#soranet

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content warning- this information will contain discussion of a gang rape case but no photos or detailed descriptions or anything. No one should feel ashamed for having to avoid reading things like this, a couple of years ago I would absolutely not have been in a place where I could read it. I try to tag everything accordingly so you can avoid it if necessary. I post news reports like this here to show the reality for Korean women juxtaposed with the news of the ridiculous ideological witch hunts from men that companies treat like gospel. You need to have an understanding of the full reality for women living there. this is why I would hesitate to refer to the situation as a “gender war” many of you may have seen youtube “video esssayists” call it, especially the ones that try to relate it to its affect on gacha games, the niche subject this blog was made to report on. when you start to learn information like this you may agree with my thoughts of calling it something more like misogynistic terrorism…

English articles linked in the thread: 1, 2, 3

original thread-

Yonhap News article link

[commajade]

"반가워용~ etc" was so sweet and funny :) i've had some shitty experiences with korean men and I'm literally not the same person since the whole soranet/illegal cam came to surface but even I can understand how everyone have been/are victims of the state. I still feel hopeful for korea because looking back, it has always changed for the better (though it feels slow). so it's realllly tiring to see non-koreans be racist/cynical (kpop fans too lol) if all they know comes from twitter threads. xx

i'm so sorry that happened to you, i can't even imagine how that messes with physical and emotional safety/wellbeing. a lot of my formative painful experiences were with korean men as well, and it took me so much work and learning to gain a political framework where they are also my people that i want to see freed. koreans as a whole are such a maligned unrecognized people just historically and this stuff is the same, people with a stake in the empire punishing the colonized for replicating colonial violence to each other. also a lot of complete lies and willful ignorance. it is tiring, but it's also really nothing new.

[natecronomicon]

Soranet....

Sora...

Sky...

Skynet....

[brave-symphonia]

Soranet? I feel like that’s a Terminator reference, I know it’s called something-net, hang on.

It’s Skynet. Okay, I get the pun now.

[gacha-incels]

"Overflowing 'OO University Rooms,' What is the Ministry of Education Doing?… 'Universities are a Platform for Deepfake Sex Crimes"

Call for Comprehensive Sex Education and Victim Protection Measures

Deepfake Sex Crimes Confirmed at Over 70 Universities Nationwide Students Demand a Full Investigation into On-Campus Deepfake Sex Crimes

published oct 18 2024

this article is originally in Korean and has been mtl and edited into English here. it’s not going to be 1:1 but the basic info should be there, if you see any discrepancies though lmk and I’ll edit it asap. thanks everyone for your continued help and understanding.

On the morning of the 18th, at Gwanghwamun Square in Jongno-gu, Seoul, a press conference organized by the "Deepfake Sex Crime OUT University Student Joint Action" was held. Participants called on the Ministry of Education to establish prevention and response systems for deepfake sex crimes on university campuses. Holding signs and banners, they urged for action despite the rainy weather.

Since the discovery of a deepfake sex crime incident at Seoul National University in May, the existence of "OO University Rooms" at over 70 universities nationwide has made the issue a hot topic in society. University students gathered to criticize the pervasive rape culture in Korean society and demanded that the Ministry of Education and university authorities take measures against deepfake sex crimes.

"Conduct a Survey of Victims of Deepfake Crimes at Each University" "Strengthen Support for Comprehensive Sex Education"

Despite the rainy weather, about 30 students gathered at Gwanghwamun Square on the morning of the 18th to voice their concerns towards the Ministry of Education and university authorities.

Kang Na-yeon, an operational committee member of the Seoul Women's Association's Feminist Student Union Club, stated, "Universities are one of the platforms where deepfake sex crimes occur," and emphasized, "Students at these universities have become content that perpetrators of deepfake sex crimes enjoy simply because they attend these schools."

An image from the "Deepfake Map" showed the locations of schools where illegal synthetic materials (deepfakes) were found, marked with red arrows.

She continued, "Students have turned around to sign petitions when they heard the term 'deepfake' while walking down the street," and added, "Young university students know well how deepfake sex crimes shake the foundation of trust in society, and how bleak the present and future are in a society that does not view those around them as equal fellow citizens."

The "Deepfake Sex Crime OUT University Student Joint Action," the group hosting the event, had previously gathered signatures from 1,108 young university students condemning the Ministry of Education for neglecting deepfake sex crimes.

There was also criticism that deepfake sexual exploitation stems from the entrenched rape culture in Korean society. A member of the feminist editorial committee at Korea University, identified as A, pointed out, "Digital sex crimes have flourished for nearly 30 years, nurtured by a culture of rape and fueled by indifference."

She noted, "In the 1990s, there were youth exploitation videos, in the 2000s, websites like Soranet, in the 2010s, incidents of harassment in group chat rooms and the Burning Sun scandal, in the 2020s, the Nth room sex crime involving webhard cartels, and in 2024, deepfake sex crimes that have claimed the lives of many women."

At the press conference held on the morning of the 18th at Gwanghwamun Square, participants held signs and banners urging the Ministry of Education to establish prevention and response measures for deepfake sex crimes on university campuses.

Lee Mi-geon, head of the Mirror Regional University Human Rights Union Club, said, "Universities are establishing advanced technology departments such as artificial intelligence and semiconductor departments or including coding as a required general education course for non-science and engineering students," criticizing, "There is technological innovation, but no ethical responsibility."

