May 21st, 2013 at 4:29 am » Comments (7)

It will be interesting to see whether or not this gets passed because there is probably a lot of Korean lawmakers involved in this activity that would have to vote for it: SEOUL, May 21 (Yonhap) — An opposition lawmaker on Tuesday called for banning sex as a tool for gaining professional favors, saying it should be punished in the same way as prostitution. Rep. You Seung-hee of the main opposition Democratic Party said she has submitted a revision bill of a related law to the National Assembly, calling for
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May 14th, 2013 at 10:01 pm » Comments (28)

The Mayor of Osaka sure knows how to draw attention to himself for the wrong reasons: U.S. servicemembers should consider soliciting prostitutes to control their “sexual energies,” the mayor of Osaka said Monday. It was a suggestion that apparently didn’t get very far with a Marine commander in Okinawa. Toru Hashimoto, who also co-leads the Japan Restoration Party in the Japanese national parliament, told reporters Monday that he visited with Marine Corps Air Station Futenma’s commander last month and told him that servicemembers should make more use of Japan’s legalized
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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 1st, 2013 at 1:35 pm » Comments (9)

Police investigators raid the villa at the center of a widening sex bribery scandal on March 31, 2013, in Wonju, about 130 kilometers east of Seoul. Police suspect the owner of the estate, a construction contractor surnamed Yoon, invited public officials to the villa for sex parties and sought business favors in return. (Yonhap)

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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November 13th, 2012 at 6:37 pm » Comments (1)

The Chosun Ilbo is reporting that many North Korean defectors eventually turn to crime to make ends meet in South Korea: The number of crimes committed by North Korean defectors in South Korea is rising dramatically. The offenses range from real estate and insurance fraud to drug dealing and the sex trade, and the victims are often other North Korean defectors. The number of defectors is expected to reach 25,000 by the end of the year. According to the [South] Korean Institute of Criminology, 899 defectors were nabbed between 1998
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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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