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Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants in Seoul

Address

Archdiocesan Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants
1-115 Songbuk-gu, Songbukdong
Seoul 136-020
Republic of Korea

Contact Information

If calling from South Korea:

Tel: 02 765 0870
Fax: 02 765 0871

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +82 2 765 0870
Fax: +82 2 765 0871

Email

jaron@chollian.net

Activities

The Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants in Seoul monitors the situation of sex establishments surrounding American military bases in Korea. Women are most commonly trafficked to South Korea from the Philippines and Russia, but they also are trafficked from other Central Asian countries and from European countries of the former Soviet Union. Filipino women are specifically targeted for sexual exploitation near military bases because of their English-language skills.

Fr. Glenn Jaron rescues Filipina women who are slaves in these sex establishments and returns them to the Philippines.

The Mission Society of the Philippines publishes Sambayanan Online which is an information resource for the Seoul Archdiocese. Through it, the Chaplain advocates for an end to trafficking of Filipina women into Korea.

Relevant Publications:

"Runaway Brides: Anxieties of Identity among Trafficked Filipina Entertainers in South Korea", Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 25, Issue 2, July 2004.

"Modern-Day Comfort Women: The U.S. Military, Transnational Crime, and the Trafficking of Women."