Nor are celebrities immune from sexual invasion. "In order to eliminate digital sex crimes, the wrong idea that sexually objectifies a woman's body must be changed first,"the ministry said in comments to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It said raising awareness about women's rights was also key. South Korea's Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said offenders must get punishments that match the severity of the offence, and that the country's highest court is drafting new sentencing guidelines on digital sex crimes.
The government has introduced a slew of counter measures: longer jail terms, daily checks in public toilets and a taskforce to help victims kill off the unwanted online videos. Official figures showed there were about 6,000 cases of the so-called spycam porn in 2018 and about 6,500 the year before.Ĭulprits typically film in public places, changing rooms or toilets, or in hotels, then sell the footage to porn sites.Ī South Korean porn website that attracted more than a million users and hosted thousands of spycam videos thrived for years until it was shut down in 2016 after activist complaints.įootage can fetch up to 100,000 won (S$120), with top earners netting more than 100 million won a month, local media say. The problem is especially acute in tech-savvy South Korea, where thousands of women have taken to the streets in protest. Nearly one in four women who has been harassed or secretly filmed has thought about suicide, according to an October survey of 2,000 victims by the Korean Women's Development Institute, a government think tank.Īround the world, sexual predators have capitalised on technology to target women, from "revenge porn" - releasing naked pictures of former partners - to "upskirting", using phones to look up women's skirts.
The mental fallout is just as devastating, they say.
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