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Recently, an organization released a lengthy report that gave a comprehensive picture of the horrors of digital sex crime in South Korea.
We've written before about the rampant phenomenon of candid photography in South Korea. South Korea, as the country with the highest smartphone penetration rate in the world, sneaking a picture of the bottom of a woman's skirt is a common crime.
With the further development of technology, things like miniature cameras also make it more convenient for sneak peeks. In public toilets, hotels, locker rooms, and even victims' homes, they can install miniature cameras, take pictures, and upload them to websites to make money.
(Micro Camera)
In 2018, South Korean women erupted in a mass parade, shouting My life is not your and Aren't we human? The slogan attracted the attention of the government.
The Seoul government announced that it will inspect 20,554 public toilets across the city every day, increasing the number of municipal employees responsible for toilet inspections from 50 to 8,000.
But 3 years later, they found that the problem of candid photography in South Korea is still very serious, and the strong insecurity seriously affects the lives of Korean women, leaving them living in invisible cages.
The report was led by Heather Barr, the agency's director of women's rights, who conducted 38 interviews with more than a dozen victims and an online survey of 554 people.
She found that the problem of digital sex crime in South Korea is structural, and it is a combination of sneak photographers, police officers and judges to harm victims.
From 2013 to 2018, South Korea reported more than 30,000 cases of micro-camera candid shooting.
80% of the victims of the candid photography were women, 98% of the perpetrators were men, and most of the filming was about women going to the toilet, changing clothes, showering and having sex.
Some of these videos are for self-gratification, and some are for financial gain. On the black market, an hour and a half of candid video can sell for $4,470.
It is very difficult for women to get justice because the police usually do not take such cases seriously, believing that online videos do not cause direct harm to women.
Even if the police can file a case, the likelihood of bringing the offender to justice is slim.
In 2017, of the 6,615 cases reported to the police station, only 119 people were imprisoned (or 2 percent), and the rest only needed to pay a modest fine or a two-year suspended sentence.
(Daily necessities with hidden cameras)
A root problem is at the judicial level, where South Korean police and judges are basically men and cannot understand the pain of women suffering from candid photography. Some judges even commuted the sentence of the photographer on the grounds that he was young and young, had just gotten married, and his life had just begun.
Another problem lies in the law. Under South Korea's Sexual Offences Act, taking pictures and videos without the consent of others is not a crime, and only if the content they secretly photograph "may cause sexual stimulation or humiliation" is a criminal offense.
Because "sexual stimulation or humiliation" is a very vague concept, things like women changing clothes are easily not part of it, so it is difficult for those who cannibalize to be punished.
In interviews, police and lawyers even advised victims to drop the charge of sneaking.
A woman, whose name is Park Ji-young, said she looked through her boyfriend's phone and found 4 or 50 intimate photos, four of which were hers, and she didn't know when she had been taken.
Park Ji-young believes that the other photos are her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, because they were taken while sleeping, and she estimates that they don't know either.
To remind them, Park described the photos in the university chat group and found the women in them.
When her boyfriend found out, he threatened her to delete the post immediately, otherwise he would upload her nude photos.
Ms. Park went to the police station, but a lawyer assigned to help her repeatedly advised her to drop the case. He warned that if the investigation continued, he could sue her for accessing his private documents without permission and for defamation.
She changed lawyers, but before the case was submitted to prosecutors, the police called her to abandon the case for the same reasons as the previous lawyer.
Park Ji-young resisted the pressure and insisted on reporting the crime, during which time she was harassed by her ex-boyfriend and his family for several months.
But the end result is still not ideal, the ex-boyfriend was only fined $2500, his social life at the university has not changed at all, and even acquaintances believe that Park Ji-young is lying.
The South Korean media was also disappointing. In 2018, a woman alias Choi Jie-eun was secretly photographed from the roof of a nearby building, and the man told police he had photographed her for two weeks.
After the police confiscated the man's camera, they found that there were also photos of seven other women inside, all of which were secretly taken.
Choi had wanted to join other women in bringing charges against the man, but the police said that because she was the only one who was photographed nude, only she could prosecute, and the other women were dressed, so it was not a crime.
She was furious that the current sentence was also too light (the man was only given a suspended sentence, no fine, and no jail time) and told the media about it.
But the media instead increased the harm she received. A male reporter yelled at her, accusing her of overreacting, and another gave her a sexy image, suggesting it was all her fault.
A few months after being humiliated by a media slut, Choi couldn't stand the pressure and moved to a new home. But in her new environment, she still feels insecure and terrified of all the cameras.
