"Gyeongbuk Office of Education and Gyeongbuk Province Join Hands with KCSC to Protect Students from Deepfakes"

Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) announced that on the 20th, it signed a memorandum of understanding at Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government with Gyeongsangbuk-do (Governor Lee Cheol-woo) and the Korea Communications Standards Commission (Chairman Ryu Hee-rim) for joint response to digital sex crime videos.

This agreement was promoted to enable swift joint action among the three organizations to safely protect students in Gyeongsangbuk-do from digital sex crime videos such as deepfakes.

(From left) Lee Jongsik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, Ryu Heerim, Chairman of the Korea Communications Standards Commission, and Lee Cheolwoo, Governor of Gyeongbuk, are holding up the agreement after signing a business agreement.

The main contents of the agreement include joint promotional activities to foster a proper media usage environment, establishing a cooperative network for the prompt 24-hour removal of deepfake sex crime videos, supporting the distribution of automatic blocking programs for harmful content and sites targeting children and adolescents, and other collaborative measures among institutions to build a safe educational environment.

In July, the Gyeongbuk Office of Education, in cooperation with the Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency, issued the "School Siren No.1 Alert" to prevent digital sex crimes. Since then, it has continued various prevention activities such as operating a special education week for deepfake sex crime prevention, running the visiting school violence prevention "Doodream Team," and establishing cooperative systems with related organizations.

In particular, through this agreement, the office plans to focus on establishing a safe digital environment and preventing damage and protecting students from harm caused by digital sex crime videos.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, said, "We expect this agreement to play an important role in preventing the spread of digital sex crime damage and minimizing harm caused by deepfake videos," and added, "We will distribute harmful content blocking programs and strengthen education on proper media usage so that students can grow up in a safe and healthy digital environment."

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