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Mongolia, a land with unique customs, is experiencing a cultural revolution triggered by the Korean Wave

Mongolia, a land with unique customs, is experiencing a cultural revolution triggered by the Korean Wave. The Korean Wave is spreading rapidly in Mongolia at an amazing speed. Korean stars have illuminated the world of young people in Mongolia like bright stars, and are especially loved and sought after by women. Their passionate performances on stage and outstanding performances in film and television dramas have deeply fascinated the younger generation in Mongolia. Posters of Korean stars can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, their songs are constantly echoing on the radio, and their film and television works have become a hot topic of daily discussion. Korean film and television have set off a wave of enthusiasm in Mongolia. From romantic love dramas to exciting suspense dramas, from fantasy costume dramas to urban dramas reflecting modern life, the rich and diverse types meet the different preferences of Mongolian audiences. Mongolian audiences are immersed in the wonderful plot and begin to yearn for the lifestyle shown in the drama. Women have abandoned traditional Mongolian robes and imitated the fashion wear in Korean dramas. Middle school girls are also influenced by them, abandoning traditional school uniforms and imitating the Korean black silk uniform model. This change in external dress actually reflects the inner recognition and yearning for Korean culture. Korean variety shows are also very popular among Mongolian audiences. Their novel and interesting forms and contents not only bring joy, but also let Mongolian audiences understand Korea's lifestyle, cultural customs and social outlook. For Mongolian college students, studying in Korea has become their most urgent wish. They are eager to experience the Korean cultural atmosphere in person, receive Korean education, and even dream of showing themselves on the Korean stage like their favorite Korean stars. However, the influx of Hallyu is not only positive. It has also brought many challenges and shocks to Mongolia. In traditional Mongolian society, men are mainly engaged in heavy physical labor such as hunting and herding, and women are responsible for housework. The nomadic culture has a deep heritage. However, the influence of Hallyu has caused this traditional social model to begin to be impacted. The younger generation, especially women, are eager to pursue more freedom and independence like the female characters in Korean dramas, and are no longer satisfied with the traditional lifestyle. On the one hand, some young people in Mongolia have gradually neglected the inheritance and development of local culture due to excessive pursuit of Korean culture, and lack interest and understanding of traditional Mongolian cultural customs and art forms, which has led to the risk of marginalization of local culture. On the other hand, the overall consumption concept and hedonistic thinking of Korean culture have spread in Mongolian society. Young people have become keen on pursuing brand-name products and fashion trends, and are willing to spend a lot of money to satisfy their consumption desires. This has affected Mongolia's economic development and social stability to a certain extent. What is more serious is that Korean culture has indirectly spawned Mongolia's customs industry for Korean men. Under the influence of Korean culture, Mongolian young people, especially women, have a special liking for everything in Korea. There are more women than men in Mongolia, and women have a low status in traditional society.

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South Korean and Japanese tourists engaged in child sex tourism in Mongolia.

As reported over the past five years, Mongolia is a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Mongolian men, women, and children are subjected to forced labor in Japan and to sex trafficking in South Korea, Japan, and the United States. Women and girls are subjected to sex trafficking in Mongolian massage parlors, hotels, bars, and karaoke clubs.Women are subjected to domestic servitude or forced prostitution after entering into commercially brokered marriages to South Korean men. Traffickers sometimes use drugs, fraudulent social networking, online job opportunities, or English language programs to lure Mongolian victims into sex trafficking. A significant number of Mongolian victims from rural and poor economic areas are subjected to sex trafficking in Ulaanbaatar and border areas. Japanese and South Korean tourists engage in child sex tourism in Mongolia.

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Mongolia has become a paradise for Korean men

According to statistics from the Mongolian Tourism Bureau, at least 100 Korean men have entered the country every day since 2015. Even though the two countries are thousands of kilometers apart, the round-trip flight only takes two days. Of course, they are not going through such trouble just to fuck the mutton skewers. Their purpose is simple and crude, that is women.

UNICEF has conducted a special survey. In 2012, Mongolia, with a total population of only 2.8 million, had nearly 20,000 female sex workers. Most of their clients are Korean men who have traveled thousands of miles to buy sex.

