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1/ Nth Room refers to a mass digital sex abuse that's happening in South Korea using a messenger app, Telegram. Telegram is known for its cyber security and encoding all contents of conversation, rendering it untraceable. With this in mind, a man who calls himself Baksa, doctor,
2/ has facilitated a lucrative business of selling videos of sexual abuse (aka snuff films). He created different closed chat rooms, 1st room, 2nd room, 3rd room ... Nth room, where the name comes from. These chat rooms are for different tiers of users; users who paid ₩100,000
3/ to Baksa would be, say, in the lowest tier room with only "least" abusive videos, and those who've paid ₩1,500,000 would be in the top tier room (remember this because it gets worse later). As of now, it is estimated that tens of thousands of Korean men were using this
4/ service.
How did the abuse occur digitally?
Operators would look for girls and women on the internet and acquire their personal information like personal identification number or private photos that are less appropriate for places like work or school and use these to threat
How did the abuse occur digitally?
Operators would look for girls and women on the internet and acquire their personal information like personal identification number or private photos that are less appropriate for places like work or school and use these to threat
5/ the women into doing their biddings. *Initial* orders include taking videos of themselves undressing and masturbation and to send these videos back to the operators. These videos will be then circulated to Nth rooms and also reused as another way of threatening the same women
6/ into doing more abusive actions like carving the word slave onto their bodies. Baksa has brought this cycle of abuse to a whole different level by creating "high-end" rooms, asking for payments of more than ₩1,000,000 ($800) for an invitation to his expensive chat rooms.
7/ It hasn't been officially confirmed yet, but some snuff videos were videos of actual rape by members of this "high-end" chat rooms. People who have paid the most were invited to gang rape a victim by sharing her information (which includes address) on their chat room, which
8/ then was filmed and sold again for high price.
Why is this such a big thing?
In Naver's realtime search trending (South Korea's biggest search engine), "how to quit Telegram" was on top 5 search terms for teens and 20s. Imagine the number of people that is needed to get that
Why is this such a big thing?
In Naver's realtime search trending (South Korea's biggest search engine), "how to quit Telegram" was on top 5 search terms for teens and 20s. Imagine the number of people that is needed to get that
9/ term up on the nation's biggest search engine's trending words. The issue itself is mainly discussed in social media platforms and haven't received that much attention from the mainstream media yet. Mothers are looking for information online like mom cafes
10/ (internet communities for moms) in case their daughters were abused whereas fathers are asking questions on how to deregister from Telegram on dad cafes. So many questions asking how to quit Telegram without leaving any record and whether it is punishable by law to have been
11/11 a member of an Nth room are popping here and there on the internet.
A teenager sent videos of herself because her younger sister in elementary school was blackmailed. The teenager was told later to come out and she was raped in a car, video was taken of course and was circulated. https://twitter.com/la_mujer__/status/1241025345685315584?s=20
"You say 'it was a one time mistake,' when you buy the wrong brand of instant noodle. You don't say that you made a one-time mistake when you've paid more than $500 for an invitation to a chat room where videos of sexual abuse is shared, that's deliberate accomplice."
Blue House petition to release Baksa's mugshot and information reached 2M. https://twitter.com/EtrangeraSeoul/status/1241368220918931456?s=20
South Korean "Nth Room" Chats Are Keeping Girls in Sexual Slavery https://4w.pub/south-korean-nth-room-chats-are-keeping-girls-in-sexual-slavery/
"This is a country where police authority is capable of tracking down 250,000 followers of a cult. It's a question of will, not ability, to track down 260,000 Nth Room users." https://twitter.com/shacho19911/status/1241249198525149184?s=20
Pohang-Gyeongju Dad Cafe moderator advising its members to delete Nth Room videos: https://twitter.com/yorihagisiro/status/1240930641224421376?s=20
A Naver user saying that people paid legit money, subscription fee to watch porn, and it's not the women who are victims but 260,000 consumers who just wanted to watch porn (I hope this person is trolling but i wouldnt put it past Kmen to think like this). https://twitter.com/disability1027/status/1241247721677185025?s=20
"Some people are aligning Nth Room with watching porn but there's a big difference between porn and snuff films. If there are people who say 'this happened because porn was made illegal,' then he's a potential snuff film consumer." https://twitter.com/shoon0312/status/1241004454737895424?s=20
"I'm more scared of the giant silent cartel of 260,000 men. Not one has blown the whistle until it reached that size in number." https://twitter.com/6th88451893/status/1240945889037946882?s=20
"There are men who are searching for Nth Room and collecting personal information on women who are voicing out their concerns about it. Please turn your social media account from public to private setting and remove photos or information containing personal or sensitive matters."
https://twitter.com/doowndonnakim/status/1241153765832421376?s=21 https://twitter.com/DoownDonnaKim/status/1241153765832421376
“This is the repulsive Nth Rooms list”
Lolita - Room 1
Lolita - Room 2
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Lolita - 9
Teens - Room 1
Teens - Room 2
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Teens - Room 9
https://twitter.com/lerolero9797/status/1241009342901452805?s=21 https://twitter.com/lerolero9797/status/1241009342901452805
Lolita - Room 1
Lolita - Room 2
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Lolita - 9
Teens - Room 1
Teens - Room 2
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Teens - Room 9
https://twitter.com/lerolero9797/status/1241009342901452805?s=21 https://twitter.com/lerolero9797/status/1241009342901452805
https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1240926294897905666?s=21 https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1240926294897905666
https://twitter.com/kasulisk/status/1241563520656957442?s=21 https://twitter.com/KasulisK/status/1241563520656957442
Ahhh so it is true that journalists covering Nth Room were blackmailed. That's why this Hankyoreh article's byline is anonymous. http://m.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/918793.html#cb
Mom cafes > local internet communities where information on raising children, education, sharing, and event is shared.
Dad cafes > internet communities where molka and other illegal sexually exploitative videos are shared including information on crackdown.
Dad cafes > internet communities where molka and other illegal sexually exploitative videos are shared including information on crackdown.
This isn't Nth Room relevant but let's take a moment to look at this pervert restaurant manager who masturbates at work and puts his sperm on food before serving. https://twitter.com/H43793196/status/1241225763493273600?s=20
"It is said that it's gonna be difficult to catch Nth Room accomplices because Telegram's server is located overseas. Shinchonji uses the same app and we've all seen on live TV how they were all traced within 10 days so this Telegram overseas server story is BS."
"It was a natural course of happening. This was to be expected, what with Son Jungwoo, Yang Jinho, Seungri, nor Kim Hakui getting punished. When will [the authority] stop protecting and sheltering criminals? This is only just the beginning. Unless counteractions are taken,
children will be living in hell. We need strong countermeasures," said Prosecutor Seo. https://twitter.com/IAMZamong/status/1241366916905586688?s=20
