'My life is not your porn': The women taking on spycams in South Korea
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One recent Saturday in August, in the middle of a heatwave with the temperature hitting 35 degrees, 70,000 women gathered in the streets of Seoul. The numbers were unprecedented, but the action wasn’t. They have been staging regular rallies since May, in what has been called the biggest recorded women’s movement in South Korea’s history.
The catalyst for the grass-roots action was the arrest of a woman for the same crime: she had uploaded a video of a nude male model she secretly recorded during a drawing class at Hongik University. She was quickly arrested, her camera confiscated, and police presented her proudly to the media (although she was allowed to wear a mask).
These events angered many women and served as a call to action: the overwhelming majority of molka suspects are men, and the overwhelming majority of its victims are women.
Read the full story at the Lowy Institute's The Interpreter here.
One recent Saturday in August, in the middle of a heatwave with the temperature hitting 35 degrees, 70,000 women gathered in the streets of Seoul. The numbers were unprecedented, but the action wasn’t. They have been staging regular rallies since May, in what has been called the biggest recorded women’s movement in South Korea’s history.
The catalyst for the grass-roots action was the arrest of a woman for the same crime: she had uploaded a video of a nude male model she secretly recorded during a drawing class at Hongik University. She was quickly arrested, her camera confiscated, and police presented her proudly to the media (although she was allowed to wear a mask).
These events angered many women and served as a call to action: the overwhelming majority of molka suspects are men, and the overwhelming majority of its victims are women.
Read the full story at the Lowy Institute's The Interpreter here.
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