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lang="ko-Hani">新安郡鹽田 섬奴隷事件</span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean" title="Revised Romanization of Korean">Revised Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">Sinan-gun yeomjeon seomnoye sageon</i></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/McCune%E2%80%93Reischauer" title="McCune–Reischauer">McCune–Reischauer</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="McCune–Reischauer transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">Sinan-gun yŏmjŏn sŏmnoye sakŏn</i></span></td></tr><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tbody></table> <p>Two <a href="/wiki/Disabled_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Disabled people">disabled</a> <a href="/wiki/Homeless" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeless">homeless</a> men (Kim and Chae) were living in <a href="/wiki/Mokpo" title="Mokpo">Mokpo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seoul" title="Seoul">Seoul</a>. An unregistered employment agency told them they could earn money by working on Sinan County's salt farms. Instead, they were sold to a farmer who owned a <a href="/wiki/Salt_evaporation_pond" title="Salt evaporation pond">salt evaporation pond</a> for a million <a href="/wiki/South_Korean_won" title="South Korean won">won</a>. Kim was trafficked in 2012, and Chae was trafficked in 2008. </p><p>They were forced to work unpaid on a <a href="/wiki/Salt_evaporation_pond" title="Salt evaporation pond">salt evaporation pond</a> in Sineuido, Sinan County. Kim and Chae were forced to work for 14 hours a day; if they did not work well, they were beaten with an iron bar or a wooden <a href="/wiki/Club_(weapon)" title="Club (weapon)">club</a>. </p><p>Kim attempted to escape the island three times, but all his attempts failed. After his third attempt, Kim was threatened with death should he try again. Soon after, Kim sent a letter to his mother. His mother called the police in Seoul. After that, Kim and Chae were rescued by Seoul police on 6 February 2014. The owner and the unregistered employment agency were arrested by Seoul police.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While Kim was reunited with his mother, Chae was not able to live with his family, so he entered a facility for handicapped people. </p><p>Most residents living in the islands and cities had helped the abusers to find the victims running away before this matter became an issue in South Korea. The residents included police officers who the victims were desperate to get assistance from.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the rescue, Jeonnam Mokpo Police Station, Mokpo Branch of Gwangju Ministry of Labor of The Republic of Korea, and Sinan County investigated 140 salt farm workers at Sineuido (신의도), Jeungdo (증도), and Bigeumdo (비금도). The investigators searched all salt farms in Sinan County. The investigation found 18 workers who had not been paid among 140 salt farm workers, two of whom were handicapped. One worker had not been paid for ten years although he should have been paid at least 120,000,000 won.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are likely even more victims, and most involved in trafficking were sentenced to be jailed for few<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="This term requires quantification. (August 2023)">quantify</span></a></i>]</sup> years with a stay of execution.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Investigations by Korean authorities and independent journalists in 2013 and 2014 discovered around 163 salt farm employees, most of them mentally or physically disabled, who were being held and worked under slave-like conditions. Around 50 island farm owners and regional job brokers were indicted or convicted of related crimes. No government or police officials who were aware of the crimes have been indicted.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Park Yong-chan (박용찬), a party member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Politics_Alliance_for_Democracy" class="mw-redirect" title="New Politics Alliance for Democracy">New Politics Alliance for Democracy</a> and a deputy Speaker of the Sinan County council was arrested by the Jeonnam provincial police on 15 April 2014 for failure to pay three labourers who had worked on his salt evaporation pond, whom he should have paid a total of one hundred million won. He was also accused of beating his labourers.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Response">Response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slavery_on_salt_farms_in_Sinan_County&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>President <a href="/wiki/Park_Geun-hye" title="Park Geun-hye">Park Geun-hye</a> commented about the exploitation of workers in Sinan County. She said, "It should never happen in the twenty-first century; we need to root this kind of human trafficking out, so the <a href="/wiki/National_Police_Agency_(South_Korea)" title="National Police Agency (South Korea)">National Police Agency</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Prosecutors%27_Office_of_the_Republic_of_Korea" title="Supreme Prosecutors' Office of the Republic of Korea">Supreme Prosecutors' Office</a> must investigate other remote islands to prevent human trafficking".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Seoul Guro Police Station (part of the <a href="/wiki/Seoul_Metropolitan_Police_Agency" title="Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency">Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency</a>) suggested a close investigation on the <a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_South_Korea" title="Human trafficking in South Korea">trafficking in South Korean remote islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 February 2014, Jeollanam-do decided to resolve the exploitation of workers in the islands by promoting the <a href="/wiki/Labor_rights" title="Labor rights">workers' rights</a> of salt evaporation pond labours.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the farmer and the agency were arrested, <a href="/wiki/Korean_Broadcasting_System" title="Korean Broadcasting System">KBS</a> interviewed citizens in Sinan county. One pond-owner's wife said, "We shouldn't give disabled people salaries <a href="/wiki/Ableism" title="Ableism">because</a> they would spend all salaries for buying <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage">alcoholic beverages</a>". One citizen said, "In Sinan, an honest person becomes a fool. The fifth-richest man owns the fifth most pond workers". A <a href="/wiki/Conscription_in_South_Korea" title="Conscription in South Korea">conscript</a> police officer stated, "During my service period in Sinan County, even a local police inspector had disregarded handicapped people's <a href="/wiki/Disability_rights_movement" title="Disability rights movement">human rights</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some South Korean internet sites such as <a href="/wiki/Naver" title="Naver">Naver</a> criticised both Sinan County and the local police. Based on Sinan County's geographical position, <a href="/wiki/Ilbe_Storehouse" title="Ilbe Storehouse">Ilbe Storehouse</a>, a South Korean website, criticised the <a href="/wiki/Honam" title="Honam">Honam</a> region as a whole.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slavery_on_salt_farms_in_Sinan_County&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinan_County_parents_raping_teacher_case&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinan County parents raping teacher case (page does not exist)">Sinan County parents raping teacher case</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%EC%95%88_%EC%B4%88%EB%93%B1%EC%97%AC%EA%B5%90%EC%82%AC_%EC%A7%91%EB%8B%A8_%EC%84%B1%ED%8F%AD%ED%96%89_%EC%82%AC%EA%B1%B4" class="extiw" title="ko:신안 초등여교사 집단 성폭행 사건">ko</a>]</span>, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slavery_on_salt_farms_in_Sinan_County&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 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