SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have arrested the key suspect in a notorious online sex abuse crime targeting underage people at his home in Australia in a joint operation with the Australian police, officials said Friday. The suspect, popularly known as “L” in South Korea, was apprehended at his home in the outskirts [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 1,860 cases of digital sex crimes have occurred in elementary, middle and high schools nationwide over the past five years, government data showed Tuesday. Of them, 218 happened in 2018, 464 in 2019, 427 in 2020, 461 in 2021 and 290 as of August 2022, according [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of police officers in charge of investigating digital sex crime have been exposed to the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a survey showed Monday. According to the Korean Association of Police Science Review, a survey of 65 police officers from three cyber enforcement divisions revealed that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately one-fifth of Seoul youths have been exposed to digital sex crime risks, according to a Seoul city government survey Tuesday. In the survey on 4,012 students in Seoul aged between 12 and 19 conducted in July, 21.3 percent said they have been exposed to the risks of digital [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a 42-year prison sentence for Cho Ju-bin, the mastermind of a notorious online sex blackmail ring. The top court also confirmed lower courts’ order that Cho has to wear an electronic bracelet for 30 years, pay a forfeiture of 100 million won (US$90,000), [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital sex crimes, including videotaping sexual abuse of juveniles and teenagers, have jumped in number, South Korea’s gender ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family released a report that studied court rulings on 2,753 criminals who committed sex crimes on children and teenagers in 2019. Among [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A special police unit handling digital sex crimes will wrap up its activities this week after apprehending over 3,500 suspects over the past nine months, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Wednesday. The special headquarters under the NPA was launched in late March amid public uproar over an online [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency (NPA) is working on establishing a legal basis for carrying out undercover investigations of digital sex crimes. “While undercover investigation can be done based on previous court decisions, we are trying to establish a legal basis for such kind of investigation,” a source from the [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean lawmakers are pushing to revise the law in a way that punishes those entering online chat rooms to view illegal videos of sex acts amid public outrage over an online sexual blackmail ring. Rep. Park Kwang-on of the ruling Democratic Party said Sunday he is proposing a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — About 14 percent of women living in Seoul have suffered from digital sexual violence, including spycam filming, unsolicited intimate images and the distribution of videos of sexual acts, a survey showed Monday. The Seoul metropolitan government and its affiliated Seoul Foundation of Women & Family unveiled their recent survey [...]