May 9th, 2013 at 3:45 am » Comments (6)

Via a reader tip comes news of another prostitution bust in the US involving Koreans: DULUTH, Ga. — Metro Atlanta English language school administrators have been indicted on charges of issuing fraudulent immigration documents to women who worked as prostitutes, authorities said. College Prep Academy CEO Dong Seok Yi, 52, conspired with the school’s academic coordinator, Sook An Kil, 41, to obtain fraudulent documents for women they claimed were students, said U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman Bob Page. The women were working as prostitutes in Korean bars, Page said, and as
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April 22nd, 2013 at 11:56 am » Comments (11)

Via a reader tip comes news that a few Koreans were arrested in Alabama for get this, using a spa for a front for prostitution: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Five people face charges for drugs and prostitution after Birmingham detectives searched a spa on Parkway East. Birmingham Police Department vice detectives searched the Bali Spa at 9533 Parkway East around 11:30 a.m. Friday, according to a news release by Birmingham Police Department spokesman Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr. Soon Ae Corado, 46, of Los Angeles, is charged with opening a house of
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January 21st, 2013 at 6:56 am » Comments (33)

The story below about a high rise brothel in Samseong-dong is currently the top story over at the Korea Times: Police said Sunday they had uncovered a suspected brothel operating in a nine-story building, and fronted by a hostess bar and hotel, in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul. Officers said they found more than 100 females working there as prostitutes. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it arrested the 35-year-old bar owner, surnamed Jung, in its raid on Jan. 10 for hiring the women as “hostesses” since June 2010 and asking them
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January 5th, 2013 at 5:56 am » Comments (7)

Via a reader tip from Tom, comes the below Atlanta Journal-Constitution article that explains how police in Atlanta inflated the numbers of sex trafficking victims to include Koreans to get more government funding: The situation was dire, police warned. The City of Atlanta was under siege by human traffickers. Some 1,000 Asian women and girls ages 13 to 25 were being “forced to prostitute themselves” in the city, a 2005 internal police email said. Many of the victims, police said, were Korean. To free them, police forged ahead with a
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October 31st, 2012 at 4:43 am » Comments (23)

Another Korean prostitution ring has been broke up in the US, this time over in El Paso: The owner of a Central El Paso massage business that was raided two weeks ago was granted bail Monday morning by a U.S. magistrate judge. In Soon Kim, the 60-year-old owner of the Kyoto Hot Stone Spa, 616 N. Virginia, was given a $10,000 bond by U.S. Magistrate Judge Norbert Garney. She was arrested during a Oct. 17 raid of her business by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents.
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October 6th, 2012 at 3:54 am » Comments (33)

Despite bad economic times the sex industry in Korea is still finding a way to thrive: The number of hostess bars, karaoke rooms and clubs has increased during the past few years despite a sluggish economy, according to a parliamentary report released Monday. The report suggests that the so-called sin industry has flourished while consumers have tightened their belts since the 2008 financial crisis. The number of stores registered as “amusement and entertainment business,” including room salons (hostess bars), cabarets, karaoke rooms, pubs and Internet cafes, totaled 192,108 as of
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June 21st, 2012 at 5:02 pm » Comments (35)

Here is an update on overseas Korean prostitution: Around 10 percent of Korean prostitutes work in brothels in the U.S., Japan, Australia and other countries, police estimate. They are also increasingly going to Dubai, according to a report by Busan police for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. According to the Busan Metropolitan Police, most prostitutes working in brothels overseas leave Korea on two-month travel visas and earn W20-30 million (US$1=W1,158) a month. “Half of the sex workers do it to pay off debts and half voluntarily. We estimate
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June 6th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (12)

If anyone is interested there is a presentation Saturday about US military prostitution in Korea.  I have no idea how this is going to be presented, but I would not be surprised if it turns into a bash the US military type of presentation where they blame prostitution in Korea on the US military.  Hopefully it will not.  So I wonder if Professor Lee is going to have a presentation in the future about prostitution in Korea in general or outside of ROK military bases? You can read more information
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May 6th, 2012 at 5:34 pm » Comments (46)

Via a reader tip from the Open Thread comes this news that there is supposedly a lot of Korean prostitutes Down Under: The Australian state with the largest Korean population in the country is currently investigating prostitution involving Korean women, according to a member of the state’s parliament. Victor Michael Dominello, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, said that the investigation started at the request of the Korean multicultural committee he set up. More than 1,000 Korean women are estimated to be involved in prostitution in Australia,
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April 18th, 2012 at 6:35 am » Comments (23)

Further information is coming out now about the US military involvement in the Secret Service scandal in Columbia.  Apparently it was 7 Air Force personnel and 2 Marines who were part of a bomb disposal team that got caught up in this scandal: Investigators believe that as many as 21 women were brought by U.S. Secret Service and military personnel to the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, last week during a night of carousing, a dramatic increase in the number of women previously disclosed by government officials. Officials said 11
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