“I’ve been avoiding going to public bathrooms after the scandal broke out. Still, some Korean women said they do not feel safe. The government is also considering banning electronic image devices in certain properties, including public bathrooms, public bathhouses and changing rooms in gym or clothing stores.Īt the same time, the Gender Equality Ministry is also looking to revise the law so that those who illegally post revenge porn or spycam porn where the victim is identifiable, will be punished by jail terms of up to five years, not fines. Korea has the highest smartphone penetration rate in the world, and it is extremely difficult to delete an image once it has been posted online. The Gender Equality Ministry said it is also working on a proposal to revise a number of existing laws on sex crimes in cyberspace.įor one, the government wants to revise the Act on the Prevention of Sexual Assault and Protection to make the perpetrators, not the victims, responsible for the cost of deleting the footage from cyberspace. The newly introduced measures include counselling, deleting the illegal footage from file-sharing sites, legal support for those who wish to file a complaint against the perpetrators, as well as monitoring cyberspace in case the deleted video or images are circulated again.
“There were a number of incidents where I would call the victim (after receiving his or her initial request), and then someone else would pick up and tell me that the person had taken his or her own life,” Kim Ho-jin, the head of the agency, was quoted as saying last year. Quoting a private agency that deletes such spycam or revenge porn footage, a local media outlet reported last year that many of those who have been affected by this form of online sexual violence end up taking their own lives. The decision was made 10 years after the site opened as concerns and protests surged against its content. In 2016 the government announced that it would shut down, a highly popular adult file-sharing and community site where users shared secretly taken pictures of women’s body parts, many of which had been captured in public bathrooms using hidden cameras.
The spycams can be as small as the head of a pin, and also come in various forms, including pens and glasses. Spycam porn, or hidden camera pornography, refers to video footage created by using hidden cameras - better known as “spycams” - in public bathrooms and changing rooms in gym or clothing stores, among other places. In Korea, many of such footage are made and uploaded online by an ex-partner, very often without the victim’s knowledge. Revenge porn is the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of someone without the subject’s consent.
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