One must admire Korea’s working girls sometimes, if for no other reason than their inginuity in practicing their trade (Chosun):
Police here say that Australia’s working holiday visa rules are increasingly abused by Koreans going overseas for prostitution. Recently Seoul Metropolitan Police indicted without detention three traffickers who had sent 89 Korean women including college students to red-light districts in Australia.
While some of the trafficked women were duped… many knew exactly what they were getting into. “Ms. H” was one of them. H left Seoul for Australia on a working holiday visa after she saw an online advertisement that promised wages of up to W4 million a month for working in “bars.” H ended up in a saloon for Koreans in Sydney.
Four Million Won a month? That is not too shabby, especially for a twenty-something year old.
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Korea, Spunking
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So much for the argument that illegal immigration drives down wages.
Note: the definition of “trafficking” given by the Australian government includes all women that came to Australia to work as prostitutes through some sort of recruitment process, whether willing or not.
Andy: creative post title!
Sonagi: comment of the day!
“ended up in a saloon for Koreans in Sydney”
Unlike Korea Australia has anti discrimination laws. I just might go to one of these ’saloons’, be refused admittance, and lodge a complaint citing discrimination.
Isn’t it perfectly legal for a student to work as long as it is less than 20 hours per week?
Perhaps. Anyone know how much an Aussie working girl earns?
Digging up that answer is tricky. Best I could do is find
this report and do a bit of math. The average monthly earnings of the estimated 16,000 “employees” (seems low) works out to AUD $6,500 (approx. 5 mil won). The average number of punters per day is a bit more than 2, with each earning the worker approx. AUD $100.
If the Korean “holiday maker” is engaging in one less transaction than the daily average then she’s doing well.
How well they’re given to self-restraint is up to you to speculate.
The same thing is going on here, too. There was recently a raid of massage parlours; the owners were tipped off. All the girls actually found there weren’t doing anything illegal (at the time) and were Koreans on working holiday visas.