The Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry plans to express its displeasure to Korean Ambassador to the United States Han Seung-joo for his failure to attend an event hosted by the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, apparently giving preference to another meeting involving personal relations Han did not go to the meeting held at Rumsfeld's residence in Washington, Sept.10, local time, where high-ranking U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, were also present, instead attending a party celebrating the publication of a book by his wife, a professor at the Academy of Korean Studies.
The dinner hosted by Rumsfeld was not for expressing gratitude to the countries that had sent troops to Iraq as initially reported by local media, but was to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200409/kt2004091715211353460.htm
ヤクザ>>893在日馬鹿チョンウゼェーぞ、どうせお前は日本在住の在日なんだろ、在米で、一々訳要る奴ってどいんなDQNだよ? Yakuza Japan's Criminal Underworld David E. Kaplan covers organized crime and terrorism for U.S. News & World Report Excerpt from page 48: appealed for help to a Korean Japanese named Hisayuki Machii, who was then in the process of forming one of the major gangs of the yakuza, the Toseikai, largely ethnic Korean gang known for it’s ruthless control of nightclub in Tokyo’s famous Ginza district. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most powerful godfathers. The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy. State-of-the-art investigative reporting, source document on Japanese organized crime. San Jose Mercury News http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0520215621/ref=sib_rdr_ex/002-5216518-4492819?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00O#reader-page
Yale University Research New York Times one of Japan's open secrets: burakumin and ethnic Koreans dominate the organized crime gangs known as the yakuza. More than three-quarters of the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, Japan's biggest underworld organization, are said to be burakumin or ethnic Koreans. http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/Japan_journalism/NYT_951130.htm
University of Rhode Island Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation Traffickers force Chinese immigrants into indentured servitude, women into prostitution and men into the restaurant business. In September 1998, 153 men and 21 women, including 35 juveniles, arrived in San Diego, California from China via Mexico, after paying smugglers $30,000. In 1997, 69 and in 1993, 650 Chinese immigrants were intercepted in the same area. Associated Press Online
New York January 12, 2005 Byungki Koo became the second federal law enforcer charged with helping Kyongja and Wun Hee Kang try to evade charges that they lured two young women from Korea to work as hostesses at their bar in Queens. The women say they were physically and sexually assaulted after they refused to have sex with customers. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--debtslavery0111jan11,0,4581983.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork AIR-MARSHAL HELD IN SEX-SLAVE CASE Brooklyn, New York January 12, 2005 A U.S. air marshal was grounded by the feds yesterday for obstructing an investigation into a Korean couple suspected of smuggling young women into the country to force them into prostitution. ★Byung Ki Koo, 33, was held without bail at an arraignment in Brooklyn federal court yesterday after he turned himself in to the FBI to face obstruction charges ★that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. Koo is accused of trying to protect accused human traffickers Wun Kang and his wife Kyongja Kang by joining a plot to put one of their victims onto a flight to South Korea after she told authorities she would blow the whistle on the smuggling scheme. The Kangs are accused of helping South Korean women come to the United States for a $10,000 fee, promising they could work off their debt by hostessing at the couple's Flushing, Queens bar. The women ? who are cooperating with federal investigators ? were promised they would not be required to have sex, according to court papers. But as soon as they were in the U.S., Wun Kang allegedly suggested they could earn more money by sleeping with customers. After they repeatedly refused to prostitute themselves, Kang allegedly threatened to kill them and made plans to sell them to a brothel in Chinatown http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/38051.htm
Korean sex suit to go ahead The California Supreme Court has ruled that Loral can be sued for unfair business practices The case was filed by the Korea Supply Company (KSC) after it lost a contract to Lockheed-subsidiary Loral for the supply of an aircraft radar system to South Korea in 1996. lawsuit claims Linda Kim, a former model and singer - bribed South Korean military officers and offered sexual favours to the country's defence minister. South Korea's former-defence minister Lee Yang Ho has admitted to having an "inappropriate relationship" with Ms Kim but denies it influenced his decision making. Ms Kim now lives in Los Angeles. http://www.thestate.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5319677.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2820939.stm LINDA KIM http://www.castingyou.com/lindakim/
Human Trafficking http://www.fox5dc.com/_ezpost/data/3568.shtml AN ESTIMATED 20,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKED EACH YEAR INTO THE UNITED STATES. SOME OF THEM WIND UP IN MASSAGE PARLORS IT IS THE KOREAN NETWORKS THAT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH MASSAGE PARLORS. ELLERMAN SAYS THE YOUNG KOREAN WOMEN BROUGHT OVER TO WORK IN THEM ARE OFTEN LURED WITH PHONY PROMISES. ELLERMAN: "WHEN THEY GET THERE THEY FIND OUT...ONE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR TICKET... IT COMES OUT OF THEIR WAGES. TWO THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR ROOM AND BOARD AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LIVING IN THE BROTHEL... SLEEPING ON THE SAME BEDS WHERE THEY HAVE TO SERVICE THE CUSTOMERS ON." AND, ELLERMAN SAYS, THE ONLY MONEY THE WOMEN GET TO KEEP ARE THEIR TIPS AND THE TIPS COME FROM PERFORMING SEXUAL SERVICES. THE POLARIS PROJECT HAS AN OUTREACH PROGRAM TO HELP THEM IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS GO INTO THE MASSAGE PARLORS INITIALLY POSING AS CUSTOMERS. ELLERMAN WENT INTO THREE OF THEM WITH A HIDDEN CAMERA. WHEN THE YOUNG WOMEN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM, ELLERMAN ENDED HIS RUSE.
"HI, MY NAME IS DEREK..." "NICE TO MEET YOU. I'M ACTUALLY FROM THE KOREAN ASSISTANCE HOT LINE." "WE'VE HELPED A LOT OF WOMEN..." "WE PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE, FREE...MEDICAL ASSISTANCE."
SINCE MANY OF THE WOMEN SPEAK LITTLE ENGLISH, THEY ARE GIVEN A BROCHURE WRITTEN IN KOREAN... WHICH HAS THE HOT LINE PHONE NUMBER...WHERE A KOREAN SPEAKER WILL TRY TO HELP THEM.... OFFERING PHYSICAL PROTECTION, AND MEDICAL AND LEGAL..HELP...IF THEY WANT TO LEAVE THE MASSAGE PARLOR "ONE OF THE STRONGEST CONTROLLING...FACTORS THE BROTHEL KEEPERS USE IS SOCIAL ISOLATION BECAUSE THESE WOMEN DON'T SPEAL ANY ENGLISH, AND THEY CAN'T SPEAK TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE BROTHEL KEEPER AND THE OTHER WOMEN...IN THE BROTHEL."
