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https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10555291


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South Korean found dead in Cambodian scam compound, signs of torture reported
Aug. 17, 2025 - 13:26:29
By Moon Joon-hyun
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Buildings that look appear to be ordinary commercial blocks in Cambodia, shown here in footage from a May 3 episode of SBS’ investigative program "Unanswered Questions," are reportedly controlled by Chinese criminal syndicates and are linked to human trafficking, detention and large-scale online scams. (SBS)
Buildings that look appear to be ordinary commercial blocks in Cambodia, shown here in footage from a May 3 episode of SBS’ investigative program "Unanswered Questions," are reportedly controlled by Chinese criminal syndicates and are linked to human trafficking, detention and large-scale online scams. (SBS)
The body of a South Korean man has been discovered in an alleged Cambodian scam compound, wrapped in blankets and plastic bags, his face swollen and bruised, indicating he may have been beaten to death.

Cambodian police said the body was found Thursday in Kampot province, inside a large dumpster alongside another victim. South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed one of the dead as a Korean national surnamed Park.

The ministry said it immediately requested a full investigation from Cambodian authorities and is providing consular support to Park’s family, although officials noted that "confirming further details has been difficult."

>>1427352 (OP)
What happened to Park appears bound up in the shadowy world of cybercrime compounds. The site where his body was discovered is one of dozens of massive operations in Cambodia reportedly run by Chinese organized crime groups. These compounds, often sealed off and heavily guarded, are infamous for voice phishing and fraudulent investment scams.

Park is believed to have been held inside before being killed by the gang.

The description of his body paints a grim picture. Local investigators reported extensive bruising and bloodstains, with swelling that suggests he endured sustained violence.

The brutality echoes accounts from survivors of these scam compounds. One 28-year-old South Korean man who recently escaped told South Korean media, “Chinese gang members will kill someone easily if money is involved.” He described beatings, electric shock and waterboarding as routine.

Amnesty International estimates that more than 50 such scam compounds operate across Cambodia. Rights groups and local media alike describe them as places where national law enforcement has little reach, functioning almost as self-contained criminal enclaves.

Local reports suspect that an unspecified number of South Koreans may be trapped inside these compounds, deceived by job postings advertising “high-paying overseas employment” only to find themselves trafficked into forced labor once they have arrived.

Data obtained by the office of Rep. Kim Geon from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows that the number of South Koreans reported kidnapped or detained in Cambodia rose from 21 in 2023 to 221 in 2024. In the first half of 2025 alone, officials estimate 212 cases, suggesting this year’s total could reach double last year’s figure.

>>1427352 (OP)
>>1427353
Despite the scale of the crisis, South Korea has struggled to intervene. Officials acknowledge that Cambodian scam compounds often operate beyond effective state control and that Seoul lacks investigative authority on the ground.

At present only one South Korean police officer is stationed at the embassy in Phnom Penh. Victims who contact the embassy are advised to report directly to Cambodian police, as the embassy cannot carry out rescue missions or investigations on its own.


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>>1427354
I mean yeah, what are they supposed to do? This is a criminal syndicate in another country with the people in charge of it being from yet another country.

>>1427352 (OP)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10555291

https://x.com/TheKoreaHerald/status/1956936427205476842

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82XAueAU_5c

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/south-korean-found-dead-in-alleged-cambodian-scam-compound-signs-of-torture-reported

https://www.face=book.com/photo.php%3Ffbid%3D1180257950794204%26id%3D100064300317042%26set%3Da.356177206535620

https://www.mk.co.kr/en/world/11394474

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/asean/40054154

https://www.nationthailand.com/tags/Cambodia

https://www.nationthailand.com/category/news/asean

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-declares-martial-law-in-eight-districts-bordering-cambodia

https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/1mt9qc2/south_korean_found_dead_in_cambodian_scam/

https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/1mt9p6n/south_korean_found_dead_in_alleged_cambodian_scam/

>>1427358
Filipino police killed South Korean man Jee Ick-joo, cremated him and flushed his ashes down the toilet.
https://x.com/EmilyZFeng/status/822269250232414208

Holy crap, Philippines police killed S Korea man by "wrapping his head in packing tape and strangling him"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/world/asia/philippines-police-south-korean-killing.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNrdDdSniT8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9q9y-1urHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMDg-V_eqtQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8tV8MibGjs

https://www.face,book.com/pandalogs/videos/the-story-of-jee-ick-joo-jeeickjoo-fbreels23-fbreelsvideo-fbreelsfyp%E3%82%B7%E3%82%9Aviral-fbre/1390116831767341/

https://www.face,book.com/PinasThoughts/posts/a-brief-backgroundjee-ick-joo-was-a-south-korean-businessman-kidnapped-by-two-po/1004857378474404/

https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/02/23/17/who-ordered-jees-ashes-flushed-funeral-director-wont-say

