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[Tiger Beer]

Anyone know any sources for LEGAL RIGHTS FOR FILIPINA MUSICIANS.

If anyone knows Koreans...they have a ROUTINE HABIT of going down to the Philippines....getting professional female musicians, giving them an entertainment visa to play music...and then immediately throw them into a juicy bar against their will as they 'processed their visa' until it gets paid off, etc. All the typical Korean B.S.

Anyone know any LEGAL RIGHTS for Filipina musicians who have this happen to them?

[Guri Guy]

Human trafficking and human rights violations against foreigners and Koreans is common in South Korea. They also lure young South Korean women to Australia, USA and other countries and take their passport and press them into work in such places.
Morally bankrupt comes to mind.

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

What's a "juicy bar"?

[I-am-me]

Lol...I think most filipinos know what an "entertainment" visa is. I have not heard of filipino band members being forced to work as juicy girls unless it was told to them ahead of time. Some of the bands also have guys and I am sure they are not juicy boys. Take her down to immigration and that should solve the problem. The catholic church also works for the rights of filipinos so that could be another stop.

[wylies99]

A prostitution ploy?

[Xuanzang]

Contact Amnesty International. They would know

[sojusucks]

[sojusucks]

[Guri Guy]

Koreans don't discriminate here. They traffick Koreans and non-Koreans alike.

[poet13]

It definitely happens here. I and a mate rescued a Filipina girl who originally was singing in a 4 piece band in the Pyeongtaek Hotel (the street opposite the main gate at Humphreys and turn left after a block or two.) This was in 2001. She and I got along well. I was staying there (in the hotel) for the summer while I did a TDY at Humphreys. One day she calls me up and says, "I think I'm in trouble." They had moved her down to some city near the southern coast, taken away her passport, and locked her in an apartment with some guy to look over her. Apparently he sat by the door all day long. She said that since they couldn't place her entire band in a new place (apparently a four piece is difficult) they broke it up, and she was going to work in a bar. She understood enough Korean to know that her virginity was going to be sold. She was 23 at the time. I and a mate 'borrowed' a humvee from base, drove down to that city, and while he knocked on the door and asked stupid questions, I scooted her out the back window, sans passport, guitar, suitcase, clothes, toothbrush, everything. We hid her out on Walker for a while, then Henry, Humphreys, and Casey. She had to follow my work schedule.... Eventually we got her hooked up with the Filipino underground in Seoul and she's been working in factories ever since.

[Straphanger]

[bjonothan]

[Straphanger]

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

The one group who as part of the UN who deals with the lot of irregular migrants is the International Organization for Migration (IOM) but I would not hold out much hope of their Seoul office being much help as last time I checked their only program was investigating Koreans trafficked into Japan.

[ZenMoto]

Isn't there an embassy for the Philippines here in Seoul ?.... Or perhaps the US embassy works with the Philippines ?... I would think that would be the first place to go to get a new passport and ask for assistance after being kidnapped in a foreign country ?

It probably depends on whether or not the girl actually wants to go home or if she just doesn't want to be raped.

Good job to the Army guy who got her out of that bad situation... You should have brought a few more friends on your rescue mission and kicked the dude who was guarding her in the nuts a few times... Then you could have got all of her stuff.