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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 1:58 pm Post subject: Sex flyers target of gov�t crackdown |
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It's about time, if it's true. These flyers and cards are everywhere.
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2972680&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist1
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At night on the streets of Gangnam Boulevard and other Gangnam areas, including Nonheyon-dong and Yeoksam-dong in southern Seoul, flyers with half-naked women and phone numbers cover the pavement.
By simply picking one up and dialing the number, people can turn a trick.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said yesterday it cracked down on the distributing of these flyers in Gangnam and areas in Gyeonggi, including Suwon, Siheung, Ansan and Bucheon.
It worked in cooperation with the Seoul Metropolitan Agency and Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency on May 29 and 30, arresting 14 people for distributing those flyers and offering prostitution.
It added that they also confiscated a total of 6,470 flyers as evidence.
If a person dials a number printed on a flyer, a manager who connects prostitutes with customers picks up the phone. Those managers explain where customers should go.
The ministry explained that it is hard to target people involved in this prostitution scheme because owners of the prostitution business, middlemen who produce flyers and flyer distributors work together.
Allegedly, they do not know each others� faces and communicate only via mobile. Not many people know where those flyers are produced.
According to the ministry, the prostitution business operators produce flyers and then hand them over to a middleman.
The middleman then hires a part-time worker on the Internet and tells the worker to come to a certain place or a stash box, such as a paid locker in a subway station.
There are different ways the flyers are distributed.
One classic way is using a bike similar to that of a delivery driver.
While one person drives, the other sits on the back and throws them onto the street.
Some distributors put flyers in their backpacks and just distribute them indiscriminately while walking down the sidewalk.
Others even go to lengths to modify their cars, making a big hole in the floor and tossing the flyers through the hole while the car drives down the street.
The ministry said those flyers are mostly distributed from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and target areas such as men�s restrooms, parking lots, public phone booths and, of course, areas near adult entertainment venues.
Some of these flyers have recently been found in residential areas and school zones, forcing children to see these lewd ads.
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I hate those guys on motorcycles throwing cards into the street as they ride past. Scum. |
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Deja
Joined: 18 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Would they mind cracking down on smoking in places where it is not allowed first? I still can't figure the naked jackasses in the gym restrooms trying to find a lighter and not giving a f*** that there are 20 "no smoking" signs in a 10m2 area!
At least the prostitution is in areas where you go only when you want exactly that. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| So if I dial one of those numbers, I'll start turning tricks? |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| How long will that last? Ha ha. Seriously, put them all in a legal area. No advertising. Let them be visited as everyone will know where it is and leave the rest of us alone. A lot of places in Korea have seperate ventilated smoking rooms. This way people can be seperate from each other and all can be happy. Shame the west doesn't do that. |
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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| That article was talking about all these roundabout ways people throw those cards. I saw a lady in a car just tossing them out the window; I guess she just had some balls or something. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| By "crackdown" I think they mean they're not going to do anything about it. |
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3DR
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| By "crackdown" I think they mean they're not going to do anything about it. |
Just can't win can they? lol
Negative Nancy. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| 3DR wrote: |
| fermentation wrote: |
| By "crackdown" I think they mean they're not going to do anything about it. |
Just can't win can they? lol
Negative Nancy. |
That's the nature of 'crackdowns' in Korea. One concerted show of strength which might result in a slowing down of whatever illicit activity is being targeted, then things go pretty much back to normal after a few months. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I've seen the flyers and cards everywhere I've lived in Korea and I've seen them around every school. The Korean kids must see them all of the time. What about you? Do you remember "bending over" girl? Or "here are my boobs" girl"? |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| That's the nature of 'crackdowns' in Korea. One concerted show of strength which might result in a slowing down of whatever illicit activity is being targeted, then things go pretty much back to normal after a few months. |
You misspelled minutes. |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ive noticed the guys around our way hide their faces and dont have plates on the scooters. i think it would be impossible to stop them (re- recent vid of 17 ploice cars trying to unsucessfully run down two teenage boys on a scooter). |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:43 am Post subject: |
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This couldn't happen at a worse time. I only need six more cards to complete my set for the 2013 season  |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| Good initiative. It will cut down on littering. |
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Nolos
Joined: 23 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| you ever notice how they are all cleaned up by the next day? They provide a living for the old ajummas and ajusshis |
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