Acts and Protection, etc. of Victims, it is not easy for prostituted women to be recognized as victims under the current investigation procedure since they have to prove themselves to be victims in order to be exempted when they were arrested during the crackdown activities by the police. In addition, it is suspicious whether the criminal punishment exemption provisions are truly effective as the Government has failed to provide statistical data on exemption cases where the arrested are recognized as victims. Therefore, measures to improve the effectiveness of criminal punishment exemption provisions for female victims of sexual traffic need to be developed. 47. The fact-finding results of youth prostitution in the ｢2016 Fact-finding Survey on Prostitution｣ published by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in May 2017 revealed that the seven out of ten teenagers (74.8%) who experienced the so-called “conditional dating” met the potential sex buyers through ‘chatting applications’ (37.4%), ‘random chatting applications’ (23.4%), or online chatting sites (14%). Only 15.7% of the total 108 websites that promote prostitution requested for the age authentication to prove that the users were not minors. As for the mobile applications, 278 applications that facilitate prostitution out of total 317 (87.7%) were accessible without identity or device authentication, and the highest number of applications (210 apps, 66.2%) had the age limit of 17 years. * “Chatting applications” offer 1:1 conversation services and video conversation services. “Random chatting applications” offer conversation or messaging services with unspecified individuals. Source: Press Release from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (May 1st, 2017) 48. In the ｢2016 Fact-finding Survey on Prostitution｣, 107 adolescents under 19 years of age who experienced prostitution and ran away from home (61.8%) responded that they had experienced the “conditional dating” out of total 173 respondents. Among these, 70.7% of adolescents first went to the “conditional dating” after they had ran away from home, and 51.4% of them experienced it while still enrolled in schools. The most common reason for the “conditional dating” was to find a place to go and sleep (29%), and the “condition” was money (87.9%) in most cases. The adolescents who went on the “conditional dating” experienced both physical and psychological damage (65.4%), which