Nine Korean nationals held in human smuggling case Tuesday, September 7, 2004 AP Nine Koreans, ages 18 to 52, have been arrested near this Canadian border town in a crackdown on human smuggling, authorities said. Since late 2002, there have been at least three other apparent human smuggling incidents involving Koreans in the sparsely populated northcentral Washington county. Last fall Byong Suk Kim, 32, was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for vehicular homicide the death of Song Hui Yim, 38, one of 11 Koreans in a rented van that overturned near Oroville with Kim at the wheel as he was fleeing from Border Patrol agents. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Human%20Smuggling
September 16, 2004, 5:21 PM EDT Korean man held for sex trafficking Hyun Goo Kang, 40, was ordered held without bail after his arraigment in Brooklyn federal court on a four count indictment accusing him of obstruction of justice, kidnapping, peonage and sexual abuse.
Because of a 1999 state law pushed by Korean restaurant owners, Soju has a unique exemption among distilled spirits in California, and spots such as Mutt Lynch's are taking full advantage. (New York has passed a similar measure.) Lawmakers granted Soju its exemption because of its status as the "social and national" drink of the Korean community, explained Pat Deasy, a regulator with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/9738950.htm
日本がよく世界から叩かれる性的外国人労働者は、実は在日が斡旋してると言う事が良く解る記事。 Authorities close in on human-smuggling operation Wednesday, October 06, 2004 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002055254_smuggling06m.html Federal authorities are closing in on a human-smuggling operation involving South Korean immigrants preying on and profiting from other South Koreans. The smugglers ferry their human cargo from Canada through Washington state to Los Angeles and elsewhere, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle. Recruiters court victims through newspaper ads in South Korea and in the U.S., generally charging from $6,000 to $12,000, promising them better lives Brokers in South Korea, Mexico and Canada then arrange international flights to bring the people over from South Korea, the prosecutors said. Drivers pick up "loads" at the borders and bring them into the country. Other brokers arrange temporary housing, or locate jobs: Men often drive taxis; women work as hostesses in "room salons," that is, bars catering to South Korean businessmen. Being a hostess sometimes means providing sex, according to prosecutors. And since these are money-making operations, loan-shark systems are set up for those who need to pay off their smuggling debts, known as "il sunoh ri" in Korean, the attorneys said. In North Central Washington, human smuggling most often has involved South Koreans. "I've noticed a lot lately," said Frank Rogers, sheriff for sparsely populated Okanogan County. Just last month, nine South Koreans, ages 18 to 52, were detained by Border Patrol agents in Oroville. "It was a terrible year," he said. "They were women, for the most part, destined for the sex trade in Southern California, responding to ads saying they'd get them in the country and get them a job for $10,000."
Korean woman pleads guilty in prostitution ring A federal judge accepted the guilty plea Friday of a Korean national who is accused of managing a brothel hidden in a Lisbon Falls massage parlor. Doo Ri Kim, 39, was arrested in June by police and federal immigration agents investigating complaints of a prostitution ring that employed illegal immigrants. Kim and three other women were found at the Asia Acupressure Therapy Center. According to court records, Kim entered the country illegally in 1998, and lived in Flushing, N.Y. She moved to Lisbon Falls in January 2004. http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D85K1CPO1-282.shtml http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/041009kim.shtml
Oprah Winfrey's Negative Remarks about Korean Women Spark Storm http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200410/200410130018.html During a recent episode of her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Winfrey was discussing women's image and fashion culture around the world when she disparaged Korean women, saying they have "an obsession with plastic surgery." The program dealt with content that suggested Korean women have a unique preference from plastic surgery and an *inferiority complex in which they would like to have Western features. Because of this, the Korean-American community is harshly criticizing the program, and fallout is spreading as some Korean expatriate groups demand a public apology(謝罪するニダ<丶`∀´>!). One Korean student studying in the U.S. said, "The Oprah Winfrey Show is a program with a lot of viewers worldwide, and for it to deal with Korea negatively like this is a big problem.
President Bush Signs North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 On October 18, President Bush signed into law H.R. 4011, the "North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, " according to a statement released by the White House on the same day. http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20041019-04.html
Korean-American Sentenced As NK Agent A 60 year-old Korean American man named Yai Joung-woong (American name: John) was sentenced Monday to two years in prison at a federal court for working as a secret agent for North Korea. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2003.
According to the Associated Press (AP), federal prosecutors alleged that Yai secretly worked for North Korea and sent reports to Pyongyang in January 2003 through coded faxes and e-mails. Yai, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in South Korea, also pleaded guilty to three charges for failing to report to the customs office that he was carrying more than US$10,000 when he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport from a trip to Switzerland in April 2000.
Bolton specified three sources of funds remitted legally and illegally to that country: sales of ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction; sales of illegal drugs; and connections with Japanese organized crime networks. ソース:日本外国人記者クラブ http://www.fpcj.jp/e/shiryo/vfj/03/8_8.html
Joji Obara was born in 1952 to an impoverished Korean family in postwar Osaka. His father had been a scrap collector, then a taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Obara, then known by his Korean name Kim. his mother, who still controlled the lucrative pachinko operations, helped bail her son out, at one point paying off a creditor nearly $33 million in cash. Following these business failings, Obara's company reportedly became a front for the Sumiyoshi yakuza. Copyright c 2004 Time Inc.
Look at the way in parts of East Asia standards of living have doubled in a decade, doubled in a decade and doubled in yet a third decade. Look at the fantastic emancipation of women that has taken place in parts of China where a generation-and-a-half ago women could expect to have their feet bound at birth. Look at the fact that in a city like Seoul, Korea, there were a million child prostitutes a generation ago
金の為には自分の子供を売ったり、売春したり、何でも平気でやる韓国人 November 28, 2004 Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-orphan28nov28,1,6479167.story Two men in dark suits waited. One, a chauffeur, pried the boy from her. Mee Yeon gave him the bag. Dong Koo screamed for his mother. He began to weep. He cried until he fell asleep in a limousine taking him to his father's mansion in Seoul. "I felt as if my heart was being ripped apart," Mee Yeon said. Then she went to a lawyer's office and collected a check for $68,000. Dong Koo's father was Won Man Lee, a leading Korean industrialist, adoption records show. He founded Kolon Industries Inc., a nylon manufacturer that grew into a conglomerate with annual sales of more than $1 billion. Won Man Lee met Mee Yeon in 1977, when she was a hostess at a yo-jung, the Korean equivalent of a Japanese geisha house. He was 72 and married. She was 18 ? slender with long, dark hair and a childlike vulnerability. She became his mistress. Despite their intimacy, she called him "The Chairman." He provided an apartment for her in an exclusive neighborhood of Seoul. Servants brought whatever she desired. In return, she was expected to wear hanbok, the traditional Korean costume, a bell-shaped dress with petticoats and bloomers. She was also expected to be available to the Chairman at his whim. "I didn't start seeing the Chairman because I loved him," Mee Yeon said. "He was like a father figure to me; he just adored me all the time." The Chairman suffered a stroke in 1985, when the boy was 7. The assistant brought Dong Koo to the offices of Holt Children's Services in Seoul, which started Korean adoptions in the mid-1950s. Dong Koo remembers the assistant handing him a black leather bag and saying goodbye. In her early 30s, Mee Yeon became the mistress of a Korean-Japanese businessman.
