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Porn video tops Yahoo Korea
A pornographic video clip posted for about six hours on Yahoo
Korea and soaring straight to the top of
the most watched list sent police into action. It was
posted on Yahoo's pages for user-created content, which
had been negligent in monitoring content.
Experts, however, worry
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Korean hookers busted in US visa scam
Police have busted 42 prostitutes for
using forged documents to get a US visa. Police in Seoul
also detained a broker identified as Kim (47) on charges
of faking a variety of documents to help them get the
visas. 31-12-2006
'Naked truth' site shut down in Korea
A website recently launched in South
Korea, featuring semi-nude photos of a North Korean
actress and defector along with human rights messages,
was apparently shut down last week.
24-12-2006
Prostitutes tell of abuse, abandonment
A
growing number of South Korean males in their late teens
and early 20s are going to Southeast Asian countries to
buy sex, as the crackdown on the sex trade here is
intensifying, a report showed.
16-12-2006
The sexual concerns of Korean men
Middle-aged Korean women have the world's
highest awareness of sex but Korean men the lowest,
surveys suggest. Both men and women in Korea consider
their sex life a very important aspect of their life in
general, but the difference was that Korean men cared
little about the satisfaction of their partners.
9-12-2006
Asian sex ring busted in US
A
Highlands Ranch couple and a Thornton woman have been
charged with running a Korean prostitution ring out of
three Denver-area "brothels," using women they flew in
from out of state. 24-11-2006
The sexual concerns of Korean men
Korean men are not very considerate of
their sexual partners, but they are more interested in
sex. They are also more willing than their counterparts
elsewhere to treat sex problems like impotence, though
it seems they do not back up their words with action by
seeing a doctor for accurate diagnosis of their
condition and taking the right medication.
18-11-2006
South Korea's answer: Sex
Condom
sales and bookings at several of South Korea's
pay-by-the-hour "love motels" surged after North Korea's
nuclear test, according to statistics released on
Thursday. 30-10-2006
Victims of sexual slavery to hold international meetings
Former so-called "comfort
women," who were forced into sexual slavery by the
Japanese military during World War II, will launch
another tour in South Korea and Japan to let people know
about their suffering and to ask for an official apology
and compensation from the Japanese government.
30-10-2006
Korea: Teenage porn case fuels online identification debate
DCInside, a famous Korean
Internet site, has been criticized after a student used
the community site to spread pornographic video clips.
21-10-2006
Korea: Do the anti-prostitution laws protect sex dolls?
A "doll experience room" is
a place punters rent for some W25,000 (approx. USD
$26.00) an hour, a fee that includes a bed, a computer,
and an inflatable sex doll.
15-10-2006
North Korea defectors say forced abortions on female prisoners routine
Another report
about the prison situation in North Korea confirms
previous ones which have maintained that pregnant women
in prisons there are routinely subjected to forced
abortions. 1-10-2006
Korean-Americans seek resolution on sex slavery
The Korean-American community is mounting
an intense grassroots lobbying campaign in support of a
House resolution calling for Japan to formally
acknowledge and accept responsibility for sexually
enslaving women during World War II.
1-10-2006
Korea: Anti-prostitution law gets makeover for second birthday
September 23 was the second
birthday of the Special Law on Prostitution, whose
positive effects are still hotly contested, though the
law has had one clear effect: sending massive numbers of
Korean sex-workers abroad.
24-9-2006
Korean 'sex tourists' may lose passports
South Korean "sex tourists" could lose
their passports under new proposals to crack down on
prostitution at home and abroad, media reports said this
week. 24-9-2006
Korea: Illegal sex trade dying hard
Police declared Sept. 23, 2004, as the
last day for legal prostitution in the country. Two
years later, however, it seems that the clampdown on
illegal sex will require much more than just shutting
down brothels, as the sex industry enjoys a rebound
using underground means, such as massage parlors, bars,
private homes and the Internet.
