Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police Conduct Special Crackdown on Youth Harmful Businesses Including Room Cafes

Gyeonggi Provincial Government Gwanggyo New Office Building

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province is recently conducting intensive monitoring of new and variant room cafe businesses in the province that exhibit business practices similar to motels.

The Gyeonggi Province Special Judicial Police for Fairness announced on the 16th that, in cooperation with 31 cities and counties and the Youth Harmful Environment Monitoring Group, they will carry out a large-scale special crackdown and investigation from the 20th of this month until the 20th of next month.

According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family's "Notice on Designation of Businesses Prohibiting Youth Entry and Employment," business facilities that are divided by enclosed spaces or partitions and have beds, where physical contact or sexual acts may occur, are classified as businesses prohibiting youth entry and employment.

Additionally, the "Youth Protection Act" stipulates that local governments must issue correction orders to businesses that do not display notices restricting youth entry and employment, and impose fines of up to 3 million KRW if these orders are not followed.

Furthermore, anyone who allows youth to enter businesses prohibiting youth entry and employment or fails to display notices restricting youth entry and employment in youth-harmful businesses faces imprisonment of up to two years or fines of up to 20 million KRW.

In this crackdown, the Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police will focus on acts such as allowing youth to enter businesses prohibiting youth entry and employment and failing to display notices restricting youth entry and employment in youth-harmful businesses.

A representative of the Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police stated, "Healthy sex education for youth and management of harmful businesses are separate issues, and protective measures from harmful environments are necessary for youth safety," emphasizing, "We will immediately begin investigations upon detecting illegal youth-harmful businesses and will criminally charge those involved."

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