South Korea’s biggest porn site distributed thousands of ‘spycam’ recordings. Now the co-founder has been jailed
- The female owner of Soranet, who started the website with her husband and two others in 1999, was jailed for four years and fined US$1.25 million
- Tens of thousands of women in South Korea have rallied against the growing phenomenon of molka, or hidden spycam videos
The female co-founder of South Korea’s largest porn site has been jailed following months of mounting public fury over the spread of secretly filmed “spycam” pornography.
Tens of thousands of women have rallied in recent months against the growing phenomenon of spycam videos, known in Korean as molka, which mostly involve men filming women without their consent in toilets, changing rooms and in public.
Soranet – which had more than a million users until it was shut down in 2016 amid widespread outrage – carried thousands of such clips among reams of other X-rated content.
Producing and circulating all forms of pornography is illegal in South Korea.
The site’s female owner, surnamed Song, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 1.4 billion won (US$1.25 million) on Wednesday for aiding and abetting the distribution of obscene material, including sex videos featuring minors.
