By Moon Gwang-lip
Staff Reporter

Police caught more than 600 people for distributing pornography and sex trade brokering through the Internet or mobile phones, Wednesday.

The National Police Agency said that they uncovered a total of 631 pornography distributors across the nation and arrested 30 of them, while booking the others without detention.

Police in North Chungchong Province booked 11 people including five medical doctors for operating a pornography Web site or posting lewd photos or videos.

A 39-year-old medical journal publisher, identified as Moon, and his colleagues are suspected of operating the Web site with its membership confined to doctors.

A total of 1,980 doctors were found be members and five among them were suspected of posting pornographic material onto the Web site more than 10 times.

Police also arrested two people in Pusan, including a 34-year-old man identified as Chung, for advertising Internet sex to its male customers and charged 20 of Chung’s female employees without detention.

Chung and the others are suspected of having arranged Internet sex for members of their Web site with hired girls in return for around 200 million won since last September.

According to police, the girls were all in their 20s or 30s and included housewives, full-time workers for another companies, jobseekers and a former kindergarten teacher.

The two suspects drew more money out of their male customers by arranging the girls to strip tease for the customers.

In return, the girls received 30 percent of the takings, and some earned up to 16 million won over the past seven months.

In addition, police rounded up 32 people for operating sex telephone services or distributing pornography spam mails.

They also round up 46 adult Web site operators including one that organized sex between couples, in so-called ``swapping site,’’ and began a search for 37 others.

joseph@koreatimes.co.kr