“I WANT big breasts. Her hands and lips must be soft.  And she must do everything I request. She should also be game to sex props, like ice cream.” Probably, just probably, this was how a Korean customer ordered a Visayan prostitute by phone.    Pagdilao said the arrested suspects include Marian Bagonoc, a 25-year-old girlfriend of the syndicate’s mastermind identified as Mihn Byong Kil. The others were Petronilo Barin, Juan Carlo Endriga, Roberto Alburo and Carlito Yu.

Alburo and Yu were identified as security guards at the Hyatt Manla (Marina) Residential Suite located at 1588 M.H. del Pilar Street, Pedro Gil, Manila, who tried to prevent members of the CIDG Women and Children’s Protection Division headed by Supt. Emma M. Libunao from conducting the raid.


Mihn Byong Kil, the owner of the Little Orange Massage Service described by Pagdilao as an “escort serving ring” disguising as a home service massage provider that caters to Korean nationals is still being hunted as of press time.

The suspects will be facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9208 particularly qualified trafficking in person, a non-bailable offense.

According to Libunao, they discovered that the Little Orange Massage Service is a bogus establishment that exists only in an advertisement posted in a Korean magazine.

She said that in reality, Kil and Bagonoc operate their escort syndicate from Unit 26-B of Hyatt Manila where they receive calls from their Korean clients.

“Once an order-call was received from a Korean client, Bagonoc who operates the order-by-phone massage service in Hyatt will arrange for a rendezvous between the client and the female escort at a particular hotel or inn where the ‘masseur’ performs extra service in the form of sexual services,” Libunao said.

Libunao said that after receiving a call from a foreign client, Bagonoc will call Barin, the caretaker of a unit at the 3rd floor of Villa Veronica Condo, Taal St., Vito Cruz, Manila, where the young women are being held. Barin will then dispatch their driver Endriga to deliver the woman to her client at a pre-arranged hotel or inn.

Libunao said most of the young women that the syndicate sells for sexual services with Korean clients were recruited from the Visayas region.

She said their investigation showed that Kil and Bagonoc charge their clients P200 per hour, earning them an average of P240,000 a month.

Pagdilao said the operation against the Korean prostitution ring was triggered by a complaint from three women who clamed they were hired by Bagonoc as “masseurs” but they ended up as prostitutes instead.

Endriga was the first to be arrested in an entrapment operation inside a Sogo Hotel branch in Malate, Manila, where he accompanied a young woman. The sting was conducted by the CIDG-WCPD with the assistance of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Following Endriga’s arrest, the CIDG-WCPD personnel raided the Vito Cruz condominium unit belonging to Kil where the victims were rescued.

The two Hyatt security guards were arrested after they tried to prevent the CIDG-WCPD operatives from conducting the raid in one of the condo units being used by Kil and Bagonoc as their base of operations, Libunao said.

The almost two-hour delay gave the Korean suspect the chance to escape arrest.

Libunao said they will also file charges against the management of Villa Veronica Condominium and the Hyatt Manila Residential Suite for violation of the Anti-Trafficking in Person Law on the ground of leasing their establishment for the commission of the crime.