She further called for the Ministry of Education to "establish measures for protecting and supporting victims on campus and conduct investigations on victims and a comprehensive survey of deepfake sex crimes at universities."

Since the "Nth Room Sexual Exploitation Case" in 2019, the government has made it legally mandatory for university staff and students to receive sexual violence prevention education, but only about half have actually completed the training. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the completion rates for university students were 49.7% in 2019, 46.5% in 2020, 53% in 2021, and 55.1% in 2022, barely exceeding half.

In a performance that followed, participants revealed the harsh realities of universities, including the irresponsibility of the Ministry of Education, inadequate gender equality education systems, and depoliticization. They expressed their determination to hold the Ministry accountable and to create a gender-equal and safe university campus despite the gender-based violence on campuses.

They urged the Ministry of Education to:

△Conduct a comprehensive survey of victims and deepfake sex crimes on campuses

△Establish measures to protect and support victims on university campuses

△Expand the budget and professional staff for university human rights centers

△Strengthen support for comprehensive sex education, and the group called on the Ministry to take responsibility for addressing the issue of deepfake sex crimes.

[rabbitheads]

I saw on Twitter that a Korean feminist from WOMAD was arrested, is this true?!

Is she arrested??? I only saw that the authority issued an arrest warrant. This is so sick. We've been calling on police to shut down Ilbe and Soranet for almost 10 years. And women shows slightest hate to men, they shut down the whole site?? National backlash at its best, I guess.

[heatherthzr]

Intimacy - blog 9  Hobbs, Owen, and Gerber

Hobbs, Owen, and Gerber disagree with Bauman’s argument that ‘digital dating and hook-up applications’ accompanied with individualisation has resulted in a ‘liquefied’ form (fragile, weak bonds that can be easily reshaped) of love and relationships. Instead, the authors argue that these platforms act as a tool for the pursuit of a meaningful, long-term relationship. However, I propose that though both these authors points are valid, as with any technology there are both pros and cons, what is more important to look at is more than insular level, individual issues, but how the dilution of the meaning of love, sex and intimacy has resulted in complex, societal wide problems, such as human trafficking and digital sex crimes. I argue this on the basis that the affordances of technology, internet and apps has further facilitated this dilution and distorted view of love, sex and intimacy.

From this angle, I will now bring in some examples that highlight the culture of diluted and distorted view of sex, intimacy and low, and explain how the internet has facilitated that.

One trend we can observe is that the internet has increased the ease of finding hook-ups, one-night stands and casual relationships. Looking at Singapore alone, from personal experiences, the internet has facilitated a new behaviour of this generation, where it is the norm to sleep around and cheat on their partners.

One might think that this is just an individual problem and only affects the involved parties, however, I would like to shift our attention to the fact that this is the first step in the loss of value towards marriage and love, which leads to a cycle of diluted ideals, which results in a whole series of issues that impacts the entire society, such as the telegram sex crime scandal in South Korea.

As Sue-Jung Lee, a criminal psychologist at Kyonggi University says “This kind of distorted sexual culture is becoming the norm". (Shafrir & Darcy, 2018).

Recently in South Korea, there has been a highlight and crackdown on digital sex crimes, exposing societal breakdowns and marginalisation of a class of society. In early 2018, the #MeToo movement took root in Korea, a protest against the issue of cyber voyeurism varying from recordings of women urinating to sexual acts secretly videotaped by someone's boyfriend and released later as "revenge porn” on websites such as Soranet (Kwon, 2019).

Other cyber-sex crimes continued to surface such as the “Nth Room”, “Guru Room” incidences, triggering public outrage. These rooms acted as illegal encrypted telegram group chats, sharing explicit pictures and images of women and young girls. Victims were recruited by offering them part-time modelling jobs, and eventually coerced them into making pornographic material by threatening to spread their personal information and images. They recruited members by luring them with teaser videos and promised exclusive rooms with access to women and girls, which Cho (the founder) calls slaves as they could instruct them to create sexually explicit material. Buyers would pay $1200-$3000+ USD with bitcoin to enter these rooms, and more expensive rooms had “more beautiful” females.

According to authorities, there were over 100 victims, including 26 teen girls.

These cybercrimes tend to occur in a fashion such as Ji-o’s (not her real name) case. Korean teenager Ji-o was threatened, stalked, and pressured into taking sexually explicit photos of herself by men on the internet, which started at the age of 11 and lasted for three years. According to Choi Yunu, from a non-governmental Mental Health organization in Korea, Ji-o joined Twitter hoping to make friends, and she found a way to make money just by sharing pictures of her breasts (Seo & Hollingsworth, 2021). This was how online criminals tricked many young girls and then used these as blackmail materials. Ji-o encountered a few different criminals, one of which threatened to tell her father what she was doing if she did not take explicit pictures for him. Another set a rule that she must respond to his messages within two minutes or he would send men to beat her up. She was terrified and would sleep with earphones to hear the notification. Once, she refused the former man and he spread private details of her online, which she does not know how he got hold of (Seo & Hollingsworth, 2021).

To conclude, this scandal highlights how the meaning of intimacy and sex has been radicalised, enabled through the development of the internet and technology. Now the problem is no longer confined on an insular level but has risen to a new level where society is affected, and marginalisation of people group increases.

