worldwide. In the cases of online sexual assault, it is difficult to directly confirm the damage as the assaults are perpetrated secretly in many cases. Countermeasures are needed since the current law does not allow legal punishment. 37. Gender violence is a comprehensive expression which encompasses physical, sexual, emotional violence as well as economic damage imposed on women and the disadvantaged group in society resulting from gender discrimination and inequality. One of the campaign pledges of President Moon Jae-in was to “develop measures to prevent three new types of gender violence” such as stalking, dating violence and online crime (online sexual violence). As such, there has been an increasing awareness of problems in reality where the development of scientific technology leads to a tool of sexual violence against women. 38. According to the 「2016 Crime Analysis」by the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, the online sexual assaults such as the ‘Crime of Obscenity Using Telecommunication Medium’ and ‘Crime of Taking Photos Using Cameras (known as “hidden camera crimes”)’ have significantly increased in the past ten years while the rates of rapes and indecent acts by force have not had notable changes in numbers. Particularly, the ‘Crime of Taking Photos Using Cameras’ have increased most dramatically from 3.6% of all sexual violence cases in 2006 to 23.9% in 2015, showing a sevenfold increase in the past ten years. <Table 10> Number of Cases and Trend in Proportions of Major Sexual Violence Types10 (Unit: Cases, %) 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Filming using 517 564 585 834 1,153 1,565 2,462 4,903 6,735 7,730 cameras (3.6) (3.9) (3.6) (4.8) (5.6) (7.1) (10.5) (16.9) (24.1) (23.9) Obscene act through 195 240 378 761 1,031 911 917 1,416 1,254 1,139 communication (1.4) (1.7) (2.3) (4.4) (5.0) (4.1) (4.0) (4.9) (4.1) (3,7) media 10 Supreme Prosecutors’ Office 「2016 Crime Analysis」, pp14-15.