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2063414/bersamin-orders-intensified-manhunt-for-dumlao-reveals-hes-still-in-ph

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1086457

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/611769/court-orders-arrest-of-owner-of-funeral-parlor-where-jee-s-remains-cremated-flushed/story/

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/07/20/2371529/ca-ex-cop-masterminded-korean-businessmans-slay

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/167549/went-jee-ick-joo-slaying

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2017/01/18/1663244/missing-koreans-ashes-flushed-toilet

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/specialreports/596864/jee-ick-joo-cremated-as-filipino-jose-ruamar-salvador/story/

>>1427357
>>1427354
This issue has been widely known in China for the last several years.
Pretty much exactly what the article says, gangs based out of Cambodia scam people into thinking they are getting a job and then pretty much turn them into forced labor for scam call centers. As far as I've learned the scam centers mostly target Chinese speakers.

Oh, another interesting fact showing how China could stop it if they wanted to. Some Chinese ccp official had his son taken by one of these Cambodian gangs. As soon as the Chinese government found out the dudes son was returned with an apology.

>>1427373
There are Indians, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese and Japanese being tortured in the scam centres along with Koreans.

Vietnamese women are also pimped out at the scam centres and casinos in Myanmar for sex.

>>1427373
>>1427376
18 year old north Vietnamese girl sold other Vietnamese girls as prostitutes to Chinese men in Myanmar brothels

https://newsbeezer.com/vietnameng/hotgirl-wanted-to-queue-for-18-years-to-bring-beautiful-girls-abroad-to-sell-sex/
https://chaohanoi.com/2019/10/12/an-18-year-old-girl-is-on-the-run-from-hanoi-police-for-trafficking-women-to-myanmar-to-work-as-sex-slaves/

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Hanoi police have issued an arrest warrant for an 18-year-old woman wanted for trafficking sex slaves, Vietnam News reported Friday.

Local police are searching for Nguyen Thị Ngoc Anh, 18, of Thanh Son District in the northern province of Phu Tho.

Police in the capital said the case involved young women being trafficked to Myanmar from Vietnam under the auspices of working in casinos there. On arrival they were then forced to work in a host of illegal brothels.

Law enforcement allege that Anh was actively recruiting the women to work in the brothels.

At the start of the year, Anh and another woman, who has only been named as T, were both arrested by police but managed to escape and are currently on the run.

Another Vietnamese woman who sold Vietnamese women and girls in China. This one is south Vietnamese.

https://twitter.com/ada76672670/status/1007660985115664384

Trafficking in women Trafficking in children

https://interpol.int/notice/search/wanted/2013-70774…

PHAM, THI THUY TRANG
WANTED BY THE JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES OF VIET NAM

Date of birth:1982 (35 years old)
Place of birth:AN GIANG PROVINCE, Viet nam
Language spoken:Vietnamese, Chinese
Nationality:Viet nam

>>1427376
Thanks for inputting your limited knowledge on the subject

>>1427373
>>1427378
https://newsbeezer.com/vietnameng/hotgirl-wanted-to-queue-for-18-years-to-bring-beautiful-girls-abroad-to-sell-sex/

Friday, October 11, 2019, 4:00 pm (GMT + 7)

Trying to go abroad to work as a casino dealer with a salary of 15 million VND / month, many fooled The Statue a young girl from Vietnam to Myanmar into a prostitute.
On the 11./10. Hanoi City Criminal Police reported that he was prosecuting the case, persecuted the defendants and issued a willed decision against Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh (SN 2001
, resident) Thanh Son District, Phu Tho Province) for "trafficking".
18-year-old hot girl in the lead to bring beautiful girls to prostitution abroad - 1

Subject Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh

According to survey documents, a female subject named T. (residing in the city of Pho Yen, Thai Nguyen Province) to Myanmar to work as a prostitute. After that, the Chinese owner trusted T. and returned to Vietnam to find beautiful young women who were sent to Myanmar as prostitutes. T. 5,000 yuan (about 16 million VND) paid for each trip.

After returning to Vietnam, T. met Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh in November and was then invited to go abroad to be a prostitute to earn money. Then Anh cheated and invited a young girl from the district of Ung Hoa (Hanoi) to come to Myanmar to work as a dealer in a casino with a salary of 15 million VND / month, but he was actually a prostitute.