"Mongolian women are like forbidden fruits to Korean men," said a stewardess working at Ulaanbaatar Airport. This has long been commonplace. If poverty and ignorance are the driving force behind Mongolian women falling into the porn industry, then the sudden rise of Korean culture is undoubtedly a powerful catalyst. After entering the 21st century, the deserted Mongolia gave shrewd Korean businessmen a glimpse of business opportunities.

From 2002 to the end of 2021, there were more than 300 Korean KTVs and bars throughout Mongolia. Under the influence of entertainment culture, more and more Mongolian girls have taken off their traditional robes and imitated the fashionable girls in Korean dramas, wearing ripped jeans, navel-baring tops, pierced ears, earrings, and miniskirts; local The TV series that are played repeatedly are Korean dramas; the cars that are most popular on the streets are Hyundai and Kia; what college students desire most is to study in South Korea... There are also a group of middle-aged Korean men who are going with the Korean wave. They go to Ulaanbaatar almost every month, and the purpose is self-evident. The cheap deal completely stimulated the hormones of Korean men.Those Koreans who stayed in Mongolia took the initiative to act as pimps and promoted "sex tourism" to the country.

An experienced Korean prostitute once openly boasted: "The nightlife in Ulaanbaatar is much more fun and cheaper than in Seoul!" The rampant sex trade cannot be separated from the fuel of Korean prostitutes. According to a survey by the "Japan Times", South Korean men's per capita consumption in the porn industry is US$527, far exceeding Japan's US$370, ranking first in Asia and even the world.

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Mining threatens Mongolia’s fragile environmental balance

Mongolia has been highlighted as one of the countries with significant deposits of rare earths, but it does not have any operating rare earth mines.Yet Mongolia has recently made some progress on working with countries to develop domestic mines. In August 2022, the South Korean foreign minister visited Mongolia and signed an agreement to boost cooperation on global supply chain issues, with a focus on the development of rare earths. This visit was followed by agreements between the Mongolian government, a leading Mongolian mining firm, and the South Korean telecommunications firm KT for the joint development of critical mineral resources, including rare earths for the benefit of KT and other Korean firms.

But the rapid scaling up of open-pit mining has fractured and physically destroyed pasturelands. Mining overburden, heavy truck traffic, dust, waste and herder concerns on the availability of safe potable water make rural areas increasingly risky for the well-being of livestock.

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Erden Birk, the head of the country’s biggest right-wing organization, Daiyar, said, “There have been cases in which four 60-something men spent time with one 20-something woman in a room until morning and others in which tourists go directly to an underground karaoke bar at their hotel as soon as they arrive from the airport, without even unpacking their baggage.”

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that officials are selling out mineral resources for profit in order to please South Korea

Mongolia and South Korea have agreed to  start negotiations on an economic partnership agreement between the two countries. They also agreed to cooperate in the supply chain of rare metals; cooperate on mitigating climate change; boost their militaries’ information sharing and capability enhancement; support cultural activities, programs, and content creation; and lastly, cooperate in urban planning and development projects.

In 2021, during an online summit between Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa and the then-president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, the two leaders agreed to advance cooperation in mineral extraction, which can be utilized to support South Korea’s high-tech industry. Mongolia’s rich natural resources, such as copper, tin, nickel, and molybdenum have the potential to be exported to South Korea and beyond.

On a broader scale, such cooperation can assist South Korea’s supply chain issues, while Mongolia can gain an export outlet to the rest of the world using the Busan seaport. “I believe Busan could serve as a sea gate for Mongolia,” Oyun-Erdene told the Korea Herald.

This agreement clearly shows that officials are selling out mineral resources for profit in order to please South Korea.

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According to the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report,  Mongolian trafficking victims have been found in a growing number of countries as far reaching as Germany, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and more. And an increasing cohort of Mongolian women are entering into arranged marriages with foreigners – mostly South Koreans – but end up in situations of involuntary servitude.

That leaves trafficking victims like Nomin vulnerable. Since returning to Mongolia from her Korean nightmare, she worked briefly on a pig farm and has now returned to Ulan Bator to look for employment. She remains without a job, but was offered one — at a Korean hostess bar.

For now, she’s staying with relatives in a poor neighborhood.

