{"id":3656,"date":"2019-10-02T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:10:52","slug":"south-korean-woman-reportedly-killed-herself-after-being-secretly-filmed-by-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/10\/02\/south-korean-woman-reportedly-killed-herself-after-being-secretly-filmed-by-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean woman reportedly killed herself after being secretly filmed by doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The woman is among thousands of victims of \u2018molka\u2019, in which women are covertly filmed and the footage uploaded to websites<\/li><li>The molka crisis has sparked widespread protests in South Korea, with women marching to confirm \u2018my life is not your porn<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A clinical pathologist at the same hospital was arrested in August for allegedly filming female co-workers in the employees\u2019 changing room. Police allege he made a hole in the changing room wall to film the four victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are investigating a link between the allegations against the pathologist and the woman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman is among thousands of South Korean victims of \u201cmolka\u201d, in which women are covertly filmed and the footage uploaded to websites visited by men who often pay subscription fees to access the illegal films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, there were a reported 6,400 cases of illegal filming reported to police in South Korea, up from 2,400 in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, two men were arrested for secretly filming 1,600 people in 30 hotels across 10 cities in South Korea. The films were uploaded to a subscription website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/2154241\/south-korean-women-demand-harsher-penalties-combat-epidemic\">Women demand harsher penalties to combat epidemic of \u2018spycam porn\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee Na-young, a professor of sociology at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, said South Korean women were increasingly alarmed by the molka epidemic.ADVERTISING<a href=\"https:\/\/hp.teads.com\/?utm_source=inread&amp;utm_medium=credits&amp;utm_campaign=invented%20by%20teads\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inRead&nbsp;invented by Teads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are cameras everywhere \u2013 from toilets to motels, houses where you are living alone, to school, and these pictures or film footages are distributed on pornography sites while you are not aware of them,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are combined with other graphic images to be pornographies and circulated again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/methode\/2019\/10\/02\/e622ef64-e4cd-11e9-8a10-b9721f28293e_1320x770_143056.JPG\" alt=\"Seoul\u2019s \u2018hidden camera-hunting\u2019 squad inspecting a women\u2019s bathroom stall. Photo: AFP\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seoul\u2019s \u2018hidden camera-hunting\u2019 squad inspecting a women\u2019s bathroom stall. Photo: AFP<strong>Share:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Shared%20from%20South%20China%20Morning%20Post&amp;body=South%20Korean%20woman%20reportedly%20killed%20herself%20after%20being%20secretly%20filmed%20by%20doctor%0D%0Ahttps:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3031222\/south-korean-woman-reportedly-killed-herself-after-being\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The molka crisis has sparked widespread protests in South Korea. In August last year, 70,000 people marched in Seoul with signs stating \u201cmy life is not your porn\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee said many women felt that the police and prosecutors were not taking the cases seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven [if] they make a report to police, [police] just dismiss the case and men are soon released,\u201d she said. [Women] insist there are biased investigations and rulings involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3003613\/south-korea-confronts-spycam-porn-epidemic-pressure-mounts\">As South Korea confronts \u2018spycam porn\u2019, pressure builds on retailers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee pointed to a case last year where a female model was sentenced to 10 months in detention for filming a male colleague and deliberately posting his pictures online, while in a similar case with the genders of the perpetrator and victim reversed, there was just a 2 million won fine (US$1,660).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe spy cam itself is problematic, but the attitude of police prosecutors and the judges who are dealing with the cases are also problematic,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman is among thousands of victims of \u2018molka\u2019, in which women are covertly filmed and the footage uploaded to websites The molka crisis has sparked widespread protests in South Korea, with women marching to confirm \u2018my life is not your porn A clinical pathologist at the same hospital was arrested in August for allegedly filming female co-workers in the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/10\/02\/south-korean-woman-reportedly-killed-herself-after-being-secretly-filmed-by-doctor\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}