Fake Promises

Online sexual violence is running rampant in South Korea, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Perpetrators are not severely punished.

Linda Trianita

May 31, 2021

IN 2018, Hana—not her real name—received a direct message on her Twitter account. The sender used the name Baksa, meaning doctor in Korean. Hana, a teenage girl living in the Guro District, Seoul, South Korea, had not known him before. Now, Hana is a student in class X, or equal to the first grade of senior high school. 

Baksa offered Hana to participate in a dating show for a pay of ₩5 million, or equivalent to Rp64 million a

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