Japanese-Korean Gay-Trans Prostitution Ring a-ding-dong

[Taro Toporific]

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Man Nabbed for Pimping Gay Prostitutes in Japan
KoreaTimes.co.kr - 03-09-2009
Police have uncovered a prostitution ring that sent dozens of Korean gays and transgenders to engage in the male sex trade in Japan.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Monday it had arrested a 41-year-old identified only as Park for arranging the illicit hookups, booking three others for similar offences.
Another 14 people are under investigation for having worked as homosexual prostitutes in red-light districts in Yokohama ...According to police, Park himself is gay with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and had sex with some of the prostitutes for whom he arranged the sex trade....more...

[TennoChinko]

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Man Nabbed for Pimping Gay Prostitutes in Japan
KoreaTimes.co.kr - 03-09-2009
Police have uncovered a prostitution ring that sent dozens of Korean gays and transgenders to engage in the male sex trade in Japan.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Monday it had arrested a 41-year-old identified only as Park for arranging the illicit hookups, booking three others for similar offences.
Another 14 people are under investigation for having worked as homosexual prostitutes in red-light districts in Yokohama ...According to police, Park himself is gay with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and had sex with some of the prostitutes for whom he arranged the sex trade....more...

I believe his full name was something along the lines of:

Pak Ing or Pak Yu

[Mulboyne]

ZakZak has a small feature inspired by this story (Japanese). The photograph above shows Yokohama's "Okama Dori" which the article says is teeming with gay and transvestite prostitutes from Korea and South America (20,000 yen for an hour in a hotel or 15,000 yen in "her" place. Apparently). Since the news of the arrest, the Koreans have gone to ground, according to local shopkeepers.