18-9-2006
Seoul denies human trafficking accusations
Seoul officials yesterday challenged the
United States' portrayal of Korea as ``a frequent
destination for trafficked women and children from the
former Soviet Union and neighboring Asian nations.''.
8-9-2006
Korea: Police bust website for illegal nude posts
On Sunday police arrested two operators
of a website on charges of posting nude photos provided
by members and earning hundreds of millions won from the
business. 31-8-2006
Korean prostitution exports expand to include male variety
In the midst of the already
plenty disgraceful news of the pan-pacific expedition
into the U.S. of Korean sex trade workers, now even
Korean host bars (with male prostitutes) have been
uncovered in China. 21-8-2006
Korean student sells sex to pay rent
Four years ago, Suzie and her parents
moved from South Korea to New Zealand. But Suzie's
father could not find work, and her mother's food
business failed. So they decided to go back to Korea,
and they wanted their daughter to join them. But Suzie
decided to stay in New Zealand because she enjoyed the
freedom there. 6-6-2006
Korean sex workers and the spoiled American dream
Her friend left five years ago for
America. Worked as a prostitute in Texas. Returned to
South Korea. And killed herself. "Because of the debt,"
Lee Tee-hee said. 27-5-2006
Korean entertainers suspected of engaging in prostitution racket
Three entertainers
have been caught illegally operating a bar in southern
Seoul in which they allegedly arranged sex between
clients and other entertainers, in collaboration with an
organized criminal ring.
19-5-2006
Korea: 'Alone in Love'?
Think
about it. Just how many times did you ache over the loss
of a loved one, feel defeated after numerous searches
for the "right person" and vow never to fall in love
again? No wonder you are ready to cry out, "I give up on
love! Just give me someone to marry."
7-5-2006
South Korea to crack down on sex trade
South Korean police have decided to
strengthen a crackdown on the sex trade at bars and
massage shops in 24 areas across the country.
1-5-2006
Korea: False charges of sexual harassment cost state W10 mil
A local court Thursday
ordered the government to pay 10 million won (USD
$10,500) compensation to a man wrongly indicted for
sexual harassment. The Seoul Central District Court said
the government must compensate the man, 46, identified
by his last name Kim, for being wrongly arrested and
indicted for crimes he had nothing to do with.
23-4-2006
South Korea to ban travel for unruly citizens
South Korea is considering a ban on
travel for citizens who commit crimes abroad or whose
actions discredit their county's image, the Korea Times
recently reported. 23-4-2006
Prostitution and American GIs
In 2003,
the Office of the Inspector General in the US Department
of Defense initiated a global assessment of "US military
activities that promote and facilitate sex trafficking."
The assessment was conducted in two phases, first in
South Korea and then in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.
5-4-2006
Korea's GNP plans to smooth over sexual mishap
The largest opposition Grand National
Party (GNP) is trying to regain female voters' support,
which is evaporating due to a party leader's alleged
sexual harassment of a female reporter during a recent
drinking binge in Seoul.
29-3-2006
Prosecutors aim at sex offenders in Korea
The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
announced yesterday that sex offences against minors
would be investigated under detention. The prosecutors
also said that they would request judges give probation
if the accused sex offender received a suspended
sentence. 27-2-2006
South Korean former sex slaves renew calls for Japan to apologize
It was a moonlit
night in the autumn of 1943 when Yong Soo Lee
experienced the darkest moment of her life -- Japanese
soldiers snatched her from her home in southeast South
Korea. At age 15, she was to become a sex slave for two
years in a camp in Taiwan that housed 300 soldiers.
20-2-2006
Korea: Ladies of the 1950s nights
In 1947 the US military government in
Korea made prostitution illegal, and in 1948 the
parliament of the newly established Republic of Korea
upheld the ban. However, there was a major problem with
the law: nobody took it seriously.
8-2-2006
Prostitution ruling nothing new for USFK troops
US Forces Korea officials said Tuesday
there has been no specific push to alert troops to an
Oct. 14 presidential order that makes soliciting a
prostitute a chargeable offense under Article 134 of the
Uniform Code of Military Justice.
