Worse Than Nth Room— South Korea Shaken By Incestuous Criminal Site Discovery
An exclusive JTBC report has uncovered a vicious new illegal video-sharing website based in South Korea. Its content is so outrageous that it has been dubbed even worse than “Nth Room,” the sex abuse chatroom that left the nation horrified in 2020.
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The report revealed that this new website contains non-consensual explicit videos of women, most of whom are family members or girlfriends of the uploaders. The titles are bone-chillingly profane, such as “First public release of my wife” and “Ex-girlfriend of seven years.” Upskirt videos are also reportedly rampant, with degrading comments pouring in by the minute.
As per JTBC’s report, the site has already garnered 540,000 members and over 600,000 posts, indicating the alarming scale comparable to previously notorious platforms such as Soranet and Nth Room. Anyone can access the illicit material on the website simply by signing up. However, the more extreme content is restricted behind a paywall. Users can earn points by uploading videos, writing posts, and leaving vile comments. These points can then be used to unlock the paid content. JTBC observed the comment sections filled with dehumanizing commentary, which they labelled as “incestuous and humiliating.”
The most disturbing part of the website is the “Unreleased New Works” section where newly filmed footage is previewed, requested, and distributed. The site appears to be emulating the so-called Yoon Drozzer incident. It refers to a 2021 case when an individual started selling illegal footage of 100 women. When an investigation was launched, he released all the unreleased material and then took his own life.
A whistleblower informed JTBC that this new site started popping up around mid-2022. There have been 8,227 confirmed paid top-ups using coin-based payment methods that are almost untraceable. Even accounting for only the minimum ₩30,000 KRW (about $20.30 USD) top-up per payment, the site operators have earned at least ₩40.0 billion KRW (about $27.1 million USD) in three years. Since the site also partners with gambling sites, the actual profits are estimated to be much higher.
Whistleblowers have also made alarming claims that materials featuring child sexual exploitation is also being openly circulated on this website. Despite the gravity of the crimes, members openly share tips to evade police investigation, and often mock law enforcement within the forums.
JTBC’s investigation into the website has revived the fears of yet another sexual abuse network digging its fangs deep into Korean society with little to no consequence.