On November 5, 2018, T. Anh and the young girl took the bus from Thai Nguyen to Lao Cai, then across the border to China and continued the branch line to Myanmar. [19659006] Trot, T., received 1300 yuan from Chinese.

In early January, T. T. and Ngoc Anh returned to Vietnam to find new "goods". Police officers discovered and taken to headquarters to investigate. Tran Thi Ngoc Anh fled, however.

On the basis of the collected documents, the Hanoi Police Department investigated the police in the case of "trafficking," prosecuted the defendants, and issued an application for Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh.

>>1427380
Currently, the Hanoi police criminal police are continuing to consolidate the records and lawfully treat the items.

The young girl escaped frantically out of the car when she learned she was involved in prostitution.
When she drove to Hanoi in the hope of a high-paying job, the girl suddenly received a message from the woman …
Source link

https://www.24h.com.vn/an-ninh-hinh-su/truy-na-hotgirl-18-tuoi-trong-duong-day-dua-cac-co-gai-xinh-dep-ra-nuoc-ngoai-ban-dam-c51a1090559.html

>>1427352 (OP)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lisbon-funicular-crash-victims-nationalities-emerge-portugal-streetcar-disaster/

>Lisbon — Two days after Portugal's worst-ever electric streetcar crash killed 16 people and left more than 20 others from across the globe injured, authorities in Lisbon said Friday that they had identified nearly all of the victims, many of whom were crushed to death when the famed Elevador da Gloria funicular hurtled out of control down a steep hill, derailed and careened into a building.

>While names have not yet been disclosed, Portugal's national police said Friday that five Portuguese nationals, three Britons, two South Koreans, two Canadians, a French woman, one Swiss national, one American and one Ukrainian were killed in the Wednesday crash.

>>1432374
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/winged-lion-venice-made-in-china-n7q7tfrg6

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/travel/venetian-lion-st-mark-chinese-intl-scli

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/iconic-winged-lion-statue-in-venice-may-actually-be-from-chinas-tang-dynasty-study-finds

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/04/venices-lion-of-st-marks-square-was-at-least-part-made-in-china-study-suggests

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/venice-winged-lion-statue-ancient-china

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/09/medieval-chinese-venice-winged-lion/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna229004

>>1433108
The face of the winged lion looks like Chinese style and doesn't resemble Mediterranean lions at all.

>Pottery Tang dynasty tomb figure, Henan Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Venice

>The Lion sculpture has had a very long and obscure history; it is now thought, following scientific analysis of the metal in 2024, that it was probably made in China, during the Tang Dynasty (618–906), as a figure of the hybrid type of monster normally called a zhènmùshòu (镇墓兽 in Simplified Chinese, meaning “tomb guardian”. However surviving examples in Tang dynasty tomb figures are all in pottery. It would probably originally have had horns as well as wings, and a more upright posture.[3]

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003348702-10/lion-silk-road-gilberto-artioli-ivana-angelini-massimo-vidale

https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781003348702-10

>Scientific analysis
>A team of scholars of geology, chemistry, archaeology and art history from the University of Padua and the International Association of Mediterranean and Eastern Studies - Ismeo, in conjunction with colleagues from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, carried out chemical analyses of the statue in 2024.[3]

>Together with new stylistic considerations, the results indicated that the colossal statue is most likely an elaborate reassembly of what was initially a zhènmùshòu cast in the Tang period (609-907 AD) with copper from mines in the lower Yangtze River basin, the Blue River of southern China. This finding was confirmed by careful analyses of lead isotopes, which leave in the bronze unmistakable traces of the original mines from which the copper was extracted.

>>1433119
>The archaeologists have re-examined the lion’s head, which showed signs that it had been altered — possibly to remove horns. The readdition of horns would make it resemble very closely lions set up to guard graves in the Tang Dynasty that ruled China from the 7th to 10th centuries.

>One of these would have been a suitable gift to Venice for a traveller hoping to impress — the winged lion was long associated with St Mark, the city’s patron.

>“This suggests the sculpture was originally a Tang Dynasty tomb guardian, later modified to remove the horns and shorten its ears once it reached Europe, making it better fit the image of a winged lion desired by the Venetians,” the archaeologists conclude.

The face of this looks like a Chinese lion guardian.

>>1433108
>>1433119
>>1433120
China has medieval metal lion statues retard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Lion_of_Cangzhou

Chinese stone guardian lions from Song and Ming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49575

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/monochrome-important-chinese-art/a-magnificent-and-exceptionally-rare-stone-lion