Korean wanted on prostitution charges arrested in Thailand on 196 day overstay

 

Image: 77jowo

 

Police in Pattaya announced the arrest of a 43 year old South Korean man on overstay yesterday. 

 

Giheon Kim was wanted on a Red Notice issued in South Korea for running a prostitution racket.

 

77jowo reported that he had been involved in arranging for Thai women to go and work in the country in June of 2018.

 

Nong Prue chief Pol Col Chitdecha Songhong told the press that the Thai police responded to information received from the South Korean embassy in Bangkok. 

 

It was discovered that Kim had been hiding out in locations in both Pattaya and Bangkok. 

 

He was traced to the Four Wings Hotel in Sukhumvit Road Soi 26, Bangkok where he was eating at the Gogung restaurant when investigators arrived. 

 

Asked to show his passport he said it was at the Center Point Condo in Pattaya Sai 3.

 

It showed that Kim had entered Thailand through Nong Khai and his right to stay had run out towards the end of last year and he was now on overstay of 196 days. 

 

The Thais are preparing to deport Kim so that he will face the prostitution charges in South Korea.

 

Source: 77jowo

 

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6 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Giheon Kim was wanted on a Red Notice issued in South Korea for running a prostitution racket

Silly, he should leave that to the local professionals.

Apparently he was a local “professional” in Korea and fled when they caught on to him. I didn’t see mention of him being involved in prostitution in Thailand.

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

77jowo reported that he had been involved in arranging for Thai women to go and work in the country

This suggests there is a Thai connection.  I had a Thai friend who used to go work in South Korea 'fruit picking.'  She came back with enough money to build her own house in Issaan.

1 hour ago, HLover said:

Silly, he should leave that to the local professionals.

As he’s South Korean and is wanted in South Korea for running a  prostitution racket then he is a local. However this little snippets of information went straight over your head and wasn’t enough to stop you from Thai bashing. 

1 hour ago, HLover said:

Silly, he should leave that to the local professionals.

He was a local in Korea being Korean himself ????

20 minutes ago, mikebell said:

This suggests there is a Thai connection.  I had a Thai friend who used to go work in South Korea 'fruit picking.'  She came back with enough money to build her own house in Issaan.

She was into quality control , banana tasting ????????

2 hours ago, inactiveposter said:

Apparently he was a local “professional” in Korea and fled when they caught on to him. I didn’t see mention of him being involved in prostitution in Thailand.

Human trafficking perhaps... 

Whatever...I'm going back to sleep...

Looks so different from my stereotype of a pimp

Where are his gold chains?

That grin will soon be wiped off his ''baby face'' ,when he is prison..

4 hours ago, mikebell said:

This suggests there is a Thai connection.  I had a Thai friend who used to go work in South Korea 'fruit picking.'  She came back with enough money to build her own house in Issaan.

Fruit picking? Pulling rambutans and gnawing the bananas more like.???? 

Oh so prostitution exist....

Oh so prostitution exist....

This about trafficking.

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6 hours ago, BestB said:

She was into quality control , banana tasting ????????

In Korea more likely peanuts tasting.

Looks like he cuts his own hair.  Put a bowl on your head and have a go with the scissors 

8 hours ago, inactiveposter said:

Apparently he was a local “professional” in Korea and fled when they caught on to him. I didn’t see mention of him being involved in prostitution in Thailand.

How can anyone completely or partly manage to not be involved in prostitution in Thailand … 

1 hour ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Looks like he cuts his own hair.  Put a bowl on your head and have a go with the scissors 

And Peter Sellers wants his fake nose back...

31 minutes ago, ttrd said:

How can anyone completely or partly manage to not be involved in prostitution in Thailand … 

I'm not... Are you?  Are you in Thailand?  Or yet another wannabe? 

Or a has been who got burnt by the proverbial Isaan uneducated farm girl.  Or a bloke who has visited once or twice and is now a gold card member of TVF? 

18 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

I'm not... Are you?  Are you in Thailand?  Or yet another wannabe? 

Or a has been who got burnt by the proverbial Isaan uneducated farm girl.  Or a bloke who has visited once or twice and is now a gold card member of TVF? 

When I said completely or partly (directly or indirectly) I meant in general It's enough to buy a beer in an establishment where prostitutes work as you are supporting this establishment to continue and so will the prostitution - not more complicated than that.

 

No hard feelings and a continued splendid weekend … 

maybe he was wearing a thong and dancing in a pattaya boyz town gogo

4 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Looks like he cuts his own hair.  Put a bowl on your head and have a go with the scissors 

I thought he was wearing a dyed black mop and those false glasses with a fake nose.

14 hours ago, rooster59 said:

where he was eating at the Gogung restaurant when investigators arrived. 

This is the most important and relevant part of the article and yet they failed to say what he ordered, if he ate everything, how many times he chewed each bite, how much was the bill and how much tip he left!!

7 hours ago, atyclb said:

maybe he was wearing a thong and dancing in a pattaya boyz town gogo

You paint a very unattractive picture 

19 hours ago, mikebell said:

This suggests there is a Thai connection.  I had a Thai friend who used to go work in South Korea 'fruit picking.'  She came back with enough money to build her own house in Issaan.

Fruit picking? Bananas from a man tree? Lol! 

14 hours ago, peter14 said:

Oh so prostitution exist....

yes but apparently only in Korea!!

21 hours ago, inactiveposter said:

Apparently he was a local “professional” in Korea and fled when they caught on to him. I didn’t see mention of him being involved in prostitution in Thailand.

He was procuring Thai girls to go work in South Korea, with the 30% drop in tourists I suspect he had them queuing up to go!

1 hour ago, Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere said:

Fruit picking? Bananas from a man tree? Lol! 

This post explains why I put 'inverted commas' round 'fruit picking'.

17 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Fruit picking? Pulling rambutans and gnawing the bananas more like.???? 

This post explains why I put inverted commas round 'fruit picking'.  Thank you.

Korean wanted on prostitution charges arrested in Thailand on 196 day overstay

 

Title is a bit misleading. As stated, that seems to indicate he was selling himself.

But it seems more like he was involved in either pimping or human trafficking.