south korean television network mbc made a video where they interviewed filipino hostesses at a hostess bar which was located somewhere on the island of cebu in the philippines. in the english-language dub by link tv of the original mbc video, the narrator referenced the hostess bar when he said that "many of the women who work here are kopino mothers working to support their babies after being abandoned by korean men," and the narrator said that "the majority of kopinos are born from hostess bars."