South
Korea's entertainment newspaper Koreaboo reports that every year about 4,500
foreigners enter South Korea with a tourist visa. (Entertainment Visa) and
dream of becoming a professional singer. But 70% of the women who came with the
visa became victims of sexual abuse while many others became slaves to sex
trafficking.
The
famous E-6 Entertainment Visa allows foreigners, singers, dancers and athletes
to come to Korea and can work in clubs, hotels and bars.
Tesse
Aquino, 31, who left the Philippines to fulfill his dream of becoming a singer,
shares the experience when she first arrived in Korea, she worked in a club
near her U.S. Army Base. She thought there would be a full-time job as a singer
at the club, but her new boss whom everyone called "Papa" forced her
to wear the underwear and force her to convince guests to spend more on
alcohol.
Aquino
and other colleagues have to work 12 hours a day and endure nothing and have to
stay unhappy at the time. They are so overwhelmed by their guests that they are
unable to do anything If they can't earn 660,000 won (about $ 597) weekly, they
will be fined, meaning forced to serve the as prostitutes and go outside with
customer. This is just one of many cases where foreign-born visas have become
sex slaves in Korea. Many of them have sued their former exploits bosses in the
past. However, lawyers for the victims' group have previously said that abusive
actions against them were weakened by officials Korean immigrants view them as
illegal immigrants rather than victims of sexual abuse. An estimated 93,700
people are in modern-day slavery, and Korea is 49th Of the 167 countries in the
world, for this case.
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