There’s been a lot of political tension over the last two years between Korea and Japan. Territorial disputes. Yasukuni Shrine. Comfort women.
But when all’s said and done, there’s one great unifier: sex.
Korea does not have a very vibrant porn industry and Korean men look to JAV to fill their needs.
“Yadong” means a porn video you watch online or on your computer. Whatever they think about certain rocks in the sea between Japan and the peninsula, almost all men in Korea love Japanese anime and Japanese porn.
Due to local restrictions you don’t have the major porn makers in Korea like you get in Japan and so most porn is Japanese. “Yadong” by default means Japanese pornography.
What Koreans like about JAV is how there is such a variety of narratives and situations, and how it ventures frequently into the abnormal.
And of course, they love the JAV actresses too… One website lists the most popular JAV stars of 2013, taken from YGOSU, a Korean forum site.
The most popular were Shion Utsunomiya, Minami Kojima, Akiho Yoshizawa, Minami Hatsukawa and Ai Uehara.
We wonder if it is a mere coincidence that there are two girls with the names “Minami” in the top ranking? “Minami” means “south”, obviously an important word for Korea!