South Koreans also began to suffer frequent attacks of Southeast Asia telecom fraud, a 20-year-old Korean university student was scammed to Cambodia in July this year, after being badly abused and died, and the body stayed in Cambodia for more than two months.

Li in the Ming government has intended to take every effort to deal with this situation.So, are Koreans really being tricked into Southeast Asia¡¯s e-fraud parks?

Korean college student deceived and tortured to death

On October 10, South Korea filed a protest with Cambodia over the deaths of South Korean college students, calling on the Cambodian authorities to step up efforts to combat cyber fraud.

In mid-July this year, a Korean college student in his twenties went to Cambodia in the name of participating in the expo. A week later, the family received a fraudulent phone call claiming that the student had been involved in a related accident in Cambodia and demanded payment of 50 million won, equivalent to about 250,000 yuan.

The family then the case to the South Korean police, and the police advised not to pay the ransom but instead to try to search through the student's location information, but eventually failed to confirm the specific location of the student in Cambodia.

Two weeks later, the student's body was found, and subsequent examinations proved that the student's body had died from a heart attack and may have suffered high intensity abuse and intense pain caused heart problems.

South Korea criticized the Cambodia authorities for their lack of willingness to cooperate, which has led to delays in related work.

Call on the government to take "military action"

The problem now is that both South Korea and Cambodia think they are reasonable, so they wrangle with each other. South Korea believes that in recent years, there have been more and more deceptions, kidnappings, and detentions against Korean citizens, and most of them point to electronic fraud parks in Cambodia.

For example, from January to August this year, the South Korean Embassy in Cambodia received 330 related reports. Last year, the number was 220 and only 4 in 2021.

In the face of this situation, South Korea believes that the Cambodian authorities are not doing enough to tolerate criminals, which has led to similar situations increasing.

There are also lawmakers who have suggested that according to this year¡¯s budget, Cambodia will be able to receive South Korea¡¯s aid of approximately 4353 billion won, but given that Cambodia does not cooperate in combating crime, South Korea should send the military to cooperate with the Cambodian law enforcement forces.

From the standpoint of Cambodia, they will definitely think that South Koreans are unreasonable, because around telecommunications fraud crimes, some victims were deceived, while some people simply took the initiative to go to the telecommunications fraud park to engage in criminal activities.

Previously, the principle of Cambodian law enforcement agencies' police dispatching was that as long as someone reported a case, whether it was reported by the party concerned or not, the police would dispatch the police. However, after the Korean embassy or the victim's family reported the case, the Cambodian police went out to the police, and the victim actually said that he was not imprisoned and would continue to stay and make money.

Therefore, after going back and forth, the Cambodian law enforcement department changed the rules and insisted that I report the case directly. If I hadn't reported the case, the police wouldn't have called the police. Sometimes, the Cambodian police will ask the other party to provide photos or videos of the victim's imprisonment.

It can be seen from the changes in the rules that many situations may not be what the Koreans say. Some people were indeed deceived, but some people took the initiative to go to Cambodia to engage in fraud activities. If it is the latter case, then they are not victims.

Therefore, in this situation, it is inappropriate for some Korean lawmakers to call on the government to take military action. South Korea should think about why citizens of its own country take the initiative to work in Cambodia. The most important thing is that South Korea is a developed country and Cambodia is an underdeveloped country. Isn't it abnormal for Koreans to go to Cambodia to work?

The "sudden wealth" thinking behind the anomaly

If you travel to Southeast Asia, then you are deceived to a fraud den and forced to engage in fraud activities, this makes sense logically. However, some young South Koreans took the initiative to seek jobs in Cambodia. In other words, behind this abnormality, there is actually another kind of thinking at work.

There is such a content circulating on the Internet in South Korea: if you go to Sihanoukville, Cambodia to engage in love chat business, you can easily get 10 million or even 25 million won a month, which is equivalent to nearly 50,000 yuan. The content of these posts also emphasizes that young people should make a big effort, don't work hard where they can't make money, and take advantage of the opportunity to make money to make a lot of money, so as to regain their lives.

This is the typical seduction, trying to think of what kind of chat work can get such a high monthly salary, let alone that is still in underdeveloped countries such as Southeast Asia, it is impossible to think of.

In other words, young people in South Korea may not know that this is a scam, but some people will still go to Cambodia without consideration, which is essentially a kind of "wealthy" thinking.

