South Korea's president has urged authorities to do more to "eradicate" the country's digital sex crime epidemic, amid a flood of deepfake pornography targeting young women.

Authorities, journalists and social media users recently identifie…

SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) -- Deepfake porn images have sent many South Korean women scurrying to take down selfies from Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms as concerns have been mounting that no one is an exception to the cri…

Last Saturday, a Telegram message popped up on Heejin's phone from an anonymous sender. "Your pictures and personal information have been leaked. Let's discuss."

As the university student entered the chatroom to read the message, she receiv…

The authorities in South Korea are investigating a surge of sexually explicit images and video clips that have spread online and shocked the nation, leading the police to detain seven male suspects --- six of them teenagers --- the police s…

South Korea has been rocked by a wave of sexually explicit deepfake images being created and shared online, indiscriminately targeting women and girls using their school photos, social media selfies and even military headshots. A Telegram c…

In 2020, as the South Korean authorities were pursuing a blackmail ring that forced young women to ​make sexually ​explicit videos for paying viewers, they found something else floating through the dark recesses of social media: pornographi…