They discovered a network that installed hidden cameras in motels and broadcast live to couples who have sex

Some 1,600 people were victims of a network that had secretly recorded bad in motels in South Korea and had broadcast it online, as part of a new scandal over the Use of hidden cameras in this Asian country.

In early March, the South Korean police arrested four men, two of them on remand, charged with install cameras in dozens of motels in the south and center of the country, register about 800 couples who have bad and broadcast the content on the Internet this added more than 4000 subscribers.

The two defendants who remained in jail began staying at these motels, almost all at special rates for hours and designed specifically for couples, last August and were installing tiny cameras in the rooms that were very difficult to detect at the time. naked eye, as detailed the newspaper Chosun.

The cameras were placed on cable TV receivers, plugs or hair dryer racks and "mainly concentrated on the bed", except in a few cases where the appliances were apparently moved when cleaning the rooms, said a researcher the site Newsis.

With the help of the other two inmates, they created a website on which more than 4,000 users were paid. they could see live to couples by "streaming". Some subscribers paid an additional 50,000 won (nearly US $ 45) for access to "exclusive" material: images edited with the most remarkable scenes.

The page was operational until early March, when someone found it and reported it to the police's cybercrime unit in South Korea.

Faced with the umpteenth scandal related to hidden cameras in South Korea, agents linked to the investigation proposed tips for those who spend the night in an establishment: turn off all the lights, turn on the light of the mobile phone and explore the room in search of small flashes (the reflection of the lens).

Scandal that came to K-Pop

This case, coupled with another recent scandal in which a South Korean pop singer secretly recorded women while having bad with them and then shared the video in a conversation, revived the problem of the so-called "molka" in South Korea.

The phenomenon is based on intimate videos or overtly badual content that are distributed – and sometimes recorded – without consent and widely consumed on websites in the Asian country, where badgraphy is illegal.

Yong Jun-hyung, 29, a member of the Highlight Boys group, formerly Beast, said he saw bad footage of singer Jung Joon-young filmed without the consent of their partners.

The world of South Korean pop, which wants to give an image of perfection both physically and in the behavior of its stars, has been living for a few days a wave of bad scandals that, according to feminist groups, testify to the abuses suffered by women in South Korea.

Jung Joon-young, along with Seungri, a member of the BIGBANG Boys Group, one of the country's largest, also announced that they were retreating from the entertainment world.

Jung, famous in South Korea for participating in a TV song contest, also shared illegal videos with Seungri and had to testify in front of the police.

Seungri is also suspected of attempting to bribe investors with the services of prostitutes and has been charged with inciting prostitution.

(With information from EFE and AFP)