.

Because everything is unfamiliar in a foreign country, there are so many variables. There are so many unexpected situations.

Due to communication problems, it's very difficult to solve problems on your own. If a local person decides to rip you off,

as a foreigner, it is very easy to be helpless. Today, problems of hush money in Vietnam, which is a life that goes through a lot...

We will focus on Vietnamese prostitution. Please refer to it unconditionally. Everyone who came to Vietnam, without exception,

from home to home, I sincerely hope that you return safely. Okay, then trust and follow me. Let's go.

Vietnam is from here to there. There is no place that is a 'state-designated prostitution zone'.

Karaoke, massage parlors, barbershops, even the back rooms of rural cafes. Because prostitution is so widespread in everyday life,

no one has any particular thoughts about prostitution for outsiders. Without it, it's easy to think that it's legal, of course.

However, prostitution is illegal in Vietnam. If you come to Vietnam, you can see it everywhere in the country.

You can see a lot of massage shops. Despite the heat on the street, people with heavy makeup, short and sleazy in a skirt,

with her cleavage clearly visible. You can see many women soliciting customers on the street. You can see many women soliciting customers.

If you feel like something decadent, you can probably pay extra. In addition to massage, you can also get prostitution.

If you see them performing similar sexual acts with their hands and mouths, it's possible. In Vietnam, depending on the atmosphere of each city,

the forms and methods of prostitution are also different. Because Hanoi has so many police officers, rather than prostitution that openly seduces men on the streets,

they reside in establishments such as clubs, karaoke bars, barbershops, and local cafes.

There are many women who sell sex.  Ho Chi Minh City, for example, has a much more open atmosphere than Hanoi,

where Hanoi-style prostitution is a given. Furthermore, it's common to see prostitutes openly soliciting customers on the streets, regardless of whether they are domestic or foreign.

In tourist cities like Nha Trang, there's a peculiarity where prostitutes ride motorbikes to find customers. When you go around,

if you feel it, they approach men right away, as if soliciting.  The forms vary depending on the city.

There are situations where you're soliciting prostitutes separately, throughout Vietnam. Whether you are a professional prostitute or an ordinary person,

using dating apps, you can use your smartphone anytime, anywhere. You can easily get sex all over Vietnam.

As soon as a Korean person enters the app, you can easily see dozens of messages flying in at the same time from prostitutes nearby.

You can also see sex under the guise of on-site massage. This is a major Vietnamese sex trafficking route.

Also, in small and medium-sized cities in Vietnam where there aren't many foreigners, it's easy to see prostitution in various forms in various places, according to the diverse needs of local people.

Not only do they systematically arrange prostitution in specific hotels or ordinary homes to avoid police surveillance,

but also prostitution in hospitals for patients, or even in university dormitories. Targeting college students, it's common to see women selling sex for less than 10,000 won.

So, prostitution isn't particularly unusual in everyday life in Vietnam. You can do it anytime, anywhere, if you want.

It's long been a part of the entertainment industry. Most of the time, women sell their bodies to make money; however,

many cases involve pimps who are family members or husbands. And many cases involve women knowingly selling sex.

Social perception of prostitution is definitely very different from Korea. Even if Vietnam simply doesn't crack down on prostitution,

the fact that prostitution is illegal doesn't change.  This means that if you engage in prostitution locally,

it can become a trap that ensnares you at any time. Prostitution that takes place in establishments such as barbershops or massage parlors

however, since the establishment owner usually regularly pays bribes to the local police, there is less risk of a crackdown.

But if someone decides to report it, or in the case of regular crackdowns on prostitution, no matter how well you've paid bribes,

there's no way to escape. You can never be completely free from prostitution crackdowns in Vietnam.

Set-up crimes that occur during prostitution are generally... most of them occur in prostitution arranged through personal meetings on dating apps.

Foreigners, in particular, are bound to be unfamiliar with local conditions. They become the targets of criminals setting them up. Suddenly, the police, or

people pretending to be the woman's family, barge in. That's what makes me the main character of a soap opera!

This is a classic Vietnamese set-up crime. All the beautiful women you see on dating apps, if you think of approaching them for the purpose of prostitution,

even if they look like ordinary people you see often, in many cases, the purpose is prostitution.

The women you see on the app are often foreigners. They are literally scammers who already have a lot of experience.

Don't forget that they just see me as a rich sucker. The romance with the beautiful Vietnamese woman you're seeing now...

You should know that it's just my own idea. The photos of the women in the app are not their own photos.

Facebook Messenger. Most of them are photos of other people, scraped from profile pictures, etc. So if you meet the same woman just by looking at the photos,

when you actually meet, please prepare yourself mentally for the fact that a woman who is different from the photo

might appear. If you ask a woman why her face is different, it's Photoshop, it's because she doesn't wear makeup, etc.

She makes all sorts of excuses not to go and resists. The man feels it's a waste of time he's invested.

