South Korea — Legal Help

Both buying and selling sex are criminalised under the 2004 Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic (성매매알선 등 행위의 처벌에 관한 법률) — buyer penalties reach 1 year prison or a KRW 3 million fine. Age of consent was raised from 13 to 16 in 2020 (amended Article 305, Criminal Act), with additional protections for under-19s under the Youth Protection Act. Detainees can request consular notification; your embassy will visit but cannot secure release or retain counsel for you.

Drug laws are severe — the Narcotics Control Act treats cannabis identically to hard drugs, and foreigners are routinely imprisoned then deported. Police 112, foreigner services 1345.