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wylies99
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 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:51 am Post subject: 1,400 Nabbed for Prostitution in a Week |
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1,400 Nabbed for Prostitution in a Week
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/04/117_43319.html
By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
More than 1,400 people have been caught buying, selling, or brokering sex around the country over the last ten days, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
The agency launched a nationwide crackdown on brothels on April 6 continuing until the end of May.
It apprehended a total of 1,477 people involved in prostitution during the first seven days, taking 14 of them into custody.
Among those were 15 building owners allowing pimps to conduct business there, 814 customers and 369 prostitutes.
More than half, or 820 of those detained were from Seoul and its surrounding areas ― 340 from Gyeonggi Province, 268 from Seoul, and 212 from Incheon, the nation's second largest port city located west of the capital.
The majority of those caught were at brothels disguised as ``massage clubs,'' the agency said, but 159 were found to have paid for sex from women they met through online chat rooms.
Under the Anti-Prostitution Law, prostitutes and their customers can face up to one year in prison, or a three million won fine, while brokers face up to seven years in prison or 70 million won in fines. Those purchasing or brokering sex with minors face harsher punishment.
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wylies99
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Didn't pay their collection bribes? 
How many could they arrest if the police actually TRIED to stop prostitution? |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| disguised as ``massage clubs |
Wow, that disguise is right up there with Clark Kent's glasses. |
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semi-fly
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| I'm kind of surprised someone hasn't tried to run a "club" via the numerous love motels that flower the Korean peninsula. Humor aside, they've been trying to halt the "prostitution" thing for a while now with little success, do they think this will actually do anything other than quite things down for a week or a month? |
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bobbybigfoot
Joined: 05 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, man. I guess I gotta stay out of the brothels until June. |
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lestat_duvoise
Joined: 02 Apr 2009
Location: Pellington
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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STATS!....I tell you!
I want STATS on this!......I don't believe an ounce of this BS unless I see some cold hard STATS!...........Let me say it again.....I WANT, NO, I NEED STATS!!!.....
You Hear ME!!!!!
STATS-STATS-STATS!!!!!!! |
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