Давайте переменим тему.
Например, в этом году я собираюсь в ЮК. Хочу сделать сравнительный материал
REPUBLIC OF KOREA (TIER 1) [Extracted from U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2005]
South Korea is a source, transit, and destination country for women who are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Women from Russia, the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.), the Philippines, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to South Korea. Korean women are trafficked to Japan and to the United States, sometimes via Canada, for exploitation in prostitution. [...]
The government has also coordinated closely with United States Forces Korea (USFK) in developing and implementing policy that addresses the problem of sexual exploitation of women in the Republic of Korea in areas surrounding USFK bases. Due to their leadership in tackling demand, the government recognizes that it must also make efforts to provide more education and vocational training for thousands of women who have been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation.
(For the full text of the document go to
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SouthKorea-2.htm)
The problem with children abuse remains unsolved, even though tough measures have been taken:
"As public awareness of the problem of child abuse continued to grow, the number of reported cases increased. The most recent figures reflect that from 2001 until 2003, 3,197 children under 12 years of age were victims of violent crimes. The Ministry of Health and Welfare established a central prevention center and 17 branch offices to provide child victims with medical aid and counseling and serve as an education resource for offenders and family members. The Ministry also established a hotline for reports of abuse. In January, the Government revised the Law on Child Welfare to impose additional punishment on habitual offenders. The Seoul metropolitan government also ran a children's counseling center that investigated reports of abuse, counseled families, and cared for runaway children.
The Youth Protection Law provides for prison terms of up to 10 years and a fine of $8,840 (10 million won) per minor hired for owners of entertainment establishments who hire persons under the age of 19. The Commission on Youth Protection also expanded the definition of "entertainment establishment" to include facilities, such as restaurants and cafes, where children were hired illegally as prostitutes. The Juvenile Sexual Protection Act establishes a maximum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment for the sale of the sexual services of persons younger than 19 years of age. It also establishes prison terms for persons convicted of the purchase of sexual services of youth under the age of 19 (see Section 5, Trafficking). Based on this law, the Commission publicized the names of those who had committed sex offenses against minors. During the year, personal information on 553 sex offenders was available to the public."
(Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004, Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, February 28, 2005, posted at
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41647.htm)
About the sexual exploitation of children and minors, see Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Korea, U.N. Doc. CRC/C/15/Add.197 (2003). In particular,
"Sexual exploitation
54. The Committee welcomes the enactment in 2000 of the Juvenile Protection Act, which aims to penalize those purchasing sexual services from children. However, the Committee is concerned that this Act is not being effectively implemented, and that there is limited data available on the prevalence of child sexual exploitation. It is also concerned at reports of the widespread phenomenon of "Wonjokyuje" in which adolescent girls engage in a sexual relationship with older men for money." (
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/korea2003.html)
Increasing illegal traffick of (South) Korean women:
"The number of Korean women looking for work as prostitutes abroad or being trafficked for the purpose is on the increase. [...] Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in the U.S. have arrested 27 members of an organization who fixed Korean sex workers up with jobs in San Francisco, and are holding about 100 Korean prostitutes. In Los Angeles, which has a large Korean population, 18 were arrested on charges of smuggling Korean prostitutes into the country and setting them up in safe houses as part of what U.S. prosecutors claim was one of the biggest prostitution busts in history. The nine-month investigation of Korean prostitution rings was codenamed “Operation Gilded Cage.”" (Chosun ilbo, July 3, 2005; read the full story at
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507030020.html)
About the scale of child prostitution in South Korea. The exact number of underage prostitutes remains unclear. Some researchers mention 1,000,000 or 500,000 children involved in prostitution in South Korea, but their statements are strongly opposed by Korean media: "In July, Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, wrongly stated in a lecture in the United States that there were one million child prostitutes in Seoul in the 1970s. After protests, he apologized to the Korean people for his comments, admitting the figure was incorrect. Last month, the Washington Post sparked controversy here by falsely reporting there were currently half a million child prostitutes in Korea." (Moon Gwang-lip, "Korea Must Counter Foreign Reports on Child Prostitution", The Korea Times, September 8, 2004). I could not find any estimate of the number of child prostitutes in the paper of Moon. He refers to the words of one Dutch expert who said "Research should be implemented as soon as possible on a national level to prevent distorted news articles on the South Korean sex industry from spreading", tus suggesting that the exact figure remains unknown.
The posting titled "U.S. soldiers visiting brothels may have encouraged sex slavery in South Korea" has been removed from the web-site
http://www.iabolish.com/news/press-coverage/2003/ap08-07-2003.htm for unspecified reasons, yet the posting "Thousands of Women Forced Into Sexual Slavery For US Servicemen in South Korea" is still found at
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6870. It states:
"Since the mid 1990s, more than 5,000 women have been trafficked into South Korea for sexual services for United States servicemen, according to a report from the International Organization for Migration. These trafficked women have typically come from the Philippines, Russia and Eastern Europe and were lured to work as prostitutes in bars frequented by US servicemen stationed in South Korea.
Many of these women live a life similar to that of a slave as they are kept from a regular income, live in horrible conditions, are forced to sell sex, and often face violence. "Hidden fees, charges, employer fines, forced savings and other fees often completely deprive these women of salaried income forcing them to sustain themselves on a commission system based on the sale of drinks, and can virtually turn them into indentured servants," the report reads.
Some members of Congress wrote a letter to the Department of Defense calling for an investigation of sex trafficking in Korea. In June, the US military stated that it would investigate whether the military’s prohibition on trafficking and prostitution in South Korea is actually being followed. "
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Все это находится Гуглом с первого захода.
Два замечания. Первое - модераторам. У нас уже есть ветка "Позитивные факты о Северной Корее." Почему бы не открыть симметричную ветку "Негативные факты о Южной Корее"?
Второе - Татьяне Габрусенко. Всегда читаю Ваши постинги с удовольствием: написано эмоционально, ярко. Но... Давайте побольше фактов.
