[Digital Today, Jin-ho Lee (이진호)] The Broadcasting Media Communications Deliberation Committee requested corrective action such as deletion and access blocking for 33,869 cases of digital sex crime content in the first half of this year.

Bamishimwi on July 21 announced the results of its review of digital sex crimes and the operation of operators' self-regulation in the first half of 2026.

Among the cases subject to correction requests, illegal filming materials totalled 18,604, accounting for 54.9 percent of the total. They included retaliatory sexual exploitation materials that distributed sexual videos of former partners and videos secretly filming others' bodies in public places such as bathrooms and changing rooms.

Deepfake sex crime videos that combined the faces of celebrities or ordinary people with pornography were tallied at 15,179, accounting for 44.8 percent of the total. Other sex crime content totalled 86 cases, including 70 cases of sex-related portrait rights violations and 16 cases disclosing victims' identities.

The combined share of illegal filming materials and deepfake sex crime videos reached 99.7 percent of all correction requests. Bamishimwi said that as AI technology advances, deepfake sex crime videos are being produced and distributed in more sophisticated and varied forms.

Voluntary measures that encouraged operators to delete content proactively before reviews began totalled 18,634 cases. That was up about 97 percent from 9,463 cases in the same period last year. By type, illegal filming materials were the most common at 15,301 cases, followed by 3,110 deepfake sex crime videos and 223 cases of other sex crime content such as sex-related portrait rights violations and disclosure of victims' identities.

Bamishimwi is notifying bulletin board managers and operators that illegal filming materials have been posted and is encouraging deletion before review. For overseas sites where it is difficult to secure contact information, it is tracking domain registration information and hosting providers and requesting deletion of the original content.

A Bamishimwi official said, "The distribution of digital sex crime content is increasingly becoming more covert, malicious and sophisticated." The official added, "We will strengthen around-the-clock and focused monitoring, emergency reviews, requests for investigation by the Korean National Police Agency, and requests for operators' self-regulation to minimise the spread of harm."