Rotten Mango - #341: Korea’s Nth Room: 260k Men Paying to Violate, R*pe, and Torture Middle School Girls On Telegram
Episode Date: March 3, 2024The SBS news producers sat around a laptop in the conference room. They replayed the video of a girl with a bag over her head and a red string tied around her. She says: “I am The Doctor’s slave. ...I will light myself on fire in a few days in front of the SBS headquarters if they air the episode on The Doctor’s Room.” The producers call the police who secured the headquarters but they needed to find out who the girl is. They need to find out who she is - so they can stop her. Or else someone will die at SBS. Because The Doctor was playing games with them and he was willing to do whatever it takes to win. This is the case of BAKSA – the DOCTOR - who ran the most prolific, international CP torture rings of recent times ALL of which was available on the clean, World Wide Web—not the dark web—the public internet. In fact, it was on one of the most commonly downloaded apps by netizens… TELEGRAM. Welcome to the doctor’s room. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Producers from SBS, the CNN of South Korea, one of the largest news networks in all of
South Korea, a bunch of producers were huddled together in a conference room.
This is not good.
They should have listened.
They should have never aired the episode to begin with.
They're huddled around, hands covering their mouths, their eyes are wide, and they keep
rewatching this video that was anonymously sent to them. The video depicted a very young girl
unclothed and with nothing but a plastic bag over her head. She had red
string tied around her and when the video starts she says, I am the doctor's
slave. I will light myself on fire in a few days in front of the SBS headquarters.
Please do not run the doctor's story on air.
The watermarking on the video reads, SPS Doctor's Slave. The producers, I mean, they're starting
to panic. Play the video again. What exactly did she say? She's gonna do what in a few days?
What's a few days? I mean, hurry, do something. Like we have to do something.
Police were called to monitor the SPS building.
But even then, they can't have eyes everywhere.
It takes just two seconds to light a match.
The producers need to find out who this girl is
or else in a few days, someone could die.
They have to find her and they have to stop her.
But how?
They can't see her face, they don't know her name,
they know nothing about her.
The video is taken in what looks like any ordinary girl's room in this entire nation.
It could be any of the countless students. They rewatch the video and they scan the screen for
anything. I mean, something, a freckle at this point would be enough. Anything at all. Stop,
right there. When she reaches up. The pink and white friendship bracelet.
It was in another video. The producer quickly pulls out her phone and starts scrolling through the chat room.
Each chat room has over 10,000 videos and photos posted to it.
How are they going to find her in all of these photos?
They're like, here, it's here.
They find the same girl.
This time, the video is clear,
same pink and white friendship bracelet.
But this time they see behind her a bookshelf.
They zoom in as much as they can
and they're written on the side
of a middle school textbook is the girl's name.
And next to those are a collection of sticky notes
and they read, I love you doctor, please,
I love doctor a lot, I am a slave, I am doctor slave,
doctors chat rooms are the best.
This is the case of Paksa, the doctor who ran
one of the most prolific illegal international CP torture
rings of recent times.
And it was all done on the internet,
not even on the dark web,
but on one of the most commonly downloaded apps
by citizens, Telegram.
They would say in the world of Telegram,
the doctor is quote, a god-like figure.
Welcome to the doctor's room.
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Now, before we get into today's case, I want to give a heavy, heavy content warning.
This case involves a ton of stories of trafficking, essay, and torture of our most
vulnerable population. The crimes are incredibly graphic, so please, if you feel like this case
might be too much for you, go take care of yourself. We will see you in the next one.
The investigative journalists that worked on the Anthem case were fundamental to bringing down
what are the most insane, complicated web of torture rings in recent times, and
they were really in the trenches of hell trying to help these victims.
It's likely that the perpetrators would not have ever been caught without them.
Many names have been changed out of respect and anonymity for the victim and also for
the victim and witnesses' safety.
The exception are the names of the perpetrators.
It will be in their complete legal names. Some anonymous testimonies from victims or witnesses have been condensed or
combined for clarity, and we had help from our amazing Korean researchers, but as always
with any and all cases, especially the international ones, please let us know if there was anything
that was unintentionally mistranslated or miscommunicated, or if you have any additional information,
let us know down in the comments
This will be part one of the enthrone case of South Korea part two will be up on Wednesday
This episode will focus mainly on the doctor and the doctor's room
The second episode will cover God God and the enthrumes and how they collide as well as a rest and public reaction
Now side note in Korean the word paksa is doctor and paksa's
room is the doctor's room. We will be calling them by their English translation, which is
literally just doctor and doctor's room. It's not like a specific kind of doctor or anything.
And I think that's all we have for you today. So with that being said, let's get into it.
Two middle school girls were in a public restroom. They had to hurry.
They weren't even in one of the stalls.
They're near the urinals, near the sinks.
Right when anybody turns the corner
into the men's restroom,
these two girls are gonna be in there.
Anyone could come in at any single moment
and see what they're about to do.
They would see the camera set up,
they would see the video recording.
They're like, come on, come on,
let's just get it over with. We're not even supposed to be in here in the first recording. They're like, come on, come on, let's just get it over with.
We're not even supposed to be in here in the first place.
They turn on the camera. Hurry, just hit record. It's fine.
One of the girls clicks record and the two girls turn to each other. Their eyebrows are crinkled and for a brief moment it looks like they're about to burst into tears,
but they stop and they smile as big as possible.
They're trying to show every single teeth,
but the top half of their face
and the bottom half of their face, it just doesn't match up.
It seems like they're smiling,
but like they're being forced to.
They don't wanna be here.
They don't wanna be smiling is what they look like.
One of the girls asks through clenched teeth,
do we really have to do this?
Her friend nods and the two slowly get down
on their knees on the bathroom floor.
Then they place their hands on the sticky smelly floors.
They are in their middle school uniforms.
They angle the camera better so that they can see them
up close on the ground and a tear streams down
one of the girls' faces, but neither of them
break their big, big, fake smiles. And they lean all the girls faces, but neither of them break their big, big, fake
smiles. And they lean all the way down, pushing their face to the floor. The smell of urine
is just coming up and punching them in the face. And then they lick. They lick the urine
off the floor. And they have to go again and again, they're licking the dirty, pea-soaked floor of a public men's restroom right underneath the urinals.
Then at the end, they smile even wider for the cameras
and hold up their pinkies, the doctor's signature.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old man, a Korean man,
was getting ready for an interview.
He made sure that his wife knew not to bother him.
