1 In 6 Prostitutes In Australia Are Korean

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By GI Korea on May 6th, 2012 at 5:34 pm

1 In 6 Prostitutes In Australia Are Reportedly Korean

» by GI Korea in: Prostitution

Via a reader tip from the Open Thread comes this news that there is supposedly a lot of Korean prostitutes Down Under:

The Australian state with the largest Korean population in the country is currently investigating prostitution involving Korean women, according to a member of the state’s parliament.

Victor Michael Dominello, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, said that the investigation started at the request of the Korean multicultural committee he set up.

More than 1,000 Korean women are estimated to be involved in prostitution in Australia, a number that increased sharply in recent years, according to data from an Australian civic group. Some data say that about one-sixth of all women providing sex for money in Australia are Korean.

As the numbers grew, the prostitution issue emerged as a diplomatic concern between Korea and Australia.   [Joong Ang Ilbo]

For anyone that has been to Sydney the Korean prostitutes working around Kings Cross are pretty obvious.  The issue isn’t so much that so many Korean women are working as prostitutes but that many of them are beingtrafficked into Australia on holiday visas and supposedly coerced into prostitution.

• tbonetylr
  4:17 pm on May 6th, 20121“Victor Michael Dominello, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, said that the investigation started at the request of the Korean multicultural committee he set up.”I’d bet the S. Korean Multicultural Committee wants names from V.M. Dominello so the S. Korean Justice Ministry can catch(arrest) the S. Korean women when they return to S. Korea.“Trafficked into Australia”
  Let me guess…by S. Koreans?
• Koreans are the same as everybody else
  4:28 pm on May 6th, 20122Korean will talk all this nonsence about “we are Korean” but they will make a buck off of someone’s else’s daughter. Leaching off the back of the week and poor of your nation like scum you are
• tbonetylr
  4:59 pm on May 6th, 20123I clicked on the last link and this is what Yonhap wrote…
  ’11 Korean working holidayers caught for prostitution in Australia’
  SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) — Eleven South Korean nationals were reported to have been engaged in work as prostitutes in Australia since 2006 while under the working-holiday visa program, a government report said Thursday.The report by South Korea’s foreign ministry came after Seoul and Canberra agreed this week to bolster cooperation on investigating the alleged trafficking of some Korean women in Australia and coerced prostitution by abusing the visa program.Funny how it’s only “alleged” when 1 in 6 prostitutes are S. Korean. 
• ohmesohornymeloveyoulongtime
  5:00 pm on May 6th, 20124That is just Australia….So riddle me this! Outside of how many United States Army Installations in the US is there a Korean Barber shop, ran by Korean Females that gives you a trim and then gives you some trim??? So we should just write that off as Human Trafficking??? I know for a fact that is a bunch of BS. When my wife and I got here in 2003 from Fort Sill we were looking for apartments. We were looking at one and the lady said that we would be able to rent it for at least two years because she was going to the US to work for that time. She asked me what Camp I had just come from and I told her Ft. Sill, OK. She got real excited and said that was where she was going to work. She then asked me if I knew of a place called Suzie’s in Lawton. I said yes everyone at Ft. Sill knows about Suzie’s because they were notorious for their back room. Later I found out in 2006, from one of my old friends that was still at Ft. Sill, it got put off-limits due to prostitution. Now did it sound like this lady was being trafficked….HELL NO she was going on her own because that is how she planned on making some quick money and had been doing a regular rotation to this place. So as you can see alot of (not all) this prostitution and human trafficking crap is a lot of BS. The person knows exactly what they are doing and getting themselves into and actually enjoys that line of work, because they keep coming back for more.
• Teadrinker
  5:14 pm on May 6th, 20125#3,“Alleged” is a word reporters use to distance themselves from a comment.
• Sonagi
  5:32 pm on May 6th, 20126Unlike sponsored employment visas, holiday/tourist visas are obtained by visitors themselves, so I wonder how Korean women who enter on tourist visas manage to become coerced into prostitution unless the coercion actually takes place in Korea. For example, a woman agrees to enter Australia on a holiday visa to work as a prostitute in order to pay off a debt.
• Teadrinker
  6:21 pm on May 6th, 20127#6,How much coercion are we talking about? Getting their legs broken if they don’t pay up or seeing their credit cards canceled?
• OleTanker
  7:16 pm on May 6th, 20128#4, I think you are reading a lot more into this than I see, maybe you are “PROFILING” Korean girls as whores.What chick (of any nationality) Showing apartments knowingly brags to Americans (no less) that they will be working as whores?I think you are the F*cking d*ckwad in the whole scenario. 
• Dave
  7:59 pm on May 6th, 20129Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia, and yes there is a reference to back it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia“Korean Prostitutes in Australia Korean prostitutes number increased since South Korea outlawed the prostitutes. Many Korean prostitutes came abroad for the business they can no longer perform in their own country.[7]”

