The South Korean government's embrace of gendered citizenship perpetuates the animosity between men and women, with the widespread cases of digital sex crimes further fuelling this gender war, says this Korean feminist scholar.
Cho Ju-bin, leader of South Korea's online sexual blackmail ring "Nth Room", walks out of a police station as he is transferred to a prosecutor's office in Seoul on Mar 25, 2020.
They tended to target poorer women - sex workers, or women who wanted to make a few bucks by sharing anonymous nude photos of themselves. The perpetrators either hacked into their social media accounts or approached these women and offered them money, but asked for their personal information so they could transmit the funds. Once they obtained this information, they blackmailed the women by threatening to reveal their sex work and their nudes to their friends and family.
Seungri, a former member of the popular K-pop boy band BIGBANG, arrives at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul, South Korea on Mar 14, 2019. In other words, a significant percentage of the Korean population believes that female sexuality is the problem - not the sexual violence.Digital sex crimes are too widespread to lay the blame at the feet of a handful of bad actors.
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