The kids were in the other room with instructions
that they cannot, under any circumstances,
come out of their rooms.
They cannot talk to daddy right now.
Daddy is busy.
He would need total peace and quiet
for this very special momentous occasion.
I mean, it's a big, big day for him.
He's feeling all the tingly excitement in his fingertips.
I mean, this is probably the best opportunity
that he's had so far.
He cannot blow this.
He grabs his phone.
Okay.
And he's ready.
Name, phone number, address, good.
ID.
The man takes out his ID and takes a picture
with his phone and sends it over.
And what do you have to show us?
He eagerly smiles and he looks for the video, just hidden away, tucked inside of his phone. It's a video of my daughter. He sends the video and he waits.
Why are they not responding? Maybe it's not enough. Maybe they want more?
Shit. He starts biting his nails to alleviate the stress and calm down his nerves.
Ding! The link has been set.
Yes, he is in.
He's passed the interview and he has just been accepted into the doctor's room.
They say Gotham is a fictional place, that there is no possibility that a city could
be run by lawless criminals whose sole purpose is chaos in the pursuit of money and power.
Like that doesn't happen in real life.
But Gotham does exist in the digital world of Telegram.
And like any other big city, it's got its own ecosystem.
It has sellers, buyers, resellers, and they all come together to market themselves on
Telegram in a place called Gotham Room.
Each business owner would come to advertise their own private telegram
chat rooms for others to join. It's like a membership fee. In order to
join their group chats, you have to pay money. It's like a marketing room.
Think of it as if you go to a food market, everyone has their own little stalls
and they're trying to grab you. They're shoving posters in your hand as you
walk by. They're dishing out samples so that you come and you eat in their stall, you eat their food.
It's a marketplace.
Come to my Telegram account.
I have videos of chest torture, cousin,
scissors being used, younger brother,
and inviting a stranger over.
Another ad would read,
the slave is thanking her master in my room.
Room number two, come and watch.
Others are more tech focused.
Data quality is guaranteed
at a high level in all of our rooms. Hard and soft are available to suit your taste.
Please DM us only if you can purchase immediately. We don't do payment plans.
If this was your first time in Gotham, you could potentially find a tour guide to help you and
to teach you the ropes. First of all, barely any of the rooms contain consensual material, mostly underage and
most of the time they're being forced into making these videos, or they have no idea
that these videos are even being made and uploaded for maybe even tens if not hundreds
of thousands of people to watch.
They're called slaves in the chat rooms, that's what they're called, and it's all
about asking for exactly what you want in Gotham.
You think that what you like is so niche, is so different, is so special that nobody's
gonna have a room for it, but trust us, there's a chat room for everything.
There's something for everyone here.
Female teachers chat room, female military chat room, female police chat room, female
nurse chat room, female middle school chat room, female middle school live chat room, girls room, and then an ad would pop up.
The Lolli room is run by the user named Jeep, no affiliation with the brand, where he distributes
only CP for those that are interested.
Please join us.
What's a Lolli room?
Ah, probably the most popular chat rooms.
They're called Lolli rooms, but it means Lolita room. It consists of children crawling around so toddler age, but the cameras are set
up in incredibly objectifying ways. Many chat room creators have their own versions of the
lolly rooms and they say that most of the watchers, if you will, the buyers, are teachers from elementary
schools. No way. Many of the most popular rooms consisted of videos depicting the same three to four girls.
Typically it was always girls, but because they don't want to show you the videos before you commit to purchasing,
they would just go to Gotham Room and describe the girls to you instead.
Her upper body is shaped like this.
She's a little bit chubby, but thick thighs and thin waist.
Nobody here likes to cry while performing if you're into it.
Pretty good at studying, big chest.
Others would just read simply, my five year old daughter,
introducing my four year old sister to film,
eight year old sister live broadcast,
seven year old neighbor's daughter's toilet.
My six year old daughter is so pretty.
Some would get straight
to the point and they would just write, you're in drinking torture.
The Gotham room was like a giant catalog, a menu of all the things that you could possibly
want, but for a price. The price of entry into Gotham City is like a seesaw, so to some
people it's the price of selling your soul. To other people, it's like tossing a penny into a fountain.
It's nothing to them.
First, we need to confirm that you're a man.
We're gonna need a picture of your private part next to a piece of paper that has your username written on there in black sharpie marker.
No women allowed.
Then we will need videos of someone in your life.
It has to be a woman.
So preferably a wife, your own children would probably be the best.
Nises, cousins, yeah, maybe a neighbor's daughter
if you don't have any.
Videos or photos of them secretly taken
that are explicit in nature,
the younger the better is what we're looking for.
That's just the price of entry.
It's an insurance policy.
Because once you've posted all of your personal details,
you've sent videos that you've secretly taken of your own sister
Or your own daughter or wife showering how could you ever get out of Gotham?
You would be trapped in Gotham Gotham would be your new home. This is where you would be forever
How would you ever snitch on Gotham?
I mean when they have all your information you watch their videos
You went through all these hoops to watch these videos even going as as far as submitting your own content? How could you ever snitch on anyone?
It's a tactic that many mafias use, like mob bosses. They'll make you commit a crime because
afterwards it's almost impossible to turn on them. They've got evidence of you doing the same exact
thing. You're just as bad as the people you're snitching on. Alarmingly, not many watchers are thrown off by this part of the vetting process.
All they're focused on is making sure that they don't blow this golden opportunity.
They need to get in.
Once they're vetted by this point, they've sent pictures of their privates, submitted their ID's,
pictures and videos of family members.
All that is left is an exchange of money, typically through crypto.
And then, you're in. They would send you a link. And that link is your Willy Wonka ticket into
paradise. Even in Gotham Room, you can see people begging, pleading, coming up with 50 excuses on
why this is needed for them. If someone could please send me over a link, please, it will change my life, I swear to you.
I will become a much better person with this link.
I have cancer, you know?
Someone send me the link, I could die at any moment.
Do you want me to die without having some bliss in my life?
That's what someone's saying?
Yeah.
Getting the link is the hard part.
To find Gotham City is easy.
It's hiding in plain sight.
It takes about five clicks to get into Gotham.
Google and then you type in avnsnoop.com, a CD website with tons of illegal explicit
videos.
From there you can find a link into Gotham Room, which is on Telegram.
Now all you need is to pick the room of your choosing, get vetted, and you're in.
The most popular room to get into is one of the doctor's rooms.
It takes about six clicks in total if it goes smoothly, and once you're in, the very first
message pops up welcoming you to Gotham, and it reads, Let's Rape.
