KoreKorea

KoreKorea engage in sex with the crews of foreign fishing vessels berthed at Betio wharf.[1]

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]

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References

  1. ↑ Harborow, Hannah (October 2005). "The Pacific’s Hidden Trade". UNICEF.
  2. ↑ "The Shame in 'KoreKorea'". The Hankyoreh. 9 July 2005.
  3. ↑ "2012 Trafficking in Persons Report - Kiribati". United States Department of State / UNHCR. 19 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Gender Issues in Tuna Fisheries Case Studies in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Kiribati" (PDF). The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency. June 2008. p. 31.
  5. 1 2 "Risky Business Kiribati: HIV prevention amongst women who board foreign fishing vessels to sell sex" (PDF). International HIV Research Group, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales.
  6. ↑ "Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in the Pacific: A Regional Report" (PDF). UNICEF, UNESCAP and ECPAT. 2006.
  7. ↑ "Strategic Plan 2012-2014" (PDF). Kiribati Local Government Association. 2012. Ainen matawa — teenage prostitution, involving very young girls board fishing vessels to engage in sex and drinking.
  8. ↑ "Kiribati - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Effective abolition of child labour". International Labour Organization. 15 February 2008.
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