  I don’t believe that’s “human trafficking”. They’re going where the job and the money is.

• Dave
  8:32 pm on May 6th, 201210Oh, I forgot to mention, prostitution is legal and regulated in most areas of Australia.
• tbonetylr
  10:03 pm on May 6th, 201211# 10 Dave,
  That isn’t important because it’s illegal(technically) in S. Korea. That is…it’s illegal for women to buy or sell sex. It’s also illegal for S. Korean men to buy sex, but not sell sex. So, you have S. Korean men staying home to sell sex legally and S. Korean women going to Australia to sell sex legally. S. Korean men gotta earn a living somehow aye? S. Korean women…that’s another story.
• tbonetylr
  10:06 pm on May 6th, 201212And they’ll get punished when they return to S. Korea.
• ohmesohornymeloveyoulongtime
  12:42 am on May 7th, 201213Well #4 it looks like you might be too long in the tooth ol’ dog!!! You might want to get your reading glasses script updated!!! NO WHERE….I REPEAT….NO WHERE…In that statement did I say that the female showing us her apartment openly state to us that she was a prostitute!!!!! I DID SAY HOWEVER, that I had just PCSed from Fort Sill and I knew where Suzie’s was located and I knew the reputation having a lot of friends that frequented the place because of their practices of that barber shop!!!! Maybe I should have put a few more comma’s in there, but I did not know that some slack jay c*ck bitter was going to critique one of my first experience here in Korea. I can see that I must have hit a never when you so richly said that I was profiling Korean Women….well hate to ran on your soon to be in the rest home parade, but I did say “SHE” was on a regular whore rotation to the United States, NOT EVERY KOREAN FEMALE in this country. Anyway the comment was directed toward what the writer stated at the bottom of the article, “The issue isn’t so much that so many Korean women are working as prostitutes but that many of them are being trafficked into Australia on holiday visas and supposedly coerced into prostitution.” I was giving an experience that I had here in Korea when the female in question was knowingly and willingly going to a location to perform these services. I also believe, you flaming butt pirate, that since you’re married to a Korean that must have been the nerve that I hit…..well I did not call your wife a whore, sir!!!! I did call the female in question a Whore and any other woman who acts like her, NO MATTER THEIR NATIONALITY!!! Besides how many girls coming to this country or going to another country from Korea IN THAT LINE OF WORK don’t already know exactly what they are getting into since the world as a whole has been beating this Prostitution and Human Trafficking thing to death for the past decade since Fox News blew the roof off of what was going on here in KOREA at Camp Casey, no doubt??????? NOT Japan, NOT the Philippines, NOT Taiwan, NOT Vietnam, and NOT the Middle East…..JUST KOREA GOT JAMMED UP IN ALL OF THIS!!!! You started something you old fart…..I also love that the Korean Government says that they are fighting prostitution and Trafficking of Humans, but allows the glass houses to operate or turns a blind eye to all the Filipino women down in the clubs when they are doing their patrols right alongside our Military Police on Friday and Saturday Nights. You know what though, guy, maybe you should have been a Rocket Scientist (since you have the mental power of Albert Einstein…NOT!!!) instead of a “DAT” and if you don’t know that means, cause I know you’re a little behind on the times, it means a Dumb A$$ Tanker!!! Let me get a REDCON on that you pillow bitter!!!
• Ole Tanker
  6:26 pm on May 7th, 201214Wow! You put a lot of effort into that. More than it deserves.
  I was always taught to give someone the benefit of the doubt.
  Unless you met the girl in a whorehouase or she told you she was a whore, I wouldn’t assume she is one. 
• G.I. G.I. Joe
  10:41 pm on May 7th, 201215Why is Korea exporting prostitutes?That would be like the U.S., the largest consumer of oil in the world, exporting oil.Isn’t Korea the largest consumer of….
• Bill
  3:41 am on May 8th, 201216Prostitution was still illegal back in the 75-79 timeframe, yet there was never a shortage of girls to choose from. There were even the standard VD clinics and VD cards that the girls had to get checked off on twice a week. I was stationed at the JSA, and twice a week they (the Army) would bring a busload or two of ‘working girls’ up to our compound, Camp Kitty Hawk (now Camp Bonifas). Supposedly they were only allowed in the NCO Club, but there was usually some activity in the barracks or the bunkers on those nights, even though the Sgt of the Guard would try and catch some folks violating orders.Korea might as well take advantage of one it’s natural resources.
• Holly
  10:35 am on May 23rd, 201217There are a bunch of South Korean prostitutes smuggled into Japan too and it is a big problem in Japan. Also they are pretending to be Japanese  .
  This problem is not only Australia and Japan. There are many South Korean prostitutes are in U.S too. Two weeks ago, seven South Korean prostitutes were arrested in Texas. They also pretended to be Japanese and used Japanese name.You will understand how big prostitution does South Korea have as a national industory.
• Tom
  1:13 pm on May 23rd, 201218Come on, prostitution is a perfectly legal job in Australia. And one thousand Korean women in the legal industry in Australia isn’t that many, when you compare it to the 35,000 Australian prostitutes in the industry – most prostitutes in Australia are Australians. Don’t blame your prostitution problem on Koreans. And Holly is Japanese.
• Sonagi
  3:07 pm on May 23rd, 201219