Journalist Kim Won was in.
A link appeared on his email for his new assignment.
A tip has been submitted into the newspaper that he writes for.
Han Gyeol-ae.
That's the newspaper.
So someone wrote in a tip and it came to him because he's one of the journalists.
Telegram chat rooms are being used for sexually exploitative content.
Reporter Kim staring at the email.
It's a Sunday.
He's at home.
He's taken the day off.
He had taken his youngest son for a ride on the scooter and he promised his eldest son
that he would play baseball with him, but his boss is texting him, you need to get on
this lead right now.
So he puts his phone down.
He starts making his way back into the office.
He already has a brief template in mind for this article.
It's gonna be a very simple project.
Most likely it's just another article about spy cams.
He thinks he's gonna go on Telegram,
follow this lead and find spy cam videos uploaded.
It's the thing that's dominating the news cycle recently.
Spy cams being hidden in public restrooms, motels,
hotels, changing rooms of stores,
hospital restrooms, hospital bathrooms, hospital rooms, even in guys' bedrooms when they invite
girls over who have no idea and do not give consent to being filmed, being intimate, there
are spy cams.
Then that spy cam footage that's captured is being spread all over the internet, not
even on the dark web, just the regular internet that anyone can access.
Pastors are hiding hidden cameras
in their daughter's bathrooms
to watch their daughter's friends shower.
Stepfathers are hiding hidden cameras
in stuffed bears, sunflower decorations
in their stepdaughter's rooms,
live streaming it to an audience.
Is it deplorable?
Yes.
Is it shocking?
Yes.
Is it a threat to society?
Also yes. But is it also oldorable? Yes. Is it shocking? Yes. Is it a threat to society?
Also, yes.
But is it also old news?
Absolutely.
That's how journalist reporter Kim is feeling.
Readers are over it.
Okay?
They're no longer clicking on articles about spy cams.
They're done reading about it.
It's no longer intriguing.
But he sits down at his desk on a Sunday anyway in this empty office and opens up the lead
that was submitted.
It reads, there are reports of a junior in high school who distributed CP to his friends
on Telegram.
Screenshots were attached to the email as well as the IP address and exact home address
of the student spreading the videos on Telegram as well as the link.
Journalist Kim clicks on the Telegram link and he was admitted entrance into a Telegram chat room
with over 9,000 members.
This was in a chat room full of videos.
This is like the Gotham room.
It's not even a chat room with the content.
It's a marketplace for other chat rooms.
He goes on there and he sees the clearly labeled categories
for chat rooms to explore.
They read regular,
explicit content, domestically produced videos. This would be illegal because South Korea prohibits
production of explicit videos. Hidden cameras, spy cams, gore, lolly rooms, and just another one
that bluntly states, children's room. This? This was not what the email implied. This was not just one high schooler posting CP
into a group chat with his high school buddies on Telegram.
Not that the that's okay, but this, this is not that.
This is a whole ecosystem.
This is a marketplace for distributing CP
and illegal material.
And all journalists Kim needed was a link.
He didn't even need a VPN.
He didn't even need Tor.
He didn't need anything. It's just a link, he didn't even need a VPN, he didn't even need Tor, he didn't need anything, it's just a link.
And he sees there's 9,000 people in there?
Yes, it's like getting a link to Reddit
and you click it open, you don't need any other software,
you don't need to access the dark web,
you just need Telegram, which is the sixth most widely
downloaded app in the entire world.
Most people who use Telegram don't commit crimes with it,
it's just a communication app.
When he clicks on a category, he's
led to a new chat room with chat room creators
that have rooms for that specific category,
marketing their rooms on why their specific chat room is
the best in this entire category of, for example, gore.
Kim would see hundreds of previews of photos and videos and they
were all, they were all CP. Again, this was not at all what he thought he was
walking into today. He had expected to open up a door and find himself staring
at a small fire, but instead the entire building is on fire. The entire city is
up in flames. So as quickly as his fingers are letting him, he's typing up this article,
exposing these chat rooms and he clicks publish.
This cannot wait for tomorrow.
This needs to go up today.
The world needs to know today.
This is big enough to bring the whole country down.
This is gonna blow up in everybody's face
and there will be no avoiding something this big.
It's gonna be the biggest scandal of the year.
He was so nervous, but he was so ready, okay?
He's trying to blow the lid on this thing.
He clicks publish, and on just one of the websites
called AVN Snoop, which is available again
on the regular web, the Surface web,
there are over 230,000 pieces of explicit videos,
including spy cam videos.
And this happened in 2019, right?
Yes.
So very, very recent.
Very recent, yeah.
There were videos of minors, revenge videos that were posted without consent, photos taken
up skirt of female colleagues, and you can clearly tell it's an office setting.
Havy and Snoop was run by a man, well, a username called Watchmen, named after the DC Comics.
Kim had no idea who any of these people were running these chat rooms.
They're all uploading these videos anonymously. Even the Watchers, the ones commenting for more
and grosser and more gory, they're all anonymous. But he wants the world to see it too. Even if
they don't know who these people are, they need to know that these people exist and that these
people are out there and they're hurting people.
That's the first step to hunting down these predators. After reporter Kim publishes his
article, he has his email pulled up on one side and the chat rooms pulled up on his phone
and he's waiting for his email to blow up. Okay. Usually when he posts these types of
articles that are very divisive or shocking or explosive, he's getting leads, tips, personal encounters
of people that have been on these websites,
they're gonna just start flooding in.
Ding, ding, ding.
It's already coming.
He checks his email, nothing.
He checks his phone, and the chat room is going crazy.
Let's dox his ass.
Here's a picture of him.
Look at him.
He looks like a pervert.
Kim opens the file and it's a picture of him.
Yeah, let's go find him.
Someone go get him, go.
Already done.
His name is reported Kim Won.
This is his address.
He's an incel and a pedo.
That's crazy.
They're using those words to describe him.
Yes.
And people are laughing, ha ha ha ha ha.
What should we do about it?
Reporter, I know you're in here reading this.
So here we go.
We know where you live.
We know where your family is.
So you better watch out.
Ding, ding, ding.
Reporter Kim starts freaking out like,
what the hell is going on?
Did the article blow up?
Because the chat rooms are blowing up talking about it.
He feels this surge of adrenaline.
He's refreshing his email and nothing.
Radio silence.
Nobody cares about the article.
But his phone is just, it's hot to the touch
because it's going off so much.
It just won't stop.