The contrasts are detailed in the report, which provides data on such items as age, marital status, citizenship, language, education, earnings, poverty rates, occupation and home ownership among 11 Asian American groups. Median family income, for instance, ranged from $70,849 for Japanese and $70,708 for Asian Indians.
The median annual income of Asian families exceeded that of all U.S. families, and the percentage of Asians with at least a bachelor's degree was almost double that of the total population, according to the 2000 census. Median family Income Japanese (7.8%) $70,849 Asian Indian (16.2%) $70,708 Filipino (18.3%) $65,189 Chinese (23.8%) $60,058 **Asian Americans $59,324 **All U.S. families $50,046 poverty Thai (1.1%) $49,635 >>760 Korean (10.5%) $47,624 Vietnamese (10.9%) $47,103 Laotian (1.6%) $43,542 Source: U.S. Census Bureau The U.S. Census Bureau We the People: Asians in the United States scheduled for release the week of Dec. 12. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/tip_sheets/003142.html
DAK - Dumb Ass Korean. Name given to Koreans by the Whites who visit the country. Crotchless Pants - Refers to some of their characters looking like crotchless pants. Kimchee - "Kimchee" is a type of ferminted cabbage in Korea, and it sort of sounds like "Korean" Moose - Used by American GIs to refer to Korean whores because of their facial features. Seoul Man - Describes Koreans who try to act Black. Shovel-Head - Believed their heads look like shovels. Also shovel-face←最高、ワロタ! Yobo - Literally means "sweetheart" but used in deragatory manner
HumanTrafficking.com HUMAN TRAFFICKING 101 http://www.humantrafficking.com/humantrafficking/trafficking_ht3/who_traffickers.htm Brokers-> Brothel Operator In New York City and L.A., Korean brokers who have smuggled women illegally into the United States sell the women to a Korean massage parlor operator. The brothel operator buys the value of their smuggling debt, and will require the women to either pay it off, work it off, or a combination of both. Recruiters-> Brothel Operator In Flushings, NY, an area in Queens with a large Korean community, recruiters will go to legitimate Korean massage establishments for women, and may say that the women can make much more money at another job doing the same thing. The recruiter will arrange for the transportation of the women to a Korean massage parlor in another state. When the women arrives, she discovers from the brothel operator that she must pay back the value of the transportation, the lodging and food, and will only receive tips, forcing her to provide sex to customers to make enough money to pay off the debt. An alternate arrangement may involve a recent Korean immigrant arriving in New York or L.A., with thousands of dollars of debt to pay off. A Korean taxi service driver will advise her that the fastest way to pay off the debt is to work at a massage parlor. For a fee, he brings her to a massage parlor, where the woman is pressured strongly to provide commercial sex to the customers or risk being fired
Excerpt from page 48: appealed for help to a Korean Japanese named Hisayuki Machii, who was then in the process of forming one of the major gangs of the yakuza, the Toseikai, largely ethnic Korean gang known for it’s ruthless control of nightclub in Tokyo’s famous Ginza district. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0520215621/ref=sib_rdr_ex/002-5216518-4492819?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00O#reader-page Yakuza Japan's Criminal Underworld Expanded Edition David E. Kaplan covers organized crime and terrorism for ""U.S. News"" & World Report, He is coauthor of The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult that exposes cozy relationships between Aum, ethnic Korean Yakuza and North Korea. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most powerful godfathers. The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy. State-of-the-art investigative reporting, source document on Japanese organized crime. "San Jose Mercury News" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520215621/qid=1104522877/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-5216518-4492819?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia By Andrew Marshall,David E. Kaplan Marshall is Asia correspondent for British Esquire. First serial to Wired; condensation rights to Reader's Digest. David E. Kaplan covers organized crime and terrorism for U.S. News & World Report http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517705435/ref=sr_aps_eb_/250-8958373-1584216
http://www.idausa.org/news/currentnews/korean_language_ad.html Mill Valley, Calif. - In Defense of Animals (IDA) has placed its first-ever Korean language advertisement, designed to urge native Koreans and Korean-Americans to help dogs and cats killed for food investigations have found that dogs and cats are still killed for human consumption and in the most cruel and gruesome manners.
They are boiled alive, beaten to death, hung, and electrocuted.
Saturday, January 8, 2005 Korean national gets jail in brothel case A Korean national was sentenced to eight months in jail Friday for managing a brothel hidden in a Lisbon Falls massage parlor. Doo Ri Kim, 39, apologized in U.S. District Court for violating federal laws that prohibit interstate travel for the commission of crimes and said she welcomed her probable deportation to her home country. According to court documents, Kim entered the United States illegally in 1998 and lived in Flushing, N.Y. She moved to Lisbon Falls last January, where she worked at the Asia Acupressure Therapy Center at 578 Lisbon Road. She was arrested in June. The government charged that Kim collected money from customers who engaged in sex acts with three women who worked there, who were also illegal immigrants from Korea. http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050108lisbon.shtml
中韓のパクリ盗人商法が、米国で年間75万職を失う原因になっている。 本当、何所までも腐った連中だな Intellectual property theft costs 750,000 American jobs a year, according to the chamber. Chinese companies are responsible for 70 percent of intellectual property theft, and they are the target for new moves combatting the flood of fakes American businesses, losing a massive US$250 billion a year to copyright piracy, are taking the fight against counterfeit goods in Asia to the sources of production, with China at the frontline of the onslaught. The problem, he said, had become so serious that in China one may not be able to differentiate between a car produced by the world's biggest automaker General Motors and a fake. "And that is that some folks in China were building cars for General Motors who then found out that four towns away, they were building the very same car with the same brochures, and who could tell the difference?" This year, while expanding lobbying and education in China and Brazil, the chamber will launch education and enforcement programs in South Korea, India and Russia. In South Korea, Washington is seriously concerned that modern copyright protection is lacking in important areas, the report said. Key among these is Seoul's failure to adequately update laws to protect sound recordings against digital piracy. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2005/01/10/2003218841 http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7274372 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a8uWgUsTXURQ&refer=asia http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6805603/
何故か日本語記事は U.S. Department of Educationと、Columbia Universityが伏せられてます。 どうしてなの? http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200409/200409190018.html Japan’s Panasonic Foundation Leading Korean History Distortions The Panasonic Foundation, owned by Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, is leading distortions of Korean history The foundation, along with the U.S. Department of Education, is giving mass support to the “Asia for Educators” website established within the homepage of Columbia University. The site supports and publicizes certain distortions of Korean history, such as justifications of Japan’s colonial rule of Korea, to teachers and educations teaching students around the world. The site explains, “This 35-year period [of Japanese colonial rule] was the time when many feature of modernity appeared in Korea, including rapid urban growth, commerce, industry, and forms of modern mass culture such as radio and cinema... By the time of the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Korea was the second-most industrialized nation in Asia after Japan itself.” unlike most European colonizers, who used their colonizes to extract natural resources and agricultural products, Japan encouraged true economic development and industrialization in Korea without any evil intention, justifying Japan’s imperial rule over Korea. http://japanese.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2004/09/22/20040922000003.html 日本の松下電器が運営するパナソニック財団が米国の某大学で歴史歪曲の先鋒に立っているという一部メディアの報道と関連し、松下電器の韓国法人パナソニックコリアが「鎮火」に追われている。 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/db37b110-424a-11d9-8e3c-00000e2511c8.html South Korea bans Matsushita plasma panels By Anna Fifield in Seoul Published: January 11 2005
