right restrictions for the purpose by punishing prostituted women, violates the principle of minimized loss and infringes on the right to equality by handling sex trade victims and prostituted women differently in relation to a case of violation of the particular provision. However, the Constitutional Court ruled that the provision is constitutional on March 31st, 2016 11 . After the request for an adjudication on the constitutionality of the provision, the number of people arrested for sex traffic decreased from 11,675 in 2011 to 5,674 in 2012, 4,414 in 2013, 4,841 in 2014 and 4,440 in 2015. However, in 2016, after the ruling of the Constitutional Court, the number increased to 17,982.12 Out of arrested people in 2016, 13,512 people were men (75.14%), 4,274 people were women (31.63%) and 196 people (4.58%) were unclassified. 13 In most cases, sellers are women and buyers are men. Punishment for prostituted women seems relatively weaker as the arrest rate of buyers is about three times higher than that of sellers. 44. However, in the actual application process of the law, punishment based on Article 21 (1) of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic is implemented in serious disfavor of prostituted women rather than men who bought sex. First, when people involved in sex traffic violating Article 21 (1) are exempted from indictment, male sex buyers are subject to suspension of indictment on the condition of education (so-called John School education) while prostituted women are subject to protective disposition based on regulations of protection cases stipulated in Article 12 and the following articles of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic. As of 2016, although John School education is a condition for suspension of indictment, the palpable effect as a punishment is larger for protection cases since it is sent to a family court in the jurisdiction and gives an order of protective disposition after a separate trial 11 Constitutional Court 2016.3.31. 2013 Hun-Ga 2. 12 National Police Agency 『Crime Statistics』Current Status of Crime Incidence and Arrest in Case of Violation of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic (Prostitution) (2011-2016), Korean Institute of Criminology, Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (http://www.crimestats.or.kr/main/index.k2?cmd=main) Crime Statistics DB. 13 National Police Agency 『Crime Statistics』Current Status of Crime Incidence and Arrest in Case of Violation of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic (Prostitution) (2016), Korean Institute of Criminology, Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (http://www.crimestats.or.kr/main/index.k2?cmd=main) Crime Statistics DB.