Let’s go back to the Korean deaths

[Cambodia Story 2]

Let’s go back to the Korean deaths

The media first reported the incident, saying, “The body of a Korean man in his 20s who was tortured to death by a local criminal organization in Cambodia has not returned to Korea for two months,” and “It has been found that he went to Cambodia to go to the fair.” Since then, the report has been copied by other media, and Korean society has been infested with anger.

But there was no explanation for why this happened anywhere in the articles.

Looking at the whole story of the incident from the perspective of a Korean resident, anger and regret are felt at the same time. According to the disclosure of the person involved, the Korean went to sell the fake bankbook to a Korean-Chinese criminal organization in Cambodia through an acquaintance. After that, about 57 million won was deposited through the bankbook, but the money disappeared. It was not confirmed who found the money.

A normal business operator would have asked for the money’s whereabouts and asked for it to be returned. However, the problem is that the ‘business owner’ was not a normal business, but a brutal Chinese (or Korean-Chinese) criminal organization. They don’t hesitate to assault and torture if they don’t work, even though they were conciliatory at first. Depending on the situation, there are cases where a firearm is actually used.

If you think about it, wouldn’t gangs in Korea react similarly if money disappeared.

Korean society’s security is so stable that it has become less sensitive to fear. This is why they do not properly recognize physical threats or violence abroad. To criminal organizations overseas, however, a person is just a ‘working meatball’. The Korean does not appear to have been able to make up for the missing money, and as a result, he appears to have been assaulted by angry members of the organization and killed. I pray for the rest of your worries once again.

Since I have worked for a general trading company with a lot of overseas business for a long time, there is a story that has been said every time. Be careful about money accidents with locals or Chinese people. In Korea, if something goes wrong, it is resolved by words, police reports, and lawsuits, but locals and Chinese respond by assault, torture, and murder. Therefore, if you cheat on Chinese people, you have to risk your life, whereas, for this reason, Korea has once been laughed out as a good country to cheat on Koreans.

Again, in a similar article, there was a case of victimization that came to Cambodia in the name of “hiring IT developers” and was detained when he was encouraged to develop voice phishing or illegal online programs and refused.

However, I personally do not believe all of the claims. In most cases, I have a rough idea of “what I will do for what purpose” in advance, and rather than the actual damage, I think it’s a case of a problem when I refuse because I don’t like the working environment or conditions.

Few companies in Cambodia hire Korean IT developers for normal purposes. Most of the cases where Korean developers are needed locally are criminal businesses such as ‘illegal online casinos’, ‘virtual currency-related fraud sites’, and ‘illegal stock reading’.
These are things that local Koreans or people who have visited Cambodia often know about at least once.

The problem is that Koreans are unaware of this reality and think, “If you refuse, it’s over.” However, if the person is a voice phishing, drug trafficking, illegal casinos, or human trafficking organization, simple rejection cannot work. Lack of awareness of reality soon leads to danger.

The essence of the problem — is it Cambodia’s own responsibility?

It is not right to attribute this issue to the responsibility of the entire Cambodian country.
This does not mean that the Cambodian government is letting go.

In fact, the Cambodian government is conducting daily crackdowns on illegal casinos, human trafficking, drugs, and organized crimes. Arrested criminals are returned to their home countries.
China makes massive repatriation on chartered flights, while Korea is similar, albeit not on a large scale. It is no longer uncommon to see police waiting on a plane arriving at Incheon International Airport and immediately handcuffing participants as soon as they get off the plane. Such cases are seen on almost every flight these days.

Nevertheless, it is clear why illegal activities are not eradicated.
A huge number of Chinese criminal organizations operate in the form of extensive point organizations, and they are spread not only in Cambodia but also around the world.
Even the Chinese government cannot completely control criminal organizations targeting its citizens. According to local media reports, the Chinese government has repeatedly requested the Cambodian government to strengthen the crackdown, but Cambodia’s administrative power and security system are not yet sufficiently efficient.
(Even Korean police can’t catch Korean voice phishing organizations…)

Currently, in Cambodia, Chinese, Korean, and Korean (recently, Taiwanese and Japanese criminal organizations) are united with each other to form a huge online crime ecosystem. On top of that, some corrupt local officials provided places and administrative convenience, creating a secret “crime industry.”
(This will be covered in more detail later in a separate article.)

There are also practical limitations faced by embassies and local police.
There are numerous difficulties in the field.
For example, a police consul arrived at the scene in the early morning after a report from the embassy saying, “Please save me because I’m in illegal custody,” and in some cases, the complainant and Chinese people were friendly at drinking parties and said, “It was a misunderstanding.”
Sometimes people who thought they were victims actively restrained police arrest.

If this happens repeatedly, both the embassy and the local military and police will inevitably become passive. When I also reported to the local police, I was also confirmed several times whether there was evidence and whether it was true, and I was also concerned that “if you are arrested and you are not guilty, who will be responsible?”

In fact, such issues are similar to those of Korea. Unless they are victims, investigative agencies cannot act rashly.

Once, a Korean lawyer asked me to help a Korean woman because she is being held in a Cambodian detention center. She was a young woman arrested in Sihanoukville, but local police rarely imprison Koreans, especially Korean women. It turned out that she was already wanted for fraud in Korea. On the surface, he looked like a “victim,” but he was actually a participant in the crime. Such cases are rare