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'Spycam' Epidemic Seizes South Korea's Women

posted by chromas on Monday October 22 2018, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

Al Jazeera:

South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.

The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.

The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.

Srsly?

Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by ikanreed on Monday October 22 2018, @09:03PM (6 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 22 2018, @09:03PM (#752157) Journal

    I'm pretty sure the 1950s in korea, this was the least of their concerns. Something about that place and those years. Can't put my finger on it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @09:17PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @09:17PM (#752165)

    Unfortunately, the North succumbed to the scourge.

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday October 22 2018, @09:40PM (3 children)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday October 22 2018, @09:40PM (#752185)

      No it didn't and no it isn't.

      The Kim family have set North Korea up to be a medieval kingdom.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @09:45PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @09:45PM (#752188)

        There's the inner party (the lords), and there's the proletariat (the serfs).

        • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:28AM

          by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:28AM (#752252)

          Hereditary leadership? Check

          Lords, Dukes, Earls etc? Check. (they're mostly called General)

          Serfs? Check.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:11AM (#752245)

        Communism is great because it makes all the individuals involved believe for them personally it means less work but more free stuff because everyone feels they are on the "to each according to his need" of the table. Promising free shit appears to be the best way to get yourself a dictatorship.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 22 2018, @10:04PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 22 2018, @10:04PM (#752198) Journal

    Can't put my finger on it.

    That's wise.
    If capturing footage of it causes such an outcry, putting the finger on it is likely to trigger riots.

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