“They say we walked into gijichon on our own,but we were cheated by job-placement agencies
and were held in debt to pimps,” Park Young-ja, 62, one of the plaintiffs, said after the ruling on Friday.
“I was only a teenager and I had to receive at least five G.I.s every day with no day off.
When I ran away, they caught and beat me, raising my debt.”