We got his Facebook. Look. He has two kids
Here's a picture of the eldest that's his wife. What's his wife's name? Someone find out her number. I got his address
Kim is likely trembling at this point. I mean he's staring down at his phone
There are photos being distributed in the chat room of him of his family of his apartment building Kim's article
exposing the chat rooms only went viral in the chat rooms. The
rest of the world didn't seem to care. Ding! New event has been
created in the chat room. Event name, catch Kim Won. Time now to
indefinitely find out date of birth names of every family
member and all their private phone numbers as well as all their employment records.
Prize your chance to order a slave.
What the hell is happening?
Kim refreshes his email once more
and there is finally something.
An unopened email from an anonymous sender.
He clicks on it.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
All these people are nothing. Avian Snoop, they're nothing. You're barking up the wrong tree. All these people are nothing.
Avian Snoop, they're nothing.
You need to look into the doctor.
I can help you.
Reporter Kim responds back,
who's the doctor?
Who is this?
Me?
I'm the Joker.
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Indi looks down at her phone
and it's like her eyes zero in,
tunnel vision on her screen
and everything else starts to feel blurry.
She feels sick to her stomach.
Indi, what's wrong?
You look like you're about to throw up.
Indi turns her phone off so her friends can't read
and she's like, nothing, I'll be right back.
Runs to the bathroom and she's staring at the message that reads, take a photo of yourself
naked in your school stairwell right now.
She doesn't respond.
Ding!
Another message pops up.
Town girls middle school.
What?
How does he know what school?
Ding!
Eighth grade.
Ding!
Class two.
Ding! Full name, Park Solri.
Ding, your dad's phone number is,
your mom's phone number is,
and your address is, she stares at her phone.
Ding, are you fucking ignoring me right now?
Okay, I'm sure your dad and his friends
would love to see these photos of you.
Take the naked photo of yourself in the stairwell.
Don't hide your face.
Do as I say or I leak all the photos in 10, 9, 8, 7.
She's staring at her phone, hands shaking.
Her friends come to find her.
Eunji, are you OK?
Your lips are turning blue.
She clicks her phone off.
I'm fine.
I'm sick.
I have to go home.
In Eunji's hand, her phone keeps buzzing.
Lee Nam-boy has joined the chat.
Kooni has joined the chat.
FYG has joined the chat.
Ho-Hung has joined the chat.
ERSB has joined the chat.
This was a private conversation between her
and somebody else, and they have invited
hundreds of men into the chat.
They could all see her fully nude face-in-frame photos.
Her phone starts lighting up message after message
after message.
I want, it looks delicious.
Her face is not my type though.
Go take one in the bathroom.
I wanna see her lick the toilet.
Get down on your knees and cry.
I say, we go to her house right now to do it.
I bet she's reading this and looking forward
to all of us going.
Yeah, let's go R-word her.
In front of Pan-Wa-Dang station in South Korea,
there is a 7-Eleven convenience store.
This is in front of the subway station.
That is where reporter Kim and his colleague
are gonna meet up with the Joker.
The other reporter was worried for reporter Kim's safety.
I mean, how do we know that we can trust him?
There's an event out in the chat room to hurt you that could mean any watcher who wants
to request a slave to do something that they want could have set this whole thing up, could
have set up this whole meeting to get you.
How do you know that you're not walking into a trap?
I mean, how do you know that this person's on our side?
What if it's some crazy watcher that doesn't want the slave video thing to
end and they think you're threatening their business? I told him that I was wearing a
black jacket, but I'm wearing a grey jacket. So that means from afar, I can try to spot
him first. And he's going to be too busy looking for me in the black jacket. I can kind of
scope him out while he's busy. And I can make sure that there's nobody else lurking around the corner because he said that he's coming alone in a white
puffer jacket. It was an interesting choice. South Korea is kind of like New York City in the winter.
It is a sea of black jackets. So while Joker would be scrambling, scanning every single person
wearing a black puffer jacket because he thinks reporter Kim is wearing a black puffer jacket Joker would stand out like a sore thumb in his white puffer jacket
and you stand to the side and if anything goes wrong you call the police
it was a bit of a reckless plan but what can the reporters do at this point they
have no other options reporter Kim leaves his colleague near the street
corner and starts making his way towards the subway station.
They plan to meet right in front of it.
And then, boom!
All hell breaks loose.
Right outside the subway station, two cars screech and slam into each other, causing
a massive car accident.
Nearby car alarms are going off, horns are honking, people are screaming, everybody starts
running towards the cars.
It almost feels like a bad
omen. Maybe reporter Kim should have stopped now, but he kept scanning the crowd. Everybody's trying
to get to the cars to make sure nobody's injured. They're like ants running for food. They're all
running in that same direction. And off to the side, watching the scene, completely unfazed,
Watching the scene completely unfazed, standing in front of the subway station, in front of the 7-Eleven, in a white puffer jacket, is the Joker.
The two journalists sit down with the Joker at a cafe nearby, and the three of them are
sitting in a corner table all the way back.
Joker is wearing a baseball cap and he won't even look up to meet their eyes.
In fact, the reporters are surprised to see that he has quite a bit of a baby face.
His cheeks are pretty plump.
He looks very young.
I swear I never really knew about those chat rooms.
The two reporters glance at each other.
I found out they're a friend.
I was at home one day when I got a call from a friend and she asked me to meet up in person.
She sounded distraught and she didn't want to tell me over the phone
what was wrong so I met up with her.
She was a mess.
She was crying, she could barely talk.
I could tell it was really bad.
She told me about some guy, the doctor.
She said that he forced her
to make explicit videos for Telegram.
She told the doctor, no, at first, I don't want to do that.
I can't do anything like that.
And the doctor started threatening her.
She said, he just started texting her, her full government name, her address, her parents' phone numbers, even her social security number.
She has no idea how he even got any of these things.
She still told him, no, I can't, I'm not going to do any of that.
And he started flooding the chat room.
That was originally just her and this random person, the doctor.
But he started inviting hundreds of men
and they knew her address now.
They knew her social security number,
all these strangers on telegram
and they were joining over and over
and they were shaming her nonstop,
telling her that she's just a slave
and she needs to be a good slave
or else they're gonna come to her house.
If she doesn't do what the good doctor asks
and all 100 of them are gonna outward her.
So she did what she was told.
She sent a video to the doctor.
He sent that video to a bigger different chat room
called the doctor's room,
but she didn't have access to that room.
