46. Despite the high rate of crimes, the ‘Crime Statistics’ by the National Police revealed that the arrest rate of the ‘Crime of Taking Photos Using Cameras’ was 97.6 per cent (7,430 cases) in 2015, but the rate of indictment was only 31.2 per cent indicating that not all perpetrators were properly brought to justice. The number of cases of these “hidden camera crimes” increased by three times in the past two years, but the indictment rate decreased year by year; 53.6 per cent in 2013, 43.7 per cent in 2014 and 31.2 percent in 2015, dropping by more than half from 72.6 per cent in 2010. 47. The analysis of victims in the cases of the ‘Crimes of Taking Photos Using Cameras’ revealed that the 98.3 percent of victims was female, according to the ‘Amendment to the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes by analysis of cases of Crimes of Taking Photos Using Cameras’ by the Korean Women Lawyers Association (2016). The relationships between the victims and perpetrators were 89.01 per cent of the cases strangers and 10.99 percent of the cases acquaintances. The crimes occurred in subways (54.73 per cent), on the street (10.80 per cent), inside the buses or taxis (4.64 per cent), in home or other accommodation (3.29 per cent), and in public toilets (2.81 per cent); this showed that women were not safe in public spaces. This could also be interpreted that women could be the victim of hidden cameras anywhere anytime. However, the examinations of the “hidden camera crimes” were as follows in the first trials; monetary penalty (71.97 per cent), probation (14.67 per cent), suspended sentence (7.46 per cent), and prison sentence (5.32 per cent). 48. The issue of “revenge pornography” and dissemination of pornography by individuals remains grave after the closure of ‘Soranet’, an Internet site that was the hub of pornographic materials in Korea. The offenders are committing crimes abusing the personal information they possess of their former girlfriends after filming intimate videos, against the women’s will or after obtaining consent. It is retaliation after the couples break up and the offenders disseminate the videos to specific persons including the victims’ husbands, new boy friends or family members, or to unspecified individuals on the Internet. The number of pornographic materials deleted by the Korea Communication Standards Commission, after receiving complaints, increased more than five times from 1,404 cases in 2014 to 7,325 cases in 2016. The number of complaint cases submitted to the Commission with respect to the delete requests of pornographic materials containing individuals’ sexual acts was 3,397 cases, and 1,166 cases were submitted and dealt with in 2013 showing a sharply rising curve. 49. While the victims could report the case and request the videos to be deleted by the 15

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