A husband-and-wife human trafficking team pleaded guilty yesterday to charges they helped young immigrant women from South Korea enter the country illegally and then forced them to work at a Queens bar.
Kyongja Kang, 41, and her husband, Wun Kang, 42, cried as their lawyer read a written statement in Brooklyn federal court admitting they had forced the women to work for little or no money at their Flushing bar, the Renaissance.
The Kangs pleaded guilty to charges of forced labor.
U.S. customs officer Nisim Yushuvayev, 27, also plead guilty to charges of conspiracy, after prosecutors accused him of putting one of the couple’s young victims on a plane to South Korea to keep her from testifying.
The trio now face prison sentences of up to 12 ½ years when they are sentenced in January.