exposed to sexual exploitation, the Philippine Embassy from 2009 is said to have started to impose restrictions on issuing employment permit to clubs exclusively for US soldiers. According to a report by the Stars and Stripes, US military news, the Philippine Embassy has suspended issuing employment approval from the second half of 2009 to prevent prostitution of Filipinas at clubs around US military bases. Other: Issues around women from former Soviet countries flowing into sex industry with tourist visas. The Office for Government Coordination announced the ‘Plan on foreign female dancers working at entertainment establishments’ in June 2003. - About 6,000 people enter into the country under entertainer’s visa under the pretext of engaging in performing arts but in reality to work at the entertainment establishments (6,523 people in 2002). The countries that send the largest number include Russia, the Philippines, Uzbekistan and Kirgizstan. Instead of performing arts, they work at dinner theatres, foreigners only entertainment restaurants, and clubs within US military bases - Most of them (83%) are female dancers and there are numerous cases of human rights violations including violence, confinement and human trafficking. Such violations were covered not only by domestic media but also by the US Congress and foreign press, undermining the image of the country as the human rights model country. Therefore official request has been sent to the governments of the Philippines, Uzbekistan and Russia to control visa issuance on female dancers. As responses to the problem (by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Labor and Korea Media Rating Board): - Suspended issuance of visas for foreign female dancers (from June 1) - Improved foreign performance recommendation system (MoJ and MoL to actively cooperate with the MoCT’s initiative to improve the system), and - Conduct joint raids on human rights violation of foreign female dancers (with the leadership of MoJ with help from MoCT, MoL and the National Police Agency. Any violation will be heavily punished). Even after the efforts, we have noticed continuous flow of migrant women from former Russian countries into sex industry of rural areas after coming in with tourist visas. They are constantly monitored and being outreached by local civil organizations. We were recently told by local activists that there are about two hundreds Chinese women working at ticket coffee shops in Gyeongsang Provinces (Sangju, Pohang etc.). There is another instance where a foreign woman requested assistance after being discovered at a port city (Okpo Shipyard). 36 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women