A 16-member digital sex crime monitoring unit that operates for 24 hours has been set up by the Korean Communications Standards Commission to hunt down and remove sexual videos posted online.
The group aims to curb what is generally referred to as “molka” a secret camera which secretly films women in private places such as bathrooms, schools and other such places. They also hope to curb the frequency of revenge porn, sharing of personal sexual videos without consent by malicious acquaintances and several others.
This comes in the wake of the ongoing prosecution of a K-Pop singer Jung Joon-young who has been illegally sharing sex videos of women he had a previous sexual encounter with without their consent which could have him spending close to seven years in prison.
The head of the monitoring team, Lee Youn-bae has disclosed that after watching those videos, he now finds it difficult to look at women around him because of the images registered in his subconscious from watching the videos.
As for the victims, Lee disclosed that every moment is heart-wrenching for those whose photos or videos show up on several pornographic sites thus causing deep shame and possibly lead to depression. Some have reported refraining from using public toilets as much as possible.