 Seo, Y., & Hollingworth, J. (2021, January 17). South Korea is cracking down on digital sex crimes. Has it done enough? CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/asia/south-korea-telegram-digital-sex-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Shafrir, D., & Darcy, D. (2018, October 22). South Korea's #MeToo Movement Wants to End the 'Epidemic' of Spy Cam Porn. Vice Asia. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv99z5/south-koreas-metoo-movement-wants-to-end-the-epidemic-of-spy-cam-porn

Kwon, J. (2019, January 10). Owner of South Korean revenge porn site jailed for 4 years. CNN World. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/10/asia/south-korea-revenge-porn-intl/index.html

[nspy98-blog]

코스프레 의상 호불호 https://goo.gl/4TxcFa

언니넷 감옥전함 일본거유 쓰리섬 한국봉지 한국1페이지 이쁜년 한국야동 1페이지 soranet 성.인애니 구멍넷 국산포르노

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I am so sad..my tumbler is blocked soon Beacuse A dirty pedophile put up a child’s porn in the tumbler.

This is news part i use google trnsfer “ You can eat your own brother, ” adding, “ I’ll leave you alone, ” adding, “ I’ll leave you alone if you want to leave a comment. ” This reminds the story of “ Soranet Rape, ” which shocked the public, which shocked the world two years ago by monitoring private women. The postings received 10,000 copies of the prize and recorded more than 2,200 postings (shares). “ I want to say, ” I want to say, “ I want to say, ” I want to talk to you, “ and ” I want to hear it. “ No matter how much you want, you can’t see it. Oh!!! MY GOD!! Our government asked for cooperation from the tumbler headquarters but was rejected. News part!! "In the parliamentary audit session held in October last year, punitive punishment for foreign Internet sites such as tumblers and other foreign websites was on the rise. The Korea Communications Standards Commission requested a review of unsolicited contents in the wiretapping headquarters in the U.S. in August prior to the parliamentary audit session. However, Tumber said, ” Tumbler does not exist in Korea, but the South Korean government rejected the request. “ So anyway Our government could not investigate child sex crimes without the cooperation of tumblers. Our government designated the tumblers as harmful and announced that they would block them. So i am blocked ^^soon amazing!! 😆 I really like law and order suv and i used tumbler to communicate other svu fan but i am blocked beacuse of occured actully sexual crime (Posted child’s porn in tumbler) !! What the ,,,,fuck? Plz dead and go to the hell korea man sharing child porn! And not cooperate tumbler!! Im not sorry my feeling!!

[newspignews-blog]

https://newspig.co.uk/south-korea-porn-co-founder-of-the-soranet-site-jailed/South Korea porn: Co-founder of the Soranet site jailed #news #breakingnews

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South Korea porn: Co-founder of the Soranet site jailed http://bit.ly/2FpvLia

[spicynbachili1]

‘Spycam’ epidemic seizes South Korea’s women | News

South Korea is within the grip of a “spycam” epidemic with covert footage of intercourse, nudity, and urination posted on-line in what quantities to a “social loss of life penalty” for 1000’s of feminine victims.

The footage could also be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert units as small as automobile keys. Day by day digicam checks at the moment are a part of life for cleaners in lots of public bogs.

The spy digicam phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of 1000’s of ladies have taken to the streets to march for motion.

Beneath hearth for transferring too slowly, the federal government enacted a slew of measures, together with the formation of a taskforce to assist victims and elevated inspections in dangerous public locations.

In April, the 16-member process pressure launched a free service to assist victims take away illicitly filmed footage from the web – the workforce has been inundated. Up to now, it has dealt with some 15,000 requests to take away footage and counselled three,000-plus victims.

“The state of affairs is getting out of hand,” mentioned Ryu Hye-jin from the government-backed Ladies’s Human Rights Institute of Korea, which oversees the taskforce. “Because the institution of the duty pressure, many victims have known as and reached out to us.”

‘Social loss of life’

Perpetrators sometimes use tiny units that may simply movie girls in public locations, akin to bogs or altering rooms, and later promote the footage to pornography websites for revenue.

The footage reveals girls undressing or having intercourse and may be bought for as much as 100,000 received ($90).

In lots of instances, the filming is finished by companions – with or with out consent – at properties or in accommodations, and later used as a type of revenge if the connection turns bitter.

“It sends the victims into melancholy as a result of there isn’t a finish to it. It’s on the web endlessly. It is a social loss of life penalty,” mentioned Ryu.

Ladies who fall victims to the hidden digicam have beforehand turned to “digital laundries”, non-public companies that take away the movies for a payment, giving rise to a profitable, new business. Nonetheless, the brand new process pressure now affords the identical companies without spending a dime, and has taken over the majority of such work.

The variety of spycam instances jumped to just about 6,500 in 2017, from about 2,400 in 2012, in response to Yonhap information company.

Campaigner Park Soo-yeon mentioned many victims weren’t even conscious they had been the topic of such movies, and had been reluctant to talk out after they did discover out, cowed by social stigma.

“These are the people who find themselves attempting to cover themselves as a lot as doable,” Park, who at all times carries a hidden digicam detector, mentioned at her workplace within the suburbs of the capital Seoul.

A fierce authorities critic, the 22-year-old activist based the group Digital Sexual Crime Out in 2015 and was credited with bringing down a infamous porn web site, Soranet, in 2016.

The illicit web site, arrange in 1999 and which had claimed greater than 1,000,000 customers, had hosted 1000’s of movies of ladies that had been filmed with out their consent.

