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It was revealed that gangsters illegally supplied women with intellectual disabilities to Yongju-gol, Paju, Gyeonggi-do, where prostitution establishments gather.
It was confirmed that the victims living in the Jeollanam-do area believed in the words'I will make a lot of money' and were sold to Yongjugol in Paju, a distance of several hundred kilometers, and suffered from prostitution.
According to the law and the police on the 29th, last year, a gang of gang members working in the Jeollanam-do region attracted women with intellectual disabilities and handed them over to Yongju-gol, Paju.
Three victims were identified by the investigating agency, and they were handed over to the prostitution office in Yongju-gol three times in April, June, and July of last year.
A full-fledged investigation was initiated earlier this year at the regional investigation unit of the Northern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency and has been underway for nearly a year.
The suspects were instructed by Mr. A, the'boss' of the gang in the Jeonnam area, and tricked women who worked as karaoke assistants in the Jeonnam area to "make good money" and took them to Yongjugol.
Usually, three men picked up the victim in a rental car in the Jeonnam area, and then handed it over to the pimp in Yongjugol-ro, Paju, about 400km away.
In return, it was found that the suspects received millions of won for referral fees.
In addition to the referral fee, the suspects collected 500,000 won per person as an expense.
It was investigated that the victims who were actually handed over to the workplace had to suffer from prostitution with so-called'advance payments'.
Currently, at least 10 suspects arrested by investigative agencies are known to have been arrested or imprisoned on charges of inducing sex trafficking, and some have already been prosecuted and are in trial.
However, the exact number of persons arrested and sent out is not disclosed by the investigative agency.
The suspects are known to have used a technique called'love work' in order to hand over women to prostitution establishments.
It is to make them believe in themselves by first dating a woman who will be handed over to the business, and then saying'I will make a lot of money' so that the women can follow.
As a result, the victims were deceived by someone they believed to be their boyfriends and went to'Zipchang Village'.
Paju Yongju-gol, which started from a US military base village in the 1960s, was once stigmatized as'Korea's Texas' and was one of the nation's largest prostitution centers.
In 2005, before and after the Special Act on Prostitution was enforced, it began to decline through massive crackdowns, but even today, before redevelopment, it remains under neglect by the government and investigative agencies.
According to Paju City, as of 2015, there were 80-90 prostitution establishments in Yongju-gol, and 230-240 people engaged in prostitution, and recently, the size has decreased by 10-20%.
Jeong-gyu Choi, director of the Center for Love and Rights of the Stadium and a regular writer of SBS Init, said, "I am heavy at the situation of the victims who are not interested in punishment for the perpetrator and are refusing to apply for assistance." , “It is a problem that our society should consider deeply whether we are being forced to make such a choice.”
Attorney Choi said, "Even in the salt farm slave case, some of the people with disabilities separated from the abuse site said they wanted to return to the salt farm," he said. "Isn't the abuse site the only place where the external violent gaze of discrimination did not reach."
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