NGOs cite a growing concern over R.O.K. men traveling to the P.R.C., the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia to engage in sex with children.
Although the R.O.K. has a law with extraterritorial application that allows the prosecution of R.O.K. citizens who sexually exploit children while traveling abroad, there were no prosecutions under this statute during the reporting period.
The Republic of Korea has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol.
>Although the R.O.K. has a law with extraterritorial application that allows the prosecution of R.O.K. citizens >who sexually exploit children while traveling abroad, there were no prosecutions under this statute during the reporting period.
The Department places each country included on the 2007 TIP Report into one of the three lists, described here as tiers, mandated by the TVPA. This placement is based more on the extent of government action to combat trafficking, rather than the size of the problem, important though that is. The Department first evaluates whether the government fully complies with the TVPA's minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (detailed on pp. 228-229). Governments that do fully comply are placed in Tier 1. For other governments, t he Department considers whether they are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance. Governments that are making significant efforts to meet the minimum standards are placed in Tier 2. Governments that do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so are placed in Tier 3. Finally, the Special Watch List criteria are considered and, when applicable, Tier 2 countries are placed on the Tier 2 Watch List.
The Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) is primarily a source country for the >trafficking of women and girls internally and to the United States >(often through Canada and Mexico), Japan, Hong Kong, Guam, Australia, > New Zealand, Canada, and Western Europe for the purpose of commercial > sexual exploitation. Women from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, >the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.), the http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/82806.htm
The Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) is primarily a source country for the trafficking of women and girls