The National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response in Seoul last year pulled down 318,000 videos and photos — deepfakes, spycam content and intimate images — on behalf of 10,600 people, 75% of whom were women and girls. | AFP-JIJI
By Hawon Jung
AFP-JIJI
Jul 30, 2026
Seoul – Under banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims,“ a group of female South Korean digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography.
South Korea — home to the world’s leading smartphone and memory chipmakers — takes huge national pride in its tech prowess.
But the success story has a dark side: Women suffer rampant “digital sex crimes,“ rights groups say. Spycams film them in private while chat groups blackmail them for explicit content and share so-called “revenge porn” without consent.
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