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ANOTHER DIGITAL SEX-CRIME SCANDAL LEAVES SOUTH KOREANS REELING – AND WAITING FOR JUSTICE
July 10, 2020
Haeryun Kang
Washington Post
Son Jong-woo is the creator of “Welcome to Video,” once the world’s largest known child pornography website. In 2015, when he was 19, he started the website in the dark web, warning its members, “Do not upload adult porn.” Over the next three years, the site would balloon to more than 1 million downloads worldwide, trading in cryptocurrency and trafficking videos featuring the sexual assault, including rape, of minors. One of the site’s most popular searches was for “2-year-olds.” By the time Son was arrested and the website shut down in