The Women Outside (1996)
1h
Running Time
July 16, 1996Release Date

Plot.
They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to be forced into the world's oldest profession. They're the women who work in the camptowns that surround U.S. military bases in South Korea. In 40 years, over a million women have worked in Korea's military sex industry, but their existence has never been officially acknowledged by either government. In The Women Outside, a film by J.T. Orinne Takagi and Hye Jung Park, some of these women bravely speak out about their lives for the first time. The film raises provocative questions about military policy, economic survival, and the role of women in global geopolitics
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Cast & Crew.

J.T. Takagi
Director

Hye Jung Park
Director

Ninotchka Rosca
Narrator

Jason Hwang
Composer

Sandra Chandler
Cinematographer

Ellen Kuras
Cinematographer

Herman Lew
Cinematographer

Emiko Omori
Cinematographer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
military base
prostitution
sex trafficking
military
sex trade
imperialism
comfort women
u.s. military bases
Wiki.
The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military is a 60 minute 1995 documentary film created by film/video makers Hye Jung Park and J.T. Takagi. The film details the experiences of South Korean women who work in U.S. military camptown brothels, bars, or clubs, exposing how the South Korean government and U.S. military mutually benefit from the sexual exploitation of women.