multiple women<\/a>, sharing the footage with other members of major K-pop acts like, CNBlue, FT Island and Highlight. While some have issued apologies, other have resigned from their respective groups over the scandal. The list of South Korean boy-band members involved in K-pop\u2019s current sex scandal is only growing, but beyond the outrage, resignation and shocked fans lies a larger problem: molka, or spy cam porn that targets unsuspecting women.<\/p>\n\u201cPeople are concerned this issue may fade away as a celebrity scandal,\u201d Youngmi Kim, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh\u2019s Asian Studies department tells SLEEK. \u201cThe big difference here is that the recent molka issue is related to not just entertaining industry, but also with corruptions with policemen and public administrators at the very high level.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Only a fraction of those affected actually find out that they are victims of molka. Still, the number of spy cam cases rose to 6,500 in 2017, according to Yonhap news agency<\/a>. While the sale of these photos and videos is big business, so is removing them. Women are often forced to turn to digital laundering companies to have them taken offline.<\/p>\nBeyond the invasion of privacy, for a female K-pop star who is outed as a target of molka, the footage can lead to negative repercussions for her career and maker her less marketable. This is why multiple Korean singers have come out in the past week to deny that they were among those filmed. \u201cI have also seen some celebrities with such scandal disappear on screen for a while and then come back to public successfully,\u201d Kim says.<\/p>\n
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