South Korea's Broadcasting Media and Communications Standards Commission said on May 19 it had processed all agenda items involving digital sex crime information that had piled up during an interim period, five weeks after forming a Digital Sex Crime Review Subcommittee.

The commission said it restarted a 24-hour review system alongside the subcommittee's launch and handled a total of 69,126 cases. It first dealt with 47,165 cases, where illegality was clear and victim relief was urgent, through voluntary self-regulation removals before review, in cooperation with overseas operators. That accounted for about 70 percent of the total backlog.

For the remaining 21,961 cases, it issued corrective requests by running electronic reviews once a day and in-person meetings, held twice, in parallel without skipping public holidays. It said this was the result of processing about 900 cases a day on average. The corrective requests covered 11,338 cases of illegal filming material, 10,567 cases of deepfake sex crime video, and 56 other cases including sex-related portrait rights information.

The commission said it uses a keyword-based automatic monitoring system to automatically collect and store digital sex crime information, supplementing the limits of manpower-based monitoring. The system automatically connects to target sites via a virtual PC and carries out 24-hour keyword searches, information collection and screen capture, and is linked to the review system.

A commission official said digital sex crimes were serious crimes that wiped out an individual's character and dignity. The official said it would firmly maintain the 24-hour review system and upgrade the automatic monitoring system to respond quickly and systematically.