Prostitutes rescued by shop clerk return from South Korea

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Prostitutes rescued by shop clerk return from South Korea
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Thai woman who was forced into prostitution in South Korea and was rescued after sending a call for help through a three-language note left with a convenience store clerk was among 17 Thais rescued May 18, Foreign Ministry spokesman Busadee Santipitaks said on Sunday.

 

The 17 Thais included 12 women who really worked as masseuses and five who were forced into the sex trade. All of them had received their passports and overdue pay before being sent back to Thailand, she said.

 

Busadee added that the South Korean authorities were in the process of punishing the massage shop owner and his accomplices.

 

The case reached the headlines in Thailand after the Korea Times website last week published the story of how the woman slipped a note in the Thai, English and Korean languages -– the last of which she reportedly learned from customers – to a convenience store clerk at 4.30am on May 16. She had visited the shop, in the same building as the brothel, with a gang member.

 

Police raided the building’s fourth floor on May 18, rescued the woman and four others, and arrested five suspects. 

 

Among suspects was a South Korean man identified only as Lee who allegedly lured the five Thais with high-paid massage job offers and then seized their passports and forced them into prostitution. 

 

While they weren’t paid in their first month of captivity, they were reportedly paid at a rate of Bt1,190 per customer in following months. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30320313

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-07-10

[4MyEgo]

Well done to the girls, I hope this sends a clear message to the gullible Thai women out there, and a bigger message to the traffickers, say "life in prison" one hopes !

[hansnl]

And next week another bunch of women will leave Thailand for promised jobs all over the world.

[12DrinkMore]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

I hope this sends a clear message to the gullible Thai women out there

 

They are not so gullible. The vast majority know exactly what they will be doing. The first month's wages are often used to repay the flights.

 

I wonder how many of the "rescued" women will soon be back on a plane to Korea, Malaysia or Singapore.

[natway09]

Stay here girls,,,,, Thailand needs you

[Yann55]

I hate to generalize, I really do, but Korean men are among the worst macho brutes on the planet, and I'm talking about SOUTH Korea (I suppose it's the same in the North but there's no available information of course). The wife/gf beating habits in that country are monstrous, and cases go to the police only when they are beyond horrible.

 

The saddest part is that most Korean women, aware of the fact that such behavior is deeply ingrained in the culture and considered as normal by all male Koreans, including of course police officers and judges, don't even think of reporting the beatings.

 

This country may be producing futuristic Smartphones and other technology, but when it comes to the basic rules of relationship between man and woman, they are still in the Middle Ages. Regrettably, this situation seems quite unheralded around the world.

Edited July 10, 2017 by Yann55

[Happy Grumpy]

One way of getting free flights back. 

[Nowisee]

2 hours ago, 12DrinkMore said:

 

They are not so gullible. The vast majority know exactly what they will be doing. The first month's wages are often used to repay the flights.

 

I wonder how many of the "rescued" women will soon be back on a plane to Korea, Malaysia or Singapore.

I agree.  For the not so young and sexy but willing and skilled, pulling down a good wage in Eastern Europe, Korea or Malaysia is more favorable than at LOS.   

Edited July 10, 2017 by Nowisee

[Nemesis7]

It's been going on fir ages , media covered suck many more incidents and yet they are still going ( I understand hoping fir a better future ) but knowing also the horrible outcome as well. 

Gkad they were rescued 

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, 12DrinkMore said:

 

They are not so gullible. The vast majority know exactly what they will be doing. The first month's wages are often used to repay the flights.

 

I wonder how many of the "rescued" women will soon be back on a plane to Korea, Malaysia or Singapore.

 

The sex trade is a mixture - some ladies seeing it as a viable career; others forced into by relatives, parents, or vile traffickers.

 

Some Thai ladies were imprisoned similarly in Bahrain and also rescued. Others working there quite happily.  I saw two get deported. All very friendly and civilized. The police officer left them at the departure gate under the control of the airline gate controller. As soon as the policeman went the two girls started smiling, flirting and exchanging phone numbers with some single men who were dressed like tourists. Deportees are boarded first and the girls were talking in English to two Arab passengers on where to meet them when they arrived in Suvanabhumi! Got hand it to them for productivity!

 

I know someone in the Philippines whose niece was nearly entrapped. Promised big bucks for IT work if she went to the province capital. Turns out to be WebCam Model. Then she has to pay rent for the computer,  pay back travel and lodgings, borrow for make up and clothes, and also hit a certain quota before earning pay. Of course that leads to more debt. Then when the debts high it's you must work in my bar/restaurant too, as a waitress to pay some off. Then it's, the customers like you, you can earn good money from them. Then is was you can earn even more if we make film. His niece was unmarried mom, and under pressure, as many girls are,  to be a family breadwinner. She was lucky and called him and he got her out of there before the scumbags got her to do more than the WebCam work. But the intent was always there, and many girls, trapped by circumstance and poverty aren't as lucky and don't have a decent martial arts guru for an uncle. He told me this story a couple of years ago.

 

If the sex trade was legalized, as some forward thinking countries do, the illegal side could be policed much better. And considering how long it's been around it ain't never gonna go away.

[Eric Loh]

4 hours ago, Yann55 said:

 

I hate to generalize, I really do, but Korean men are among the worst macho brutes on the planet, and I'm talking about SOUTH Korea (I suppose it's the same in the North but there's no available information of course). The wife/gf beating habits in that country are monstrous, and cases go to the police only when they are beyond horrible.

 

You are not generalizing but in fact state the truth about Korean man being on the extreme end of the muscularity factor in Hofstede model. Part of this is the power distance between Korean men and women. Put that into perspective, Sweden is a feminine country with a less power distance. 

[DrTuner]

Didn't know you could learn to write Korean by listening to it. 

[Rimmer]

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[12DrinkMore]

22 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

I know someone in the Philippines whose niece was nearly entrapped. Promised big bucks for IT work if she went to the province capital. Turns out to be WebCam Model.

There are at least two foreigners serving long jail terms in the Philippines for running this type of operation.

 

They were found guilty of human trafficking, which is a bit of a stretch of the imagination.

 

The girls were, I was told, being paid decent wages (for the Philippines), all they had to do was sit in front of the camera, chat and entice guys to pay tokens for a bit of extra "exposure".

 

I do not understand why people pay for porn anymore. There is an unbelievable amount of free stuff on the internet. 

 

 

 

 

[Momofarang]

On 7/11/2017 at 1:21 PM, 12DrinkMore said:

I do not understand why people pay for porn anymore. There is an unbelievable amount of free stuff on the internet. 

I do not understand how so many people watch it...