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South Korea’s parliament votes to make possessing or viewing sexual deepfakes a crime, up to 3 years in prison

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Source: Reuters via Business StandardAlso reported by Reuters via TimesLIVE

South Korea’s National Assembly passed a bill on 26 September 2024 that punishes possessing, buying, storing or viewing sexually explicit deepfakes with up to three years in prison or a fine of up to 30 million won. The bill raises the maximum sentence for making such material to seven years, whether or not the maker intended to distribute it. Police had handled more than 800 deepfake sex crime cases in 2024, up from 156 in all of 2021, according to Yonhap.

Why it matters

Viewers and holders of sexual deepfakes in Korea, many of them teenagers, were to become criminally liable once the law took effect, and platforms faced pressure to find and remove such content.

When
26 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0184
Who
National Assembly (South Korea)

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Reuters via Business Standard and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0184: “South Korea’s parliament votes to make possessing or viewing sexual deepfakes a crime, up to 3 years in prison.” wheresthe.ai, 26 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-deepfake-possession-viewing-ban-2024-09/ (source: Reuters via Business Standard).

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