A person in their 20s was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for luring an acquaintance to Cambodia and handing them over to a voice phishing crime ring based there.
Korean representatives met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Deputy Prime Minister Sok Chenda Sophea to request early repatriation of Korean nationals detained in online scam operations.
According to the Korean Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, the Koreans were held against their will in Tachileik, a mountainous area in the so-called Golden Triangle between Laos and Thailand.
Korea was again stamped as second-tier in the annual human trafficking report by the United States released Thursday, for its "inadequate" efforts to prevent trafficking and protect victims.
A senior U.S. diplomat is on a visit to Korea to discuss ways to prevent human trafficking, the state department said Thursday.
Korea has been downgraded to Tier 2 on an annual U.S. State Department report on people trafficking, citing concerns over the lack of "serious and sustained" efforts to protect victims and tackle related crimes.
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