In the past two years, electronic fraud activities in northern Myanmar have intensified. Many people have been tricked into electronic fraud parks, but there are also many people who take the initiative to go there. Before they set off, they know that what they are going to engage in next is fraud.

So in this situation, Cambodian or Burmese police rushed, most of the time not to rescue the victims, but to arrest them.The Cambodian side also confirmed this.The local tourism side said that many South Korean victims were actually people who applied for illegal work, not the so-called ordinary tourists at all.

The actual situation also confirms that all Korean tourists who actually travel to Cambodia, even if they stay in the country for a dozen days, are safe and there are no problems.So the Cambodian side has always believed that the South Korean government should not blame Cambodia, rather should educate its own people.

This raises another question. South Korea is obviously a developed country. Why are some young people willing to risk their lives to commit crimes in Cambodia? Even if there is really the temptation to get rich, it is completely gambling on one's own life.

Youth unemployment is high.

Although South Korea is a developed country, it is still a big difference compared to those old developed countries.Specially in recent years, the domestic economy of South Korea is weak, the employment situation is severe, and the unemployment rate of young people is even higher.

August data showed that the employment rate of South Korea's population between the ages of 20 and 30 was 60.5%, down 1.2 percentage points year-on-year. The unemployment rate in this age group is as high as 5%, up 1 percentage point year-on-year, reaching the highest level again. A large number of young Koreans can't find jobs in China, so they take risks. More than half of the young people in the unemployed group are still college students.

For example, by 2023, more than 12.6 million South Korean youth are unemployed, with an increasing number of young people unable to find decent jobs and facing a crisis of unemployment when they leave college.

Because they can't find their ideal jobs, a large number of young unemployed people can only take temporary vocational training or take civil service examinations. As a result, the youth employment rate in South Korea has continued to decline in the past two years, and even some young people simply give up looking for jobs.

Because these young people feel that they should have an ideal job and an ideal income after obviously receiving a college education. If the gap between the actual work and what they think is too big, they are more willing to give up.

In contrast, another anomaly is that in recent years, more and more elderly people in South Korea are pouring into the labor market, and most of them are engaged in low-paid jobs or temporary jobs. Even so, the competition among the elderly in the workplace is becoming more and more fierce.

For example, a 69-year-old woman actually has three jobs. One job is to pick up and drop off children to school, with an hourly salary of $9, the other job is to wash vegetables in the shop, and the last job is to help her neighbor walk her dog. This kind of work rhythm is not strong, it is completely odd jobs.

In the end, it is because a large number of young people do not enter the labour market and then can not create higher economic value, thus forming a vicious cycle that causes the South Korean economy to be extremely vulnerable, eventually causing the overall employment rate to be extremely low.

In this completely distorted society, young people in South Korea are unwilling to enter the job market in their country. They are either unemployed or thinking about how to go abroad to make money all day long. In this way, some people are willing to take risks and go to fraud parks in Southeast Asia to engage in criminal activities.

But these people are after all a minority, and there are still quite a few young South Koreans who will choose to leave the country.

An invisible immigrant.

If India is a visible immigrant power, then South Korea is definitely an invisible immigrant power.

According to a 2023 survey conducted by South Korean television media, 56% of young people aged 20 to 30 want to immigrate overseas. More than 70% of married young people in this age group are considering immigration.

Immigration statistics show that in the past 10 years, South Korea has at least 600,000 people flowing overseas every year. This scale does not sound large at first. However, South Korea's newly born population has fallen below 250,000 every year in the past two years. In other words, immigrants have long outnumbered births.

Young people are not willing to have children, and then flee abroad, which is the problem in South Korea society, and what reason do South Korean lawmakers blame Cambodia?

Under such circumstances, even if the South Korean government prevents young people from going to Southeast Asia, it will treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. As long as the domestic employment situation has not fundamentally changed, a series of problems faced by young people will erupt in other forms.

conclusion

So, in other words, the South Korean government has no reason to blame Cambodia, because now the entire Southeast Asia¡¯s telecom fraud has long been a crossroads, as long as it is young people who are online, are aware of the risks in the region.

In this case, if there are people to come, some are simply to travel, they will take measures to prevent the risk, and the rest of the people, really deceived, probably less. because, many of them are with a grey mindset, want to save money.