From here:
3 teenage girls and 9 men who solicited them for sexual services through internet chatting have been taken into police custody.
On the 26th the Jeju Police sent the 3 teenagers to the juvenile courts on suspicion of prostitution and indicted the 9 men for violation of the Law for the Protection of Children and Minors and soliciting prostitution.
According to the police, the men are suspected of having lured the girls through internet chatting sites and giving them 100,000 KRW in exchange for sex in motels in downtown Jeju or automobiles.
The investigation revealed that the teenagers who engaged in prostitution used the money for living expenses after running away from home or for their own entertainment.
A representative from the Jeju Police said, “We plan to increase prevention measures as we fear a spread in prostitution during the summer vacation.”
Sometimes being an IT power has its disadvantages.
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When did this blog turn into the Korean police blotter? The last few entries read like the headlines of a local tabloid.
Yes, move along please, nothing to see here.
It’s because they are.
TF -
I apologize from deviating from the pre-set “English teachers do drugs,” “Soldiers attack taxi drivers,” “Foreign devils steal Korean women” “Koreans are anti-American” recipe.
P.S. You’ve obviously never read a tabloid. Tabloids talk about celebrity scandals, bat boy and seeing the face of jesus in clouds. They very rarely, if ever, talk about actual news.
I think you’re doing a good job, dude.
The flip side to your comment about the downside of being an IT power is that at least the police can actually find these kinds of crimes. I’d think it would have been a lot harder to unearth child prostitution in the past.
Keep up the good blogging, Joel. And thanks.
This assumes there’s some sort of distinction. In fact, it’s arguable that there isn’t one.
Agreed with 5 and 6. Ignore TaintedFart.
As for Joel’s track record as a guest blogger thus far….Listen, he puts up anything from stupid shit, good shit, to really good shit. Point is, whether it’s stupid, good, or really good shit, you all know it all ends up going back to those perennial themes that are beloved (admitted or not) here at the Marmot’s Hole: “English teachers do drugs” ; “Soldiers attack taxi drivers” ; “Foreign devils steal Korean women” ; “Koreans are anti-American.”
It’s like what Ian Malcom said in Jurassic Park: “Life finds a way.”
Death, delinquency and mayhem.
Joel, could you post about something a little more cheerful sometimes? Please?..
That last line really caught my attention.
Why would the cops expect an increase in this sort of crime during the summer vacation? Is this something that kids do once school’s out for summer and they find themselves with all kinds of extra time on their hands? Or, do the summer vacation months bring more tourists to the island, and therefore more men looking to have sex with children?
Okay…. at least do what Rob does at times. Make bad news funny!
Like maybe a really cheerful WK like piece on the stockmarket or the FTA to really lift our mood in this dreadful rain.
it does seem like it’s been a weird week. just be happy joel didn’t do a post on the “68 year old lady jumps from balcony, teen sexually violates the corpse” story. wh-wh-what??!
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110720000448
makes the jeju teen story sound downright wholesome.
I didn’t post it because someone had already done it in the comments. Otherwise I would have been all over that (not literally).
im telling ya, next frogs will be coming down with all that rain.
As Robert is undertandably busy, 조엘’s post have certainly revitalized this place. Thanks for taking the time for us 조엘.
+s
I’m all for the “Drama star busted with philopon and 5 prostitutes in his hotel room” type of news, more of those please
Erm?
The chair is used to stand on so that one can reach ledges that one otherwise may not be able to reach.
When I was a child we had an ironing lady called Irene. She was very odd. She used to get so involved in conversations with herself that she’d forget what she was doing and burn holes in the clothes that she was ironing. We were a bit scared to let her go though, because we were worried she might do herself some harm if she lost the one constant in her life: ironing (/destroying) our clothes.
Anyway, she ended up leaving our employ of her own volition.
She drove her car to a bridge over a motorway. Exited the vehicle, removed a stepladder, climbed up it, and jumped off the bridge. She needed the ladder to get over. A young person wouldn’t have needed a ladder, they could have just hopped it. But she was 70-odd and needed the assistance.
I presume the old lady in the Korean Herald story was similarly lacking in pep and verve and needed her plastic chair to get up and over.
It’s a pretty unusual stay of affairs for an apartment not to have a chair, table or other object available.
Older koreans traditionally would have no use for a high table or chairs. They’d sit on the floor. Nothing unusual about it.
or other object available.
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