KoreKorea
KoreKorea is a term used for girls in Kiribati who are paid for sex by Korean fishermen.[2] The girls are around the age of eighteen and are even as young as fourteen years old.[3][4] They board foreign fishing vessels and engage in sex in exchange for money, clothes and fish.[5][6] They are also called ainen matawa locally in deference to Korean sensitivities because the name KoreKorea is overtly linked to the country.[5][7]
The KoreKorea issue is being addressed by a Korean institution in collaboration with the Kiribati Government cooperating with the ILO Youth unemployment programme and with the New Zealand’s International Aid and Development Agency (NZAID).[8]
See also
- Prostitution in South Korea
- Lai Đại Hàn Prostitution and rape by Korean soldiers in Vietnam
- Kopino children of mixed Korean and Filipino descent to an unwed Filipina mother
References
- ↑ Harborow, Hannah (October 2005). "The Pacific’s Hidden Trade". UNICEF.
- ↑ "The Shame in 'KoreKorea'". The Hankyoreh. 9 July 2005.
- ↑ "2012 Trafficking in Persons Report - Kiribati". United States Department of State / UNHCR. 19 June 2012.
- ↑ "Gender Issues in Tuna Fisheries Case Studies in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Kiribati". The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency. June 2008. p. 31.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Risky Business Kiribati: HIV prevention amongst women who board foreign fishing vessels to sell sex". International HIV Research Group, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales.
- ↑ "Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in the Pacific: A Regional Report". UNICEF, UNESCAP and ECPAT. 2006.
- ↑ "Strategic Plan 2012-2014". Kiribati Local Government Association. 2012.
Ainen matawa — teenage prostitution, involving very young girls board fishing vessels to engage in sex and drinking.
- ↑ "Kiribati - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Effective abolition of child labour". International Labour Organization. 15 February 2008.