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HowMany¡®N¡¯s
BeforeItEnds?
ByJangSoo-hyun
September 2019, however, failed to receive much publicity.
Afterwards, Team Flame went through an undercover
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investigation for an additional six months. After the
I
publication,TeamFlameintroducedmorechatroomswhere
magine the photos on your social media edited
sexual exploitation occurred, other than the Nth Room,
by your acquaintance and being used for
through their YouTube channel. ¡°Violating acquaintance
sexual pleasure by men you do not know. This
room¡±isaroomwhereperpetratorsuploadedphotosoftheir
preposterous act has been occurring in Telegram chat
female acquaintances and paid for the photos to be edited
rooms in Korea. Two female university students,
notonlytosharefordefamingone¡¯sreputationandinsulting
workingasonlinejournalistsforKukminIlboandwho
by sharing their personal information, but more in order to
called themselves Team Flame, went undercover to
slander and sexually harass. ¡°Passage room¡± is the gateway
findoutmoreabouttheNthroom.TheArgusdelivers
to¡°Baksaroom¡±wherevideosofsexualexploitation,illegal
the stories of women's sexual humiliation bought and
photographic film, foreign pornography and a variety of
sold and sexually exploited in a chat room full of
othervideoswereshared.
anonymousmen.
DuringTeamFlame¡¯sundercover,theteamreportstohave
seenmorethan3,000piecesofpornography.Theyfoundnot
onlycommercialpicturesandvideos,butalsolargeamounts
of illegal material such as the raping of a child. More than
15,000 obscene messages were shared on one day. If one
TheNthroomexplained
did not upload one¡¯s own pornography or participate in the
conversationofsexualharassment,theywereforcedtoleave
WhatistheNthroom?
In early March 2020, Kukmin Ilbo published the article
thechatroom.
¡°Nth Room Tracker: Telegram¡¯s Sex Slaves¡± putting the
Korean public into shock. The Nth Room is a digital sexual
Youtube
exploitation portal run through a messenger application
called Telegram from 2018 to 2020 in South Korea. There
Flame
werenumberedroomsfromthe¡°1st¡±to¡°8th¡±,whichiswhy
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it is called the Nth Room. Team Flame went undercover in
July 2019 and first published about the Nth Room through
¡ã Team Flame created a Youtube channel to inform the public more about
the Korea News Agency Commission (KONAC) on
the Nth room.
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