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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: Enslavement of women persists despite new law |
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It's a rather lengthy article, so I'll just post the link and print the first and and last paragraphs.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2875617
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Enslavement of women persists despite new law
Cho Jin-kyeong has witnessed some of the worst cases of sex trafficking in Korea. As a veteran activist for Dasi Hamkke (Together Again), a support group that offers aid to victims of forced prostitution, she has tried to help former sex slaves repair their lives.
At her office in the quiet working-class neighborhood of Daebang-dong, not far from what used to be the red light district of Yeongdeungpo, she�s counselled a woman who escaped from an island after suffering years of debt bondage in an unlicensed club, earning 300,000 won ($330) a month in return for selling her body to sailors and tourists.
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�There is certainly a lot of bitterness toward the anti-prostitution act,� she says. �Whenever there is news about overseas trafficking people tend to blame it all on the act, saying that the law forced women overseas. But the act helped to bring the issue up to the surface after it had been suppressed for many years. The real issue is that there is a solid network of politicians, government officials and corporate powerhouses in this country who view the sex trade as a territory that cannot be controlled by the state, because the development of Korean industry was virtually built around the sex trade.�
Even among the supporters of the anti-prostitution law, however, there is general criticism that the government should have taken proper measures to prevent the aftermath of the act before it was put into effect.
�The act itself was an ideal way to kill prostitution,� Yun says. �But we acknowledge that it was introduced too hastily.�
Lee, the director of the International Organization of Migration, agrees.
�We are not surprised about the outcome,� she says. �It�s a major problem that the Korean government often fails to think in terms of the economy when they introduce these new laws that are based on certain values or ideology.�
Meanwhile, the National Police Agency said that it does not keep specific data concerning the number of women who are trafficked abroad. In a press release from the agency last December, however, it says it has prepared a report concerning industry patterns and the initiatives it has taken to crack down on prostitution in Korea.
The report was passed to the FBI, to demonstrate that the government is on top of the trafficking issue as part of its push to join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. The release adds that the agency would continue to participate in a collaborative investigation with the FBI.
But no follow-up contact has been made with the U.S. government since then, according to a source at the agency�s Interpol department.
By Park Soo-mee Staff Writer [[email protected]] |
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Also worrying are some of the 'special' noraebongs (singing rooms) which provide girls on request. I had a friend who developed a bit of a relationship with a girl in one such place, but he was informed by the owner that he could not see her outside of the noraebong for a date unless he paid the owner 250,000 won for a day. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm....Sexual slavery in South Korea? Sexual Slavery in North Korea.
Don't deal with the present. Complain about the past. Don't take a hard look at yourselves. Blame the Japanese. It's easier.
Koreans need to stand up for themselves and put a stop to this. Show the world that they are serious about human rights abuses. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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With this sort of result, does the government really think they are going to get into the Visa waiver program with the U.S.
Once again...a government shooting themselves in the foot.... |
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