[Blog Post #3] More Articles & Videos
1. CNN News Clip: Living in the nightmare of Korea's 'juicy bars'
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ao1QWX6yCs)
A Filipino woman who was held against her will in a ‘juicy bar’ located near the U.S. Military base in Seoul managed to escape. She initially came to Korea to become a singer, but she was forced to work in a bar where she was sexually exploited. This is a form of human trafficking but the South Korean Ministry of Justice says that these incidents are hard to detect.
(http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150828000949)
2. The Korea Herald Article : Sex trade businesses caught by police nearly triple in 2 years
(http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150828000949)
This article shows the increasing situation of the prostitution in Korea because of the various reasons such as mobile messenger and increasing tourism. Considering the prostitution is illegal in Korea, we can presume it is under-calculated. Of course there is no exact number of foreign women, but a lot of foreign women especially who have to earn money would account high ratio.
3. The Korea Herald Article : Korean dream shattered by lies, sex trade coercion
Many people place the responsibility on women about the prostitution especially for foreign women because they think it is of their own choice just for a money. However, this article shows the social reason such as deceiving or forcing foreign women to do sexual acts. This indicates the need of macroscopic perspective when we search the present condition of the foreign sex worker.
4. Korea times news article: Outside US bases, former bar workers fight sex trafficking
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article is about stories of how many Filipino women become sex workers, deceived
by Korean employers when signing the contract. Most women aren’t explained
about how they will work in Korea, and are forced to be a prostitute. If they
defy, they are blackmailed or sent away; which is why they can’t quit either.
I feel so sorry to those foreign workers who was physically and mentally abused by their boss. Hmmm I strongly think that our society needs true love and tolerance. At least we should respect other's dignity. (How basic and obvious this sentence is...!) I feel so angry and depressed that those things really happened in my motherland, and even it's 21st century! One who is strong to the weak and weak to the strong is distinctly below the belt. But I'm not saying that they did all the good things. Personally, I agree with a policeman's statement, 'illegal is illegal'. Yes they did illegal things and that made them couldn't be protected by the law. It's true. But before mentioning that, I think we should also look at the causes and processes about how those foreigners finally became illegal. If our society couldn't protect one's human right, then our society is also responsible for those unexpected consequences. I really want to apologize them as one of Korean citizens. I pray for them, even if many others regard them just as 'illegals'. They also deserves love and affection.
ReplyDeleteAll of the articles and video clip are very impressive, regarding that I hadn't known there are so many foreign sex workers in Korea. I had always thought the sex consumers are mostly middle-aged Korean guys and sex workers are young Korean females within the age range of teenage to 40s. That is because nearly every Korean articles only talk about Korean sex workers, not foreign sex workers staying in Korea. From one of the article above, I wonder about the Global Slavery Index - does the top rank mean the country secures liberty the most?
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty shocking that they have to fine with sex working when they don't meet their juicy selling quota - it's quite savage. And it also makes me sad and sorrowful that because of the law, the sex workers are considered illegal laborers and cannot go back home directly. To solve the problem, I think that the main thing we have to do is blockading the ways of maneuvering weak laws which are used to trafficking foreign females. That's what we have to do, I realized, after reading the news articles.
I didn't know that there are many women from other countries working in sex industry. And also surprised we Koreans are not the only customers for the prostitutes. I hope they can get a job which they want in our country and they can be reimbursed from the exploiters who deceived the women from south-east Asia countries. Our society should open more to other people so that they can work in a field where sexual work is not related and need to be generous to foreigners even though their skin color is not white.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank you for sharing the articles and a video about sex workers, especially in terms of Filipino women who are recently suffered from being forced to be a prostitute and sex trafficking. I can see that your group intensively finds out the reality of sexually abused Filipino women and what made them miserable. It was absolutely nonsense for me that the government did not come up with the E-6 visa problems. As seen from the statistics, 70 percent of female E-6 holders have experienced sexual abuse at least one time while in Korea, which must be the solid evidence that the E-6 visa should be abolished or changed into something else. In addition, before I read the second article, I didn't know that the number of obscene businesses was over 48,000 and the number of sex trade business was even greatly increasing last year. I'm so shocked that I can't find a proper word to say about it. So many illegal, incomprehensive things with respect to sexual problems happen in our country.
ReplyDeleteIt was very surprising to see how foreign women are forced and tricked into sexual slavery. It was also surprising to hear about the "juicy girls" as well. It was hard to imagine what the life was like for foreign sexual workers, whether they were forced or not into this type of sexual work. Before reading the article, I only thought that the foreign sexual workers actually knew what they will be going through since sexual work assures high income. I thought it was their own choice. I never realized that they would be tricked into work as a sexual slavery which lead me to think how passport system in Korea is so vulnerable to foreigners who do not know much about Korean law system. Moreover, I believe that starting from us, we need to change our attitudes toward foreign workers without discrimination so that we can provide them real help and listen to their stories so that we can find out what's wrong with the Korean legal system towards foreigners.
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