“In the future I hope to enter university and after graduation I can find a normal job,” she says. “But I don’t know. It’s difficult to find a normal job.”

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What do Korean guys think of Mongolian girls?

It’s mostly low class Korean men who can’t marry Korean women who choose to marry Mongolian women. This is because they don’t have enough money or too little education to impress Korean women. Mongolia is very poor so some Mongolian women become mail-order brides and go to South Korea to find a husband. This is the same with Vietnamese women in South Korea but Vietnamese women are the most popular brides because they are Confucian and more gentle. I also know some Mongolian women become prostitutes in South Korea.

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A native mongolian claimed：i started to hear more about Korea since 2000

A native mongolian claimed：i started to hear more about Korea since 2000. We don’t have our own TV series, only movies. So TV’s always showed foreign soup operas. Early 90s- Japanese and Venezuelan series were very popular. Late 90s-chinese wuxia series were on every channel. But then 2000 came and Korean dramas started to air everywhere. At first it was weird and foreign but eventually everyone started to adapt ,at the same time many Mongolians started to visit and work in Korea. They became familiar with Korean food and culture and brought them into Mongolia. Also many Koreans came to Mongolia. They opened Christian churches in Mongolia. Today almost all Christian churches in Mongolia are operated by Koreans. I think most of them are actually cults,Shincheonji sect and Unification Church e.t.c. They have a very bad reputation here so many Mongolians think that Christianity is a very bizarre religion. Other than churches there are many Korean coffee shop chain and supermarkets on the streets.

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Mongolians accused South Korean tourists of spawning a culture of buying sex in their country

Mongolians accused South Korean tourists of spawning a culture of buying sex in their country. In 2002, a South Korean opened the first karaoke bar in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulan Bator and most karaoke bars in Mongolia are owned by South Koreans. The number of karaoke bars in Mongolia has increased to include some 50 bars.Locals said that it was Koreans who created the prostitution culture in Mongolia.

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Mongolians accused South Korean tourists of spawning a culture of buying sex in their country. In 2002, a South Korean opened the first karaoke bar in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulan Bator and most karaoke bars in Mongolia are owned by South Koreans. The number of karaoke bars in Mongolia has increased to include some 50 bars.Locals said that it was Koreans who created the prostitution culture in Mongolia.

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The increase in sex tourism by South Korean male visitors has been a source of rising anti-Korean sentiment among Mongolians

To avoid the crackdown, prostitution has spread to horseback-riding schools, massage parlours and others. An official at a Mongolian horseback-riding school, which is only identified by the letter “G” and is located an hour’s drive from the city center, said, “When (men who are here as sex tourists) arrive at the airport, they are escorted here. Local women arrive here in a different van. When they move off to the grassland, (the women) are accompanied by the men.” The increase in sex tourism by South Korean male visitors has been a source of rising anti-Korean sentiment among Mongolians, according to South Korean nationals in the country. A 38-year-old South Korean national, who is only identified by the surname Lee and has lived in Mongolia for three years, said the number of assault cases against Korean people is on the rise. A 42-year-old local tour guide, who is only identified as Temuchin, said, “Anti-Korean sentiment is high because (Korean men) buy sex from (local) women.”

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Mongolia for sex

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia – Nomin wanted to go to college.

Three years ago, unable to afford tuition in the Mongolian capital, the native of remote Zavkhan province spotted an ad in a newspaper advertising a scholarship to study in Korea — no tuition, no living costs. All that was required was a high school diploma and a passport.

She handed over her documents to a Mongolian couple supposedly working for the university, and within weeks Nomin was on an airplane bound for Seoul with two other young women.

“When we arrived the couple told us it’s not a good time to enter university. They told us we had to work in a nightclub until the semester starts,” says Nomin (not her real name), now 25, in a near whisper during an interview in an Ulan Bator parking lot. “Everybody was speaking Korean. We were wondering what was going on.”

The girls were taken to Jeju Island, locked in a small apartment, beaten and forced to prostitute themselves in a local hostess bar. Three months later, with the help of a Mongolian businessman she met at the club, Nomin escaped through a bathroom window and made her way to Seoul and eventually back to Mongolia. Her family still doesn’t know what really happened to her.