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The investigation is speeding up the search for members of the Telegram Doctor's Room who have been distributing minor sexual exploits. The police secured 15,000 nicknames used in the chat room.

This is reporter Yoo Su-hwan.

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The police who are investigating the 'Doctor's' telegram say they are working on identification by securing 15,000 nicknames in the chat room.

The 15,000 nicknames that have been identified by the police to date are numbers that exclude duplicate users, and are the total number of people who participated in related chat rooms as well as paid members.

Since September of last year, the police, who have been in the investigation into a doctor's room, have been working on identifying personal information by checking the nickname information in the chat room.

We have identified a number of paid member identities, and we plan to conduct forced investigations, such as seizure and search, against them soon.

The police have identified participants in the doctor's room while investigating whether sexual exploitation has been shared in other chat rooms.

We seized and searched the residence of Dr. Cho Joo-bin, the operator of the doctor's room, and secured over 20 related materials such as 9 mobile phones, laptops, and USBs.

The police are paying attention to the possibility that there will be clues to prove the charges on the other two terminals, although seven of the nine phones did not have any significant data.

However, the police explained that the two mobile phones being analyzed by the police have passwords that require more time to unlock them.

In the midst of this, the police plan to file additional warrants for arrest for some of the offenses arrested with Mr. Cho.