{"id":66736,"date":"2024-09-14T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/13\/from-spy-cams-to-deepfake-porn-fury-in-south-korea-as-women-targeted-again"},"modified":"2024-09-14T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:00:07","slug":"from-spy-cams-to-deepfake-porn-fury-in-south-korea-as-women-targeted-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66736","title":{"rendered":"From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as women targeted again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the country<\/p>\n<p>The anger was palpable. For the second time in just a few years, South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul to demand an end to sexual abuse. When the country spearheaded Asia\u2019s #MeToo movement, the culprit was <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jul\/03\/a-part-of-daily-life-south-korea-confronts-its-voyeurism-epidemic-sexual-harassment\">molka<\/a><\/em> \u2013 spy cams used to record women without their knowledge. Now their fury was directed at an epidemic of deepfake pornography.<\/p>\n<p>For Juhee Jin, 26, a Seoul resident who advocates for women\u2019s rights, the emergence of this new menace, in which women and girls are again the targets, was depressingly predictable. \u201cThis should have been addressed a long time ago,\u201d says Jin, a translator. \u201cI hope that authorities take precautions and provide proper education so that people can prevent these crimes from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/13\/from-spy-cams-to-deepfake-porn-fury-in-south-korea-as-women-targeted-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the countryThe anger was palpable. For the second time in just a few years, South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul to demand an end to sex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3057,236,238,811,235,79,222,58,2410,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-deepfake","category-digital-media","category-media","category-pornography","category-social-media","category-society","category-south-korea","category-technology","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736\/revisions\/66737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}