US report slams Korean men for sex tourism

This year, the US State Department’s annual human rights report said Korean men had become major customers in Southeast Asia’s underage sex tourism industry [Yonhap News, Korean]. It also noted that foreign women from Russia, Uzbekistan, China, Thailand and the Philippines were being smuggled into Korea to work as prostitutes, while Korean women were being trafficked to the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia as sex workers.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on June 13, 2007 at 2:28 pm, filed under Asides, South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Comments

  1. tocchin your flag
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 3:23 pm | Permalink

    While most of the foreign women from Russia, Uzbekistan, China, Thailand and the Philippines were smuggled and trafficked to Korea by organized crime syndicate, Korean women go to the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia
    to work as prostitutes voluntarily. South Korea should borrow the great idea of Juche from the Great Leader in the North and become self-sufficient in prostitutes.

  2. michael your flag
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    Let the non sequiturs begin.

  3. Ut videam your flag
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

    Oh please, tocchin. Take your tired act back to Occidentalism. You never darken the doorstep of this place unless there’s some opportunity (however remote) to impugn the virtue and decency of Korean women.

  4. hoju_saram your flag
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

    I wonder if the Chosun Ilbo will pick this story up.

  5. BK your flag
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 11:58 pm | Permalink

    Chris Hansen from NBC’s ‘To Catch a Predator’ has released a book:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17584928/

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