Some said a boys’ club culture permeated the way the police handled these crimes, often letting men go without being charged in cases where there was no physical violence. Tiffany May and Su-Hyun Lee wrote in the New York Times: “Many women are calling for harsher punishments for perpetrators, in addition to the removal of hidden cameras. But most of the time, people aren't aware their images are being traded: A 2018 study by the Korean Women Lawyers Association found 89 percent of spycam crimes were perpetrated by strangers.” “Officially, police estimate more than 6,000 cases of people filmed on spy cams without their consent, each year, between 20. The footage of sex acts is considered a "natural porn" that's commonly distributed and profited off of on online platforms, without the victims' knowledge. Tiny hidden cameras that look like lighters secretly film women in bathrooms, public restrooms and changing rooms in clothing stores, gyms and swimming pools, and “public places like subway stations and during private moments - while they're having sex. Įlise Hu of NPR wrote: “The spycam porn epidemic that's gone on for years. It was the largest women's protest in South Korean history. In August 2018, 22,000 women protested the issue. Beginning in 2018, outrage over law enforcement's lukewarm and uneven response to spycam spurred women to take to the streets. In 2017, South Korea revised laws to strengthen punishment for spycam pornography but this had little impact. Hidden camera porn, known in South Korea as "spycam," or molka, is regarded as a serious problem in South Korea and is blamed for encouraging misogynistic culture.
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