減らない韓国人性の買春
(ハンギョレ新聞)韓国女性部が「夏休みシーズン海外性売買防止キャンペーンを仁川空港で行う」 と明らかにした6月18日にもモンゴルで韓国男性たちの性売買は盛んであった。現地ガイドマタは「年齢に関係なく男性団体観光客の70%以上が性売買をする」と語った。彼は自分の手札集で国内有名証券会社の部長、地方公務員などの名刺を取り出して見せてくれた。

現地人らは、モンゴルの性売買文化を造成した人々はまさに韓国人たちだと語った。ウランバートルに2002年初めてカラオケを開設したのも韓国人だったし、多くのカラオケの大家も韓国人だ。2007年には50余個まで増えた。現地で会った事業家、朴某(35)さんは「男たち同士でその場所に遊びに行けば、目的は明らかではないか。このために店もたくさん増えた」と語った。

モンゴル政府は去年、性売買取り締まり法を作って取り締まりに乗り出した。しかし、その結果カラオケは4〜5軒に減ったが「性売買」が取り締まりを避けて乗馬学校・マッサージショップなどに拡散する‘風船効果’まで現われている。

市内から1時間ほど離れた乗馬学校関係者は「空港に到着すればこちらまで連れられて、他の乗合車で現地女性たちが到着する。草原に出る時(女性たちが)お供することもある」と語った。僑民朴某(女)さんは「こちらへ来た韓国男性たちは見られる限り最大限の醜い姿を見せる。70代の年寄りが孫娘ほどのモンゴル女性を現地先で連れ歩き、妊娠すると逃げたこともある」と語った。

韓国大使館もまた「性売買が韓国と韓国人のイメージを汚している」と伝えた。女性部は去年から性売買摘発の時、パスポート発給制限または再発給拒否などができるように旅券法を改正した。しかし、実効はほとんどない状況だ。

ペ・インスク仁川女性の電話代表は「国内でもまともに処罰できない状況で、外国での性売買処罰はもっとできない話」と語った。イ・ナヤン中央大教授(社会学)は「根本的に女性が娯楽になる韓国男性たちの意識や文化が変化しなければならない」と語った。

■韓国人たちに対する敵対感広がる
韓国男性観光客たちのこんな醜態はモンゴル人たちの反韓国感情を大きく呼ぶ要素として作用している、と僑民たちは伝える。モンゴルで暮らして3年目の李某(38)さんは最近韓人に対するモンゴル人たちの暴行が増えて暮しにくいと語った。現地ガイド、テムジン(42)は「韓国の人々がモンゴル女性たちをお金払って買うので良くない感情が強い。このために韓国人たちに対する暴行事件が頻繁に起きている」と伝えた。

英語ソース
In Mongolia, sex tourism by S. Korean males leads to anti-Korean sentiment

South Koreans’ sex tourism to Mongolia remains widespread. According to an investigative report by The Hankyoreh, Mongolians accused South Korean tourists of spawning a culture of buying sex in their country. In 2002, a South Korean opened the first karaoke bar in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulan Bator and most karaoke bars in Mongolia are owned by South Koreans. The number of karaoke bars in Mongolia has increased to include some 50 bars.

A 35-year-old South Korean businessman, who is only identified by the surname Park and lives in Mongolia, told The Hankyoreh, “When men visit, their purpose is obvious, so the number of bars has increased significantly.”

A Mongolian tour guide, identified only as Matha, said, “Regardless of age, more than 70 percent of male tourists on group tours buy sex.” The tour guide showed a list of business cards that he had received from South Korean tourists, who included a manager of a well-known securities company and a local government official.
Some South Korean nationals who live in Mongolia say they have seen older men who have a 20-something local woman as a mistress. A female South Korean national in Mongolia, who is only identified by her surname Park, said, “Korean men here have the worst behavior. For instance, a 70-something (Korean) man had a Mongolian woman as a mistress. When she got pregnant, he abandoned her and ran away.”

The South Korean embassy in Mongolia said, “Sex tourism is undermining the image of South Korea and its people.” At the end of 2007, there were some 3,000 South Korean nationals in Mongolia. Last year, the number of South Korean tourists to Mongolia stood at some 40,000 people.

With the practice remaining widespread, the Mongolian government stepped up its crackdown on sex tourism by passing new anti-prostitution laws last year. However, the effect was nothing more than a reduction in a few number of karaoke bars.

Perhaps even worse is there are signs that the crackdown has had an adverse effect on the industry. To avoid the crackdown, prostitution has spread to horseback-riding schools, massage parlours and others. An official at a Mongolian horseback-riding school, which is only identified by the letter “G” and is located an hour’s drive from the city center, said, “When (men who are here as sex tourists) arrive at the airport, they are escorted here. Local women arrive here in a different van. When they move off to the grassland, (the women) are accompanied by the men.”

The increase in sex tourism by South Korean male visitors has been a source of rising anti-Korean sentiment among Mongolians, according to South Korean nationals in the country. A 38-year-old South Korean national, who is only identified by the surname Lee and has lived in Mongolia for three years, said the number of assault cases against Korean people is on the rise.

A 42-year-old local tour guide, who is only identified as Temuchin, said, “Anti-Korean sentiment is high because (Korean men) buy sex from (local) women.”

With the recent emergence of a right-wing organization in Mongolia, the damage to Korean people is growing further.

Erden Birk, the head of the country’s biggest right-wing organization, Daiyar, said, “There have been cases in which four 60-something men spent time with one 20-something woman in a room until morning and others in which tourists go directly to an underground karaoke bar at their hotel as soon as they arrive from the airport, without even unpacking their baggage. If these things continue to happen, it will be difficult to stop the violence.”

Last year, South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family revised a passport law and the government is now allowed to ban

people who have been arrested for buying sex from being issued new passports or passport renewals. However, the effect of the ban has so far been negligible. Bae Lim Sook-il, the head of the Incheon Women’s Hotline, said, “Prostitution (in South Korea) isn’t even being punished properly. So the government can’t punish people for soliciting prostitution in foreign countries.”

Lee Na-young, a sociology professor at ChungAng University, said, “The mindset and culture of Korean males, which view females as objects of entertainment, needs to be fundamentally changed.”