13-1-2006
Korea: Most working women suffer sexual harassment
More than half of Korea's
working women have experienced sexual harassment at
social gatherings with colleagues, an unrepresentative
survey suggests. Some men were also sexually harassed.
22-12-2005
K-pop goes global with sex appeal
The
Korean pop scene operates in two ways: a few big
entertainment agencies ambitiously try to raise global
entertainers, or there is a big focus on sex appeal,
especially among female dance-pop singers.
27-10-2005
The price of freedom
Denver
police raided 18 Asian massage parlors and arrested 35
people in the past six months in a massive effort to
curtail prostitution.
27-10-2005
"Spouse swapping" sex parties spread in Korea
Korea has long been
known as a sexually conservative country where Confucian
values are relatively well preserved even among the East
Asian countries. However, recent police reports reveal
shocking accounts of "inhumane and immoral" sex cases in
which married couples trade their spouses for sexual
pleasure. 24-10-2005
Job brokers held for human trafficking
Police on Sunday
arrested a job broker suspected of luring some 200 women
into prostitution in the US and elsewhere. 19-10-2005
Korea: Exploring sexual side of art
Question: How would you describe
Korean attitudes toward sex? How about uninhibited,
celebratory or daring? Probably not, but all can be
applied to a new museum of erotica in the Sinchon
district of central Seoul. 28-9-2005
Korea's sex trade thrives on Internet amid crackdown on brothels
He is a 32-year-old single office
worker in Seoul who used to visit red-light districts in
Miari and Chongnyangni in Seoul. But since the
government declared war on prostitution last September,
he no longer goes out; he goes on-line. 14-10-2005
Korea: Sex workers' union?
Some 220 prostitutes near Camp
Humphreys, the sprawling U.S. Army camp in Pyongtaek,
Gyeonggi Province, have formed an organization which its
promoters hope to be recognized as a trade union. 28-9-2005
Korea's anti-prostitution campaign
The government's implementation of
a special law to prevent prostitution a year ago today
has been half successful. Brothels and prostitutes have
fallen in number, with far more men thinking that buying
sex is a crime. 24-9-2005
Japanese sperm bank ties up with South Korean firm on surrogacy
A Tokyo-based sperm bank may
reignite debate over regulations on surrogacy and in
vitro fertilization in Japan after it launched a tie-up
in which the service is conducted in South Korea, it was
learned Friday. 6-9-2005
Comfort women as victims of atrocities
Historically it was
not uncommon for reigning monarchs of the Chosun Kingdom
of Korea (1392-1910) to solicit the favor of Ming
Chinese emperors by sending to them a certain number of
virgins. 31-8-2005
Korean WWII sex slaves fight on
"Japan - reveal the truth! Admit
the crime! Officially apologise! Punish the criminals!"
South Korean protesters chant every Wednesday outside
the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. 11-8-2005
Foreign wives to get legal aid in Korea
Permanent residency
status will be given to foreigners who have divorced
their Korean husbands from next month if they have
stayed for more than two years in the country, officials
said Tuesday. 17-8-2005
Australian sex traffickers target Korean women
Traffickers are
turning to South Korean women after a crackdown by
Australian police on the importation of "sex slaves"
from Thailand, Australia's national broadcaster has
charged. 15-8-2005
USFK: Ex-bar worker who was forced into prostitution wins $5,000 judgment
A former Filipina bar worker has
won a judgment of about $5,000 against a South Korean
nightclub owner who forced her to have sex with US
soldiers for money. 7-8-2005
Korea: Openly revealing a secret life
When she was young,
Kim Yeon-ja bellowed like a man so no one would look
down on her. She also dressed like a man to get a
"masculine" job more easily in the days when women still
carried sheathed knives ― not for protection, but to
kill themselves if someone attempted to steal their
virginity. 1-8-2005
June-July 2005
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