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Korea's elementary schoolkids peddling online porn
June 2, 2005
Children as young as nine are displaying a lively interest in online porn.
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency recently charged a 10-year-old with merging
the face of a famous actress with the body of a porn star and posting eight
such pictures on a website he created. “It was because it lures a lot of people
to my site,” the young pornographer explained.
Police on Wednesday also busted another elementary school student, a
nine-year-old fourth grader, and four students in the first year of middle
school who created their own community sites and distributed pornography. Since
the suspects were all under age, criminal charges were dropped, and they were
dismissed after being given a stern talking-to.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing sites are thought to be the main source of
pornography for youngsters, since they do not require age verification process.
The Chosun Ilbo logged on to a site and typed “elementary school student” into
the search engine. The server found 146 video clips and image files. Only three
of them were not of a pornographic nature. The rest bore titles like “Japanese
elementary school girl prostituting herself”, “Elementary school boy and girl
alone in a room.” and “Elementary school student having oral sex.” One was a
two-minute, 38 second clip of two elementary school students having sex.
Chat rooms on portal sites also lure elementary school students to pornography.
Around 2:00 p.m. is the “rush hour” for elementary school students on chat
sites, as they have just come home from school. At 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, on a
site popular among elementary and middle school students, it was not difficult
to find chat rooms under sexual titles like, “Only for elementary school
students who are good at flirting,” and “Only for little girls who want sex
with middle-aged men.”
According to a survey conducted by the National Youth Commission of 171
elementary school students in March 2004, 14.1 percent had uploaded or
downloaded porn. Of 51 respondents who had visited porn sites, about 20 were
frequent visitors, who visited them more than once a week.
Im Hye-sung, an official at the National Youth Commission, said that even
though children are vulnerable to pornography on the Internet, there is neither
legal basis nor technical means of stopping them from logging on to P2P and
chat sites.
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