(Glasses with hidden camera)
This fear of lack of control over one's own body, which goes to extremes, can seriously affect the victim's life.
The director of the micro camera detection company said they met a customer who was secretly filmed at her home five years ago and a video of her walking around the house in her underwear was posted online.
She didn't know who had filmed it and was very afraid of the situation happening again, moving many times, but still feeling insecure. She closed all the windows and searched over and over again for places where the camera might be hidden, but it couldn't alleviate her panic.
In the end, there was no way, she bought a tent to put at home, slept and changed clothes only in the tent, and she was determined not to turn on the lights.
This fear, and the social pressures that come with it, will also force South Korean women to leave the country.
One despite saying she met a female college student who was filmed by her boyfriend having sex between the two. The video was posted online, with the girl's name and her school written on it, and it didn't take long for everyone around to know.
She dropped out of school and went to the United States to study, but koreans there recognized her again.
(Korean college students)
Later, she returned to South Korea and underwent cosmetic surgery to change her appearance. But she said she didn't dare go out even after the surgery was done, for fear of being recognized. ”
The director of the camera detection company also said that he often receives calls from South Korean women who have traveled abroad, who have traveled to foreign countries and are still afraid of being monitored, hoping that the company will help them detect.
But after the detection, the foreign house could not reassure them, and finally they still moved regularly.
"It's sad. Even when they go abroad, they can't feel safe in their own homes. ”
(Web Photo)
Depression and anxiety are common symptoms. A month after Li Yilin (not her real name) was peeked at by her boss with a camera on her clock, she felt that her worldview had collapsed when she learned the truth.
The boss was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison (a rare one), but Li Yilin still couldn't stop crying and had to rely on medicine to calm herself. A year later, she's still taking anti-depressive and anxiety medications.
"Something like this happened in my own room. Sometimes, in my daily life, in my own room, I often feel afraid for no reason. Li Yilin said.
(Oil painting with hidden camera)
Others could not resist the pain and committed suicide.
In September 2019, a young woman under the pseudonym A committed suicide on the eve of her wedding. A is a researcher at a hospital, and after investigation by the police, they found that in the hospital's locker room, she and several other colleagues had been secretly photographed for a long time.
The sneaker is also their colleague, who is also a clinical pathologist. Although the videos were not circulated, A's father said that because the girls came from the close-knit countryside, they were particularly afraid of the possibility of the videos spreading.
(A's hospital)
The offender was initially sentenced to only 10 months in prison, after which prosecutors asked for an increase of two years. But that number is still too short for the father of the deceased.
Whether it is sneaking to the toilet or secretly filming a change of clothes, these videos are not good for women, but men are keen on this and do not care about sex.
Many researchers say that sneak peeks enjoy a sense of power, a sense of control over women's bodies. When they secretly photograph women's breasts and buttocks, they are expressing that they are not treating women as a human being, but only breasts and buttocks.
This misogynistic mood also links male friendships, making them feel more grandfatherly and confirming that they belong to the male camp.
This misogynistic environment has also inspired the feminist movement in South Korea over the years, organizing street marches to demand changes in the government.
Some of the victims of the candid photography also said that they would not fall in love again. To protect themselves, they will refuse to be in love, sex, marriage, and having children. This is known as the "4B Movement."
"I see, in this country, if you're not a man, you can't live peacefully." One 4B supporter said, "So, I choose not to have any relationships with men." I don't want to meet them, I don't want to marry them. It doesn't matter. ”
"The anti-dating movement is on the rise and there is currently such a high rate of men murdering women that I'm excited to learn who they really are before becoming a homicide victim."
(It is rare that 81% of homicide victims worldwide are men, while in South Korea, half of homicide victims are men and women.)
Other Korean women decided to emigrate to countries that were friendlier and fairer to women.
"Living in this country as a woman is undermining my dignity." One of the victims of the candid photography said, "So I plan to go abroad and work in another country." I don't think the government has done anything, it doesn't see any change. I felt unbearable anymore. ”
In the 2021 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Rankings, South Korea ranked 102nd out of 156 countries, falling behind among developed countries (only a little better than Japan, Japan 120).
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who had promised to address the problems faced by South Korean women, also apologized to women for not providing them with a safe living environment.
The report recommends that the South Korean government increase legal penalties for film stealers, increase the number of women in police, prosecutors and judges, and crack down on the black market.
There is still a long way to go to build a society where women feel comfortable...
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