POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO WOMEN MISSING IN SOUTH KOREA|2台女赴韓打工傳失蹤 兩國警方協尋

Two Taiwanese women have reportedly been missing in South Korea since mid-February. One of the woman, surnamed Chiang, arrived in South Korea on Feb. 14 and has not been in contact with her mother since then. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had passed on the information to Korean police, but so far they have received no further information. On March 3, a South Korea chat room posted a notice looking for two missing Taiwan women. It said that a woman surnamed Jiang and her friend went to Korea to work before February. After they reached Korea, one relative received a message to say that they had arrived safely. However, messages sent from Taiwan after that were all unread and unanswered. One woman's mother is worried that her daughter is being coerced and at the end of February asked Taoyuan police for help. ==MRS. CHIANG== I quickly Lined her, asking where she was, she said she was in Korea, and I asked if she was ok there and she said it was ok. Then after 1:13 pm there has been no news at all, that last time was Feb. 14. Police reported that after Ms. Jiang stopped studying she started working and said to her mother that her company wanted to send her to Korea to work for three months and another female friend would go with her. They would allegedly be paid 10,000 Korean won for living expenses. Before she went, her mother gave her NT$1,000. The safety of Taiwanese traveling abroad thus became an unexpected topic of questioning in a legislative interpellation session. ==KMT legislator HSU CHIH-JUNG== Is our government being proactive in searching for our two missing female compatriots? ==HOU CHING-SHAN Dep, MOFA Minister== After they were out of touch for ten days, a relative reported to Taoyuan police and the police notified the MOFA. Only Ms. Jiang's mother made the police report. The other woman is surnamed Hsu and her family have not contacted anyone so we don't know what she was studying. Currently, the ROC representative office in Korea has given the missing notice that Ms. Jiang's mother posted to the Korean police and is in keeping close contact with them on the state of the search. However, the police noted that Mrs. Jiang was unable to give much information, and the family of the woman who Ms. Jiang was traveling with has not yet made contact with the police. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 韓國網路上，今天流傳一則訊息，提到2月中旬，兩名台灣女生到韓國打工後失蹤。目前在台灣的家屬已經報警處理，家屬擔心她們遭到控制，外交部也通報外館，請韓國警方協尋。 韓國的網路論壇上，今日流傳著兩名台灣女生失蹤協尋的訊息，提到江姓女子和一名女性友人，今年2月前往韓國打工，抵達時，還有向家人報平安，隨後傳網路訊息給她，都未讀、未回，母親擔心她們被人控制自由，2月底向桃園警方報警協尋。 ==家屬 江媽媽== 我就趕快LINE給她 說妳人在那裡 她說在韓國 我說 妳在那邊還習慣嗎 她說還好 然後中午1點13分之後 就完全沒有消息 對 14號當天 警方調查，江姓女子休學後打工度日，她向母親表示，公司要派她去韓國工作3個月，還有一名女性友人同行，會有韓幣10萬元當生活費。臨行前，江媽媽還給她1千元當旅費。而對於國人旅外失蹤，是否危害旅遊安全，立委質詢時也格外的關心。 ==國民黨立委 徐志榮== 我們這段期間 我們政府有沒有什麼積極的作為 在協尋我們這兩位女同胞 ==外交部次長 侯清山== 失聯了十幾天以後 家屬就向 桃園市的大樹派出所報案 派出所就通知外交部 只有江姓的 這個女生的媽媽 她來報案 那另外一位是 姓許的女生 那因為她的家屬 都沒有出面 所以我們也不知道 她是什麼樣的學生 目前，我駐韓代表處已根據江媽媽提供的協尋海報，向韓國警方報案，也密切關心相關協尋進度。不過，警方強調，江媽媽提供的資訊有限，至於失聯的同行友人,目前警方還沒獲得家屬報案，相關疑點仍待釐清。 記者 綜合報導