“What we have to inform folks is that it is a crime, that is sexual violence, this isn’t porn,” mentioned Park, who known as for the gross sales of hidden cameras to be tightened and controlled.

By no means gone

It’s nearly unimaginable to wipe all on-line traces of illicit pictures.

“These web sites are all around the world and each nation has totally different legal guidelines. It’s actually onerous to get to some extent the place we will punish all of the perpetrators,” mentioned Track Eugene, a counsellor on the taskforce.

She mentioned it has been troublesome for victims to talk up in regards to the subject in South Korea, the place discussions about girls’s rights are nonetheless generally seen as taboo in a male-dominated society.

“It is essential for girls to talk up in regards to the subject to create consciousness in regards to the ache that has been inflicted.”

Ryu mentioned there was no strategy to cease such crimes as long as girls had been routinely seen as intercourse objects. “What we’d like is to vary the way in which our society treats our girls,” she mentioned.

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[ashita-s]

女子力カフェで韓国のフェミニズム・ムーブメントを紹介！

@ のインスタレーション3331 Arts Chiyoda

韓国人の明日少女隊メンバーの金明淳(キム・ミョンウン)と申します。私は2017年2月18日から3月5日まで、3331 Arts Chiyodaで開催されたSEA（Socially Engaged Art）展に参加するためにソウルから東京を訪れました。このショーでは、明日少女隊の最近の作品が、非常に著名な海外のアーティスト(アイ・ウェイウェイ、ペドロ・レイエス、スーザン・レイシー…)たちと一緒に展示されていました。

明日少女隊はショーに2つの作品を発表しました。最初の1つは、彼らのBelieve 〜わたしは知ってる〜キャンペーンの一環で行われた、ビリーブ・マーチのビデオ作品とマスクの展示です。日本の１００年前に作られた性的暴行に関する法律を改正するよう求めています。 現在の日本の法律は犯罪者に有利であることから、より、被害者を守るような内容に改正することを求めています。

 2番目の作品は、フェミニストの学習室や情報ブースのようなプロジェクト、ガールズ・パワー・カフェです。フェミニストの本や雑誌、明日少女隊がデザインしたフェミニストのTシャツ・トートバッグなどを表示して、展示時間中では明日少女隊メンバーがカフェのテーブルに座って観客と交流していました。

私は25日にガールズ・パワー・カフェで韓国の最近のフェミニストの動向を紹介する機会がありました。私のプレゼンテーション他にも、中国人の明日少女隊メンバー による中国のフェミニスト芸術についての話もありました。以下では、ガールズ・パワー・カフェで発表した韓国フェミニズムの最近の動向について簡単に紹介します。

@ 韓国の最近のフェミニストの動きについて、金明淳(キム・ミョンウン)はガールズ・パワー・カフェで短いプレゼンテーションを行った。

韓国の新しいフェミニズムのムーブメントは、2014年末から 急速に広がり、大きな注目を集めました。それは、韓国のインターネット文化の女性嫌悪が発端であったが、偶然の出来事によって引き起こされてました。2015年5月、韓国人女性2人が医師の助言を拒否してMERS（中東呼吸器症候群 ）流行を引き起こしたというニュース放送がありました。インターネット上の人々は、このニュースをもとに韓国女性全体を無知で利己的だと悪口を言いました。昔から女性をひっくるめて軽蔑することが習慣化されていたのです。例えば、「それみろ女性が外国旅行や通って外貨を無駄にするだけでなく、病気も持って入ってくるんだ」というふうでした。数日後、それは事実ではない間違った放送であることが判明しましたが、女性たちはそこで終わりにはしませんでした。その前の年、2014年からtwitterのハッシュタグ（#IamFeminist）の動きなどがインターネットフェミニズムが広がって続いていたからだと思います。この事件がきっかけで、多くの女性がインターネット上で、連帯し、声を上げるようになったのです。

そして、匿名の女性グループ、メガリアン（Megalian)が誕生しました。メガリアンっていう名前は 伝染病、MERSの流行とノルウェーの小説「Egalia's Daughters」から借りています。彼女たちは韓国人男性がオンラインで女性を扱う方法をそのまま逆におうむ返しする方法で大きな注目を集めました。例えば、女性の小さな胸を批判する言葉を、男性の小さな性器を侮辱する言葉にして返しました。それが男性たちを何よりも衝撃を与えて怒らせたのです（笑)。それ以来、韓国のフェミニスト運動は社会的な注目まで集め、活発で人気が高まる事になりました。

しかし、メガリアンの活動は、オンラインで男性を批判することにとどまらず、非常に活発な社会活動につながりました。たとえば、彼女たちは隠しカメラから撮影したセックスビデオを共有するためのプラットフォームとして、犯罪の温床であったポルノのウェブサイト、Soranetを閉鎖するのに大きな役割を果たしました。

@メガリアンの地下鉄広告。 “隠しカメラで写真を撮るな”っていう。

それにもかかわらず、メガリアンは、内部紛争のために2015年の冬から活動を徐々に停止されました。メガリアンの中では、男性嫌悪者と自らを表明し、ゲイなど性少数者の問題はフェミニズムの話題じゃないっていう性本質主義者たちと、その立場に同意してない人々が分かれてしまいました。それ以来、活躍しなくなりましたが、私はメガリアンが韓国の現在のフェミニスト運動の発火点の何よりも重要な役割を果たしていたと思います。

(*Media Today “http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/?mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=130092”) @ 江南駅10番出口、5月19日,2016

