Taichung style
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Police come in to KTV sometimes and check customers for drugs, etc. They bring the staff out of the rooms so can check customers and don’t really check employees for anything. But they also may check the staff for legal age or legal work permit. They do not check for prostitution which only really comes into play if it’s an illegal worker or underage worker or breaking some other law.
When you see pictures or videos or news reports like this, the staff is just being moved out of the rooms so they can check the customers, but these pictures get the most attention. Unless there are illegal employees like foreigners or underage staff.
It’s similar if you’re in a regular pub or bar or something and the police come in sometimes turn the lights on and shut off the music and check IDs and things.
The KTVs for girls with male staff work the same.
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Back in the day, early 2000s, the police would go to nightclubs, shut everything down, take everyone in police vans down to the station and force everyone to provide a urine sample. Couldn’t leave until you did. No probable cause necessary.
I met a guy who had arrived in Taiwan less than 40 days who had gotten caught up in one of these dragnets. He claimed that he hadn’t done any drugs in Taiwan, but had smoked cannabis just before he left the US. He popped positive on the urine test, got fined and had to do the drug rehab jail thingy. He was married to a Taiwanese, so two weeks of “rehab” was ordered.
I believe the Council Of The Grand Justices have ruled that the police can’t do this type of “fishing expedition” without probable cause now.
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At those ktvs?
Pretty in pink
Honestly there are girls who work in ktvs that are not loose and there are those who don’t work in ktvs that ARE loose as a caboose
And we have affection for them too
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Maybe some of the covid free safest places in Taiwan these days.
Restaurants and convenience stores and shopping malls don’t even take these precautions or this strict.
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requiring all customers attending “special entertainment facilities”
the country’s special entertainment facilities
special beauty parlors
special coffee shops
only those with negative results can continue to provide services
There’s a lot of euphemism in that article…
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Creepy photo, especially as you haven’t shown their vaccine certificates. 
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What difference does being triple vaxxed make? Weird.
When you don’t know simple biology and still use the term “loose”.
Aren’t all KTV adult one?
You really need to buy a ticket for the euphemism express.
Why is it every single outbreak their first act is to crackdown on the whorehouses? It’s almost like a movie I once saw where the police chief says to round up the usual suspects….
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is that what the kids are calling them now 
Wait, what??
Curious, anyone have details of this.
Just about anything could be called a coffee shop in Taiwan.
I’m not sure but
In this case I’m picturing small coffee shops, maybe small snacks, bars, some thirty-year-old KTV system, called coffee shop so it doesn’t appear to be a full bar in older neighborhoods where all the old men hang out when they don’t want to be in the house. And maybe some aunties providing waitress and social services.
Could be the license as coffee shop just because
Coffee shop with back rooms for quickies.
Could I get a work permit there?
Elevators in old buildings with no cameras.