Seoul City, Digital Sexual Crime Safety Support Center 'Legal, Psychological Therapy, Medical Support' Agreement Ceremony

Seoul City-Korean Women Lawyers Association-Korean Counseling Psychology Association-Seoul Boramae Hospital, Four-Party Collaborative Response
Mayor Oh Se-hoon Attends Agreement Ceremony, Forms 100-Member 'Digital Sex Crime Dedicated Legal and Psychological Support Team'

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] On the 9th, the Seoul Metropolitan Government will hold a signing ceremony for a “Legal, Psychological Therapy, and Medical Support” agreement at the Digital Sexual Crime Safety Support Center to report on victim support cases and to assist the rapid return to daily life of digital sexual crime victims.

The signing ceremony will be attended by Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Kim Hak-ja, President of the Korean Women Lawyers Association, Lee Dong-gwi, President of the Korean Counseling Psychology Association, and Jeong Seung-yong, Director of Seoul Metropolitan Boramae Hospital.

This business agreement is part of the plan to promote the ‘Seoul Digital Sexual Crime Safety Support Center,’ which opened at the end of March to create a ‘Safe City Seoul without Digital Sexual Crimes.’ The Seoul Digital Sexual Crime Safety Support Center is entrusted to the Seoul Foundation of Women and Family to ensure public nature, and through the opening of the center, victims can receive one-stop support from emergency counseling to complaint filing, police statement accompaniment, legal and litigation support, deletion support, and psychological therapy without wandering around.

Through this business agreement, Seoul will cooperate with the Korean Women Lawyers Association, the Korean Counseling Psychology Association, and Seoul Metropolitan Boramae Hospital in three fields. The Lawyers Association will form a legal support group for legal and litigation support and legal advice for digital sexual crime victims to protect victims’ rights. The Association will support victims’ rapid return to daily life through a psychological therapy team composed of professional counselors for psychological therapy support. The hospital will provide emergency medical services such as psychiatric treatment for digital sexual crime victims.

A “Digital Sexual Crime Dedicated Legal and Psychological Therapy Support Team” of 100 members will be formed to provide integrated support including legal and litigation support, emergency medical support, and psychological therapy. Until now, Seoul has operated victim support by individually linking and supporting lawyers, doctors, and psychological therapists through private subsidy projects, but with the opening of the center, this agreement ceremony enables the formation and operation of the “Digital Sexual Crime Dedicated Legal and Psychological Therapy Support Team.”

Furthermore, Seoul will continuously support legal and litigation costs (1.65 million KRW per case), psychological therapy costs (100,000 KRW per session), and medical expenses until the victim recovers each time dissemination occurs. Due to the nature of digital sexual crimes, ▲videos being redistributed years later, ▲cases where dozens of people redistribute or sell victim videos, ▲cases where victims attempt suicide due to digital sexual crime, digital sexual crime victims often face difficulties in resolving and healing in a short period.

Seoul expects that this business agreement will enable more effective support for victims at the Digital Sexual Crime Safety Support Center. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said, “It has only been a month since the Seoul Digital Sexual Crime Safety Support Center opened, but the fact that there are already considerable support achievements may be proof that such integrated support was desperately needed,” and added, “With today’s agreement, we will be able to support victims more thoroughly, and we will do our best to help each victim quickly recover their daily life through customized support tailored to their individual situations.”

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