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."
The Koreans like to pretend to be Japanese, so that is another aspect that sets the Korean massage parlor apart from Chinese or American massage parlors. Korean massage businesses may portray themselves as Japenese spas, and may adorn the property with waterfalls and Zen gardens, and wear the colorful embroidery of the Japanese traditions.
http://www.gcbulletin.com.au/article/2007/02/15/3309_news.html 2月9日付けのオーストラリアのゴールドコーストブリテン紙に、 「パーティー好きな日本人女子大生18歳、バストは豊胸無しの92Dカップ、紳士求む」 と広告を出した、ジュ・ジン(25歳)、ホ・キムリエ(32歳)、朴・アンスン(31歳)の三名の韓国人売春婦が、 広告を見て尋ねてきた刑事に違法売春の容疑で逮捕された。 この三名は時給$240で売春をしており、一日$2,000程度の稼ぎがあった。 このように、オーストラリアや欧米諸国では、日本人を偽る韓国人売春婦が大勢存在する。 High-rise hookers AT $240 an hour, these Korean sex workers could have worked off their fines before dinner yesterday, after appearing in a Southport court for illegal prostitution. The ad identified the sex workers as a 'uni party girl, just 18, Japanese, natural 36D, perfect backside'. The detectives, part of the Prostitution Enforcement Taskforce, arranged to meet the women for sex at apartments in the Artique and Q1 high-rise towers after responding to a classified advertisement in The Gold Coast Bulletin on February 9.
Ask Mu Yung Shin (not her real name), presently a prostitute at a Korean massage parlor in Dallas. →Abducted at the age of 14 from her village home in South Korea by a group of Korean criminals, she was repeatedly raped, then sent to one of the infamous "sex farms" used by the South Korean army, where she was made a sex slave for two years. In the early nineties she was moved to the US legally through a sham marriage with an American GI and has served ever since as a Korean massage parlor prostitute in various locales stretching from Chicago and Houston to New York City1. →Mu Yung Shin is just one of several thousand Korean women abducted, raped, and virtually enslaved by the multimillion-dollar international prostitution network run by the Korean Killers, or KK. Korean Killers, and other major Korean gangs in the US such as Korean Power, based in New York, deal not only in prostitution, but in drug trafficking, extortion, and firebombings, mostly directed against the Korean community. Take Tae Sook Lee (not his real name), a longtime member of the Korean Killers based in Los Angeles' Koreatown. With two accomplices, called his "enforcers," Tae would visit Korean businesses in the area, mostly car dealerships, and demand payments of money ranging from $30,000 to $50,000. If threats and intimidation failed to net him the money, arson would result. According to Ray Futami, a detective with the LAPD, "If they [Korean business owners] didn't pay, Tae would send in his boys, his enforcers, and they would burn cars and dealerships."
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. http://www.fox5dc.com/_ezpost/data/3568.shtml
Polaris Project ~ Combating Sex Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery Expert: Maine sex case sounds familiar WMTW News - Friday, August 6,2004 PORTLAND (AP) -- Maine officials have not said that a Korean woman indicted on federal prostitution charges was involved in human trafficking. http://www.polarisproject.org/polarisproject/news_p3/PortlandHerald_p3.htm
HUMAN TRAFFICKING 101 Examples of a Decentralized Sex Trafficking Network in the U.S. The Korean brothels in the United States are set-up and run in an extremely stereotyped manner, but have no overarching coordination or hierarchy. A shared understanding of how to operate the brothels, high degree of rotation through the networks, and informal ties between transporters and owners have all contributed to the relative uniformity of their networks. http://www.humantrafficking.com/humantrafficking/trafficking_ht3/who_traffickers.htm
Authorities Bust Alleged South Korean Prostitute Smuggler Ring Alleged Ringleaders Accused Of Bringing Hundreds Of Women Into LA About 50 women who were working at the alleged brothels -- which authorities say were disguised as massage parlors, spas and chiropractic clinics -- were also taken into custody during the raids, though they have not been charged, authorities said. A total of 23 people were named in a criminal information filed Thursday that charges them with conspiracy. One of the alleged ringleaders, Young Joon Jung, is in custody, but another, Ho Kyung Kim, was one of five suspects who remained at large as of Friday afternoon, authorities said. The alleged brothels include spas in Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and South Gate, and chiropractic businesses on Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. The ring allegedly used private taxi drivers to take the women to the brothels. The drivers also allegedly drove the women to Texas, Colorado and the San Francisco area to work as prostitutes. The women apparently entered the United States from Mexico and Canada, and some came on tourist visas, Yang said. http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4677140/detail.html
Large Prostitution Ring Busted in L.A., S.F. She described the ring as operating "a sophisticated human smuggling scheme believed to have brought hundreds of South Korean women into the United States to work as prostitutes" in California, Texas and Colorado. Some were smuggled into the country across the Mexican and Canadian borders. Others traveled to the United States on fraudulently obtained visitors visas, according to Yang's office. Authorities allege that the women agreed to pay up to $16,000 each to be smuggled into the country. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-070105smuggle_lat,0,5210678.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Korean Prostitution Ring in California Shames the Korean Community JULY 04, 2005 The investigators point out that with the launch of a joint investigation team on prostitution and human trafficking in January this year in Los Angeles, Korean massage parlors in this area have been the center of prostitution. The rise in prostitution followed by human smuggling and trafficking that involved a criminal organization led the federal government to launch a massive crack down.
Jeong’s Organization led by Jeong Young-jun, 39-year-old Beverly Hills resident, in Los Angeles and Young’s Organization headed by Kim Ho-gyeong, 36-year-old room salon representative, were the targets of this investigation, the U.S. media quoted the attorney’s warrant on Saturday. Jeong was arrested on June 30. The attorney’s office pressed charges against 55, including Jeong and Kim. Some of the Korean women who engaged in prostitution entered the U.S. with a visiting visa and others paid up to $16,000 to the smugglers and entered the U.S. via Canada or Mexico. Some of the Korean women volunteered to be sex workers in order to pay for their expenses, said the Attorney’s Office. In May last year, U.S. investigators arrested a similar group of Koreans who engaged in prostitution brokerage and money laundering in Los Angeles. The group had raked in $1.5 million annually for 10 years before being arrested and $2.4 million worth of cash was found in one of the key members’ residences. Korean Americans were ashamed by the recent incident and said, “This case will stigmatize the Korean society here in the U.S. as a hotbed of prostitution.” http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2005070491478
Tokyo Massage defendant misinterprets 'executing a search warrant' Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:05 PM MST
During a court appearance Thursday, a Korean woman accused of being part of a prostitution operation at Tokyo Massage told her attorney she thought she was going to be executed.
June Wilhelmi, 60, and Kyong Stodolka, 57, were visibly upset during the hearing in Natrona County Circuit Court. They listened to the proceedings through a Korean translator and were occasionally unclear of what was happening.
Single parents are almost twice as common in the buraku as in the nation as a whole. Five percent of burakumin are on welfare, seven times the rate in the overall population.
A 35-year-old study in Japan found that buraku children had lower I.Q.'s than non-buraku children in the same public schools.
Truancy rates in elementary school in 1960 were 12 times as high for buraku children as for others. Now they are twice as high.
Social workers say crime is a disproportionate problem among young burakumin, One rare statistical study, conducted by Americans in the 1960's, found that burakumin youths were three times as likely as non-buraku youths to be arrested for crimes.
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.