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experience in working part-time in 2017, and the rates for academic high school and
specialized high school accounted for 12.6% and 41.2%, respectively. Among the
adolescents who have worked part-time, 17.5% of them received little or no pay for their
work and 20.5% of them have been paid below minimum wage. 17.1% of them had worked
overtime or been requested to perform duties outside of job description, and 7.9% of them
had been unfairly dismissed. Moreover, 65.5% of them had never signed an employment
contract, 15% of them had worked in unsanitary and dangerous working conditions, and 12.3%
of them have been verbally abused or insulted by others while working.
2) Questions
214.
Does the government have a plan to protect child labor?
Issue 59. Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse
1) Current status
215. Currently brokerage of child and adolescent prostitution is in the form of 1:1 deals
where terms are conditioned through chatting applications as a result of the increased use of
smart phones and the advancement of the internet. According to the analysis on the types of
first meeting places of adolescent prostitution conducted by the Korean National Police
Agency, 528 cases of child and adolescent prostitution activities were prosecuted in 2010, of
which 78.4% (114 cases) were sexual prostitution that used the internet as the
communication channel. According to the Survey on Human Rights and Environment of
Child and Adolescent Prostitution by the NHRCK, most frequently used prostitution method
was the smart phone chatting application (67%), followed by internet chatting and cafes
(27.2%).
216. The current Act on the Protection of Children and Juveniles from Sexual Abuse
stipulates child victims of prostitution as “corresponding children and adolescents” and can
be subjected to protective disposition under the Juvenile Act. According to the
abovementioned survey, 41.5% of child and adolescent victims of prostitution with
experience of being put under protective disposition were treated as criminals by the
investigative agency, and 46.6% thought protective disposition as a form of punishment. In
relation to this, in 2017, the NHRCK pronounced the opinion to the chairman of the National
Assembly that it is desirable to clearly rename “corresponding children and adolescents” to
“children and adolescents victims,” and to strengthen protection and support after deleting
the stipulation on protective disposition.
217. Children subjected to prostitution are reluctant to report prostitution because criminal
records and investigative documents remain due to the protective disposition. There are
cases where brokers or sex offenders that are aware of this abuse it to force prostitution. In
addition, there are cases where the court does not interpret such children as victims but
rather deem them as voluntary participants of prostitution unless brokerage, inducement or
lure involving third party is clearly revealed.