Rapid increase in deliberations on digital sex crime information... 2.6 times last year in 8 months

5,034 cases from January to August this year… Information on obscenity and prostitution has also surpassed last year’s annual number of cases.

Yeonhee Lee "A rapid response is needed... Review and follow-up measures must be checked"

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyunmin Yoo = The number of cases in which the Korea Media and Communications Standards Commission requested review and correction of information on digital sex crimes on the Internet was 5,034 from January to August of this year, 2.6 times the number of cases last year.

According to data received from the US Visit Review Committee by the office of Representative Lee Yeon-hee of the Democratic Party of Korea, a member of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, on the 11th, requests for review and correction of Internet sites related to digital sex crimes were counted at 5,034 from January to August of this year.

This is about 2.6 times the number of cases last year, which was 1,959 cases per year. The monthly average also increased from about 163 last year to about 629 this year.

The number of requests for review and correction of pornography and prostitution information was 15,387 from January to August of this year, exceeding the 11,484 requests per year last year. There were also 24,859 cases of information related to illegal food and medicine this year, which was more than 18,919 cases last year.

The US Visit Committee reviews and requests corrections for illegal and harmful information on internet sites, including gambling, illegal food and medicine, pornography and prostitution, and digital sex crimes.

Rep. Lee Yeon-hee said, "As the number of requests for review and correction of digital sex crime information has greatly exceeded the number of cases per year last year, a prompt response is needed. We need to check whether the review and follow-up actions by the U.S. Visit to the United States Review Committee are being carried out on time."