Smarter Responses Needed for Online Abuse in South Korea

Expand Women protest to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and footage taken by hidden cameras in Seoul, South Korea, July 7, 2018. © 2018 Ryu Hyo-lim/Yonhap via AP We only know her as “A,” and she is dead. The court ruled this week in the case of a young woman in South Korea who killed herself after learning she had been secretly filmed in a changing room of the hospital where she worked. She had suffered “nightmares and trauma,” her family said, driving her to an “extreme choice.” Her suicide came three months before her planned wedding. The man who…

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