Golf (photo is irrelevant to the content of the article)“Early mid-40s. Skinny and slim body. I’m a two-year married woman in the southern region of Gyeonggi Province. Please apply for lover members.”
With the prolonged coronavirus outbreak (Corona 19), online meetings and gatherings are spreading, and a new form of prostitution mediation, taking the name of’introducing golf partners,’ has been found to be striking.
According to the Yonhap News report on the 21st, there are currently dozens of groups promoting’golf partner introduction’ or’golf booking arrangements’ in online meeting services such as Naver Band. The number of members per group ranges from as few as dozens to as many as 700-800.
The group’s management team announces simple personal information, such as the age of 2-3 women, and the region and date where rounding is possible, and recruits members who wish to participate.
Members who apply for participation in comments will receive information such as the woman’s photo, height, and weight as a personal message. In some cases, when men first presented the desired conditions, they found and matched women.
On the surface, it appears to be a golf rounding party, but it is common to assume that the real purpose of matching is prostitution. The management also sends an additional message to the men who have chosen a woman they like about the expense.
Along with the announcement that men should pay all rounding expenses and food expenses, “After-sales” should be given a’handy’. Usually it is about 30 (10,000 won), and some people get 40-50 (10,000 won) depending on their age and appearance.” Followed the explanation.
According to group members,’after’ means prostitution after golf, and’handy’ means an expense paid to women in exchange for sex.
Description of Golf EncounterWhen the meeting is established, the management team receives 100,000 to 200,000 won from men in the name of’matching fee’. In fact, it is the cost of mediating prostitution.
Most of the men and women we meet through the meeting app were in their 40s or older. The management team reportedly recruited matching participants, saying, “You can play golf for free,” in Internet cafes where there are many women of that age group.
According to court precedents, similar prostitution and mediation through online can be punished for violating the Act on the Punishment of Acts such as Prostitution.
However, it is pointed out that this `golf prostitution` puts golf for the nominal purpose, and that it may be difficult to establish a suspicion because words related to prostitution are not explicitly used in messenger conversations.
A lawyer specializing in criminal cases said, “It is a typical form of sex trafficking that money is paid in exchange for sex and brokers receive mediation fees.” Said.
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