An ad by Seoul Milk (서울우유) depicting a voyeur filming women — who then turn into cows — has been pulled by the company following outcry.
South Korea is the global epicenter of spy cam pornography (몰카).
Some women victimized have committed suicide.
The issue of spy cam porn (몰카) in South Korea is so severe that professional investigators are hired to sweep hotel rooms.
There are organized crime networks that profit from streaming women in restrooms or hotels unaware on subscription-based porn sites.
(🎬Stacey Dooley BBC)
Soo-Yuen Park of Digital Sexcrime Out works with victims of spy cam porn.
She says there are sites with over 100k users where videos of women in public restrooms and changing rooms are streamed. Many women feel afraid to use public facilities.
"It's a global problem."
🎬BBC
All-women inspection teams were deployed by the South Korean government in 2016 to search public restrooms for hidden cameras.
Yet the cameras are still widely available online and at retailers for low prices.
The footage is broadcast live on porn sites for a fee.
🎬France 24
In August 2018, more than 70k women protested against spy cam porn in Seoul, the nation's largest such demonstration in recent history.
Some victims have committed suicide.
In 2017, only 2% of the 5,400 people arrested for the crime were given prison sentences.
🎬France24
The 2019 Burning Sun Scandal revealed how wealthy & influential men in K-pop were drugging & raping women & underage girls & filming the assaults with spy cams.
The crime revealed corruption at every level, including allegations that police covered up sex trafficking.
🎬 Buzzfeed
K-pop singer Goo Hara took her own life in 2019 after spending a year in a legal battle against her ex-boyfriend, who threatened to release a spy cam sex recording.
Eun-ju Lee also committed suicide after being secretly filmed in a changing room by a male colleague.
🎬BBC
The Korean Women's Development Institute interviewed more than 2,000 victims of illegal filming and other sexual crimes.
Among them, 23% considered taking their own life. 16% even planned their suicide and 23 women actually attempted suicide.
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