TACTEEN NAEIL - IN SOUTH KOREA - How to quickly adapt services and develop experience

The Global Boys Initiative embarked on a series of research projects in countries around the world to shed light on understanding the scale of sexual exploitation taking place with children, vulnerability and risk factors, barriers to disclosure and access to services, and what we need to improve prevention and response strategies. [...] To this end, the aim was to document the working practices of direct assistance to boy survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation in South Korea in order to capitalise on these experiences, to encourage learning from other organisations in other countries around the world, and to feed into GBI’s practical knowledge – thus contributing to answering the global question: “how can we work boys at risk. [...] Counsellors sometimes make appointments to go to Coin Karaoke together with boys to reinforce the relationship and reduce the impact of the process on the boys. [...] CASE STUDY TACTEEN NAEIL, SOUTH KOREA 17 The visibility that Tacteen Naeil generated on the issue and the advocacy path started by the organisation led to more awareness and societal debate on the subject and to the potential upcoming opening of the first male survivor support centre in Seoul. [...] In this sense, the adjustments that the organisation had to do in order to work with boy survivors started from a deep internal reflection on internalised gender biases and in an understanding of the impact of gender norms and stereotypes on boys during the support process.