![]() ![]() About 800 videos were streamed online for subscription customers over a period of five months. Headlines screamed this month about two men who were arrested after they hid 1mm lens cameras in 42 rooms of 30 hotels in 10 cities in Korea. International media houses tend to focus on the public bathroom videos and tiny cameras installed in hotel rooms but these are the tip of the iceberg. Korean feminists and researchers have instead, named the practice of the production and distribution of such illicitly recorded material as “digital sexual violence”. Both these terms do not accurately denote the criminal and immoral nature of the offense. The language around this issue has been contested as the term “molka” refers to a hidden camera prank show aired in the 90s and pornography implies performance and consent. The material is sometimes sexual, always invasive, but not always of an explicit act or situation. Spy-cam pornography or “molka” is the practice of taking photographs or videos of someone and distributing them without consent. One of the rotten branches of this tree of corruption turned the world’s gaze on one persistent problem: spy-cam pornography. The Burning Sun saga has unfurled to bring attention to multiple issues within South Korean society. The seamy underbelly of the entertainment industry has been exposed to the world, in many ways tainting fans’ consumption of the art created by the people it involves. An arena many people look to for an escape from the harsh reality of life has revealed it is no exception from the issues of the world. This year has presented a number of difficult choices for fans of Korean entertainment. ![]() *Editor’s note: the following article discusses sexual violence, sometimes in detail.
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