South Korea must 'eradicate' deepfake porn crimes, president says

South Korea’s president called Tuesday for an probe into deepfake porn aft media reports that Telegram chatrooms were sharing explicit images of minors astatine schools and universities sparked nationalist outrage.

“Many victims are minors, and astir perpetrators person besides been identified arsenic teenagers,” helium said.

Yoon called for authorities to “thoroughly analyse and code these integer enactment crimes to eradicate them completely.”

Perpetrators reportedly utilized societal media platforms specified arsenic Instagram to prevention oregon screen-capture photos of victims, which were past utilized to make deepfake pornographic materials.

“The biggest contented with online intersexual maltreatment is that their deletion is highly difficult. Victims often endure without adjacent being alert of it,” Bae Bok-joo, a women’s rights activistic and a erstwhile subordinate of the insignificant Justice Party, told AFP.

“I don’t judge this government, which dismisses structural sex favoritism arsenic specified ‘personal disputes’, tin efficaciously code these issues.”

Yoon won bureau successful 2022 successful portion connected a run pledge to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality, which his supporters said was an obsolete backwater of “radical feminism”.

Before being elected to the apical office, Yoon besides claimed South Korean women did not endure from “systemic sex discrimination”, contempt grounds to the contrary connected the sex wage spread and pistillate workforce participation.

The authorities needs to state a “national emergency” implicit deepfake porn, said Park Ji-hyun, a women’s rights activistic and erstwhile interim person of the main absorption Democratic Party.

“Deepfake intersexual maltreatment materials tin beryllium created successful conscionable 1 minute, and anyone tin participate the chatroom without immoderate verification process,” she wrote connected societal media level X.

“Such incidents are occurring successful mediate schools, precocious schools, and universities crossed the country,” Park said, alleging determination were hundreds of thousands of perpetrators of specified abuse.

South Korea has successfully prosecuted perpetrators of online abuse.

The mastermind of a notorious online enactment maltreatment ring, which lured and blackmailed astatine slightest 74 women, including teenagers, into sending degrading intersexual imagery of themselves, was jailed for 42 years successful jailhouse successful 2021.