In the early 1990's outside of Yongsan, about 1/2 the bars were, I'm pretty sure, brothels. It was quite annoying, actually, figuring out which were actually bars and which were for paying for very high priced shots of whiskey. In the latter part of the 90's in Pusan, most of the prostitutes I saw were Russians. In fact, every port we went in had Russian prostitutes (including the UAE).

I've don't recall ever being told before a port call, tdy or deployment that purchasing sex would be a UCMJ offense - Like my superiors did for me, I advised my subordinates that if they were going to do that sort of thing to be smart about it. Of course, we always got the "slide show" with graphic examples of what STD's could do. That was always enough to deter me, even if I was inclined to engage such services.