New York January 12, 2005 Byungki Koo became the second federal law enforcer charged with helping Kyongja and Wun Hee Kang try to evade charges that they lured two young women from Korea to work as hostesses at their bar in Queens. The women say they were physically and sexually assaulted after they refused to have sex with customers. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--debtslavery0111jan11,0,4581983.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork AIR-MARSHAL HELD IN SEX-SLAVE CASE Brooklyn, New York January 12, 2005 A U.S. air marshal was grounded by the feds yesterday for obstructing an investigation into a Korean couple suspected of smuggling young women into the country to force them into prostitution. ★Byung Ki Koo, 33, was held without bail at an arraignment in Brooklyn federal court yesterday after he turned himself in to the FBI to face obstruction charges ★that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. Koo is accused of trying to protect accused human traffickers Wun Kang and his wife Kyongja Kang by joining a plot to put one of their victims onto a flight to South Korea after she told authorities she would blow the whistle on the smuggling scheme. The Kangs are accused of helping South Korean women come to the United States for a $10,000 fee, promising they could work off their debt by hostessing at the couple's Flushing, Queens bar. The women ? who are cooperating with federal investigators ? were promised they would not be required to have sex, according to court papers. But as soon as they were in the U.S., Wun Kang allegedly suggested they could earn more money by sleeping with customers. After they repeatedly refused to prostitute themselves, Kang allegedly threatened to kill them and made plans to sell them to a brothel in Chinatown http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/38051.htm
Yale University Research New York Times one of Japan's open secrets: burakumin and ethnic Koreans dominate the organized crime gangs known as the yakuza. More than three-quarters of the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, Japan's biggest underworld organization, are said to be burakumin or ethnic Koreans. http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/Japan_journalism/NYT_951130.htm
チョン出て行け! チョン校、チョン教会、チョンオフィス放火される! LA暴動と言い、チョンは本当に嫌われてるなw Friday, 12/31/04 Arson likely in fires at Korean group's buildings in Stewart County Authorities were investigating circumstances surrounding midnight fires Dec. 24 that destroyed a school, church and office in the Doalnara Restoration Society a Korean organization http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/12/63528037.shtml?Element_ID=63528037
朝鮮人店主、黒人少女の頭を後から撃ち抜き処刑、LAで大暴動起きる、燃やされたのは朝鮮人が店主の店ばかり http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/rodneyking/ the killing of Latasha Harlins, a black teenager, by a Korean grocer. The Korean grocer operated a store in the worst part of South Central. The grocer thought she was shoplifting. She wasn't and a fight began and she knocked the grocer down and she was killed with a shot to the back of her head. Now that was a big story to black people in South Central and it was covered in the Los Angeles Times, the trial was, but the story really never had any national impact. There were an awful lot of events that could've been triggers for a riot and that served to remind black people that there wasn't much justice for them. The Latasha Harlins killing was on videotape. It was an in-store videotape and it was grainy and the police seized it so it wasn't shown over and over again. http://hcs.harvard.edu/~yisei/issues/spring_92/ys92_6.html Ice Cube attempts to expose the alleged bigotry of Korean merchants in the ghetto through the same medium: explicit rap. "Black Korea" is his portrayal of the conflict between blacks and Koreans in the ghetto, his iteration of the black voice crying out against Korean misconduct. http://www.coreanism.org/content.cfm?cat=articles&file=grace One of the reasons for the L.A uprisings was because Soon Ja Du, a Korean American liquor store owner, killed Latasha Harlins, an African American girl who Soon Ja Du had thought was going to steal a bottle of orange juice. Even, if Latasha Harlins were stealing a bottle of orange juice, it still doesn't mean the owner of the store has to shoot the person in the back of the head. You can replace a bottle of orange juice, but you can never replace someone's life
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~yisei/issues/spring_99/feature1.html Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
The VND5.5 billion ($350,000) products had arrived at Hai Phong Port from the Republic of Korea in September without an owner. Japan Tobacco Inc., the owner of the two trademarks, confirmed all the products were counterfeit. This is the first time that such a large quantity of fake cigarettes has been destroyed in Viet Nam.
★A Korean counterfeiter based near Tokyo says he sold 100,000 super copies in Japan alone last year. ★At the same time, working with overseas Koreans in Los Angeles, he has now started shipping his forgeries to the U.S. http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/korea_counterfeits/ S. Ted Kwon, a patent and trademark expert and partner at Seoul law firm Kim, Shin & Yu, reckons-conservatively-that South Korea's counterfeiters produce at least 1 million copies a year. South Korea's counterfeiters are busily exporting their wares worldwide. Korean-made copies account for the largest number of counterfeits seized in Japan, while in the U.S. they consistently place in the top three. According to a survey of 500 Japanese schoolteachers by the government-funded Consumer Education Help Centre, 20% had bought counterfeits. Of those, 63% bought them because they were cheap, 36% for fun and-significantly-25% because they were of high quality. a South Korean journalist (who asked not to be named) suspects they might be, at least in Korea. "Every woman in Korea owns at least one counterfeit bag, even my mother," says the journalist, who happily carries a fake Gucci bag to interviews with politicians, police officers and officials. "You can tell women on the subway are carrying fake bags because any Korean who can afford genuine European luxury goods doesn't take the subway," the journalist adds. "She drives or is driven." If she's right, then almost one in two women on some subway lines in central Seoul is carrying a counterfeit. ★"We tried it for the first time with a Kelly bag in Japan about a year ago," says the Korean counterfeiter who runs seven factories. "We thought it looked great so we put it on sale in a discount store ★we work with for about \500,000 ($3,900). We weren't sure what would happen but it sold literally in a day, so ever since we've been selling most of our Kelly bags as originals."
Apolo Anton Ohno Death threat He drew his biggest headlines this season for a race in which he chose not to compete - a long-anticipated World Cup match in South Korea. Ohno and his U.S. teammates opted out of the match in Dechoun after a handful of Korean yahoos threatened his life on a Web site
>>32 http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/01/17/200501170004.asp Koreans in U.S. have low median income Koreans living in the United States had median family incomes substantially below that for all Asian families, although Asians as a whole were better off than all American families, a U.S. census report says. The median income of Asian families was $59,324 - $9,000 higher than the median for all families - but Korean family income only stood at $47,624, according to the bicentennial report by the U.S. Census Bureau issued in December 2004. Japanese and Asian Indian families enjoyed median incomes more than $10,000 higher than that of all Asian families. Japanese were at $70,849, Indians $70,708, Chinese $60,058, Pakistanis $50,189 and Thais $49,635. Korean men and women reported $38,776 and $28,403, compared to $40,650 for Asian men and $31,049 for Asian women. Analysts said key to earnings may be related to English skillsプッ! Japanese were the only group with over 50 percent speaking only English at home, with 52.7 percent. About 27.2 percent of Japanese said they don't speak the language less than very well, and 20 percent were non-English at home, but speak English very well. *In a survey on the poverty rate in 1999, Korean families were 14.8 percent, while the average Asian population was at 12.6 percent, which is similar to that of the total population of 12.4 percent.
