Original article in Korean is at this link.
A middle school teacher has been indicted after it was found that he possessed a memory card contained over 500 pictures secretly taken with a cellphone. The Seoul Central Prosecutor’s office on crimes against women and chldren announced on the 2nd that it had indicted 31-year old Mr. Ahn on charges of secretly photographing women’s legs and other body parts using a cellphone.
Mr. Ahn was caught by police while photographing a woman’s legs on an escalator in Seoul Station on October 6th. Mr. Ahn was then charged with one count of taking those photographs. However, prosecutors found that his phone contained a four-gigabyte SD card containing more images and brought further charges.
There were a total of 533 images of 223 women taken from April of 2009 through October of last year. Mr. Ahn took the photos without revealing the women’s identities or locations. He even took photos at the school where he worked. He photographed female students’ skirts as they cleaned the stairs and photographed fellow teachers’ legs as they used the copy machine.
Another report says that he also photographed himself groping women on the subway. He reportedly confessed to police that he spent years fighting his urges but was eventually unable to overcome them.