フェミニズムに広い関心を呼んできたもう一つの事件は、2016年5月、江南駅の公衆トイレの殺人犯罪でした。23歳の若い女性が統合失調症の男性に残酷に殺された。彼は女性を殺した理由が「女性が彼を無視した」ためだと述べました。それは明らかな女性嫌悪犯罪でしたが、犯罪者が精神病患者であったため、裁判所はそれが嫌悪犯罪ではないと発表しました。このような診断に多くの女性が怒りました。多くの女性が、韓国社会で若い女性としての生活を反映し、被害者の女性に強く感情移入しました。そして、多くの人々が、江南駅出口10番の外壁に被害者にメッセージを残しました。

この事件の後に韓国には若い女性たちを中心とした多くのフェミニズム団体が生まれてきました。この時期に形成された積極的なフェミニストグループの1つがフェミダンダンです。フェミダンダンはミラーアクションという鏡を持って江南駅近くの行進するパフォーマンスをしました。これらの鏡は、遺影写真の形であり、いかなる女性も被害者になりうることを示唆するものでした 。

24日に、フェミダンダンのメンバー一人を明日少女隊のガールズカフェに招待して、彼女たちのグループの活動について聞くことができました。フェミダンダンはフェミニストとダンダン(堂々)の合成語で、「フェミニストが堂々すればこそ世の中が良くなる」というのが彼女らのモットーです。フェミダンダンの目標は、韓国で最初のフェミニスト政党を作ることです。

@ フェミダンダンの行進のパフォーマンス、 ‘ミラーアクション'

(* image from “http://www.womennews.co.kr/news/110289")   フェミダンダンと様々なフェミニスト団体よって開始された「フェミゾーン」は、11-12月2016朴前大統領の弾劾に対する大規模な集会の内部に作られた。

フェミダンダングと他のフェミニスト団体が一緒に集まって、性差別フリー抗議ゾーン（フェミ・ゾーン）を作りました。韓国の政治的デモ内部で行われる性差別的な状況は、多くの女性に不快感を与えていました。例えば、若い女性に対するセクシャルハラスメント、性差別的なコメントを叫ぶ抗議者など色々です。「フェミ・ゾーン」はそれを未然に防止するための努力でした。

フェミダンダンを含む、韓国の最近のフェミニスト運動の多くは若い女性によって結成したばかり。彼らの活動は、多くの場合、DIY（Do it yourself.自分たちの手で作る、手作りの活動という意味）活動を含み、インターネットを拠点とします。 昨年、フェミニストの商品や雑誌が多数生産されました。 ガールズ・パワー・カフェでは、私が韓国から持ってきた本やグッズも紹介しました。

(* image from “https://tumblbug.com/mersgall4”)

@　2016年6月、 メガリアンのフェイスブックページ韓国支部 訴訟プロジェクトは、最大の資金援助を受けたフェミニストプロジェクトの1つであります。このオンライン募金プロジェクトは韓国最大のクラウドファンディング・ウェブサイト、Tumblebugを通って行われました。ほとんどのDIYフェミニスト活動は、このプラットフォームTumblebugで行われています。

メガリアのフェイスブックページは「不適切なコンテンツ」を名目に複数回強制的に閉じられました。しかし、より深刻なコンテンツを多く記載した代表的な女性嫌悪フェイスブックページ、<ギムチニョ>は、一度も問題視されたことがありません。メガリア FBのページは、彼らの不公平な行為のためにフェイスブック韓国支部に対する訴訟を起こすためのオンラインクラウドファンドを提案しました。上記の画像のTシャツは、資金提供者の報酬として作成されました。このプロジェクトは、多くの注目を集めており、最初の目標の約1500％を集めており、ほぼ1200万円を達成しました。

しかし、このプロジェクトは論争に直面しました。なぜなら、メガリアンは男性嫌悪者として受けとられ「適切なフェミニスト」ではないっていう疑いをかけられていたからです。（でも「適切なフェミニスト」って大体何ですか？！！）ゲーム会社の女性声優が、このTシャツを着てInstagramにセルフリーをアップロードした後、仕事から解雇されたことがありました。同社は彼女��Tシャツが男性顧客を怒らせることを恐れていた。この事件で、メガリアンに反対していた一般市民とフェミニストが対立するこのになりました。

(https://twitter.com/bozzyparty)   @ Bozziparty（女性性器パーティー）がデザインしたフェミニスト商品 Bozzipartyは、2014年に活動を始めたフェミニストの創造主義者の一人です。彼らは、Tシャツ、女性性器の形のパン、女性性器が描いたの色の本を作りました。

@アラジンオンライン書店も2016年2月にフェミニズム商品のトレンドに加わりました。 彼らはフェミニストのテーマブックを20ドル以上購入した顧客のためにフェミニストのテーママグカップを贈りました。

以下の2冊の本は、私のお気に入りのフェミニストのDIYプロジェクトです。 若いフェミニストの作家、ミンキョン・リーが書いた物で、内容が非常に優れてして翻訳して海外輸出したいくらいです　(笑)。この本たちは、オンラインのクラウドファンドのプロジェクトで開始しましたが、絶大な人気を得て正式に出版され、現在、大規模な書店でも売られています。