Korean mothers who gave birth in U.S. held LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits. U.S. immigration authorities also detained a Korean broker operating here and charged the person, who was not immediately identified, with arranging the trips for the mothers-to-be. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and other bureaus including the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on businesses in the Korean section of Los Angeles set up to serve pregnant travelers, U.S. officials said. Korean women, who give birth while on a tourist visa, can exempt their sons from the draft in Korea and gain access to U.S. public education. The practice by Koreans has been ongoing for years, but now the U.S. government is making an effort to stem it. According to the U.S. officials, the immigration authorities detained the 10 Korean women on Sept. 10 for questioning. The women reportedly all visited the same State Department field office on the Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to apply for U.S. passports for their newborns. They had given birth at a local clinic run by Koreans, officials said. As thousands of pregnant Korean women sought to go to the United States to give birth, an industry specializing in helping them was spawned in Los Angeles. No official statistics are available, but industry insiders estimated that about 5,000 births by Korean visitors occurred last year, and another 8,000 as of August this year. A two-month trip costs roughly $20,000. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200309/20/200309200222462009900090409041.html
There has been growing concern over controversial ``birth tours,’’ on which pregnant women travel overseas to give birth to have their babies attain foreign citizenship Six Korean mothers, who just gave birth to their children in California, United States, were detained for questioning by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service last Friday on suspicion of illegal immigration. The number of Korean mothers who take the distressful and expensive tours foreign countries to deliver their babies is expected to increase to more than 7,000 this year an increase of more than 100 percent from 3,000 in 2001, according to an official at a company which specializes in arranging trips for such mothers. Previously, such birth tours were prevalent only among the people with high income, such as doctors and lawyers, or those who are privileged enough to, in bids to provide their children with U.S. citizenship. But now it has become so popular that anyone with enough money is willing to make the trip,’’ Kim Sung-hoon, a representative at a travel agency specializing in birth tours, told The Korea Times. A birth tour to the U.S. costs about $30,000 on average, according to Kim. if my child has U.S. citizenship, for example, he can study anywhere in the U.S. and at only about 30 percent of what other Korean parents pay for their children’s tuition,’’ Lee said. She made a trip to the U.S. in 1999 to give birth to her second son. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200309/kt2003092216365110510.htm
Korea turns to plastic surgery to speak English CHOP a centimetre or so off your tongue and become a fluent English speaker. That is the hope that recently drove one mother to take her six-year-old son for surgery aimed at ridding him of his Korean accent when speaking the language of choice in global business. http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=262&id=1150872003
北朝援助金の行き先 according to CNN, the reclusive leader of this repressed country enjoys Hennessy in a way that would make even the highest-rolling MC proud. Not one for restraint, Kim is the company's largest customer, spending about $700,000 each year on the cognac. Yep, Kim rolls like a thug. Meanwhile, the average North Korean earns about $900 a year. Apparently it's "ronery" at the top.
Koreans flood wrong Web site on hostage South Koreans bombarded an English-language "Al Jazeera" Web site on Tuesday to urge Muslim militants not to behead a South Korean hostage, but the site did not belong to the Arabic television station of that name. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/06/22/iraq.korea.internet.reut/
Big News Network.com, Australia January 17, 2005 http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=a081fb8208d9654f The 1,200 pages of documents show that South Korea agreed never to make further compensation demands, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910-45 colonial rule. The documents were drawn up in 1963-65, the final years of South Korea's 14-year normalization talks with its former colonial ruler. Japan has generally refused to pay damages to individuals, saying it settled the issue on a government-to-government basis under the 1965 agreement. It is the first time that the clause in favor of Japan's demand has been officially confirmed by South Korea. The Washington Times, DC January 17, 2005 http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050117-025138-3813r.htm The 1,200 pages of documents show that South Korea agreed never to make further compensation demands, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910-45 colonial rule. The documents were drawn up in 1963-65, the final years of South Korea's 14-year normalization talks with its former colonial ruler. The two neighbors established diplomatic ties in 1965 amid strong protests in South Korea. Japan has generally refused to pay damages to individuals, saying it settled the issue on a government-to-government basis under the 1965 agreement. It is the first time that the clause in favor of Japan's demand has been officially confirmed by South Korea.
Japan is not liable for comfort women Big News Network.com, Australia January 17, 2005 http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=a081fb8208d9654f The 1,200 pages of documents show that South Korea agreed never to make further compensation demands, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910-45 colonial rule. The documents were drawn up in 1963-65, the final years of South Korea's 14-year normalization talks with its former colonial ruler. Japan has generally refused to pay damages to individuals, saying it settled the issue on a government-to-government basis under the 1965 agreement. It is the first time that the clause in favor of Japan's demand has been officially confirmed by South Korea. The Washington Times, DC January 17, 2005 http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050117-025138-3813r.htm The 1,200 pages of documents show that South Korea agreed never to make further compensation demands, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910-45 colonial rule. The documents were drawn up in 1963-65, the final years of South Korea's 14-year normalization talks with its former colonial ruler. The two neighbors established diplomatic ties in 1965 amid strong protests in South Korea. Japan has generally refused to pay damages to individuals, saying it settled the issue on a government-to-government basis under the 1965 agreement. It is the first time that the clause in favor of Japan's demand has been officially confirmed by South Korea.
The warning comes from a 3,000-page report released Monday and prepared by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who has led the international body's anti-poverty efforts. Sachs was appointed by UN General Secretary Kofi Annan to head the anti-poverty Millennium Project and come up with an action plan to meet the UN’s “millennium development goals” by 2015. The report, titled “Investing in Development", classified North Korea, Myanmar, Zimbabwe and Belarus as badly led, poverty-stricken states widely condemned for human rights abuses, and advised they should not receive large amounts of international aid.
Asian Human Rights Commission South Korean Soldiers Massacred Vietnamese during Vietnam War http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2000/366/ We ask that you make an inquiry to establish the facts concerning the "Vietnamese Civilian Massacre" by Korean soldiers and make a public apology for these incidents to the Vietnamese people. an estimated 5,000 Vietnamese civilians were massacred by Korean soldiers in the provinces of QUANG NGAI, QUANG NAM, and BINH DINH during the course of the Vietnam war. Many innocent people including women, children and the elderly were killed without regard, and the massacres have left deep scars on the memories of the survivors. For this reason we request an official apology from those responsible in the military for ordering the operations and compensation to the innocent victims of the massacres.
