Texas County Declares War on Korean Brothels
In this TV image grab, police arrest sex workers in Harris County in Houston, Texas in early May. /Courtesy of ABC 13.
Harris County in Houston, Texas has declared war on Korean brothels, seeking to stamp out prostitution and other illegal activity. The county on Wednesday submitted a petition to a local court seeking to close down three massage parlors and one night club run by Koreans.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Harris County wrote in the petition that the proprietors "use young women, mostly from Korea, to perform services." County officials are seeking a court order to shut them down for one year.
It is rare for a U.S. county to single out a particular establishment for closure, but there had been constant complaints from local residents. "According to a news release from Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan's office, hundreds of calls for service have been made to law enforcement agencies since 2009 resulting in 57 investigations," the paper said. A police raid on the massage parlors resulted in the arrests of seven sex workers, six of them Korean.
City officials in Los Angeles, Atlanta and New Jersey, which have large Korean populations, are also having a hard time trying to deal with Korean brothels. The situation is the same in Australia, Japan and other countries.
Late last year, the Washington Post said there were more than 80 Asian women in the northern Virginia region engaged in prostitution, most of them Korean. It said they come to the U.S. in search of a new life, but most of them cannot escape the shackles of prostitution.
englishnews@chosun.com / Jun. 15, 2012 11:16 KST
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/south-korea/TH2OFOFQP3K9IKCEC/p9
South Koreans addicted to prostitution
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In most civilized countries..even in Japan, you will find that society allows people to have a variety of opinions. You can find people in Japan who support Korea's claim to Dokdo as well as the opposite. This is a sign of a true, modern, civilized nation.
However, in Korea, if a person expresses an opinion that Dokdo is Japanese, the government, society and media will issue a death threat against that person. This is how barbaric, 3rd world, backwards thinking nations in the Middle East behave. Korea is exactly the same.
Well, you see in Japan, America and Europe, ultranationalist/xenophobic racist groups are a fringe minority who are looked upon by the majority with disdain, ridicule and contempt. The majority of people in America, Germany and Japan regard the KKK, Neo Nazis and Uyoku as lunatic idiots.
However, in Korea, ultranationalist/xenophobic racist groups are the majority. The average Korean elementary school student has received more racist/nationalistic brainwashing by the age of 10 than a Neo Nazi or Grand Wizard has by age 40. Also, where as nationalist xenophobia is looked down upon by the majority of people in Japan, America and Europe, Koreans actually praise and worship those who scream about how Koreans are the superior divine race and yell insults about other nations. That's the huge difference between Korea and first world nations
Rafi
Barrigada, Guam
Reply »|Report Abuse|Judge it!|#170Jan 24, 2009
Just be a good human being and citizen.
Engage in safe sex. Don't be nasty to others just because of your own pathological thinking. Everybody has some dirts. May be you are the only perfect shit.
kok
Burnaby, Canada
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Canada is heaven for South Korean Prostitute. They work in an apartment or in Massage parlour and never pay tax. According to Chosunillbo Some 50 members of two gangs busted in California on Friday on charges of selling hundreds of Korean women to places of prostitution are just the tip of the iceberg.
Destinations for Korean sex workers are no longer limited to developed nations like the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan. Korean police say the number of women working in bars, karaoke clubs and massage parlors in countries frequented by growing numbers of Korean tourists like Thailand, Vietnam, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan is increasing. Meanwhile in North America the realm of activity of Korean sex workers is spreading from major urban centers like Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto to smaller cities and towns. red-light district in Tokyo, the No. 1 destination for Korean women being illegally sent abroad for prostitution.
VaidasJSP
Klaipeda, Lithuania
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SGdisciple wrote:
Sex is your physical needs and it will never go away.
Wrong. There is a need for sex, when there is no expression of creativity in life. Sing, draw, play, create something and you will satisfy yourself with creation of something. Only when there is zero creativity the only choice left and seen is sex. Try it yourself.
asbo
UK
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Extremely interesting conversation here, altho SG disciple,,, it is your comments that keep me reading, of which is because, I do not have a great knowledge on the topics, and your comments seem to come from personal knowledge, and common sence, rather than pre-written txt. You should be a politician,, you argue a point well. lol, umm i'm looking forward to travelling to south korea.
Anon
Tokyo, Japan
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_...
A US Immigration official conceded in 2006 that "There's a highly organized logistical network between Korea and the United States with recruiters, brokers, intermediaries, taxi drivers and madams".
