Gangnam Brothel Raided By Seoul Police

I wonder if this brothel owner was not making the appropriate bribes to get raided like this:

“Put your clothes on,” shouted a police officer as he entered a small room during an evening raid on a massage parlor set up as a front to conceal a brothel in Gangnam, southern Seoul.

A man and a woman lying down on a single bed tried hastily to cover their naked bodies with a large bath towel.

The man turned his face away from the officer, while the woman bowed her head.

Four other officers entered another seven rooms connected by a network of underground corridors.
Five government human rights officers and a reporter from The Korea Times accompanied the raid conducted by officers from Gangnam Police Station on Nov. 18.

“You have the right to remain silent,” the officer began reading the couple their rights.

The brothel was located in a nondescript, three-story building located in Nonhyeon-dong.

A neon sign was on one corner of the building but it did not specify any of the services available or the activities conducted inside. Outside a man was standing guard with a walkie-talkie in his hand.

When the policemen told him to move aside, he offered little resistance.
A door was then flung open and the policemen ran downstairs.

They reached a lounge where a hidden corridor was discovered after an air conditioner was removed.

The operation was made possible by two undercover officers inside the building who posed as customers and text-messaged reports to colleagues waiting outside.

Although the remaining seven rooms were also occupied, officers struggled to break the locks on the doors. By the time they gained entry, men and women inside the rooms were fully clothed and officers were unable to find physical evidence such as used condoms in the room and had to let them go.

“We just had a chat,” said one man, who was accompanied by a woman.
“I was unlucky,” said the man who was caught in bed with a woman, as he was escorted into an unmarked police van.

Also taken into custody was a blind man who managed the premises, but officers said he was just a front man and not the real owner.  [Korea Times]

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