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Korea: Court says nude teacher is not art
In a case involving
sexually explicit material placed by a middle-school art
instructor on his Web site, the Supreme Court ruled
yesterday that the teacher had violated the country's
laws against disseminating pornography. 29-7-2005
Former sex slave wants official apology from Japan
In 1938, the then illiterate
16-year-old was destitute after running away from an
arranged marriage in her native Korea. She took what she
thought was a job with the Japanese military, only to
find she had been tricked into sexual slavery. 29-7-2005
North Korean refugees frequent victims of human trafficking
Human trafficking is a form of
modern-day slavery that thrives on coercion, fear and
brutal exploitation, says Ambassador John Miller, the
director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and
Combat Trafficking in Persons. 23-7-2005
Koreans outraged, seek greater understanding after major sex trafficking bust
in California
Earlier this month,
local and federal law enforcement raided more than a
dozen brothels in San Francisco and Los Angeles,
exposing a major sex trafficking ring. Officials
discovered more than 100 women, primarily from South
Korea, smuggled into the country to work as prostitutes.
Many were reportedly promised jobs as waitresses before
being forced into prostitution. 15-7-2005
Canada overrun with South Korean women in prostitution exodus
New report says British Columbia is
a major hub for Korean sex trade workers as websites in
Seoul urge women to go overseas and make up to $28,000
CDN a month in massage parlors and bars. 13-7-2005
Sex and money still mark student gender divide in Korea
When university students hook up,
the men tend to worry about money and the women about
different attitudes to sex, a survey suggests. 8-7-2005
US officials ask if sex trade forced on South Koreans
More than 100 South Korean women
who were taken into custody during a federal crackdown
on alleged prostitution and human trafficking in San
Francisco and Los Angeles are being interviewed to
determine whether they were forced into the sex trade
and how they were treated. 4-7-2005
US
busts tell sorry tale of Korean prostitutes abroad
The number of Korean women looking
for work as prostitutes abroad or being trafficked for
the purpose is on the increase. Some 50 members of two
gangs busted in California on Friday on charges of
selling hundreds of Korean women to places of
prostitution are just the tip of the iceberg. 4-7-2005
Korea: P2P porn sites in massive roundup
In what any legal
industry would count as a massive success story, fifteen
peer-to-peer (P2P) porn websites made W6.9 billion
(about US$6.9 million) by attracting 3 million
subscribers since 2003. P2P sites allow members to share
files online. 4-7-2005
COMMENTARY
Is prostitution not a job?
Prostitution has been around for,
let's just say a very long time. Belle Watling was the
owner of the whorehouse in Atlanta where Rhett Butler,
from "Gone with the Wind,'' was a frequent guest. Bianca
from Shakespeare's "Othello'' was a common whore who
fell for the lady's man Cassio. Julia Roberts rose to
immediate stardom playing the charismatic prostitute who
won Richard Gere's heart in "Pretty Woman." 30-6-2005
More and more Korean men are marrying foreign women
Saying "I do" to a woman from a
different country is becoming more and more common in
Korea. Officials at the National Statistical Office say
over 25,000 Korean men tied the knot with foreign women
last year. In 2003, it stood at 19,000 and 11,000 the
year prior. 28-6-2005
Nude riot police pictures prompt uneasy question
Nude photos of riot policemen that
have sparked a stir on the Internet. It has been learned
that the riot policemen in the photos, which were taken
in September, are part of a riot police unit it Gangwon
Province. 25-6-2005
Working to banish porn, create 'porna'
This year,
feminists, including Ms. Lee, decided that the Anti Miss
Korea pageants had fully served their purpose and
instead opened an event targeting a more detailed topic:
pornography. 24-6-2005
Seoul protests Japanese minister's remarks on comfort women
The South Korean Foreign Ministry
here strongly lambasted Japan's education minister for
lauding the omission in new Japanese history textbooks
of references to "comfort women," one of the most
controversial revisions that prompted furious protests
from Korea and China earlier this year. 17-6-2005
Survey
finds alarming number of Korean men impotent
A survey by a pharmaceuticals giant
suggests that 8 percent of Korean men in their 40s and
15 percent in their 50s suffer from erectile
dysfunction. Their share of lifestyle diseases such as
diabetes and high blood pressure is four or
five times as high as normal, it says.
