Police in South Korea have arrested two men for secretly filming 1, hotel guests and streaming the footage live online, in the latest voyeurism scandal to hit the country. The suspects, who have not been named, set up secret cameras in 42 rooms at 30 hotels in 10 South Korean cities between November last year and the start of this month, media reports said. The arrests come a week after singer and TV celebrity Jung Joon-young admitted he had secretly filmed himself having sex with women and sharing the footage online without their consent. Jung said he had shared footage of several women in a group chatroom whose members allegedly included Seungri, a K-pop star who is facing allegations that he ran an illegal prostitution ring out of Seoul nightclubs. Seungri has retired and vowed to clear his name.
South Korean women aren’t safe in public bathrooms—or their homes—because of spy-cam porn
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Now, the team consists of 39 trained women and men who regularly inspect places vulnerable to illegal filming, such as public restrooms, subway stations and changing rooms. Plus, the anonymity in cyberspace makes the punishment extremely difficult. In , a male victim reported to the center that he found a sex tape of himself with his girlfriend on a porn website. It turned out that the footage was taken from a hidden camera installed in a motel room unbeknownst to them. More than 6, crimes related to illegal filming were reported in , a five-fold increase since , according to the Korean National Police Agency. Even female celebrities have fallen victim to illegal filming.
Hundreds of couples livestreamed in S. Korean motel spycam porn
These are the core obsessions that drive our newsroom—defining topics of seismic importance to the global economy. Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend. But women are up against lax penalties for perpetrators and a lack of understanding about the invasive experience of being a victim of spy-cam porn. Illegal filming was criminalized by South Korea a decade ago.
Get all the sports news you need, direct to your inbox. By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's Terms and Privacy Policy. Seoul AFP - More than South Korean couples were livestreamed having sex in love motels, Seoul police said Thursday in one of the largest-scale and most intrusive examples yet of the country's spycam epidemic. The hyper-wired South has been battling the increasingly widespread proliferation of so-called "molka", or spycam videos, which largely involve men secretly filming women in schools and toilets, among other places. The latest case is unusual for involving couples and the livestreaming element.