KoreKorea
Sign in to save250px|thumb|right|KoreKorea engage in sex with the crews of foreign fishing vessels berthed at Betio wharf. KoreKorea was a term used for girls in Kiribati who Korean fishermen paid for sex. They are now called ainen matawa locally "in deference to Korean sensitivities", because the word "Korekorea" was overtly linked to the "principal nationality of their clients". Some of the girls are as young as fourteen years old. They board foreign fishing vessels and engage in sex in exchange for money, clothes and fish.
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Awareness
- Countries involved
- Involvement of Kiribati
- Involvement of South Korea
- Mixed children
- Ainen matawa
- Age of ainen matawa
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Stigma of being ainen matawa
- See also
- References
250px|thumb|right|KoreKorea engage in sex with the crews of foreign fishing vessels berthed at Betio wharf. KoreKorea was a term used for girls in Kiribati who Korean fishermen paid for sex. They are now called ainen matawa locally "in deference to Korean sensitivities", because the word "Korekorea" was overtly linked to the "principal nationality of their clients". Some of the girls are as young as fourteen years old. They board foreign fishing vessels and engage in sex in exchange for money, clothes and fish.
==Awareness== A 2005 news article in The Korea Times said that, according to ECPAT-Korea, "te korekorea" are "the best known cases of commercial sexual exploitation of children".
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