Years after South Korea’s ‘cyber sex prison’ expose, tougher laws still needed for digital sex crime

By Chang May Choon

Internet
Tuesday, 25 Apr 2023
12:04 PM MYT

Cho (centre) walking out of a police station as he was being transferred to the prosecutors' office in Seoul in 2020. — AFP

SEOUL: Park Ji-hyun vividly remembers the day she stumbled on a Telegram chatroom where she saw two to three minutes worth of footage of naked young girls.

She was so shocked that she slammed her laptop shut.

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