Villagers say South Koreans killed up to 1,600 in war The Associated Press http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/040700/new_77.html South Korean troops, U.S. allies in the Vietnam War, had killed 380 villagers and left their bodies to rot in the steamy heat of February 1966, Cham told The Associated Press. Hundreds more civilians -- up to 1,600 total -- had been killed in raids by South Koreans in the preceding month, other villagers said. "Most of the victims had their hands tied behind their backs with electrical wire," said Cham, now 67. "There was a woman still holding her granddaughter, a long knife through both of them."
April 10, 2000, Newsweek, ATLANTIC EDITION By Ron Moreau Apocalypse Then ttp://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NWEC&p_theme=nwec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_field_label-0= Edition&s_dispstring=allfields(Apocalypse%20Then)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("Apocalypse%20Then")&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no On the morning of April 1, 1967, Nguyen Van Thoi was working in his rice fields in the rolling hill country of central Vietnam's Phu Yen province
Chang-Woo Han's business of running Japan's largest chain of pachinko parlors is growing despite economic downturn in Japan; Han is founder and chairman of Maruhan Corp, which presides over 121-shop empire that took in 576 billion yen ($4.8 billion) last year from players who put money into pachinko Maruhan's sales have almost tripled since 1998, and Han expects them to double again by 2005; pachinko is big business in Japan, with total revenue of about 28 trillion yen ($233 billion) per year
Los Angeles Times February 10, 2004 Japan has long been North Korea's shopping mall of choice when it comes to military components. It has the advantages of proximity, advanced technology and a large population of ethnic Koreans, many with family ties to the North or to the pro-Pyongyang General Assn. of Korean Residents in Japan.
There is nothing that will draw Koreans together faster than the belief that outside forces are threatening. The belief that Americans (foreigners) are a bigger "threat" to South Korea's security than their nuke-wielding brethren in the North exemplifies a renewed Korea-centered philosophy that's apparent throughout government and, by extension, the economy.
In the most homogenous country in the world, where "our" is used in the naming of everything from banks to political parties, to be Korean, even of the Northern variety, is perhaps less threatening in the South than the prospect of foreigners having an enduring stake and voice in the country. Capital and investment are always welcome in South Korea, but input into how these assets may best be used is increasingly unwelcome.
UN Warns Against Too Much Aid for N. Korea Jan.17,2005 english. chosun.comThe warning comes from a 3,000-page report released Monday and prepared by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who has led the international body's anti-poverty efforts. Sachs was appointed by UN General Secretary Kofi Annan to head the anti-poverty Millennium Project and com e up with an action plan to meet the UN’s “millennium development goals” by 2015.
faster than the belief that outside forces are threatening. The belief that Americans (foreigners) are a bigger "threat" to South Korea's security than their nuke-wielding brethren
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the killing of Latasha Harlins, a black teenager, by a Korean grocer. The Korean grocer operated a store in the worst part of South Central. The grocer thought she was shoplifting. She wasn't and a fight began and she knocked the grocer down and she was killed with a shot to the back of her head. Now that was a big story to black people in South Central and it was covered in the Los Angeles Times, the trial was, but the story really never had any national impact. There were an awful lot of events that could've been triggers for a riot and that served to remind black people that there wasn't much justice for them. The Latasha Harlins killing was on videotape. It was an in-store videotape and it was grainy and the police seized it so it wasn't shown over and over again.
Japan has long been North Korea's shopping mall of choice when it comes to military components. It has the advantages of proximity, advanced technology and a large population of ethnic Koreans, many with family ties to the North or to the pro-Pyongyang General Assn. of Korean Residents in Japan.
There has been growing concern over controversial ``birth tours,’’ on which pregnant women travel overseas to give birth to have their babies attain foreign citizenship Six Korean mothers, who just gave birth to their children in California, United States, were detained for questioning by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service last Friday on suspicion of illegal immigration. The number of Korean mothers who take the distressful and expensive tours foreign countries to deliver their babies is expected to increase to more than 7,000 this year an increase of more than 100 percent from 3,000 in 2001, according to an official at a company which specializes in arranging trips for such mothers. Previously, such birth tours were prevalent only among the people with high income, such as doctors and lawyers, or those who are privileged enough to, in bids to provide their children with U.S. citizenship. But now it has become so popular that anyone with enough money is willing to make the trip,’’ Kim Sung-hoon, a representative at a travel agency specializing in birth tours, told The Korea Times. A birth tour to the U.S. costs about $30,000 on average, according to Kim. if my child has U.S. citizenship, for example, he can study anywhere in the U.S. and at only about 30 percent of what other Korean parents pay for their children’s tuition,’’ Lee said. She made a trip to the U.S. in 1999 to give birth to her second son.
>>1Федор Емельяненко - уроженец украинского города Рубежное Луганской области. Он родился в году в семье Ольги Федоровны (сейчас преподаватель, обучает молодых специа листов-крановщиков в профессиональном техническом лицее) и Владимира Александровича (газоэлектросварщик) Емельян енко. Второй ребенок в семье, он жил на Украине до двух
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
AN ESTIMATED 20,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKED EACH YEAR INTO THE UNITED STATES. SOME OF THEM WIND UP IN MASSAGE PARLORS IT IS THE KOREAN NETWORKS THAT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH MASSAGE PARLORS. ELLERMAN SAYS THE YOUNG KOREAN WOMEN BROUGHT OVER TO WORK IN THEM ARE OFTEN LURED WITH PHONY PROMISES. ELLERMAN: "WHEN THEY GET THERE THEY FIND OUT...ONE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR TICKET... IT COMES OUT OF THEIR WAGES. TWO THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR ROOM AND BOARD AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LIVING IN THE BROTHEL... SLEEPING ON THE SAME BEDS WHERE THEY HAVE TO SERVICE THE CUSTOMERS ON." AND, ELLERMAN SAYS, THE ONLY MONEY THE WOMEN GET TO KEEP ARE THEIR TIPS AND THE TIPS COME FROM PERFORMING SEXUAL SERVICES. THE POLARIS PROJECT HAS AN OUTREACH PROGRAM TO HELP THEM IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS GO INTO THE MASSAGE PARLORS INITIALLY POSING AS CUSTOMERS. ELLERMAN WENT INTO THREE OF THEM WITH A HIDDEN CAMERA. WHEN THE YOUNG WOMEN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM, ELLERMAN ENDED HIS RUSE.
"HI, MY NAME IS DEREK..." "NICE TO MEET YOU. I'M ACTUALLY FROM THE KOREAN ASSISTANCE HOT LINE." "WE'VE HELPED A LOT OF WOMEN..." "WE PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE, FREE...MEDICAL ASSISTANCE."
SINCE MANY OF THE WOMEN SPEAK LITTLE ENGLISH, THEY ARE GIVEN A BROCHURE WRITTEN IN KOREAN... WHICH HAS THE HOT LINE PHONE NUMBER...WHERE A KOREAN SPEAKER WILL TRY TO HELP THEM.... OFFERING PHYSICAL PROTECTION, AND MEDICAL AND LEGAL..HELP...IF THEY WANT TO LEAVE THE MASSAGE PARLOR "ONE OF THE STRONGEST CONTROLLING...FACTORS THE BROTHEL KEEPERS USE IS SOCIAL ISOLATION BECAUSE THESE WOMEN DON'T SPEAL ANY ENGLISH, AND THEY CAN'T SPEAK TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE BROTHEL KEEPER AND THE OTHER WOMEN...IN THE BROTHEL."
