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Three arrested for aiding Vietnamese women illegally enter Korea
By 임정요Published : April 27, 2016 - 18:01
Three Korean men were arrested Wednesday for assisting in the illegal entry of five Vietnamese women to Korea under the pretense of medical tourism. All of the women’s whereabouts are currently unaccounted for.
Daegu police said that the men were responsible for bringing in young Vietnamese women in their early 20s for a brokering fee of 1.5 million won ($1,300) per head.
The men recruited the women from Vietnam, helped them obtain a fake hospital registration form and handled their visa for them.
The women are recorded as having arrived in Korea in August 2015, but they never showed up at the hospitals where they had registered for medical procedures.
Police are investigating their location with few leads.
Meanwhile, an ethnic Korean from China who had worked at a bar on Jejudo Island without an official work permit was found murdered two weeks ago. The case is also being pursued by the police there.
By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)