In New York and Virginia of the United States, many Korean women were arrested for prostitution. Los Angeles Police Department said that Since 2006, 90% of prostitutes arrested every month in Los Angeles are Koreans.
The US State Department 2008 report titled, "Trafficking in person's report: June 2008," states that in "March 2008, a joint operation between the AFP and DIAC broke up a syndicate in Sydney that allegedly trafficked South Korean women to a legal brothel and was earning more than $2.3 million a year. Police allege the syndicate recruited Korean women through deception about the conditions under which they would be employed, organized their entry into Australia under false pretenses, confiscated their travel documents, and forced them to work up to 20 hours a day in a legal Sydney brothel owned by the syndicate."
The US State Department report also states that "the South Korean government fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Over the last year, the government continued law enforcement efforts against sex trafficking, and signed MOUs for the Employment Placement System (EPS) with five additional countries and conducted numerous anti-trafficking awareness campaigns. The Korean National Police Agency cooperated with foreign law enforcement agencies to crack down on human smuggling networks that have been known to traffic women for sexual exploitation. However, these commendable efforts with respect for sex trafficking have not been matched by investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of labor trafficking occurring within South Korea’s large foreign labor force. Efforts to reduce demand for child sex tourism, in light of the scale of the problem, would be enhanced by law enforcement efforts to investigate Korean nationals who sexually exploit children abroad. South Korean men continue to be a significant source of demand for child sex tourism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands."
Anon
Tokyo, Japan
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any comments are welcome
Anon
Tokyo, Japan
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Any comments are welcome
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Anon
Tokyo, Japan
Reply »|Report Abuse|Judge it!|#177Dec 26, 2009
Up. and Does anyone add any comments to this topic?
Somebody pretends to be another anon.
FahQ
Beckley, WV
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wann wrote:
It sure is shame for all Koreans to know that they do talk loudly about ethic yet sex is so prevalent without commitment. What a shame!
They are taking after loud American rape song and other unhealthy American way of life.
What are educators and politicians doing? Why can't they do something to stop this bad trend.
Koreans should wake up and straigthen themselves for the better future.
Hope they give up Western style life and get busy in encouraging young minds to busy doing reseach work in sci/tech. for better future.
Mike
Is there anything that you don't blame "America" on? It's not "Americans" forcing Koreans to act like 3rd world dipshits pimping their daughters on the streets to be sex slaves. How about placing the blame where it's due - Korea, and you guessed it, Koreans. This is a domestic issue in Korea, Americans have nothing to do with it, jackass.
Anon
Tokyo, Japan
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High-rise hookers
15Feb07
AT $240 an hour, these Korean sex workers could have worked off their fines before dinner yesterday, after appearing in a Southport court for illegal prostitution.
Xu Jin, 25, Hwo Kim-Rye, 32, and Park Ann-Soon, 31, were paid more than $2000 a day as illegal sex workers by a Surfers Paradise syndicate before being busted by undercover police posing as potential clients last Friday.
The detectives, part of the Prostitution Enforcement Taskforce, arranged to meet the women for sex at apartments in the Artique and Q1 high-rise towers after responding to a classified advertisement in The Gold Coast Bulletin on February 9.
The ad identified the sex workers as a 'uni party girl, just 18, Japanese, natural 36D, perfect backside'.
It also promised 'unlimited fun with all fantasies, in/out calls' and had a mobile phone number attached. Yesterday, the women pleaded guilty and were fined $1400 each.
The court was told police had responded to the ad and a woman who called herself 'Jessie' answered offering the detectives sexual services for a cost of $120 for 30 minutes and told the police to meet at Q1.
When they asked for a second sex worker they were directed to Artique.
Later, at Artique, detectives were introduced to a woman who called herself 'Iko' who confirmed the price, and was then arrested.
While they were there, other men turned up expecting sexual favours and told police they had been calling a different phone number.
Xu arrived at Artique soon after to 'check on the welfare' of 'Iko'. She escorted police to another Surfers Paradise unit in Holborrow Close from where police believe the syndicate operated.
During a search they found six mobile phones,'numerous' newspaper advertisements and note books containing dates, sex workers' names, times of bookings and the amount each sex worker was to be paid.
Bank deposit slips were also found with the total of international transactions exceeding $6000. In the Southport Magistrates Court yesterday the women pleaded guilty to prostitution and possessing tainted property.
The court was told Hwo had been working as a prostitute on the Gold Coast since October last year and had established the syndicate.