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
Korean mothers who gave birth in U.S. held LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits. U.S. immigration authorities also detained a Korean broker operating here and charged the person, who was not immediately identified, with arranging the trips for the mothers-to-be. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and other bureaus including the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on businesses in the Korean section of Los Angeles set up to serve pregnant travelers, U.S. officials said. Korean women, who give birth while on a tourist visa, can exempt their sons from the draft in Korea and gain access to U.S. public education. The practice by Koreans has been ongoing for years, but now the U.S. government is making an effort to stem it. According to the U.S. officials, the immigration authorities detained the 10 Korean women on Sept. 10 for questioning. The women reportedly all visited the same State Department field office on the Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to apply for U.S. passports for their newborns. They had given birth at a local clinic run by Koreans, officials said. As thousands of pregnant Korean women sought to go to the United States to give birth, an industry specializing in helping them was spawned in Los Angeles. No official statistics are available, but industry insiders estimated that about 5,000 births by Korean visitors occurred last year, and another 8,000 as of August this year. A two-month trip costs roughly $20,000.
Федор Емельяненко - уроженец украинского города Рубежное Луганской области. Он родился в году в семье Ольги Федоровны (сейчас преподаватель, обучает молодых специа листов-крановщиков в профессиональном техническом лицее) и Владимира Александровича (газоэлектросварщик) Емельян енко. Второй ребенок в семье, он жил на Украине до двух
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
AN ESTIMATED 20,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKED EACH YEAR INTO THE UNITED STATES. SOME OF THEM WIND UP IN MASSAGE PARLORS IT IS THE KOREAN NETWORKS THAT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH MASSAGE PARLORS. ELLERMAN SAYS THE YOUNG KOREAN WOMEN BROUGHT OVER TO WORK IN THEM ARE OFTEN LURED WITH PHONY PROMISES. ELLERMAN: "WHEN THEY GET THERE THEY FIND OUT...ONE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR TICKET... IT COMES OUT OF THEIR WAGES. TWO THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR ROOM AND BOARD AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LIVING IN THE BROTHEL... SLEEPING ON THE SAME BEDS WHERE THEY HAVE TO SERVICE THE CUSTOMERS ON." AND, ELLERMAN SAYS, THE ONLY MONEY THE WOMEN GET TO KEEP ARE THEIR TIPS AND THE TIPS COME FROM PERFORMING SEXUAL SERVICES. THE POLARIS PROJECT HAS AN OUTREACH PROGRAM TO HELP THEM IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS GO INTO THE MASSAGE PARLORS INITIALLY POSING AS CUSTOMERS. ELLERMAN WENT INTO THREE OF THEM WITH A HIDDEN CAMERA. WHEN THE YOUNG WOMEN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM, ELLERMAN ENDED HIS RUSE.
"HI, MY NAME IS DEREK..." "NICE TO MEET YOU. I'M ACTUALLY FROM THE KOREAN ASSISTANCE HOT LINE." "WE'VE HELPED A LOT OF WOMEN..." "WE PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE, FREE...MEDICAL ASSISTANCE."
SINCE MANY OF THE WOMEN SPEAK LITTLE ENGLISH, THEY ARE GIVEN A BROCHURE WRITTEN IN KOREAN... WHICH HAS THE HOT LINE PHONE NUMBER...WHERE A KOREAN SPEAKER WILL TRY TO HELP THEM.... OFFERING PHYSICAL PROTECTION, AND MEDICAL AND LEGAL..HELP...IF THEY WANT TO LEAVE THE MASSAGE PARLOR "ONE OF THE STRONGEST CONTROLLING...FACTORS THE BROTHEL KEEPERS USE IS SOCIAL ISOLATION BECAUSE THESE WOMEN DON'T SPEAL ANY ENGLISH, AND THEY CAN'T SPEAK TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE BROTHEL KEEPER AND THE OTHER WOMEN...IN THE BROTHEL."
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
Korean mothers who gave birth in U.S. held LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits. U.S. immigration authorities also detained a Korean broker operating here and charged the person, who was not immediately identified, with arranging the trips for the mothers-to-be. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and other bureaus including the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on businesses in the Korean section of Los Angeles set up to serve pregnant travelers, U.S. officials said. Korean women, who give birth while on a tourist visa, can exempt their sons from the draft in Korea and gain access to U.S. public education. The practice by Koreans has been ongoing for years, but now the U.S. government is making an effort to stem it. According to the U.S. officials, the immigration authorities detained the 10 Korean women on Sept. 10 for questioning. The women reportedly all visited the same State Department field office on the Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to apply for U.S. passports for their newborns. They had given birth at a local clinic run by Koreans, officials said. As thousands of pregnant Korean women sought to go to the United States to give birth, an industry specializing in helping them was spawned in Los Angeles. No official statistics are available, but industry insiders estimated that about 5,000 births by Korean visitors occurred last year, and another 8,000 as of August this year. A two-month trip costs roughly $20,000.
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
Федор Емельяненко - уроженец украинского города Рубежное Луганской области. Он родился в году в семье Ольги Федоровны (сейчас преподаватель, обучает молодых специа листов-крановщиков в профессиональном техническом лицее) и Владимира Александровича (газоэлектросварщик) Емельян енко. Второй ребенок в семье, он жил на Украине до двух
Earlier this year, poet Amy Uyematsu gave a reading of some of her work as part of the Asian American Studies "This Shame Called Joy." The poem explores the poet’s emotions about the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old Black girl, by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American store owner, over a carton of orange juice in a Los Angeles store: "This lust I cultivate for the ordinary,/the juice of an orange tasting more exquisite/than I ever remember,/cannot be separated from the brutal/death of a child who only wanted/ to drink from the same fruit. " Soon Ja Du claimed that she had shot Latasha Harlins in self-defense after the girl had attacked her, but the store videotape showed that she had shot Latasha in the back of the head as the girl walked away from their brief altercation over some orange juice. The entire incident outraged the Black community in Los Angeles and helped to pave the way for the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, or what Korean Americans call Sa-I-Gu. After Uyematsu read the poem, it became clear that certain students, in particular, Korean American students, objected to it.
Korean mothers who gave birth in U.S. held LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits. U.S. immigration authorities also detained a Korean broker operating here and charged the person, who was not immediately identified, with arranging the trips for the mothers-to-be. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and other bureaus including the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on businesses in the Korean section of Los Angeles set up to serve pregnant travelers, U.S. officials said. Korean women, who give birth while on a tourist visa, can exempt their sons from the draft in Korea and gain access to U.S. public education. The practice by Koreans has been ongoing for years, but now the U.S. government is making an effort to stem it. According to the U.S. officials, the immigration authorities detained the 10 Korean women on Sept. 10 for questioning. The women reportedly all visited the same State Department field office on the Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to apply for U.S. passports for their newborns. They had given birth at a local clinic run by Koreans, officials said. As thousands of pregnant Korean women sought to go to the United States to give birth, an industry specializing in helping them was spawned in Los Angeles. No official statistics are available, but industry insiders estimated that about 5,000 births by Korean visitors occurred last year, and another 8,000 as of August this year. A two-month trip costs roughly $20,000.