@フェミニズムについての会話をするためのマニュアル。 （2016.7）

上記は、クラウドファンディングのウェブサイトTumblebugの画像で、書籍と本を買えばついてくる付録です。

この本は、フェミニズムについてよく知らない人と、どのように対話すべきかをアドバイスしてくれます。面白くも本では、あなたが会話したくない場合は必要がないという事実が、何よりも重要だとします。つまり、性差別に対する知識が全くないうえ、女性の話を聞こうとしない人は相手にしなくても良いということです。「あなたを尊重しない人との対話によって、あなたの時間を無駄にしないでください」と強調しています。 それだけでなく、日常生活の中で、フェミニストとしたときに受ける様々な反応や質問への様々な予想回答も用意してくれている、非常に実用的な本です。

@韓国のフェミニスト歴史のワークブック��� （2016.9） ワークブックの形で作成されたこの教育書籍は、韓国フェミニズムの歴史を要約しています。社会の変化をもたらす過去の闘いを記録し、覚え、祝うことの重要性を強調しています。 したがって、この本は、しばしば忘れられるフェミニストの業績を祝うために作られたものです。 筆者もこの本を通じて韓国の女性偉人たちについて多くを学びました。ただ平凡な歴史の本ではなく、問題用紙の形式で読者が想像力を使ってフェミニズムの過去、現在、未来について考えるよう構成されています。そして過去と現在だけでなく、世界の様々なフェミニズムの運動を連結して、私たちがいるところについて再考察して見るようにすることに重点をおきます。 たとえば、 この本で紹介されているクイズの一つには、英国参政権運動当時の男性が言った言葉を集めてどのような事件なのか当てるというものがあります。私はこれが昨年韓国のオンラインでメガロリアンが到来したときの、男性の反応とそっくりだと思いました。正解が100年前参政権運動であることを知ってだいぶ衝撃を受けました。

この本の付録には、韓国の歴史の女性偉人たちのかわいい絵柄で描いたカレンダーと磁石がついてきました。

@韓国の歴史的フェミニストのカレンダーイラスト

(https://tumblbug.com/vostok)  (2016.11) @写真誌「ヴォストク」の第1号は、「フェミニズム」をテーマに取り上げられた。

@ （http://zuznshop.co.kr）（2014年〜） Zuzn（*は韓国語で「ウェット」を意味する）マガジンは女性が作った「オルタナティブ・ポルノ・マガジン」であると主張しています。

下の写真は、2016年12月から2017年1月までサンシャイン書店で行われたフェミニズム商品ポップアップ店で、私が撮影したものです。サンシャイン書店は、時にはイベントスペースとしても利用されるクゥアー独立書店です。

このレポートを読んでくださった皆さん、ありがとうございます！

上記の物語と例は、私の個人的な観察から持って、徹底した学術研究に基づいているわけではありません。 韓国で起こった重要なフェミニスト活動のすべてを含んでいないかもしれませんが、最新の韓国フェミニズムの展開とおおよその流れを見ることができたと思います。私の研究を明日少女隊のガールズ・パワー・カフェで共有できたことは大変光栄です。 日本のフェミニズムへの関心が高まっていることを嬉しく思い、社会の変化を楽しみにしています。 金明淳(キム・ミョンウン)

@ガールズパワーカフェで黒板に世界性の平等ランキングを書くことに参加している観客

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Introducing Korean feminist movements to Japanese art audience at Girls Power Cafe

@ Tomorrow Girls Troop’s installation at 3331 Arts Chiyoda 

This is Myeongsoon Kim, a Korean member of Tomorrow Girls Troop (TGT). I visited Tokyo last week to attend the Socially Engaged Art (SEA) exhibition held at 3331 Arts Chiyoda from Feb.18 to Mar. 5, 2017. In the show, TGT’s recent works were presented along the renowned artists including Ai Weiwei, Pedro Reyes and Susan Lacy. 

TGT had two pieces in the show. The first one is their new project, <Believe> campaign, which pushes Japanese government to revise the hundred-year old law regarding sexual assault. Coming from the old era, the current law is favorable to offenders. The second work is a site-specific project, Girls Power Cafe (GP Cafe) in the exhibition hall that resembles a feminist study room or an information booth, displaying a table of feminist books and zines, TGT designed feminist t-shirts,... etc. 

During the exhibition hours, one of the TGT members sat on the Cafe table to engage the audience. This time during my visit, I had an opportunity to introduce the recent feminist movements in Korea at GP Cafe on the 25th. My presentation was followed by another talk about Chinese feminist art by our member Qiqi.  In the below, I will briefly introduce the recent movements in Korean feminism based on the presentation I gave in GP Cafe.  

@ Myeongsoon Kim giving a short presentation at Girls Power Cafe about the recent feminist movements in Korea.

Feminist movements rapidly spread out in Korea from the end of 2014, gaining massive attention. It was induced by the long-lived misogyny of the internet culture in Korea, yet triggered by an accidental event. In May 2015, there was a  news broadcast that two Korean women caused the MERS epidemic in the country by refusing doctor’s advice. Netizens accused entire Korean women for being ignorant and selfish, which was based on the long tradition of insulting women on the internet. Few days later, it turned out to be a wrong broadcast, but women did not tolerate this time. Feminist actions had been spreading on the internet, such as hashtag movements on twitter (#IamFeminist) from 2014, however, it was the MERS epidemic that brought together large number of women in solidarity. These anonymous group of women came together as Megalians. The group, Megalia, which borrows its name from MERS epidemic and the Norwegian novel Egalia’s Daughters, gained a huge attention for mirroring the way how Korean men treated women online. For example, they made fun of the men’s small penises as a counterpunch for being complaint about small breasts. The feminist movements in Korea have gained broad attention, became active and popular since then. Megalia’s activities went beyond teasing men online, engaging in many social activities. For example, they played a huge role in closing down the porn website, Soranet, which was a hotbed of crime as a platform for sharing sex videos taken from hidden cameras.

