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I visited Seoul in 2003 and stayed in some random hotel. In that hotel was one channel clearly run by the American military.

I was horrified to see it had public service announcement type announcements to tell US Military personal that selling Korean women into sex slavery is illegal!!!

The fact that they actually had to send that message.... WTF!!!

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The Armed Forces Network (AFN) broadcasts American media to overseas troops, so long as they agree not to show commercials. Programs still have commercial breaks, so all of the commercials are PSAs developed for/by the military, hence why you saw that commercial.

Human trafficking is a real concern overseas, including in US military areas. The PSAs serve two purposes; to educate troops so they make good decisions and for leverage to hammer them when they don't. (How many times have you seen that trafficking commercial played on AFN a dozen times a week? You should have known better).

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