Emily

__Gangs__
__Questions:__ 1) Where were they founded/originated? 2) Who was/is their leader? 3) What did they do? 4) Where are they today?

Kkangpae

 * Founded in the 1900’s in Korea
 * often referred to as the Korean Mafia
 * All over the world
 * Korean people
 * Arms trafficking, human trafficking, drug trafficking, counterfeiting, illegal immigration, murder, prostitution
 * Allies: Russian mafia, Yakuza, Southeast Asian Pirates, Irish Mob
 * Various Asian street gangs internationally
 * Today in: Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Tokyo, New York City, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Dallas, Southern Florida
 * in Korean, Kkangpae means "gangster"
 * Obedience, loyalty, fulfill what the city wants but the government won't allow
 * like most other organized crime groups
 * started as street gangs
 * as they got older, they needed more money since they were expanding
 * this is how they became an organized crime group
 * When Korea was under the Japanese rule (36 years) the Koreans were forced labor and prostitution
 * the Koreans went to Japan and formed mobs to overcome racial hate
 * best "mobster": Kim Doo Han
 * many Korean mob leaders weren't loyal during this time and formed separate mobs
 * After Japan lost World War II, they had to leave Korea. But then the Korean War started in 1950.
 * when the Korean War started, communist mobs left South Korea because of the extreme suppression of the government
 * the war left South Korea in ruins
 * Organized crime was big in the 1960s-1970s
 * 1990- Korean Government declared war against organized crime
 * they incarcerated a ton a mob bosses and gangsters
 * members of mobs have tattoos of the mob they are in
 * when they meet up with another mob/gang, they show them their tattoo
 * the tattoos can be a warning sign to civilians
 * still are in small towns and cities
 * try to keep a low profile and not get caught up with the police even though they do a lot of illegal things
 * in Korea, the mobsters are more in smaller cities and towns where there isn't much of a police system
 * Stereotype:
 * gakdoogi hair (side saved, hair on top)
 * big build
 * black clothes
 * black luxury cars
 * lots of tattoos (big)
 * Recent
 * involved in running an illegal blackjack casino in the Phillippines and got caught by the cops