A sex trafficking case from 2009 in Daegu, South Korea.
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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?
Mr. Seo (40)was licensed to own a adult entertainment restaurant for foreigners, but illegally sold sexual services to patrons.
The local police indicted Mr. Seo, Ms. L (26), and 3 others without physical detention. See law enforcement.
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One woman ran away, and the club owners contacted her mother, asking her to "pay for damages" and threatening to prosecute the girl for breach of contract. The mother contacted the Filipino Migrants Catholic Church in Seoul, which helped her complain to the South Korean police. That night, the police raided the clubs.
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The trafficker was sentenced to 8-months in "prison for business owners" for operating an illegal business and extortion. The trafficker ran a brothel where he held prostituted women for 30 days each. Each act the woman was forced to perform cost the john 60,000 KRW, all paid to the trafficker. The trafficker made 3,402,000 KRW off of each woman/month. It is unclear by the article just how many women were enslaved.
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18 yr old female child (Korea constitutes a minor as 19yrs and younger) forced into prostitution by traffickers. The exact details of intervention are not clear in the article.