A fourth woman, Han Eun-Young, 29, was also supposed to appear in court yesterday but skipped bail and fled Australia on Sunday.
Police have identified her as the sex worker 'Iko' at Artique.
Xu told police she took the phone calls and had been working in the syndicate for up to three months in exchange for food and free internet.
Park denied being a sex worker, despite police finding 'a large amount' of advertising forms in her bedroom.
Solicitor Melvin Tay told the court the sex workers did not know what they were doing was wrong.
He asked magistrate Gary Finger for leniency and said the women 'pledged they would not do the same thing for a friend again'.
"For all of them it is a first offence," said Mr Tay.
Mr Finger said the women before the court appeared to be the main offenders.
He fined them $1400 each and gave them four months to pay.
"Queensland has laws. You must abide by those laws," said Mr Finger.
"This is your first and only chance, you understand."
Five of the 23 licensed brothels in Queensland are on the Gold Coast.
Under state legislation, a person must make an application to the Prostitution Licensing Authority and pay an annual fee of $18,000 to obtain a brothel licence.
The manager of the business must pay an additional fee which then entitles them to have a maximum of five sex workers.
Gold Coast The Bulletin
http://www.gcbulletin.com.au/article/2007/02/...
Anon
Tokyo, Japan
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Light Penalties for rapes
A 26-year-old man surnamed Kim was sentenced last Friday to a suspended sentence of three years for breaking into a house and raping the occupant.
So far, seven such rulings have been made in courts nationwide and among them, four in Seoul courts, according to court officials.
The set of sentencing guidelines for eight major crimes came into effect on July 1 amid the judiciary’s efforts to secure the equity of trials and the rule of law. The crimes are bribery, embezzlement, breach of trust, murder, rape, robbery, perjury and false accusation.[Korea Herald via Brian in Jeollanam-do]
Rapes (per Capita)
Korea, South: 0.12621 per 1,000 people
Thailand: 0.0626305 per 1,000 people
Kyrgyzstan: 0.0623785 per 1,000 people
Sri Lanka: 0.0599053 per 1,000 people
Turkey: 0.0180876 per 1,000 people
Japan: 0.017737 per 1,000 people
Hong Kong: 0.0150746 per 1,000 people
India: 0.0143187 per 1,000 people
"A study found that only 2.2 percent of rape victims reported the assault to the police and an even lower percentage (0.8) sought medical or psychological help. "
(1)0.12621 per 1,000 people divided by 0.02 unreported rates of incidence yields 6.31 per 1,000 people (including male).(Remember the lower tendency to report the rapes, compared to the casual harassments.)
(2)6.31 per 1,000 people divided by 2 yields 6.31 per 500 females aka 1 per 79 females.
(3)1 per 79 females times 0.3 ratio of women aged between 15 to 40 to the total female population yields 1 per 23.7 females aged between 15 to 40.
(4)If the trend continues for 20 years, 1 per 1.185 south korean women could be raped.
Assumptions may be altered so the result includes women younger than 15 years old, or older than 40 years old. Also, the women raised in impoverished areas may be raped multiple times. Then, 1 out of 3 to 5 South Korean women could have a record of being attacked at some point of her life.
Number of foreign males in South Korea are just not enough to contribute to this trend, so the primary and foremost group of the worst serial rapists should be South Korean males.
Rape and harassment
Rape is a serious problem in South Korea. A total of 6,359 cases were reported in 1999. Most cases go unreported, because of the stigma attached to rape. A study found that only 2.2 percent of rape victims reported the assault to the police and an even lower percentage (0.8) sought medical or psychological help.
Violence against women and sexual harassment have continued unabated, despite heightened public awareness created in recent years by South Korea's growing women's rights movement and laws against domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace enacted in 1998 and 1999, respectively.
In 1997 there were incidents of domestic violence in 31.4 percent of South Korean households. That year, the Korea Research Institute for Culture and Sexuality, found that almost half (45.5 percent) of female high school students had been sexually molested by males, with fondling of breasts and genitals the most common offenses.
anon
Tokyo, Japan
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Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases Facebook
Published: January 7, 2009
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In some sense, the women’s allegations are not surprising. It has been clear for decades that South Korea and the United States military tolerated prostitution near bases, even though selling sex is illegal in South Korea. Bars and brothels have long lined the streets of the neighborhoods surrounding American bases in South Korea, as is the case in the areas around military bases around the world.
Jean Chung for the International Herald Tribune
Bae, 80, a former prostitute at an American base, covers her face in her room in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
But the women say few of their fellow citizens know how deeply their government was involved in the trade in the camp towns.
