Korea: Anti-prostitution law gets makeover for second birthday

September 23 was the second birthday of the Special Law on Prostitution, whose positive effects are still hotly contested, though the law has had one clear effect: sending massive numbers of Korean sex-workers abroad.

The government will attempt to tackle the problem by restricting or revoking the passports of people deemed to hurt the nation with their overseas antics, and there are to be reforms in the law to allow punishment for soliciting and thus reduce the number of cases that have to be dropped.