trafficking seem to create a tension, there exists the need for international marriage and forced labor as modern-day slavery in the country of destination and when the need is based on gender discriminatory patriarch marriage system and sexuality, the search of the migrants for a ‘better life’results in human trafficking which ends in modern-day sex slavery or forced labor. Therefore it is hard to deny that migration itself is exposed to the risk of human trafficking. International policy on human trafficking that demands punishment on organized crime that causes massive human trafficking and protection on the victims at the same time cannot bear fruits unless it is analyzed and developed in conjunction with the migration policy. Also, recent international efforts to prevent human trafficking show that the national policies on migration, human trafficking prevention and gender equality should go hand in hand in order for them to be effective. 2. Anti-human trafficking efforts focused on demand for sex and labor According to an ILO statistics, 12.3 people around the world have fallen victim to human trafficking for forced labor and sexual exploitation, 56% which are women, even young girls. An estimated 1.39 children and adults are in the state of commercial sex slavery. As the number suggests, the problem of human trafficking and the harm it causes has been aggravated with the failed policy to correlate overflowing demand and supply at respective countries of origin, destination and transit of human trafficking victims and the failed international cooperation to prevent organized crime of human trafficking. It has even caused human trafficking one of the natural trends of the time, making the problem more permanent. Recent statistics suggest that international marriage, which is a cause for grave concern as it often leads to modern-day slavery, accounts for about 10% of overall marriages in Korea. As was evident in the cases that the author has encountered in the field, asignificant number of international marriages have the characteristics of human trafficking. International marriage in the midst of economic imbalances between other countries and Korea, existence of patriarch marriage system and widespread gender inequality has the vulnerability of becoming a marriage with modern day slavery as its nature. Without fully recognizing such vulnerability, international marriage between the demand side – Korean men and their families – and on the supply side – namely women from Asian countries and their 98 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women