@ A subway advertisement by Megalia. It reads, “Do not take pictures with a hidden camera”

Nevertheless, Megalia has faded out from feminism scene since the winter of 2015 due to an internal conflict. Among Megalians, some feminists actively positioned themselves as man-haters insisting to exclude queer issues from their interests. The others who did not agree to the argument, separated from the group. Megalia stopped being active since then, but I think it played a role of an ignition point for the current feminist movements in Korea. 

(*image from Media Today “http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/?mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=130092") @ Gangnam station exit 10, May 19th, 2016.  

Another incident that brought wide attention to feminism was a murder crime in May 2016, at the public restroom near Gangnam station. 23-year old woman was brutally murdered by a schizophrenic man, who waited for a woman to enter the restroom after letting go six men. He said the reason he killed the woman was because “women ignored him”. It was an obvious hate crime, yet the court announced it was not, because the criminal was a mentally ill person. Numerous women identified themselves to the female victim, reflecting on their lives in Korean society as young women. Many people left condolence post-it messages to the victim at Gangnam station exit 10. 

One of the active feminist groups formed around this time was Femidangdang, who executed a ‘mirror action’, marching on the street with mirrors. These mirrors were in the form of a portrait picture of the deceased, implying that any person (woman) could have been in the position of victim. A member of this group joined our conversation at GP Cafe on the 24th introducing the group’s activities. The ultimate goal of Femidangdang is to establish the first feminist political party in Korea.

@ Femidangdang’s marching performance, ‘Mirror Action’

(* image from “http://www.womennews.co.kr/news/110289")  

@ ‘Femi-zone’ at the massive protest for president Park’s impeachment in Dec.2016, initiated by Femidangdang. 

Femidangdang and couple other feminist organizations came together to create a misogyny-free protest zone, where people can avoid unpleasant encounter to sexist comments or actions. The misogyny within protests has been stressful dilemma for feminists, which you can easily run into at massive protests in Korea (ex. sexual harassment towards young women, protesters yelling sexist comments, etc). 

Including Femidangdang, many of the recent feminist movements in Korea are initiated by young women. Their activities are often based on the internet involving DIY activities. Last year, numerous feminist goods and zines were produced and distributed. I introduced variety of these activities at GP Cafe by showing examples of books and goods that I brought from Korea. 

(* image from “https://tumblbug.com/mersgall4")

@ Megalia’s Facebook(FB) Korea lawsuit project in June, 2016 was one of the largest funded feminist projects on Tumblebug, the biggest crowdfunding website in Korea. Most DIY feminist activities had been crowdfunded by this platform, Tumblebug (cf. Kickstarter).  Megalia’s FB page was closed down multiple times by FB Korea due to “offensive contents”, while a FB page run by misogynists, “Kimchi Women” displaying even worse contents, was never put into trouble. Megalia FB page proposed an online crowdfunding to file a lawsuit against FB Korea for their unfair actions. The t-shirts in the above image were produced as rewards for funders. This project has gained a lots of attention and collected around 1500% of the initial goal, reaching approx. 116,000 USD. However, the project was put into controversy, because Megalians were received as man haters, but not “proper feminists”. For example, a voice actor of a game company was fired from her work after uploading her selfie on Instagram putting on this t-shirt. The company was afraid that her t-shirt would offend their male customers. This affair brought a large conflict between some feminists and the general public who were against Megalia. 

@ Feminist goods designed by Bozziparty (i.e pussy party) (https://twitter.com/bozzyparty)  

Bozziparty is one of the creative initiators of feminist goods, who started their activities in 2014. They made t-shirts, pussy shaped bread, and pussy coloring book.    

@ Aladdin online book store also joined the trend of feminist goods in 2016 Feb. They gave out feminist themed mug cups for customers who purchased feminist theme books over 20 USD.

The two books below written by a young feminist writer, Minkyung Lee, are my favorite feminist DIY projects among all. They were initially self-published by Tumblebug crowd-funding, but currently sold in major bookstores as they gained huge popularity. 

@ A hands-on manual for having conversations about feminism. (2016.7)

The above is an image from the crowdfunding website Tumblebug, which shows the book and following rewards. This book gives you advices on how to deal with endless questions and arguments by people who don’t understand feminism. According to the book, the most important thing to remember is that you don’t have to be engaged in every conversation! The writer says, if the person is not willing to listen, you should rather save up your energy. It also provides you couple of predictable scenarios and how to deal with them.

@ Korean feminist history workbook. (2016.9)

Created in the form of a workbook, this educational book includes a brief history of Korean feminism. It emphasize the importance of recording, remembering and celebrating past struggles to bring changes in society. Thus, the book is created to celebrate the often forgotten/belittled feminist achievements. It was accompanied by a calendar that has illustrations of Korean historical feminists in the image below. 