It's already too late to call another woman. Ambiguous. This woman who came now is different from the picture, like crying and eating mustard.

Most of the time, they just don't send it. After everything is over and you pay the deposit,

now they start demanding money in earnest. They start asking for tips out of the blue without any justification.

I missed the meal time because I was coming here, so I don't pay for the meal. Different.

I want round-trip transportation. For some reason, I already paid the fee. They keep asking for more money and making me angry.

Money? What money? I already paid it all! What more? If you ask back, suddenly, with a serious expression,

he starts threatening to report all the prostitution to the police. If you call somewhere in Vietnamese, as if they had been waiting right nearby,

local men dressed in police uniforms came, screaming and handcuffing, pushing in. He starts threatening while creating an atmosphere that seems like he's going to be arrested.

All the conversations he's had with women on dating apps so far, he says they're all evidence of prostitution.

One gang member creates a hostile atmosphere; another calms and soothes the victim.  It's a story about money—demanding 200,000 to 300,000 Korean won.  The setup unfolds...

Give me that, and I'll pretend nothing happened. I'll get the woman out cleanly.

I'll reveal my true colors. The more scared and panicked the foreigner, 

the higher the blackmail. If the situation favors them...

In a setup crime under the guise of public security, locals impersonating officers may arrive.

Actual officers might too.  But the goal isn't a crackdown; they're using prostitution as an excuse to rip people off.

Their purpose is profit. However, knowing Vietnam's prostitution penalties for foreigners...

you can respond calmly.  There's no such punishment in Vietnamese criminal law.  If caught, you'll be fined 1–2 million dong (40–100 USD).

You'll be released after paying. Officially, foreigners aren't punished for prostitution in Vietnam; 

you can't be extorted for more than 2 million dong (80 USD). Even in a setup, no need to panic.

You can settle it for 80 USD. If they demand more, say let's go by the law.

The amount demanded will drastically decrease. That's a mild case. There's a far more dangerous setup:

sex with a minor. In Vietnam, sex with a minor under 18

is a serious crime, punishable by up to 7 years in prison.  Strict punishment regardless of nationality.

Crimes committed on Vietnamese soil, whether traveling or residing, are punished equally under local law.

No matter how unfamiliar the local situation is, even if it's a foreigner's trap, once you get caught, you can't even gamble.

A moment of carelessness and a mistake can suddenly lead to imprisonment in Vietnam.  New life can begin. In particular, Vietnamese women are often...

On average, they are smaller in height and size than Korean women because their bones are thin. If you look at Vietnamese women,

it is not easy to estimate their exact real age. Especially if you have a glass of alcohol, the mood will change; swept away...

Is the woman next to me a minor or an adult? It's really dangerous not to be able to tell the difference.

They take advantage of a man's drunken state to deliberately seat a minor. There are many cases of setup fraud in Vietnam.

Once something happens and you get caught, I don't know anything. Even if I... In most cases, the establishment catches the girl because they didn't know she was a minor.

Anyway, if it's a minor, you can think of it as being arrested in the act. If you're arrested for [engaging with] a minor, you can lose everything you've had in Vietnam in an instant.

So you could lose everything you've had in Vietnam, whether it was a personal meeting or a bar meeting.

If you suspect that someone is a minor, make sure to check their ID. If you feel uneasy from the beginning,

meeting another woman from the beginning... In Vietnam, it's best if you say at first that you are not interested in minors.

Only believe what local women say. Later, what kind of situation unfolds in Vietnam? Will it be a hit...

Because no one knows, I don't know about anything else.  Being alert to minors in advance is crucial; caution is the most important thing.

There is another thing to be careful about in Vietnamese prostitution: AIDS infection. The equivalent of our country's Ministry of Health and Welfare...

Vietnam. According to the [Vietnamese] Control Department's 2023 statistics, Vietnam currently has a total of more than 230,000...

AIDS carriers. The AIDS infection route is also higher than blood transfusions or infection during treatment. The rate of transmission through sexual intercourse is rapidly increasing, from 65% to 82%.

For reference, the total number of AIDS-infected people in Korea is 15,000. To that extent,

even if the population is 100 million, which is more than Korea's, the number of AIDS patients is more than 10 times that of Korea.

It is a very serious situation that cannot be hushed up. As you know, Vietnam has state-controlled media,

they rarely release bad news. Socially, AIDS is taboo, and it is simply considered an individual's misfortune.

In reality, the country is turning a blind eye to the patients. With the advancement of medicine worldwide, AIDS is considered a chronic disease like diabetes if you take the medication well and manage it well.

But the trend is to consider it as a chronic disease like diabetes. This is based on the premise that AIDS medication is taken well and

and is managed well by the country. It is absolutely necessary. AIDS treatment is not something you can take for a day or two.

We need at least some support from the country. Vietnam does not have any special support. If you are infected in Vietnam,

even though you know you are infected with AIDS, you let the disease grow on its own and eventually you don't get any treatment.

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