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    Travel Arrests over hotel spycam porn ring that filmed 1,600 guests across South Korea

    Justin McCurry - The Guardian




    Police in South Korea have arrested two men for secretly filming 1,600 hotel guests and streaming the footage live online, in the latest voyeurism scandal to hit the country.

    The suspects, who have not been named, set up secret cameras in 42 rooms at 30 hotels in 10 South Korean cities between November last year and the start of this month, media reports said.

    The arrests come a week after singer and TV celebrity Jung Joon-young admitted he had secretly filmed himself having sex with women and sharing the footage online without their consent.
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    Jung said he had shared footage of several women in a group chatroom whose members allegedly included Seungri, a K-pop star who is facing allegations that he ran an illegal prostitution ring out of Seoul nightclubs. Seungri has retired and vowed to clear his name.

    The suspects in the latest case went to extraordinary lengths to install the cameras, the cyber investigation unit at the Seoul metropolitan police agency alleged.

    Mini-cameras with 1mm lenses were found in digital boxes, hair dryer holders and wall sockets. More than 800 illegally filmed videos were livestreamed via a server based overseas.

    By the time the site was taken down this month, the suspects had earned 7m won ($6,200 USD) from 97 people who paid a monthly fee to access the material, the Korea Herald said.

    Two other men are being investigated in connection with the allegations.

    Police said there was no evidence the hotels were aware that their guests were being filmed without their knowledge.

    South Korea is battling an epidemic of molka – secretly filmed videos of a sexual nature that target women in public places such as toilets and changing rooms, but also in their own homes.

    The rise in cases prompted tens of thousands of women to take to the streets of Seoul last summer to demand longer sentences for perpetrators. The authorities responded by increasing patrols of the city’s public toilets – a measure campaigners say is ineffective.

    Police reported 6,470 cases of illegal filming in 2017, compared with 1,353 cases in 2012, the national police agency said. But many offenders are ordered to pay modest fines and in most cases the crime goes unpunished.

    The hotel spycam suspects face up to five years in prison and a heavy fine for distributing illegal videos. “The police agency strictly deals with criminals who post and share illegal videos as they severely harm human dignity,” a Seoul police agency official told the Korea Herald.

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    Wow, they don't do anything half way

    A hotel full of voyeur cams...that's like weird terrorism. How do you ever feel safe in other hotels?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Wow, they don't do anything half way

    A hotel full of voyeur cams...that's like weird terrorism. How do you ever feel safe in other hotels?
    With all the things you read nowadays, I think I'm developing a fear of hotels

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    With all the things you read nowadays, I think I'm developing a fear of hotels
    I'm never leaving this basement

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    Desk Clerk: And what kind of room were you looking for today sir?

    Me: Does the dumpster out back have a lid that closes? If so, I'll take that please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Desk Clerk: And what kind of room were you looking for today sir?

    Me: Does the dumpster out back have a lid that closes? If so, I'll take that please.
    Or...you could really lean into it and put on a transparent robe and just sashay around the room every minute you're there

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