The distributor of a smartphone application that helped rate and manage more than 110,000 buyers of sex was indicted Monday, according to prosecutors.
The prosecution said that the man, surnamed Na and aged 30, helped 41 prostitution brokers manage their clients using the application “Green Light” between October 2015 and April 2016.
The application held the personal information of more than 110,000 men.
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The brokers had evaluated their clients by categorizing them into green, red and black, according to their attitudes with the prostitutes.
The data was then saved in the application’s server and when the registered clients called the brokers, their data automatically came up on the display screen.
Na took a monthly fee of 150,000 won from the brokers.
Na’s close accomplice is suspected of developing the application, but has yet to be tracked down.
The sale of sex is illegal in Korea. What will become of the clients is yet to be known.
By Lim Jeong-yeo (
kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)