The women received some support for their claims in 2006, from a former government official. In a television interview, the official, Kim Kee-joe, who was identified as having been a high-level liaison to the United States military, said,“Although we did not actively urge them to engage in prostitution, we, especially those from the county offices, did often tell them that it was not something bad for the country either.”
Transcripts of parliamentary hearings also suggest that at least some South Korean leaders viewed prostitution as something of a necessity. In one exchange in 1960, two lawmakers urged the government to train a supply of prostitutes to meet what one called the “natural needs” of allied soldiers and prevent them from spending their dollars in Japan instead of South Korea. The deputy home minister at the time, Lee Sung-woo, replied that the government had made some improvements in the “supply of prostitutes” and the “recreational system” for American troops.
Both Mr. Kim and Ms. Moon back the women’s assertions that the control of venereal disease was a driving factor for the two governments. They say the governments’ coordination became especially pronounced as Korean fears about an American pullout increased after President Richard M. Nixon announced plans in 1969 to reduce the number of American troops in South Korea.
“The idea was to create an environment where the guests were treated well in the camp towns to discourage them from leaving,” Mr. Kim said in the television interview.
Ms. Moon, a Wellesley College professor, said that the minutes of meetings between American military officials and Korean bureaucrats in the 1970s showed the lengths the two countries went to prevent epidemics. The minutes included recommendations to “isolate” women who were sick and ensure that they received treatment, government efforts to register prostitutes and require them to carry medical certification and a 1976 report about joint raids to apprehend prostitutes who were unregistered or failed to attend medical checkups.
anon
Tokyo, Japan
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These days, camp towns still exist, but as the Korean economy took off, women from the Philippines began replacing them.
Many former prostitutes live in the camp towns, isolated from mainstream society, which shuns them. Most are poor. Some are haunted by the memories of the mixed-race children they put up for adoption overseas.
Jeon, 71, who agreed to talk only if she was identified by just her surname, said she was an 18-year-old war orphan in 1956 when hunger drove her to Dongduchon, a camp town near the border with North Korea. She had a son in the 1960s, but she became convinced that he would have a better future in the United States and gave him up for adoption when he was 13.
About 10 years ago, her son, now an American soldier, returned to visit. She told him to forget her.
“I failed as a mother,” said Ms. Jeon, who lives on welfare checks and the little cash she earns selling items she picks from other people’s trash.“I have no right to depend on him now.”
“The more I think about my life, the more I think women like me were the biggest sacrifice for my country’s alliance with the Americans,” she said.“Looking back, I think my body was not mine, but the government’s and the U.S. military’s.”
Daniel
Los Angeles, CA
Reply »|Report Abuse|Judge it!|#185Jul 25, 2010
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Dong Suck wrote:
In most civilized countries..even in Japan, you will find that society allows people to have a variety of opinions. You can find people in Japan who support Korea's claim to Dokdo as well as the opposite. This is a sign of a true, modern, civilized nation.
However, in Korea, if a person expresses an opinion that Dokdo is Japanese, the government, society and media will issue a death threat against that person. This is how barbaric, 3rd world, backwards thinking nations in the Middle East behave. Korea is exactly the same.
Well, you see in Japan, America and Europe, ultranationalist/xenophobic racist groups are a fringe minority who are looked upon by the majority with disdain, ridicule and contempt. The majority of people in America, Germany and Japan regard the KKK, Neo Nazis and Uyoku as lunatic idiots.
However, in Korea, ultranationalist/xenophobic racist groups are the majority. The average Korean elementary school student has received more racist/nationalistic brainwashing by the age of 10 than a Neo Nazi or Grand Wizard has by age 40. Also, where as nationalist xenophobia is looked down upon by the majority of people in Japan, America and Europe, Koreans actually praise and worship those who scream about how Koreans are the superior divine race and yell insults about other nations. That's the huge difference between Korea and first world nations
Try bouncing a check in Clark County, they'll have interpol going after you wherever you may be. In most civilized world, law cannot protect immorality. Not in Nevada. Nevada cannot survive without what's normally consider illegal and immoral elsewhere. Their children are brainwashed K-12 that gambling, prostitition, etc., are legal and moral, not to mention fiscal necessity.
Daniel
Los Angeles, CA
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anon wrote:
These days, camp towns still exist, but as the Korean economy took off, women from the Philippines began replacing them.
