By For those that don’t know prostitution is legal in Australia, but it appears these girls were trafficked thus the concern from authorities:
Eleven South Korean nationals were reported to have been engaged in work as prostitutes in Australia since 2006 while under the working-holiday visa program, a government report said Thursday.
The report by South Korea’s foreign ministry came after Seoul and Canberra agreed this week to bolster cooperation on investigating the alleged trafficking of some Korean women in Australia and coerced prostitution by abusing the visa program. [Yonhap]
6:24 pm on November 17th, 2011 1
Absolutely can’t be true, only US Service members abuse and degrade the righteous pure Korean women.
8:06 pm on November 17th, 2011 2
“some” Korean women, yes Yonhap we get it. We know all Korean women are not trafficked, congratulations Korea
8:30 pm on November 17th, 2011 3
This was one of the reasons why the U.S. had visa requirements for all Koreans travelling to the states where they needed a visa for any period of travel there. It has since been lifted a few years ago, but until that point there was some fear of Korean women turning to prostitution, similar to what happened in this case. Since it is legal in Australia, it may be more of a problem or common since it has reached the diplomatic level there.
9:29 pm on November 17th, 2011 4
prostitution in Australia
Apparently, is legal in some states, illegal in other states and in some of the states where prostitution is legal; living off the earnings of a prostitute (i.e. being a pimp or 비끼) is illegal.
9:34 pm on November 17th, 2011 5
Way better than the religiously hypocrite-righteous North Americans….
Prostitution is one of the oldest profession of mankind (womankind?) …
As long as women are not exploited… why should it be considered illegal?
Never knew Aussies were such cool people…
10:17 pm on November 17th, 2011 6
#5
Agree. But I’ve always been advocating that.
Since the recession, there had been a number of stories about U.S. women turning to stripping for work or to supplement their incomes. There were also stories about co-eds seeking sugar daddies to help pay their tuition. Let’s not pretend that’s as far as it goes. We need to pull our heads out (no pun) and stop denying the legitimacy of an essential market. As long as it’s going to happen, just make it safe and regulated.
If
prostitutionconsensual escort services were legalized/decriminalized and taxed it would definitely help stimulate the economy and there would be many fewer women needing public support.10:37 pm on November 17th, 2011 7
Totally agree that it should be legalized and regulated. Mandatory health checkups, even a union and labor laws. Right now gangs and organized crime are controlling the illegal prostitution industry exactly like their controlling the illegal drug industry. Legalize it and all that money comes to the surface where it can be tracked, also forces the gangs out of the business as they won’t be able to compete with a legitimate business.
10:43 pm on November 17th, 2011 8
Hell, in Nevada, prostitution and brothels are legal, but they are heavily regulated by the state.
P.S. Nice use of “some”, well, I guess you can’t blame a state-run news agency.
10:50 pm on November 17th, 2011 9
8. These facilities are of course off limits to our
Crusader, Knight, MonksI mean soldiers… right?11:27 pm on November 17th, 2011 10
Maybe the reason these Korean women are going to Australia,is because the local Korean Police departments have started cracking down on brothels in Korea. I know that prostitution is illegal in Korea, but for decades nobody really cared. Now, local government are trying to put the hookers out of business. What is a poor hooker to do but look for employment overseas?
3:37 am on November 18th, 2011 11
BeerBelly,
Are you sure “nobody” cared? When it comes to anyone other than a Korean male buying a Korean woman for sex there seems to be a problem. Weren’t you aware of that or are you just being obtuse? Check out the Korean mediaand the National Assembly-Youido freaking out whenever a Waygook/Foreigner might have sex with a Korean female on the trust of a very well know Korean HATE group called Anti-English Spectrum. That 20 thosand member Naver cafe group comes to mind once when they…God forbid found a condum in an English teacher’s trash/garbage bag after illegally stalking him.
Can you imagine a Korean male actually having a condom in his garbage/trash. Now that is worth writing about AND holding a grudge/reason to HATE
4:14 am on November 18th, 2011 12
#10
What’s a hoe to do?
4:45 am on November 18th, 2011 13
Set my Hookers FREE !!!!
(with reasonable rates)
7:27 am on November 18th, 2011 14
Yes! Hookers have right to pursuit of happiness just like every Johns of this God forsaken world !!!
9:07 am on November 18th, 2011 15
“Legalize it and all that money comes to the surface where it can be tracked, also forces the gangs out of the business as they won’t be able to compete with a legitimate business.”
Dude, who can afford and will bother to open up legitimate brothels other than gang members? You think these guys don’t have millions stashed away in front businesses ready to be reinvested in bigger and better brothels if the government legalizes it? Don’t be naive.
9:15 am on November 18th, 2011 16
“Yes! Hookers have right to pursuit of happiness just like every Johns of this God forsaken world !!!”
Well, I’d say most of them are not mentally unstable because they were sexually abused as kids and so in their case happiness is only relative…But, yes, they have the right to earn a living, even if they have issues. Question is, are they being exploited? They probably are…Then again, is a low-level corporate employee working himself into an early grave because of stress being exploited?
1:14 pm on November 18th, 2011 17
SockPuppet, you could go so far as to include “soldier” in that mix.
Are they being “exploited”? You could made the argument that they are indeed, being exploited. Low pay, long hours, away from family, difficult-dangerious and dirty work. Yes, you can make that argument.
I have known a few Hookers. I have paid what they asked, for an hour of their time. Not all of them were what we call “young” either. Something to be said for experience.
Just because a woman is “hooking”, doesn’t mean she has a problem with her head.
She is simply more honest than a wife.
You don’t always get what you pay for. Ask anyone paying alimony.
2:16 pm on November 18th, 2011 18
Nothing screams hypocrite like a society claiming to be morally superior to sexually deviant foreign “barbarians” yet have thousands upon thousands of “love” hotels in which you can rent rooms by the half hour.
4:20 pm on November 18th, 2011 19
#17,
Sure, soldiers are being exploited. They’ve been cleaning up the mess made by politicians (on purpose and by accident) for thousands of years.
On a related note…Archeologists have unearthed a mass grave in Lithuania which explained why Napoleon was eventually defeated: a large percentage (80%) of his soldiers were suffering from syphilis.
4:23 pm on November 18th, 2011 20
#18,
Depends. One could argue that morality is culturally relative. Xenophobia, on the other hand, is inexcusable.
4:26 pm on November 18th, 2011 21
#19,…
There were quite a few women in the grave, too. You see, in the good old days, when people were supposedly so quaint, prostitutes traveled with the soldiers. In hindsight, that probably wasn’t a good tactical decision on Napoleon’s part.
5:42 pm on November 18th, 2011 22
SOCK #21,
There you go!!! Bringing up comfort women again.
7:49 pm on November 18th, 2011 23
#22,
Those women were professionals. Napoleon abolished slavery in 1794.
7:51 pm on November 18th, 2011 24
Correction, it was the First French Republic which abolished slavery in 1794, not the First French Empire.
5:35 pm on December 18th, 2011 25
Only 11? It could be more than 100s.
It is not surprising.
My Korean male friend told me that South Korea is so poor,
so they come to Australia by a working holiday visa to work.
Not because they are interested in Australia, they just want to earn some money because there are no jobs in South Korea (especially uneducated girls). He also said that prostitution in Korea is very common job for a lot of poor women since long long years ago. There were even demos by Korean prostitutes in South Korea asking for
a legal right to work as a prostitute. A lot of Korean women “want to” work as a prostitute, they are choosing the job. That is their culture.