Ironically, that blanket restriction appears to encourage homemade sex videos and the black market for them, especially as the government has also strengthened enforcement of copyright laws, cracking down on illegal sharing of professionally produced pornography from Japan and the U.S. A 2015 survey found 85% of male college students in South Korea consumed porn - despite it being illegal.
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It’s difficult to gauge the full magnitude of the problem, because many of the sites frequently shut down and reopen under different names in order to dodge authorities. In an anonymous interview with a South Korean television news program last year, one man claimed he was making as much as $350,000 a year by uploading his cache of illegal pornography - millions of hours of video. Many videos are also distributed on file-sharing websites, which typically charge 10 Korean won, or about a cent, for every 100 megabytes of data.
Some have been filmed on spy cams disguised in eyeglasses, pens or lighters - which have been sold at stores advertising them alongside Viagra.Ī police cybercrimes squad announced in recent weeks that it had arrested four people who had installed spy cams in dozens of hotel rooms and streamed the private moments of at least 1,600 guests on a website that charges $45 a month for a subscription. The illicit footage includes hidden-camera recordings and videos made consensually but distributed without agreement. Many are uploaded from South Korea onto pay-per-view websites with servers located overseas. The videos are known in Korean as “ molka,” an abbreviation meaning hidden camera. This case is only getting all this attention because the perpetrator is famous.”
That K-pop stars were also partaking is “not surprising at all it’s just showing how prevalent this problem is,” said Lee Hyo-rin, an activist with the Korea Cyber Sexual Violence Response Center, which helps victims whose videos have spread online. Such recordings are a problem elsewhere in the world but have proved particularly endemic in South Korea - so much so that in his 2017 election campaign President Moon Jae-in made increased punishment in such cases part of his platform. What the music stars are accused of doing is surprisingly widespread in South Korea, where all production and distribution of pornographic material is against the law. The growing scandal has tarnished K-pop with allegations of bribery, police corruption, prostitution and drug dealing.Įmpowered by #MeToo, a new generation fights sexual abuse in South Korea’s schools »īut above all, it has turned a spotlight on another national industry: illicit sex videos filmed or distributed without consent and widely consumed through a thriving black market.
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