More than 6,000 crimes related to illegal filming were reported in 2017, a five-fold increase since 2010, according to the Korean National Police Agency. It turned out that the footage was taken from a hidden camera installed in a motel room unbeknownst to them. In 2017, a male victim reported to the center that he found a sex tape of himself with his girlfriend on a porn website. Plus, the anonymity in cyberspace makes the punishment extremely difficult.” “Overseas porn websites often refuse to cooperate with the South Korean law enforcement. Around 80 per cent of spy camera porn victims are women. “Victims are often left with no power to exercise control over the videos once they circulate online without their consent,” Kim Yeo-jin, director of Korea Cyber Sexual Violence Response Center, an organization that provides support service for victims of cyber sexual violence, told ABC News.
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. The city’s program started in August 2016 with 50 women. They are South Korea’s first spy cam inspection team. to 5 p.m., women in navy blue vests with hidden camera detectors in their hands inspect public restrooms around Seoul. Let’s hope their government heard the message.SEOUL, South Korea - Three times a week, from 10 a.m. South Korean women see inequality all around them, they have had enough, and are demanding action by the government. On abortion, the government kicked the issue down the road, saying they will study the issue and follow the ruling of an ongoing constitutional court case. He pledged to strengthen the law on workplace sexual harassment, but has yet to do so. President Moon Jae-in promised a cabinet with at least 30 percent women – and kept that promise. The #MeToo movement took hold last year, with women demanding government action on sexual harassment. A lawsuit on this issue is moving forward in the courts. In October 2017, more than 235,000 people signed a petition demanding legalization of abortion. In April 2018, more than 200,000 people signed a petition demanding a ban in sales of hidden cameras and stronger punishments for hidden camera crimes. The recent protest was the latest of a growing number of demands for change. Healthcare workers providing abortions face up to two years in prison. Even so, married women need their spouses’ permission for an abortion, and illegal abortion is punishable by up to one year in prison or fines up to 2 million won (US$1,820). A 2015 survey of 500 people by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family found more than 78 percent of sexual harassment victims in the workplace did not seek recourse but “put up with it,” often believing they would not get help if they complained.Ībortion is legal only in cases of rape or incest, risks to the mother’s health, or if the parents cannot marry legally or have specific hereditary disorders or communicable diseases. In a survey of 2,000 South Korean men by the Korean Institute of Criminology, nearly 80 percent said they had physically or psychologically abused a girlfriend. The World Economic Forum recently ranked the country an abysmal 116 out of 144 countries in gender equality.
Spy cam use is one of many rights violations women face in South Korea.
Activists say the government is not taking the issue seriously – except in the rare case where a man is the victim.
The protest – reportedly the largest by women in South Korean history – focused on the proliferation of so-called “spy cams,” tiny cameras used to invade women’s privacy, filming them in toilets and up skirts, with images often posted online. On June 9, about 22,000 South Korean women marched through the streets of Seoul. South Korean women march through the streets of Seoul. To battle South Korea’s spy cam epidemic, one YouTuber takes matters into his own hands by catching men who film women illegally.