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Close for 24 hours. Posted : By Na Jeong-ju Among foreigners visiting Southeast Asia, South Koreans are the majority group driving demand for child prostitution across the region, according to the state-run Korean Institute of Criminology.
The institute published a report on the involvement of South Koreans in the sex trade throughout Southeast Asia on Tuesday based on year-long on-site surveys conducted in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines.
The report said there are no statistics showing how many South Koreans annually buy sex from minors in each country. However, many police officers and civic activists the institute's researchers met cited South Koreans as the "No. That's very shameful for the country. Park Sun-young, a researcher from the institute, said the sex trade involving Koreans has become a social concern in many countries, but neither the tourists nor the Korean authorities take the problem very seriously.
