Two men arrested for secretly filming 1,600 customers in 10 South Korean cities

South Korean women protested last year against badism and hidden camera badgraphy in Seoul. The police arrested two men for secretly filming the images of 1600 guests in 30 hotels in 10 different cities online.

According to press reports, unidentified suspects installed cameras in 42 rooms of various South Korean hotels between November 2018 and early this month.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Computer Survey Unit stated that the suspects had gone to a lot of trouble to install the cameras in several discrete places. including digital boxes, hair dryer racks and wall outlets.
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More than 800 videos illegally filmed were recorded with mini-cameras with 1mm lenses. These were then broadcast live via a server based abroad.
According to a report published in The Korea Herald the suspects earned 7 million won (6200 USD) from 97 monthly subscribers before their website was destroyed. Two other men are also under investigation as part of the case.

However, according to the police, there is no indication that hotels were aware that their guests were being filmed in secret.

The arrests took place after celebrity television Jung Joon-young confessed to being filmed in secret, having bad with a woman and sharing video online.

Jung also admitted to sharing pictures of several other women in an online chat room, whose pop-pop star Seungri is currently facing allegations that he has run an illegal prostitution ring in the United States. Seoul night clubs.

South Korea has seen an increase in the number of crimes of this nature, also described as molka . In 2017 alone, police reported 6,470 cases of illegal filming.

Tens of thousands of women also took to the streets of Seoul last summer to demand longer sentences for the perpetrators of such crimes.