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There were minors among the victims of digital sex crimes such as Room n last year.

If we don't make cyberspace safer, our children and youth can always be at risk again.



Another safety challenge in 2021, reporter Jang Hoon-kyung will explain.



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is a smartphone game that students use a lot.



Sexual harassment posts keep appearing in the chat window.



There are many chat rooms with a limited number of people, such as "Let's play while talking about sex" and "Let's send and receive texts apart from games".



A middle school girl reported to a game company that she had been sexually harassed with a man in her twenties who met in a chat room like this, saying, "Send me a picture of my body" and "I'll buy you Tteokbokki, so let's meet in person."




[Family of students using the game: After talking about the genitals in front of 8-year-old children...

.

I reported a lot to the game company.

It doesn't change at all.] There



are many examples of complimenting and taming them for a situational drama, and then taking a covert body picture and threatening to take a more serious video. Experts warn.



[Jinkyung Cho/CEO of the Teenage Women's Rights Center: (mainly runaway teenagers) were often attracted to prostitution in PC rooms.

Almost 70% of the children who come (nowadays) are children in the home (living with their parents).

30% are elementary



school students

.] I

asked about 6,400 middle and high school students last year

. In the

last three years, over 11% of teenagers have been sexually incentives such as requesting photos on the Internet, and 24% of them have even been suggested to meet.



In addition, 6 out of 10 of these young people didn't share this fact at all because they didn't want to know anyone.



[Bong-gyu Song/Professor Han Sei-gyeong (2019 Study on the Current State of Prostitution): The moment you distribute the records you took, I hope you must keep in mind that it is not yours now, but everyone can see them.] The



revised Child and Youth Sexual Protection Act was enforced in November last year, and voluntarily came into effect Even if they engage in sexual exploitation, there is no punishment and children and adolescents are protected as victims.



Experts say that the cyber safety of children, active reporting and continuing education, and active police investigations such as pitfall investigations should be supported together.



(Video coverage: Joo Yong-jin, video editing: Kim Jong-tae, VJ: Kim Jong-gap)