14 DAY TRIAL // The cyber-prostitution tends to become an activity with lots of fans all over the world but in Korea, the addicted users are many more than in any other side of the Earth. The Associated Press reported today that prostitution on the Internet is a phenomenon that must be stopped as soon as possible because the residents of the country try to avoid the anti-prostitution law voted in 2004. Because this activity is prohibited in the entire country, Koreans can buy sex in many other locations such as barber shops and bars. But the Internet is also a popular place where many Asians can find sex, the estimated number of this kind of websites being 11,724.
What's more important is that some of the pages provide all the details about the girls along with photos and contact information. The National Police Agency said for the Associated Press that some of the users are also looking to buy sex using their mobile devices connected to the web so I guess this tends to become a real phenomenon.
Now, is there anything to do to stop this? Of course it is but it's incredible difficult to reduce the amount of websites selling sex. First of all, the Korean authorities have the ability to ban all the pages conducting this action but since there are 11,724 links, it would take a while until the operation is finalized. Then, the government could work with the search engines in the country to filter the results returned to the users because I'm sure many of them find the pages using local search technologies.
Also, Korea can take the example of China, a country where almost any malicious action is prohibited due to extremely tough laws. For example, lots of bloggers and Internet consumers were sent to the judge because they criticized the government in articles published on the web. After the local ISPs blocked a huge amount of pages, the authorities also took the decision to implement two virtual cops to patrol the largest country's portals in order to verify the users' activities.