[PHOTO NEWS] Female sheriffs appear in Seoul district to find hidden cameras

By Lim Chang-won Posted : August 16, 2018, 14:55 Updated : August 16, 2018, 14:55

[Courtesy of the Seocho district in Seoul]


SEOUL -- For the first time at a district in Seoul, a squad of female sheriffs wearing cowboy hats and yellow jackets will patrol and make a regular inspection of toilets, public bathhouses and other places which are considered to be vulnerable to hidden cameras targeting women.

Seocho will be the first district in Seoul to deploy an 18-member Molka (hidden camera) squad. Female sheriffs armed with advanced detectors will be test-operated this month before being fully deployed in September.

At night, the squad will conduct a joint check with policemen once a month. Seocho hired former police officers and security guards as Molk sheriffs and set up a hotline to curb candid shooting, an act of taking photographs without consent in private and public places.

Despite a consistent crackdown, photographs taken in swimming pools, beaches, changing rooms and toilets have leaked, becoming an annoying social problem in South Korea, one of the world's most wired countries. The government has promised to regularly check about 50,000 public toilets.
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