South Korea Faces Cases Of Sexual Exploitation In The Nth Room

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JAKARTA - In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic or the corona virus in South Korea, a major issue related to the Nth Room has become a public concern. A message group on Telegram, which was carried out by a man, managed to trick 74 women into taking pictures without clothes, he then threatened to spread them if he did not do other sexual things.

Among the 74 women, it is known that 16 of them are underage. They were made sexual satisfaction for about a week where the lecherous act was distributed to more than 260 thousand users of the Telegram message group who reportedly had 'subscribed'.

The victims were trapped by the perpetrators using various tricks. Perpetrators sometimes claim to be police and also recruit employees who seem to ask for content as a condition of sponsorship.

The police have found 124 people involved in this case, including Cho and 17 other people who were detained, according to Yonhap News Agency. Cho or known as 'Baksa' or 'Guru' is the group operator. He is in charge of communicating with users and asking for a fee of 100 thousand won or the equivalent of 1 million rupiah if they want to get this sexual content. So far, the first user to create a chat room is still at large.

It is called the Nth Room, because there are more than two conversation groups and no exact numbers can describe it. What is clear is that the Korean people are fighting this action by making several petitions.

First, ask the government to reveal the identity of the perpetrators who run the group. It read: “If he (suspect) is not the devil, who can you call the devil? He must stand in front of the photo line with his real face (without being covered). " More than two million people signed the petition.

It is known that a petition for the South Korean government signed by more than 200 thousand users must obtain an official statement from the government. They also agreed and revealed the identity of the operator, namely Cho Jong Bin, a 1995 graduate of Information and Communication Technology.

Another petition asks the government to reveal the identities of all 260 thousand users in the Telegram group. This petition has been signed by more than 1.5 million people.

Apart from Cho Jong Bin, Jeon - using the name 'Watchman' - is the admin in the chat group. He was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison by the prosecutor for spreading 9 thousand sexual contents in the group.

South Korean public figures have also used the power of social media to ask the public to sign a number of petitions, including Eric Nam, 2 PM's Junho, EXO's Baekhyun and Chanyeol, actors Ahn Bohyun, Ha Yeon Soo, Baek Yerin, and many others. They asked the public to immediately sign a petition related to the Nth Room Case so that the government would move quickly to address this issue.

Both Baekhyun and Chanyeol have posted about signing the Petition for Nth Telegram Chat Room. Please sign the Petition if you have not. Petition Link: https://t.co/hDayY6TZKi pic.twitter.com/zPoyMheWdO

- 면 토끼 '^' 👨🏻‍🎨🖤 (@ BUNNYMYE0N) March 23, 2020

This is not the first case of pornography for South Korea. Last year, actor and singer Jung Joon-young reportedly recorded his sexual activities with 10 women in 2015 and 2016. Joon-young shared the video through his group conversation with several friends such as Seungri, Choi Jong-hoon, Yong Jun-hyung, and Lee. Jong-hyun.

This continued with Seungri, who reportedly owned a prostitution business and was investigated with Joon-young. The Monstar drama player was sentenced to six years in prison for group conversation and gang rapes against one woman in 2016.