Joker told reporters that it became his mission
at that point to infiltrate the doctor's room
to see what kind of videos he was posting
and how many people were involved. He said, before you can even go to the doctor's room to see what kind of videos he was posting and how many people were involved.
He said, before you can even go to the doctor's room, there's a waiting room that you can
enter.
And that's where you figure out your taste.
It's almost like a survey that you would fill out at the doctor's office.
The doctor will post trailer clips in that room, teaser videos, and once you decide which
room you want to get into, you get vetted.
You pay the fee, and then you'd be in to see the doctor.
Once you get into the actual chat rooms the first thing that you see is just
skin. The whole screen is filled with the color of skin like pink flesh everywhere that color. A lot of nude young girls
all the videos. Each photo or video is watermarked the doctor. And if it's not
watermarked, the girls would have doctor-slave written on them, typically in big, bold black
letters or in red on the arms or thighs or the legs anywhere. Eventually, he'll have some of the
victims carve the words doctor-slave into their bodies. The victims would be forced on their knees
to beg for forgiveness for not being good
while they carved themselves.
That was his trademark.
The doctor had three distinct signatures for each video.
First would be somewhere on the girl would be doctor's slave
and the video or photo would be watermarked
with the doctor's slave.
And along with the opening of every video,
the slaves would
lift up their pinky finger.
That was his signature.
And lastly, every single video depicted the victim smiling.
They had to smile or else.
In almost all the videos, their whole bodies would be shaking with fear and their eyes
would be puffy from crying and they would still be forcing a smile.
Watchers would comment,
see, I told you, they all want this, they like it.
There would be menu items.
Most watchers don't seem to be just part of one chat room,
it seems like they're part of multiple,
because another thing that the doctor does is,
once you enter a chat room,
you only get videos made by the same three or four
Slaves if you get sick of them and you want fresh new people you'd have to join another chat room where it's another three or four
Quote slaves and like I I just want to put a quick disclaimer
I thought of different ways of presenting this information that didn't include the heavy usage of the word slave
But it's so embedded in everything of this case
usage of the word slave, but it's so embedded in everything of this case. Like I think that's also one of the main points of this case, that word and the over usage of that word and marking
the victims on their bodies literally with that word is such a big part of the emotional and mental
trauma as well as the physical trauma that the victims faced. So I just, I didn't want to soften
the word because that is what happened.
I don't want to make it seem like it's not as bad as it was because it's,
it's as bad as it gets you guys.
Yeah.
It's suspected that the doctor had over 300 quote slaves.
Now the doctor is known in the chat room world to be constantly innovating
and updating his menu items to keep his watchers happy.
So the menu reads consuming urine, poop, backside,
knife play, using scissors in private parts,
public nudity, chest torture, and younger brother incest.
The doctor has about 70 to 80 chat rooms
all separated by taste and menu items
as well as the number of quote slaves.
But even within a category,
they would be categorized as hard, medium, and exclusive.
So hard rooms start at about $187 to get in.
Medium rooms start at closer to $450.
Now you're gonna get much more intense graphic frequency
of content gets shorter.
Like you're getting a lot more stuff in the more you get it.
It's a tiered system.
The videos get more graphic.
They get more violent.
It's a lot and exclusive rooms being the VIP rooms, they start at about $1,200.
What's in the VIP rooms?
Caterpillars. Caterpillars.
Caterpillars?
The victims are forced to buy live caterpillars,
like the ones that you get at the pet store.
And while they're still moving,
the victim has to pick them up one by one,
show them to the camera,
and then insert them inside while they're still alive.
They have to do a whole cup of them.
If you guys want, I can send you the link.
And with the help of the Joker, the two journalists, the two reporters were
in the doctor's room.
Linji hit download on her phone.
Linji's the middle schooler and all of her friends had recommended this new trending app
where you could be paid to talk to people anonymously.
Lonely rich people will join the app
and they will pay you to chat with them.
It sounds like easy money, people were saying it's good.
And since Eunji is in middle school,
it's not like she has any other like overflowing job offers
just handed to her.
She plops down in a bed and clicks create account.
Like most apps, it's not that lucrative
or as interesting as everyone made it sound.
It's actually kind of dry.
She downloads it, she creates an account and nothing.
She's about to give up and throw her phone down
when ding, a message from an account called the doctor.
Do you want a job?
Eunji sits up.
Yes.
The doctor said that he just wanted to talk and share photos with each other,
and he would pay her $4,000 a month.
Now, to give you perspective,
the average salary for someone who has graduated college
and is in the workforce in South Korea is about $3,000 a month.
She's in middle school.
$4,000 just to talk?
The doctor reassured her they would never meet up in person, but he did want some photos of her. Videos would be nice too, and of course, frequently, he would ask for some video chats here and there,
but that would be it. No in-person contact of any kind. He'd be willing to pay $4,000 a month for it.
mind, he'd be willing to pay $4,000 a month for it. Eunji agreed, and the two would move over on Telegram to talk.
Ding!
The doctor would send a message.
Send a picture of your body.
Naked.
Eunji hesitated.
I can send you money right now if you do it.
Besides, Telegram has the self-destruct feature, so after I see it, if you click that self-destruct,
the photo will automatically be deleted.
Eunji would send a photo with just her body without her face in it.
The doctor responded, good.
Send me your phone number and your address.
I want to send you a new phone, a new iPhone, and AirPods as a gift for that picture.
Besides, I want you to take better high quality pictures next time.
Eunji paused.
She's like, I mean, technically, this is what the Sugar Baby website was for, right?
It's to make money without actually meeting people
and doing these things.
I mean, this is how it's supposed to work.
Like why would anyone download the app if,
this is what it's doing?
I mean, people love this app, it's trending.
Inji slowly types in her address and her phone number
and hits send.
From then on, the doctor would consider that victim his quote slave.
He would add them to what he called in the chat rooms, the doctors encyclopedia of actresses.
Every slaves name, address, phone number and personal identifying markers would be added.
He would threaten them blackmail them, he would force them to send more videos, more photos from there, it would just snowball. If they don't respond or they try to
tell him no, he would text them, hey, are you still alive, huh? It seems like you don't fully
understand. I clearly told you, if you don't listen to me, I will chase you to the end of the earth
and I will ruin your life, bitch. Respond to me as soon as you see this message or else,
bitch, because I'm going to send this to your dad. I'm going to me as soon as you see this message or else bitch because I'm gonna send this to your dad.
I'm gonna send the video of you
reading out the slave contract
while performing pleasure with objects
and I'm gonna hack into your Twitter
and spread all of your videos.
