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Many young people in Seoul responded that they had received messages or requests for conversation from strangers online, such as on social media.
According to the results of a digital sex crime investigation conducted last month by the city of Seoul of 1,607 elementary, middle and high school students, 36% of them responded that they had received messages or requests for conversation from strangers via messaging or social networks. .
This survey was conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Taktin Tomorrow with the cooperation of the Seoul Metropolitan Bureau of Education to survey high school fifth-grade through third-grade students.
Most of the peers who spoke to the students were between 14 and 16 years old (45%), between 17 and 19 years old (43%) in that order.
Regarding the message or conversation, the most demanded ‘Please tell me personal information such as age and mobile phone number’ (23%), but the proposal of ‘I’ll make it easy for you to earn pocket money’ (10%) or ‘ body part photo ‘There were also requests to take pictures and send’ (6%) and ‘sell photos or videos’ (6%).
Among the youth who received this request, 64% of the respondents said that they had actually provided personal information.
Additionally, 5% of students have been harmed by people they meet online.
The biggest type of damage was the threat of ‘I will inform social networks and my family and friends about the bad’ (56%).
In particular, 17% of them were coerced or threatened to send photos of their bodies or videos of sexual behavior, and 6% of them actually sent photos or videos because they could not overcome the threats.
When the results of this survey were released, the city of Seoul decided to strengthen education on the risk of providing personal information and grooming online (a method of sexual exploitation after forming a psychological relationship), and to establish an anonymous counter of complaints and inquiries for Kakao Talk. I did.
In this regard, the Seoul Metropolitan Government is holding the ‘International Symposium on the Current Status and Response to Digital Sex Crimes for Children and Young People’, which is broadcast live on the Seoul City YouTube channel at 2 pm on the 14th.
This is an event that seeks solutions to digital sexual crimes and international cooperation, in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs), companies and organizations from five countries participate, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and China.
