A new documentary investigates South Korea’s plague of spycarms that largely target women using restrooms, hotels and changing rooms
that it remained difficult for women and girls targeted in digital sex crimes to get justice—a problem that Choi also faces. In 2019, prosecutors dropped 43.5% of sexual digital crimes cases, HRW says., to learn more about her film.Why did you want to make a film about this issue?
What inspired me personally was that I spent my twenties outside of South Korea and I wasn’t there for the reboot of the feminism movement, which started around 2015 or 2016. Then, all my friends in South Korea, they started talking about feminism suddenly. I felt super indebted. My little sister lives in South Korea and I hadn’t done anything to make her life better at that moment.
And when I see the effort other women have made to cover a hole—there are tissues stuck inside some, some are covered by scotch tape, some have marker drawn on them—it breaks my heart. Why do we have to do this? This is f-cking crazy.