17-6-2005
Korean cell-phone porn sellers indicted
The prosecution
yesterday indicted Korea's top mobile operator SK
Telecom and content providers on charges of selling
pornography via mobile phones without measures to block
access by teenagers. It is the first time in Korea that
distributors of lewd material via cell phones are being
prosecuted. 16-6-2005
Korean authorities find adult content spreads fast over Internet
Underage Internet users are
increasingly exposed to online pornography and other
adult content, according to the Ministry of Information
and Communication. About 27,600 complaints about
inappropriate online materials were filed last year,
hitting a record high.
North
Korea refutes human trafficking charges by US
The Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK) on Monday rejected the human trafficking
charges by the United States, calling it "part of the US
anti-DPRK psychological operation.''
Asian
female artists reflect on women's sexuality, body
Female artists from seven Asian
countries will gather in Seoul to present works that
deal with the issue of sexuality and the female body.
The Feminist Artist Network will hold the 3rd Women's
Arts Festival from June 16 to July 3 at Seongkok Art
Museum under the title ``Fantastic Asia- New Relations
Within the Invisible Borders.''.
Korea's
elementary schoolkids peddling Internet pornography
Children as young as nine are
displaying a lively interest in online porn. Seoul
Metropolitan Police Agency recently charged a
10-year-old with merging the face of a famous actress
with the body of a porn star and posting eight such
pictures on a website he created.
Two-thirds
of married Korean women 'can imagine affairs'
If one day your wife looks out the
window and starts smiling for no reason you can
discover, it may be because another man is in her heart.
"It started out of curiosity," says 38-year-old Kim
Yeong-mi. Three months ago she met an old classmate
through her Cyworld blog.
South Korean
pleads guilty in Canadian-US prostitution ring
A South Korean citizen has pleaded
guilty to smuggling 13 women and a man into Idaho from
Canada as part of an alleged prostitution ring. Bum Suk
(Michael) Kim, 33, faces up to 10 years in prison and a
$250,000 (U.S.) fine. He entered his plea in U.S.
District Court in Coeur d'Alene on Monday.
Korean love hotels not just for secret liaisons anymore
A major chunk of the hotel industry
in Korea comprises so-called "love hotels," a phrase
that conjures the deservingly seedy image of neon
refuges for adulterers, midnight lovers and anyone else
escaping the scrutiny of friends or relatives.
'Selling flowers' in North Korea
On a trip to
Pyongyang, I decided to see what the city was like at
night and left my room for a stroll. I headed toward the
train station and black market. At the market, I looked
at prices, looked at people, and after a bit, a man came
up to me. "Do you have flowers for sale?," he asked.
Marital rape in Korea - the debate heats up
Sex Talk has started
in earnest about a possible introduction of the crime of
marital rape in Korea's criminal code. A policy
coordination committee of the Uri Party met Monday to
discuss the issue, saying it will submit in May a
revision to the nation's domestic violence law making
marital rape a punishable offense.
North
Korean 'comfort woman' recalls traumatic past
A pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan
opened old wounds Wednesday when it printed the gruesome
recollections of a North Korean former "comfort woman"
pressed into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial
Army.
Bar owners say US Forces Korea
police solicited bribes, sexual favors
Base officials here have reshuffled
the Air Force police team that patrols the off-base bar
district amid allegations some of its members shook down
Korean bar owners for bribes and sexual favors,
officials said.
Online pornography
crackdown begins in Korea
The prosecution has
launched a massive crackdown on Web search engines for
posting obscene video content on their Web sites. The
Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said
yesterday they indicted without detention three managers
of three leading portal sites for their online services
of lewd content.
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2005 Asian Sex Gazette.
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