Police Request KCSC to Block Fake Video of President Yoon

The police discovered a manipulated fake video featuring President Yoon Suk-yeol and requested the Korea Communications Standards Commission to block it, confirmed on the 22nd.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency recently sent an official letter to the Commission requesting the deletion and blocking of a fake post titled "Virtual Confession Speech of President Yoon" uploaded on TikTok and Meta platforms.

The relevant legal grounds include the Act on the Establishment and Operation of the Korea Communications Commission, the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, and the regulations on communications review. The police explained, "It has been confirmed that a member using accounts on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook sites with the same URL posted videos titled 'Virtual Confession Speech of President Yoon,' so we request deletion and blocking."

The video features President Yoon saying, "The incompetent and corrupt Yoon Suk-yeol government engaged in privilege, unfairness, fraud, and corruption," and "I, Yoon Suk-yeol, clung to an ideology beyond common sense, ruining the Republic of Korea and causing suffering to the people."

The Commission received the report and is scheduled to hold an emergency subcommittee meeting on communications review on the 23rd to review the matter and is expected to immediately take deletion and blocking measures.

In 2022, ahead of local elections, a fake video showing President Yoon supporting Park Young-il, the People Power Party candidate for Namhae County governor, spread through social networking services (SNS), causing political controversy. However, the Commission is said to recognize this current video as the first fake video related to President Yoon ahead of the general election and as "information causing social confusion."

As the video spread, some speculated it was a deepfake (AI-generated video/image composite manipulation). However, DeepBrain AI, a domestic startup that gained attention for creating "AI Yoon Suk-yeol" during the last presidential election, stated that after analyzing the video, it is not a deepfake.

A DeepBrain AI official explained, "It is a video edited by splicing speeches from when Yoon Suk-yeol was a presidential candidate," adding, "There is a difference between deepfakes generated through deep learning and videos edited by splicing."

Meanwhile, the National Election Commission stated that the controversial video is difficult to consider as a fake or deepfake video related to this general election campaign and does not violate the Public Official Election Act.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.