S. Korea to crack down on prostitution by Korean women in Australia

[unreal.livejournal.com]

South Korea will dispatch a state prosecutor to Australia to help curb a boom in prostitution by Korean women there and investigate claims of human trafficking, a report said on Friday.

The move forms part of a crackdown in which Seoul will collaborate with Australian authorities to try to break trafficking rings and bring women working as prostitutes home, the Yonhap news agency said.

'The government position is that we must seize this opportunity to eradicate the widespread prostitution by Korean women in Australia,' an unnamed senior foreign ministry official was quoted as saying.

Representatives from government agencies including the foreign ministry and justice ministry agreed last week to station a state prosecutor at the South Korean consulate general in Sydney, the report said.

Source: straitstimes

Comments

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

The worst kind of crime. The human trafficking going on especially in Europe is just scary. They need to crack down on this hard.

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

I watched a doc on human trafficking the other day and it's just disgusting. And super scary since it happens everywhere.

[saphbluedreams.livejournal.com]

Wait. So are these woman being kidnapped? Or are the13 doing it for money?

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Young vulnerable girls taken to Australia and then forced to become sex workers. Though how they got so many girls in to Australia is abit weird since they're super strict with Immigration.

[kamchaatka.livejournal.com]

They get them in on working holiday & student visas. More info here (http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/legal-brothels-sex-slavery-links-20111009-1lfy0.html).

[fayoochun.livejournal.com]

this is really scary and it does happen around the world... this kind of crimes reminds me of the movie Taken...

[hyde-my-dreams.livejournal.com]

The wording of this article is kind of strange. It makes it sound like the women are at fault, and also when it says "bring women working as prostitutes home" it sounds like they're talking about getting the women deported from Australia (whether they want to or not). I wish these kinds of articles had more detailed stories, because how can the reader understand what's going on unless they already know a lot of background?

[pancakeonmyhead.livejournal.com]

Well this just goes to show how little I know about the going-ons in my country.

[rawrfia.livejournal.com]

It's so horrible how it's happening here in Australia. A while ago, I read an article about how an Australian guy was trying to help a female Korean friend of his who was forced to work as a prostitute, but he was murdered by the man who ran the business. It's all just horrible and cruel.