@ Calendar illustrations of historical feminists in Korea   

@ The first issue of photographic magazine, Vostok, dealt with the theme of ‘feminism’. (https://tumblbug.com/vostok)  (2016.11)

@ Zuzn (*means ‘wet’ in Korean) magazine claims to be an ‘alternative porn magazine’ made by women. (http://zuznshop.co.kr)   (2014~) 

The pictures below are taken by me at feminist goods pop-up store, which took place at Sunshine bookstore from December 2016 to January 2017. Sunshine bookstore is a queer independent bookstore, which is sometimes utilized as an event space. 

Coming from my personal observation, the story narrated above and given examples are not based on a thorough academic research. They may not include all the important feminist activities happened in Korea, yet I believe they still provide a rough picture of the recent atmosphere and movements here. 

I hope you enjoyed my report. It was a great honor to share my research at GP Cafe. I am happy to see the growing interest in feminism in Japan, and look forward to the change in our societies. 

@ An audience participating in filling the blackboard at Girls Power Cafe.

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Khoảng 1.600 người đã bị bí mật ghi hình trong các phòng khách sạn ở Hàn Quốc, và các cảnh quay đều được phát trực tiếp trên mạng cho những người xem có trả tiền.

(Nguồn: cnn.com)

Khoảng 1.600 người đã bị bí mật ghi hình trong các phòng khách sạn ở Hàn Quốc, và các cảnh quay đều được phát trực tiếp trên mạng cho những người xem có trả tiền, theo thông tin từ cảnh sát nước này.

Hai người đàn ông đã bị bắt giữ và hai người khác hiện đang bị điều tra do nghi ngờ có liên quan đến vụ bê bối này.

Theo CNN, có 42 phòng ở 30 khách sạn trải khắp 10 thành phố tại Hàn Quốc có gắn camera quay lén. Cảnh sát cho biết chưa có bằng chứng cho thấy các khách sạn đồng lõa trong vụ việc này.

Theo Cục Điều tra Mạng thuộc Cơ quan Cảnh sát Quốc gia, những chiếc camera được giấu bên trong các đầu truyền hình kỹ thuật số, ổ điện gắn tường và giá đỡ máy sấy tóc, và những hình ảnh thu được từ đây sẽ được truyền trực tiếp lên mạng.

Trang web phát những đoạn video này có hơn 4.000 thành viên, trong đó có 97 người trả mức phí 44,95 USD/tháng để tiếp cận những tính năng bổ sung, ví dụ như khả năng phát lại những đoạn ghi hình trực tiếp nhất định.

Cảnh sát cho biết, từ tháng 11/2018 đến nay, trang web này đã thu về hơn 6.000 USD.

“Trước đây từng có một vụ án tương tự, ở đó các máy quay đã được lắp bất hợp pháp trong các khách sạn để quay lén, nhưng đây là lần đầu tiên cảnh sát phát hiện ra những đoạn video đó được phát trực tiếp lên Internet,” cảnh sát cho hay.

Camera được gắn ở nhiều nơi trong các phòng khách sạn. (Nguồn: cnn.com)

Quay lén và ghi hình trái phép là một vấn đề nghiêm trọng tại Hàn Quốc hiện nay. Năm 2017, đã có hơn 6.400 vụ ghi hình bất hợp pháp được báo cáo với cảnh sát, tăng v��t so với số 2.400 vụ năm 2012.

Năm ngoái, hàng chục nghìn phụ nữ đã xuống đường biểu tình tại Seoul và các thành phố khác để phản đối vấn nạn này và yêu cầu hành động, với khẩu hiệu “Cuộc sống của tôi không phải là phim khiêu dâm.”

Chính quyền thành phố Seoul đã phản ứng lại bằng cách lập ra một nhóm công tác đặc biệt gồm các thanh tra nữ để tiến hành những đợt kiểm tra thường xuyên tại hơn 20.000 nhà vệ sinh công cộng trong thành phố nhằm phát hiện các máy quay lén.

Tuy nhiên, một số nhà phê bình cho rằng động thái này chỉ là một phản ứng hời hợt với một vấn đề mang tính xã hội.

Năm ngoái, trong một cuộc phỏng vấn với CNN, Lee Ji-soo, một chuyên gia máy tính, người thường xuyên giúp phụ nữ xóa những hình ảnh được chụp mà không có sự đồng ý của họ khỏi Internet đã chia sẻ rằng công ty của cô đã chứng kiến một sự gia tăng đột biến nhu cầu của khách hàng từ sau khi các cuộc biểu tình thu hút sự chú ý về vấn đề này.

“Các khách hàng của chúng tôi rất thường nói – với vẻ rất đau lòng – rằng ‘Tôi muốn chết’ hay ‘Tôi không thể ra khỏi nhà được.’ Nhất là những nạn nhân của những máy quay lén hay những đoạn video bị ghi hình trái phép, họ sợ sẽ bị người khác nhận ra khi đi trên phố,” Lee cho biết.

Vào tháng 1, một người đồng sở hữu của Soranet – một trang web khiêu dâm tại Hàn Quốc – đã bị kết án 4 năm tù giam và bị buộc phải nộp phạt 1,26 triệu USD.

Trang web này từng rất nổi tiếng vì là nơi đăng tải các đoạn video và hình ảnh được ghi lại bằng các camera giấu kín chụp dưới váy phụ nữ. Năm ngoái, Soranet đã bị đóng cửa.

Bài: Mai Nguyễn (VietnamPlus)

Nguồn Hàn Quốc: 1.600 người bị quay lén, phát trực tiếp trong khách sạn từ Tạp chí Đẹp.