The mainland's efforts to crack down on "pornography, gambling, and drugs" can be said to be the world's first, but with such a positive model as the mainland, there are naturally negative teaching materials. In the field of "yellow", Japan can be said to be the No.1 negative textbook.
However, Japan is not convinced, and many years ago, Japanese media reported that South Korea is the big country in the industry, and even they have to bow down. Why does Japan say that?
A case that shocked the world
In 2009, South Korean actress Zhang Ziyan committed suicide at home, and she left a suicide note, which was exposed by Korean TV in 2011, shocking the world.
Zhang Ziyan revealed in her suicide note that she was forced by the agency to provide some services to 31 men, and even on her father's death day, she would be forced to drink and sleep with her, and if she resisted, she would be beaten by the agent.
Zhang Ziyan used her life to tear apart the illusion of the Korean entertainment industry, and let the world see that behind the glamorous is corruption and unbearable. However, the case was hastily closed, and some of the suspects in the case gradually faded out of people's sight later, and the case was forgotten.
At the beginning of 2019, South Korea once again broke out a scandal that shocked the world - the "Shenglimen" case, which was a nightclub run by South Korean actor Lee Shengli that had illegal behaviors such as pornography, gambling, drugs, bribery and clandestine photography.
"Victory Gate" pulled out the case of Jang Ziyan, and Moon Jae-in issued instructions to "ask the police and prosecutors to gamble their fate and thoroughly investigate the truth." In addition, Moon Jae-in pointed out that these cases involve the privileged strata of South Korean society, and that the South Korean prosecutor's office and the National Police Agency have interfered in the investigation of the cases in an attempt to shield those involved.
As a result, Li Shengli was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 1,156.9 million won (about 6.45 million yuan).
From these two cases, you can see how deep the water is in South Korea.
South Korea is a country where the "chaebol" is in charge, and the chaebol seems to be doing everything right, and even if there is a mistake, someone will help solve it, and this behavior has provided cover for the "industry" in South Korea to a certain extent.
Back then, after Zhang Ziyan's case was exposed, South Korea carried out a large-scale anti-pornography operation, but according to China News Agency, South Korea-related groups transferred these Korean women to the mainland and Taiwan to carry out related business again, evading the detection and pursuit of the South Korean police.
In 2014, Japan's Nikkan CYZO magazine said that South Korea was already the world's "industry power" and surpassed Japan's existence. South Korea's anti-pornography campaign over the years has not cured the erosion in the country, but has instead pushed the industry into one of the "globalized" industries in South Korea.
So why can't South Korea cure this industry?
cause
In 2004, South Korea introduced a special law on sex trafficking. The advent of this law has caused a very sensitive topic, that is, whether this law violates the South Korean Constitution, and South Korea has specially held a debate competition in the Constitutional Court in order to explain that this law does not violate the Constitution.
According to a Yonhap News Agency report at the time, Article 21 of the law stipulates that both men and women involved in the sale of a service will be sentenced to up to one year in prison or pay a fine of 3 million won.
There is nothing wrong with this view, after all, they do have illegal transactions in the past, and it is normal to be sentenced.
However, this provision has been accused by South Koreans of violating the Constitution's "protection of personal personality and sexual decision-making rights" and "the right to privacy in private life", and at the same time, it also infringes on the right of South Koreans to freely choose their profession.
In addition, some South Koreans believe that some women who are engaged in this industry are forced to work in illegal industries because they are forced to make a living, and these are not their own will, and should not be punished and sentenced, and South Korean laws should also protect such women.
On the surface, this "special law" has stopped and cracked down on the pornography industry in South Korea, but in fact, it has promoted the development of the "globalization" of this industry in disguise.
There are many people like Lee Shengli who set up formal establishments first and then do illegal business, and South Korea's chaebols and elites are "consumers" of these establishments.
So, why has South Korea been able to change the "law that governs development" to "promote development"?
In July 1969, Nixon delivered the "Guam Speech," the general content of which was to withdraw some of the American troops from Asia and return home, and the Asian allies should become self-reliant.
Other countries didn't have much reaction, South Korea was different, South Korea's next operation simply refreshed everyone's cognition, what did South Korea do?
At that time, South Korea relied on the strength of the U.S. military to gain a firm foothold on the Korean Peninsula, and they were worried that North Korea would attack them as soon as the U.S. military left, so South Korea thought that it was necessary to keep the U.S. military. Park Chung-hee personally drew up a plan called "Conduct a Decontamination Campaign in the Villages of the US Military Base."
South Korea gave 100 million won to the US military to improve the environment of the base villages, and also met the various demands put forward by the US military. It stands to reason that it is enough to do this, and whether the US military wants to leave or stay is not something that can be changed by a base village.
However, South Korea insisted on keeping the US military, and for this reason, South Korea launched a "clean-up campaign".
To put it simply, women in the base village are tested for venereal diseases, and once the women are detected, they are forcibly taken to a shelter by the U.S. military and given penicillin injections.
This practice is reduced to three words: "comfort women". The South Korean government sent Korean women to the camps of the U.S. military as "objects" in an attempt to keep the U.S. military.
At that time, some women died due to drug allergies, and the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of South Korea informed the Ministry of Justice of the matter, but what did the Minister of Justice of South Korea say, "This is not a medical malpractice, how can we sue the US military who helped us in court!"
According to One Nation, from the late 60s to the 80s of the last century, there were 1 million women in South Korea who served in the US military. Even if this group of women later left the "base village", it was difficult for them to live a normal life, and some of them returned to their old jobs.
To a certain extent, the "purification campaign" has laid a solid foundation for South Korea to become a "industry powerhouse", and the current Korean chaebols are just following the same example, suffering those who are forced to engage in the illegal trade.
In addition to the Zhang Ziyan case and the "Victory Gate", South Korea's Nth room case is also shocking to the world, which is enough to show that South Korea's industry grows from the roots, and if it can't be uprooted, I'm afraid that it will be "born again in the spring breeze".
Resources:
[1] China News Network, "Japanese Media Satirizes South Korea's Anti-Pornography Law for Ineffective and Has Become a Big Country in the Industry", 20140926
[2] China Daily, "South Korea Has Encouraged "Prostitution and Patriotism" and "Purification Campaign" Full of Animal Desires", 20141203