What is "korekorea"

KoreKorea is a term used for girls in Kiribati who are paid for sex by Korean fishermen. The girls are around the age of eighteen and are even as young as fourteen years old. They board foreign fishing vessels and engage in sex in exchange for money, clothes and fish. They are also called ainen matawa locally in deference to Korean sensitivities because the name KoreKorea is overtly linked to the country.

The KoreKorea issue is being addressed by a Korean institution in collaboration with the Kiribati Government cooperating with the ILO Youth unemployment programme and with the New Zealand’s International Aid and Development Agency (NZAID).