Japanese women engaged in ”travel prostitution” in Korea... Thirty-something manager who arranged it arrested

A broker who arranged for Japanese women to travel to Korea and engage in "prostitution" was arrested on the 12th. Judge Jeong Eun-jin of the Seoul Central District Court will begin a prosecution of the case from 2 p.m. on the same day for the brokerage of prostitution and other acts.
After conducting a pre-arrest interrogation (substantive warrant review) of Park, a business owner in his 30s who is suspected of violating the law on punishment, the police issued a warrant, stating that there were concerns that he may destroy evidence and flee.
Park is suspected of posting advertisements for "sex trafficking in Japan" on an internet site since November last year and of actually arranging sex trafficking with Japanese women.
According to police, Park and three others in their 20s and 30s had been engaged in marketing activities at an office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, since the end of last year.
They shared roles such as consulting, managing the women and acting as intermediaries, and posted sex trafficking advertisements on an online sex trafficking site under the title "Girls from the Archipelago."
The adverts reportedly included photos of women in uniforms or nearly naked, along with their body measurements and whether or not they spoke Korean.
Police, who were investigating online sex trafficking advertisements in November of last year, conducted a one-hour raid on a hotel in Gangnam and the owner's residence nearby from 10 p.m. on the 9th of this month.
Police raided the office in Bundang, where the couple lived. They arrested a group of seven people, including three Japanese women, who were engaged in prostitution, and took 475,000 yen in cash from the Japanese women.
The women, who entered South Korea in early May under the false pretense of being tourists, were each seized with 300,000 to 1.3 million won (approximately 34,000 to 145,000 yen) in cash.
Police believe he received up to 1.55 million won (approximately US$175,000) in compensation per case.
Police said there was no record of Park or his staff traveling to or from Japan recently.
It is believed that there is a middleman in Japan who is recruiting women and sending them to Korea. Prior to this, on the 10th, the police applied for an arrest warrant for Park, and charged him with violating the Immigration Control Act and the Sex Trafficking Punishment Act (sex trafficking).
The custody of the Japanese women who violated the rules was handed over to the immigration office.