Dancing Girls

When a Korean business opens or they want to advertise they hire dancing girls. These are young women,that I assume are generally 19-25 years old and they dress in cheerleader like outfits with a 80's twist. They always wear skirts even in the snow, although this is common all over, women here wear winter leggings under their skirts. They stand on circular platforms that remind me of american gladiator platforms and they dance and say sales pitches into microphones.They repeat the slogans or pitches and talk to people who are walking by and try and get them to go in the business. There is also loud music playing, its very noticeable so I suppose it does its job but I often wonder how much it costs to rent these girls and the stage and sometimes there are balloons and flowers and those inflatable guys. I once read a blog that suggested that the girls that do this where once cheerleaders, then they become dancing girls and eventually they go into being coffee girls. Coffee girls are girls who ride around on scooters and deliver coffee to old men and talk to them, its kind of like strippers on scooters with coffee. This is a unique Korean cultural phenomenon, at least it is to my knowledge maybe this type of advertising happens in other countries but I have talked to many English teachers who have taught all over the world and no one has ever seen this before!