I've made myself clear, so you better respond.
With this method, the doctor bragged to his chat rooms
that he was able to get a slave
to film their very first explicit video
in less than three hours of adding them on these apps.
And then from there, he said he could make at least two new quote slaves every
single day.
A new video was released into the doctor's chat room, another victim.
The video starts with her holding up her pinky finger and smiling at the camera.
And then she steps back, undresses slowly,
places her underwear on top of her head like a hat,
and then starts convulsing until she drops to the floor.
Her eyes roll back in her head
as if she's having a seizure.
Her arms and legs are just wildly shaking.
She was not having a seizure though.
The doctor just thought it was hilarious.
So he would make these girls do these very humiliating things. But that's the thing with
the doctor's rooms. The watchers in there, they get bored very, very quickly. The doctor
could feel when his patients need more, when they're getting disinterested, when they're
getting unengaged and they stop praising him in the chat rooms, he could feel it. So originally, it starts with just humiliation. Victims would be
forced to go to men's public restrooms at subway stations, malls, gyms, schools, anywhere. They
would have to sneak into the men's public restrooms, get on all fours, and start licking the urinals,
or the floor underneath the urinals, or sometimes they would even be forced to drink out of the men's public restroom toilet bowls.
Other times they would be forced to get completely nude in a public restroom, not in a stall, lay out underneath the urinals and record themselves pleasuring themselves.
and record themselves pleasuring themselves.
Other times, victims would be forced to film themselves peeing into their own toilets at home
and then getting up, bending down,
and washing their face with their own urine
and toilet bowl water.
Then it would escalate.
Victims were forced to defecate into their toilets
and then drink the toilet bowl water
with their feces inside like a dog. Or they would even be forced to consume their own poop, all with
a smile on their face, because again, that's the doctor's signature. They would have doctor
slave written in big, bold black letters on their arm, but that's becoming normal. All
the chat rooms are doing this.
All the tens of thousands of chat rooms on Telegram
are showing these types of videos.
So of course, watchers are getting bored of it.
There's tens of thousands of rooms?
Yeah, it's speculated.
There's endless amounts of rooms
because they keep just creating new rooms.
If they feel like one room is about to get caught
by the police or there's a cop already in their undercover,
they just blow it up and create a new room.
There's always new people coming in trying to make money
and they're like, hey, if it's working for the doctor,
I'm gonna make money, I'm gonna create rooms.
And this is not a South Korean problem.
The viewers of the doctor's room,
only about half of them are suspected to be South Korean.
Yeah. A lot of foreigners as well. It's like a world problem
Now this is not enough though. The watchers are getting bored with just humiliation and torture. It's not enough
So the doctor ups the stakes humiliation and physical torture
Prior to this one of the doctor's trademarks
Like I said was he wanted each video to have the doctor's slave written in Sharpie on their arms and legs. Now he wants them to carve
it into their bodies with knives and scissors and record the whole process. It would usually be
carved on their legs, arms, or right above their private areas. Then he would move on to pens.
So hold up your two hands and make seas with both of them.
And then touch them together at the tips.
It creates a giant O shape, correct?
That is the amount of pens that the doctor wanted his victims to place in their privates.
It's about 32 pens.
One victim, as she was filming, she starts bleeding and she texted the
doctor saying it hurt so much and that she couldn't do it anymore and he
responded, just do it anyway, just force it and if it fails do it again until it
doesn't because you know what happens if you don't do what I say. The victim did
this over and over until the doctor told her it was good enough and that she
could stop. Outside in the living room, she said that she could hear her parents talking and laughing
as they watch the news on the TV. But that, again, watchers grew accustomed to that too.
This is their new normal now, so they keep upping their standard for exciting content,
which is really terrifying when you think about it. These things, these nightmarish things,
are becoming under-stimulating to them.
It's not getting them off anymore.
So the doctor had the victims move on from pens,
to rulers, to knives, and sharp scissors.
Sharp objects would have to be placed inside now.
Then it was all about breaking all limits.
If the doctor even found out that any of the
victims had a brother older or younger, he would force them to perform oral
activities on their brothers or even force them to be essayed by their
brothers. I don't know how the brothers are consenting to this. It's crazy. I don't
even know how someone could even try to unpack the level of trauma that he's
inflicting on his victims with something like this. I mean there's the level of trauma that he's inflicting on his victims with something like this?
I mean, there's the level of trauma that these victims are already facing from being blackmailed
and effectively held hostage by someone to do things that they absolutely do not consent
to doing.
Painful, humiliating, uncomfortable, disgusting things.
Then the doctor adds another layer of trauma by ripping apart a family by making the victims
commit incest.
I mean, I'm sure it's possible, but it would take,
I mean, it would be a very, very, very cruel, long journey
for both sister and brother to recover mentally
and physically from something like this.
And then to have someone in your house
that knows what's going on and becomes part of the torture
to have that infiltrate your home.
I mean, it's gonna feel like there is no escape. There's no way out.
If these types of videos get out, a lot of the victims, they would no longer have friends,
a family, they would have no futures to fall back on because that's how society works.
But even that wasn't good enough.
Watchers would comment,
Dr, we're willing to pay you more if you can do more for us. It's not a problem of money anymore. It's a problem of what do you have for us.
Thus came about the creation of the doctor's VIP rooms. $1200 to get accepted into a VIP
room where the girls are forced to interact with the VIPs. It's not like they're bonding
and entertaining them. The VIPs are throwing
all sorts of horrible, degrading, psychologically jarring, soul-wrenching, distressing comments
at the victims and the victims would have to respond to it. VIPs would be able to pay
additional funds to be able to video chat with the victims and even request for photos
and videos. For example, if a VIP wanted a specific victim to brand their bodies, they could just
pay a designated amount and it would happen.
Like another carving?
Yeah. The victims would be forced to smile on camera while they branded themselves with
whatever the VIP wanted. Usually it was a degrading word, a variation of personal toilet, slut,
slave, bitch. And by branding, it typically meant that again,
they would have to take the knife
and carve it into their bodies,
usually right above their private part.
Sometimes the VIPs would want their usernames
to be carved into the victims.
But even that wasn't enough.
The watchers were never ending unsatiable sadists. They wanted more.
