Setting guidelines for cracking down on prostitution last March, the Supreme Prosecutors Office instructed its agents raiding businesses of ill repute to pretend to be customers and have sex with the working girls in order to secure evidence. Actually, one group would go in pretending to be customers, while the other would come in slightly later to bust the pimps after the other group had secured the evidence, so to speak. Agents were further encouraged to pay pre-arranged service fees on their credit cards for further evidence. Oddly enough, prosecutors suggested that as much as possible, crackdown teams be composed of civil servants other than cops.
Prosecutorial officials explain, however, that the advice was deleted from its later investigation manual put out in September, before the Special Law on Prostitution went into effect.
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How do you get a job like that? Any comment from those who know? How do you rate these girls, say from 1 to 10?
I *clearly* need to re-think working for the government. I mean, what other ‘law enforcement’ gig has those kinda perks?
But seriously, does Korea really allow for entrapment like that? I’m not knocking it, just curious.
I wonder if our willing civil servants will draw hazardous duty pay for this type of assignment? Interesting that they want not policemen but regular civil servants to-ahem-gather evidence. I suppose it is an effort to try and reducce police graft. Becoming a civil servant just want up a couple of notches on the popularity scale.
Daily linklets 7th June
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If I were in the group of “pretending” customers, I think I’d have to go back two or three times just to MAKE SURE that no further shenanigans were occuring. All in the name of decency, of course.
I shouldn’t be surprised that this would occur in Korea, though I am surprised that it didn’t happen in Hong Kong or Singapore first. The chinese afterall single-handedly invented the concept of bureaucracy and the over-privileged mandarins to go with it.
Just to be thorough-right-after you would hate to accuse some poor innocent girl of something so horrible-right?
So the Korean taxpayer is willing to fund these sexcapades rather than fund USFK to employ Korean civilians? Perhaps the civil servants we lay off can find employment with the Supreme Prosecutor. Unfuckingbelievable.
Mark wrote:So the Korean taxpayer is willing to fund these sexcapades rather than fund USFK to employ Korean civilians?When did we make the jump from the Korean-language (tabloid?) media reporting this to the Korean taxpayer willing to fund this?
It is in the Korean news because it’s probably as much of a surprise to most Korean taxpayers as it is to us.
And many of us are Korean taxpayers, I might add.
Sounds like a job for the censor bureaucracy - after all, they’d know what to look for.
“I shouldn?€™t be surprised that this would occur in Korea”
If you mean new regulation for police to have sex with hookers to find out if they are having sex or not, no it didn’t occur.
“So the Korean taxpayer is willing to fund these sexcapades”
Obviously not. That’s why it was deleted out, after those boys who made the boo boo, thought about the public consequences. If you can read Korean, read the comments to the Marmot’s article. That would have been the public reaction that would have occured, if they actually went ahead.
“Unfuckingbelievable”
That’s why it made the news.
I stand corrected: What better activity could there be for the Explorer Scouts? They get used by the cops to buy beer underage at the Kwickie Mart in the U.S., so why not use them for kwickies at Miari?
Oops…sorry Kushibo and Kimbob. I fell into the pitfall of jumping to conclusions without checking the linked article….
Looking for a story.
There was an article in one of the newspapers detailing a US soldier studying Japanese’s before WW2 who was paid to go to a Japanese geisha house. So that he could look out the window at the Japanese naval dockyards to spy.
Anyone remember this story?
“Unfuckingbelievable”
That’s what I would say about anything that the Korean media prints. A healthy skepticsm is in order here.
“Anyone remember this story?”
You never know which stories are distortions of facts designed to sell stories and whip up public controversy.
Shall you wish to wager? Put your money where you’re mouth is or shut up (no need for profanity).
My Canuck colleague shall I suggest 1,000,000 won if I show the story to be true?
The puck is in your zone…, mon ami.