  Two weeks ago, seven South Korean prostitutes were arrested in Texas. They also pretended to be Japanese and used Japanese name.

  I had never heard of this phenomenon, so I googled “prostitutes arrested Texas Korean” under “news” and “past month” and got no related results. Tried again after adding “Japanese” to the search terms and still couldn’t find a single news story about the case you allege to have happened. Thanks in advance for providing us with a link to a local Texas newspaper or TV station reporting on the arrests.

• Dreamboat Annie
  3:16 pm on May 23rd, 201220Tom, are these ho’s in your stable, too?http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/05/117_111532.htmlSeven Filipinos have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling the equivalent of 16 billion won (US$13.7 million) from South Korea, police said Wednesday.

  The suspects include a 58-year-old group leader detained under formal arrest and six others who were booked without detention for allegedly smuggling the remittances of Filipino workers in South Korea, according to the international crime investigation unit at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.

  The leader, identified only by his initial L and an illegal immigrant in South Korea since 1993, is accused of transferring the money out of the country by plane after changing the won into dollars and hiding it in packs of instant noodles.

  More than 25,000 people deposited sums of money into 59 bank accounts managed by the leader between January 2004 and this month, the police said.

  The leader is suspected of pocketing 150 million won by charging 5,000 won in commission fees for each remittance, and another 1.2 billion won from foreign-exchange profits.

  Police said they are searching for 35 other members of the group and plan to widen their investigation to crack down on other groups suspected of involvement in similar schemes.

  Illegal workers often choose such means to transfer money to their home countries as they do not wish to expose their identities in the process of setting up bank accounts and sending remittances, police said.

• yellow peril
  12:35 am on August 16th, 201221Korean prostitutes will claim that we were trafficked and the Australian government is liable though women came to enter on their will. They will ask for compensation when they get old as comfort women