Many former prostitutes live in the camp towns, isolated from mainstream society, which shuns them. Most are poor. Some are haunted by the memories of the mixed-race children they put up for adoption overseas.
Jeon, 71, who agreed to talk only if she was identified by just her surname, said she was an 18-year-old war orphan in 1956 when hunger drove her to Dongduchon, a camp town near the border with North Korea. She had a son in the 1960s, but she became convinced that he would have a better future in the United States and gave him up for adoption when he was 13.
About 10 years ago, her son, now an American soldier, returned to visit. She told him to forget her.
“I failed as a mother,” said Ms. Jeon, who lives on welfare checks and the little cash she earns selling items she picks from other people’s trash.“I have no right to depend on him now.”
“The more I think about my life, the more I think women like me were the biggest sacrifice for my country’s alliance with the Americans,” she said.“Looking back, I think my body was not mine, but the government’s and the U.S. military’s.”
As Korean economy took off, it has been importing prostitutes from China and Taiwan on "entertainment" visas. This is a common knowledge that won't make China's or Taiwan's civic text books.
Anon
Los Angeles, CA
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I am in Cali. I've discovered there are prostitutes all over the world, not just in Japan and Korea. In early America, Chinese prostitutes outnumbered legitimate immigrants. This is the foundation upon which Chinese-American history had begun in the U.S. From http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/2001/chang.html :
Introduction
This paper examines the way in which anti-Chinese rhetoric exploited the institutions of Chinese prostitution and footbinding to create a notion of intrinsic Chinese immorality. Images of Chinese women as sex slaves or as having mutilated bodies formed the basis of beliefs regarding the Chinese nature. Such a delineation of Chinese women was particularly relevant to two groups of female Chinese immigrants to San Francisco: prostitutes and merchant wives. What they had in common was physical, financial, and intellectual bondage. The bound foot was an appropriate symbol of their restricted lives. Neither of these groups of women had very much control over their bodies or their destinies, and for the most part, depended on men for their well-being and happiness.
Anon
Los Angeles, CA
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Traveler Warning: Prostitution in China
What You Should Know Before You Go
By Sara Naumann, About.com Guide
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Introduction
The oldest occupation in the world is illegal but as in most countries, prostitution in China is flourishing. It is relatively easy to avoid ladies of the night if you know what to look for but in some, especially small or locally-run hotels, it can become a nuisance as the room telephone rings at 11pm to see if you would like a “massage”. Here is some information on what to watch out for so you don’t wind up in a sticky situation.
Avoiding Getting Approached
Ladies of the night typically hang around where they think clients will be (and where they have been successful at getting them). These include bars, hotels and massage parlors. I’ll talk about all of these in more detail following. It probably doesn’t need to be said but I’ll say it anyway. You can probably tell if a woman is really interested in you for your personality, or for something else.
Anon
Los Angeles, CA
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And in Taiwan:
(Reuters)- Taiwan began a process of legalizing prostitution Wednesday making the island the latest place in the world to decriminalize the world's oldest profession.
In six months, authorities will stop punishing Taiwan sex workers after prostitutes successfully campaigned to be given the same protection as their clients, a government spokesman said.
"Now the client gets off free, but the prostitute gets punished, and that's not fair," spokesman Su Jun-pin said.
Taiwan's cabinet will issue regulations within six months, when new regulations take effect, covering locations in Taiwan approved for prostitution.
"It's like fishing," Su said. "The activity may be legal, but in some places you can't do it."
Taiwan outlawed prostitution 11 years ago, but older sections of the capital Taipei still teem with underground sex workers in bars and night clubs on the upper floors of high-rise buildings.
The Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters, a Taipei-based advocacy group, estimates that 600,000 people are involved in sex-related jobs.
"It's something the public has wanted for 12 years," said Collective CEO Chung Chun-tsu. "More and more people are agreeing with this consensus."
Local religious groups, however, have opposed the move.
Taiwan is the latest place to legalise prostitution.
New Zealand allowed brothels to operate freely in 2003, when parliament narrowly voted to overturn 100-year-old sex laws. A court in Bangladesh decriminalized the trade in 2000, but for women only.
(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Bill Tarrant)
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Chinese Brother
Rosemead, CA
Reply »|Report Abuse|Judge it!|#190Jul 26, 2010
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Anon is Chinese. He is a huge embarassment to Chinese all over. Prostitution is live and well in China and Taiwan, not only in Korea. I am not saying China invented it, but certainly Korea is not alone in this. Anon is one of those hateful Chinese-Ams who can't stomach the the rise of Korea.
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