They needed to constantly up the stakes to feel more. So the doctor starts releasing victims
addresses into the VIP chats. This was honestly diabolical. It adds another layer of fear to
the victims. They're already terrified that their videos and pictures are going to get leaked by not
just the doctor but any one of these anonymous faces in the chat rooms. In South Korea that's as good as a death
sentence. I mean I think it's getting better but even in America that's the
way that societies work as of right now. I mean it's deplorable but it could
signal the end of your life as you know it. They're terrified for their pictures
being leaked but they're also terrified of their families finding out about what's
happening to them. They don't want their parents to worry,
they feel ashamed.
Not to mention, these victims are terrified
when they go outside because they have no idea
who's in these chat rooms.
Their faces are in all these videos.
They don't know if they're gonna encounter a watcher
or if they're passing one on the street,
at the store, at the restaurant,
or at school, or at work, they're over-analyzing.
Like, why did that guy look at me for two seconds too long?
Does he recognize me from somewhere?
Why is he staring at me?
Is he staring at me?
They have no idea who these watchers are.
They have no idea what they look like,
but they all know what the victims look like.
And now, now their addresses are publicly leaked docs
to the very people who wanna watch them do horrific,
unbearably painful things to their bodies.
These are the people that get off on it.
To simplify, a child's address is docks to a group of free, evil child offenders and
are-writers who have nothing to fear.
The victims would try and go about their day as normal to keep up with appearances.
They would try to focus on their schoolwork, but they would realize an hour in, they did
no homework, they didn't even solve a single problem,
they had just been staring at their phone on the table,
gripped by anxiety, overwhelming anxiety,
that the doctor is gonna make them perform again.
And then they would look out the window
and there'd just be a strange man staring at them
through their window.
And then ding, they would open up the messages in their chat room
and there was a picture of them sitting at their desk
trying to study.
Ding, nice, you should R-word her.
The doctor would respond in the chat,
I've got a lot of stuff on the slave,
so she's not gonna report if you R-word her.
Do whatever you want.
Ding, it's trench coat time! The VIPs would get an alert when the victims or the slaves were
gonna be in trench coats. Their addresses had already been leaked and all the VIPs had to do
was show up. The victims are forced to wear nothing but their trench coats and walk around
their apartment building and their neighborhood.
VIPs were allowed to go, identify them in the trench coat, pull them into their cars
to arward them, or even humiliate them by walking past them and ripping open their trench coat,
exposing their completely nude bodies to the general public.
Other times, the victims would be forced to stand outside their very front door in the
hallways or in their balconies of their homes completely naked during the middle of the day, regardless of
if their families are coming home or if their neighbors are going to see or if cars are passing
by, they would be forced to record themselves pleasuring and film the whole thing and upload
it to the VIP chat rooms.
The VIPs would get a heads up.
So if they wanted, they could show up to the victim's house and either watch it live or they could do whatever they wanted with the victims.
Once that became routine, the intensity heightened again.
A live stream notification would pop up in the VIP chat rooms.
It would be titled, Heart Emoji, Live Slave Show, Heart Emoji.
Party emoji, this is going gonna be fun, party emoji.
Laughing emoji, laughing emoji.
A victim would have been called to show up at a motel.
Once they opened the door, the designated motel room,
there would be a camera that was already set up in filming.
A man would throw her inside the room, on the bed,
this is a VIP client, and he would start our wording her.
Behind them, the door would be seen opening and closing as more VIPs walked in and they would pretty much line up in
order of their arrival ready to take their turn to r-word the victim. We
don't know how many deprived watchers there were in the VIP rooms but we can
assume it was a lot. It said that there were 260,000 people
that wired money to the doctor to join his rooms.
And this, this is how he became the God.
That's what they called him, the God of online chat rooms.
And a lot of this God-like image for doctor
was the fact that he just seemed to know everything.
He knew it all.
They said, like a God, the Doctor was omnipresent.
He was somehow mysteriously always able to find out the victim's family registrations,
who their parents are, their phone numbers, their addresses, their occupations, everything.
It's like the Doctor always knew everything.
I mean, I'll explain how he did it,
but have you ever done anything consistently for eight to nine years of your life? Have you ever
had a job that long? Have you ever had a hobby that long? Jay had something that he had been
consistent with since middle school. He had been trying to kill his middle school teacher. It started
off as like a tiny little crush.
He was in class, they locked eyes, he thought it was love.
The only obstacle being that his middle school teacher
was getting married and gonna start her own family.
But he's determined, he was determined
that she would look at him in class one day
and realize, whoa, my marriage is gonna fall apart
and my whole life is this little boy right here in front of me.
And she just needed to be with Jay. That was the plan. But that didn't happen.
She went on her honeymoon and Jay was filming. He vowed that if she ever betrayed him again, she would have to be punished.
Then a year later, she went on maternity leave and Jay came to the realization maternity leave. That means you had a baby, which means
you were pregnant, which means she had done the deed with her husband and had cheated on him.
He was so enraged that he started stalking her to find out extremely private information. He
started reaching out to her on a daily basis through kakaotalk, which is like their messenger app in
Korea, escalating to the point where he told her straight up verbatim, I will kill your baby.
He was reported, pulled out of school,
placed in a juvenile detention center,
and the second he got out, he texted a friend.
All my friends have moved on.
Since I was thrown in this jail, in this juvie,
I had to miss both of my grandparents' funerals,
and that bitch is throwing her daughter a first birthday party.
I already looked into her address and everything.
The same day he was released, his former middle school teacher would open the door to her apartment unit to leave with her baby for a stroll,
and she would see the big red letter spray-painted in the hallways.
I will kill you.
in the hallways. I will kill you. In 2018, Jay was hired by the government. He would have access to all civilian records and personal and private information of civilians. He
would have access to the government database. What's his job? Just like a data clerk. Also,
he's a government official. Not an official, just a government employee. Like if you work
at, I don't know, the DMV or the registration office.
So he has very private information.
Yes, with his prior criminal record of stalking his middle school teacher for like eight years.
He gets a job.
Then in 2019, he was hired by the doctor.
To steal phone numbers, registration numbers, addresses of not just victims, but random
celebrities that the doctor liked as well.
He would steal the addresses of at least four famous active girl group members, two of the
members' dads all their registration information, a famous actress and a famous broadcaster.
Like a news announcer, personal and residential details were taken.
It's alleged that the doctor doxxed these celebrities in the chatroom
and stated,
girl group member redacted. Personal information, resident number redacted.
Famous broadcaster B lives in redacted apartment in redacted city. Redacted is
idle seas newest location. If you wait, you could probably catch her.
