Every since authorities started cracking down on the $20 billion sex trade in South Korea, many industry workers have been moving abroad in an attempt to find comparable work.

The English version of the Chosun Ilbo reports on what draws some of those workers abroad:

Dedicated web groups are awash with advertisements drawing prostitutes abroad. A typical post on one such site boasting no fewer than 1,430 members - cafe.daum.net/zonesogeso - read, “We know that in Korea these days, unemployment, the recession and the Special Law on Prostitution make it hard to earn even half of what you made before. Try a new start in the U.S. W8-10 million a month in a bar, W18-24 million a month in a massage parlor guaranteed. Advances possible. We take care of visas and bad credit.”

That converts to $8,485 -$10,606 a month for a bar hostess, and between $19,092 to $25,456 a month to work in a massage parlor.

It should be noted that a common tactic of human traffickers is to promise a certain wage, and then fail to fulfil that promise once the victim has arrived.  After stripping the victim of her passport, traffickers state that the victim is responsible for paying back the transportation costs and must work to pay it off.