What the music stars are accused of doing is surprisingly widespread in South Korea, where all production and distribution of pornographic material is against the law.
“It’s a culture that views women as an object of consumption,” said Lee Na-young, a feminist scholar and a sociology professor at Chung-Ang University in Seoul.
It’s not easy. In the case of one woman who turned to the government support center for help, videos of her were uploaded more than 2,700 times over a period of six months. One of the videos was viewed or downloaded more than 400,000 times, according to the ministry. “I tell them, even if you take out a debt, you need to get it deleted,” he said. “Your life will be over because of this; you’ll be forced to live in hiding.”
After she tried to kill herself by jumping off a bridge over the Han River, her mother sought out Kim’s services, Kim said. The chain of events that brought their secret to light began last November in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district with a fight at a nightclub partially owned by Seungri.A man said that he was beaten up by club employees and that police appeared eager to cover up the incident and physically attacked him.
The attorney, Bang Jeong-hyun, turned them over to a governmental anti-corruption and civil rights commission, suspecting police complicity in covering up for the K-pop stars.
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