AN ESTIMATED 20,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKED EACH YEAR INTO THE UNITED STATES. SOME OF THEM WIND UP IN MASSAGE PARLORS IT IS THE KOREAN NETWORKS THAT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH MASSAGE PARLORS. ELLERMAN SAYS THE YOUNG KOREAN WOMEN BROUGHT OVER TO WORK IN THEM ARE OFTEN LURED WITH PHONY PROMISES. ELLERMAN: "WHEN THEY GET THERE THEY FIND OUT...ONE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR TICKET... IT COMES OUT OF THEIR WAGES. TWO THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR ROOM AND BOARD AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LIVING IN THE BROTHEL... SLEEPING ON THE SAME BEDS WHERE THEY HAVE TO SERVICE THE CUSTOMERS ON." AND, ELLERMAN SAYS, THE ONLY MONEY THE WOMEN GET TO KEEP ARE THEIR TIPS AND THE TIPS COME FROM PERFORMING SEXUAL SERVICES. THE POLARIS PROJECT HAS AN OUTREACH PROGRAM TO HELP THEM IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS GO INTO THE MASSAGE PARLORS INITIALLY POSING AS CUSTOMERS. ELLERMAN WENT INTO THREE OF THEM WITH A HIDDEN CAMERA. WHEN THE YOUNG WOMEN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM, ELLERMAN ENDED HIS RUSE.
"HI, MY NAME IS DEREK..." "NICE TO MEET YOU. I'M ACTUALLY FROM THE KOREAN ASSISTANCE HOT LINE." "WE'VE HELPED A LOT OF WOMEN..." "WE PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE, FREE...MEDICAL ASSISTANCE."
SINCE MANY OF THE WOMEN SPEAK LITTLE ENGLISH, THEY ARE GIVEN A BROCHURE WRITTEN IN KOREAN... WHICH HAS THE HOT LINE PHONE NUMBER...WHERE A KOREAN SPEAKER WILL TRY TO HELP THEM.... OFFERING PHYSICAL PROTECTION, AND MEDICAL AND LEGAL..HELP...IF THEY WANT TO LEAVE THE MASSAGE PARLOR "ONE OF THE STRONGEST CONTROLLING...FACTORS THE BROTHEL KEEPERS USE IS SOCIAL ISOLATION BECAUSE THESE WOMEN DON'T SPEAL ANY ENGLISH, AND THEY CAN'T SPEAK TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE BROTHEL KEEPER AND THE OTHER WOMEN...IN THE BROTHEL."
Korean mothers who gave birth in U.S. held LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits. U.S. immigration authorities also detained a Korean broker operating here and charged the person, who was not immediately identified, with arranging the trips for the mothers-to-be. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and other bureaus including the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on businesses in the Korean section of Los Angeles set up to serve pregnant travelers, U.S. officials said. Korean women, who give birth while on a tourist visa, can exempt their sons from the draft in Korea and gain access to U.S. public education. The practice by Koreans has been ongoing for years, but now the U.S. government is making an effort to stem it. According to the U.S. officials, the immigration authorities detained the 10 Korean women on Sept. 10 for questioning. The women reportedly all visited the same State Department field office on the Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to apply for U.S. passports for their newborns. They had given birth at a local clinic run by Koreans, officials said. As thousands of pregnant Korean women sought to go to the United States to give birth, an industry specializing in helping them was spawned in Los Angeles. No official statistics are available, but industry insiders estimated that about 5,000 births by Korean visitors occurred last year, and another 8,000 as of August this year. A two-month trip costs roughly $20,000.
Федор Емельяненко - уроженец украинского города Рубежное Луганской области. Он родился в году в семье Ольги Федоровны (сейчас преподаватель, обучает молодых специа листов-крановщиков в профессиональном техническом лицее) и Владимира Александровича (газоэлектросварщик) Емельян енко. Второй ребенок в семье, он жил на Украине до двух
Korean mothers who gave birth in U.S. held LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits. U.S. immigration authorities also detained a Korean broker operating here and charged the person, who was not immediately identified, with arranging the trips for the mothers-to-be. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and other bureaus including the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on businesses in the Korean section of Los Angeles set up to serve pregnant travelers, U.S. officials said. Korean women, who give birth while on a tourist visa, can exempt their sons from the draft in Korea and gain access to U.S. public education. The practice by Koreans has been ongoing for years, but now the U.S. government is making an effort to stem it. According to the U.S. officials, the immigration authorities detained the 10 Korean women on Sept. 10 for questioning. The women reportedly all visited the same State Department field office on the Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to apply for U.S. passports for their newborns. They had given birth at a local clinic run by Koreans, officials said. As thousands of pregnant Korean women sought to go to the United States to give birth, an industry specializing in helping them was spawned in Los Angeles. No official statistics are available, but industry insiders estimated that about 5,000 births by Korean visitors occurred last year, and another 8,000 as of August this year. A two-month trip costs roughly $20,000.
ESTIMATED 20,000 PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKED EACH YEAR INTO THE UNITED STATES. SOME OF THEM WIND UP IN MASSAGE PARLORS IT IS THE KOREAN NETWORKS THAT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH MASSAGE PARLORS. ELLERMAN SAYS THE YOUNG KOREAN WOMEN BROUGHT OVER TO WORK IN THEM ARE OFTEN LURED WITH PHONY PROMISES. ELLERMAN: "WHEN THEY GET THERE THEY FIND OUT...ONE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR TICKET... IT COMES OUT OF THEIR WAGES. TWO THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR ROOM AND BOARD AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LIVING IN THE BROTHEL... SLEEPING ON THE SAME BEDS WHERE THEY HAVE TO SERVICE THE CUSTOMERS ON." AND, ELLERMAN SAYS, THE ONLY MONEY THE WOMEN GET TO KEEP ARE THEIR TIPS AND THE TIPS COME FROM PERFORMING SEXUAL SERVICES. THE POLARIS PROJECT HAS AN OUTREACH PROGRAM TO HELP THEM IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS GO INTO THE MASSAGE PARLORS INITIALLY POSING AS CUSTOMERS. ELLERMAN WENT INTO THREE OF THEM WITH A HIDDEN CAMERA. WHEN THE YOUNG WOMEN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM, ELLERMAN ENDED HIS RUSE.
"HI, MY NAME IS DEREK..." "NICE TO MEET YOU. I'M ACTUALLY FROM THE KOREAN ASSISTANCE HOT LINE." "WE'VE HELPED A LOT OF WOMEN..." "WE PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE, FREE...MEDICAL ASSISTANCE."