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Many migrant women workers who enter South Korea with E-6 visas are in a state of damage to human trafficking. They have not received the labor contract in their native language from the time of immigration and often fail to receive the explanation of that, and they are confronted with working conditions different from what they were aware of at the time of recruitment. They are exploited in the form of a combination of labor exploitation and sexual exploitation such as forced labor, long-time labor, prostitution, dating services, low wages and juice sales at entertainment establishments, seizure of passports or alien registration cards by employers, linguistic, physical, and mental abuse and surveillance. In other words, the exploitation of human trafficking against these people is being carried out in a variety of illegal exploitation that is subject to punishment by various laws such as the Labor Standards Act, the Special Act on Prostitution, and the Criminal Act. South Korea has ratified the UN human trafficking protocol in 2015. It contains provisions for criminal conduct to punish perpetrators of trafficking, support and protection measures for victims of trafficking, prevention of trafficking and international cooperation. Policies to deal with the human trafficking situation of migrant women with an E-6 visa should be made in accordance with the UN Trafficking Protocol. The legal regulations on their performances should be prepared so that the authorities can supervise the conduct. It is difficult to systematically respond to the special circumstances of migrant women with E-6 visa through existing laws. Special laws on human trafficking must be enacted to improve the reality of migrant women with an E-6 visa who are involved in various illegal exploitation measures. By implementing special legislation on trafficking, it will be possible to establish real punishment rules based on the peculiarities of trafficking crimes, to provide effective protection and support for victims, and to prevent trafficking.