The doctor stated in his chatrooms that he would be working with staff members on these celebrities inner circles to get hidden secret camera footage
of these idols so that he could make these idols and celebrities his slaves as well.
This solidified his reputation of the god of the chat rooms. His reputation was untouchable.
The doctors rooms were becoming so popular that the doctor
could no longer handle all the demand. He's overbooked, so he starts hiring employees. They were
like receptionist. They would vet and take payments from the watchers. They would interview the
potential watchers and admit them into the appropriate doctors rooms. There's a lot of trust
that the watchers would have to put
into these hired employees
because they're the ones collecting their IDs,
their payments.
So to make the watchers more comfortable,
the doctor reassured everyone in all the chat rooms,
for each employee, I have access to their ID
and social security number, so don't worry.
The doctor would eventually have dozens of employees
working underneath him.
He would place their pictures and identities
in what he called the doctor's encyclopedia of actors.
He was running a full-scale illegal movie,
CP torture film operation, and the doctor is untouchable.
And nobody knows who he is.
They don't even have a clue.
That's why they say games are only fun when you have someone challenging to play against.
If you're a chess master and you play against a novice, you're bound to get bored.
You can predict their next 10 moves, you can predict what they'll do, and you'll do a novice, you're bound to get bored. You can predict their next 10 moves,
you can predict what they'll do,
and you'll do the exact opposite.
The novice thinks that they know what you're gonna do,
but you could just play them.
It's not challenging, it's not fun.
Reporter Kim from Han Gyeol-ae,
the one that met up with the Joker,
he published his article, and at first it's crickets.
The general public didn't even care.
Within a week or so,
the article
starts slowly taking off and gaining traction. The people who were interested in the article, though,
were only interested in the article because they were interested in the doctor's room.
Essentially, oh wow, I didn't know something so horrendous existed. I want to join!
One of the chat rooms originally had 1,000 paying watchers.
After the article went up, they had 5,000 paying watchers.
Some users even came in saying specifically, I never even heard of Telegram.
I didn't even know what it was.
But I came looking for the doctor's room after reading about it on Hangyere.
The chat rooms thought it was so hilarious they would comment, Kim Won, that reporter,
needs to publish a follow up article ASAP, because he's blowing us up.
His piece is more like a review than an expose, if I'm being honest.
LOL.
We're famous now guys, let's all celebrate.
If there are any journalists in this chat room, hi, hello.
Mr. Journalist, make us all famous.
With supply and demand, the doctor, being the astute businessman, would raise his prices.
He raised the price of his VIP room from $1,200 to about $1,500.
The new people coming in, they're not even trying to go to the smaller rooms.
They want all the torture.
They want the top shelf videos.
They're becoming VIPs.
But if you don't have the money, don't worry.
The doctor is a kind understanding person.
He made an announcement in his waiting room
where anyone can join the general public
and the taste room if you will.
He writes, if anyone can dox more reporters from Hangyul,
the newspaper with journalist Kim who wrote about us,
then you can get free admission.
If you can get me information about any
of the other reporters, get me their full name,
family members' names, phone numbers, and addresses.
If you can fully doc him, free admission
into any of the non-VIP rooms.
Journalist Kim felt completely defeated.
He even received a few emails
from other competing chat room creators,
wannabe doctors, and they're emailing him,
begging him to write about their rooms,
expose their rooms, please,
so that we can up our business in traffic.
This is crazy.
Kim said it destroyed him to know
that he inadvertently promoted sexual exploitation chat rooms.
His entire family had been doxxed.
He lived in fear for his life every single day
and nothing good came out of it.
The villains won.
He felt like he's frantically taking out scoops of water
from a bathtub with a teaspoon
and the doctor would just walk over
and turn on the faucet again and overflow the tub.
All his hard work, I mean, it's nothing.
It's not even a drop in the bucket.
Kim said, for the first time in my life,
I felt like I was fighting the thin air.
It's like I was fighting this illusionary world
the doctor was in.
I didn't even feel like I was fighting something concrete.
The doctor even changed his banner of the chat room to read.
The one and only Hangyori Promoted Chat Room.
Another one too,
the one and only chat room in media spotlight.
Ding!
New messages had entered the chat room.
Hello, this is SBS News Network.
Please contact us if you have any information about the doctor.
Ding!
Hello, please contact JTBC's Spotlight Team if you have any information on the doctor or the doctor's rooms.
SBS. Okay, so SBS is also in the chat room now.
They just entered the chat room along with JTBC. Now this, this is the game worth playing for
the doctor. SBS is one of the three biggest broadcasters in the country. 47% of South Korean
population watches SBS every single week. They reach half the nation's population.
JTBC is one of the top five biggest broadcasters of the entire country.
They capture 45% of the entire South Korean population every single week.
One of the main reasons why SBS and JTBC were involved in making these documentaries and
episodes on The Doctor's Room was because it was blowing up on Twitter.
So on mainstream media, nobody's talking about it except for reporter Kim and maybe a few small other journalists. But these mainstream media journalists, they're not even touching it.
They're not even looking at it. To them, it's boring. They don't care. Who's blowing it up?
Twitter's blowing it up. Yeah. One of the producers of JTBC said that her boss was originally not wanting
her to cover this case at all. He's like, don't waste your time. This is old news. We don't care
about spy cam videos anymore. We're moving on. She had to show the higher ups at JTBC, the outrage
on Twitter to show them like there's going to be an audience. Please, you need to let me do this.
That is how they finally agreed because of Twitter. So because of Twitter, SPS and JTBC are now in the game. And the doctor is about to become one of the
most famous doctors in the entire nation. The producers are huddled in their
conference rooms waiting for any tips and leads. Ding! They all sit up straight.
They check their phones. It's a message from the doctor himself. Are you looking for me?
The producers start responding.
There's a sense of urgency.
They don't want him to get bored.
They don't want him to change his mind.
They need to extract as much information from him as possible.
They need to be smart.
Every message they send needs to accomplish something.
We spoke with many of your victims.
They live in pain every single day.
Do you not feel any guilt?
I'm not a psychopath.
Of course I feel guilty.
But let me ask you something.
How much money would it take in order for you
to shoot someone?
I would shoot someone if there's profit to be made.
He's basically saying money.
Money is the end.
Money is the end all be all.
And these people are just getting in the way.
What do you do for work?
I run a private investigation agency but I also sell drugs on the dark web.
Can we come talk to you?
I'm in China.
Come and meet me if you can.
Done.
We'll be right there.
What part of China?
That was a test.
I'm actually in Cambodia.
If you're a journalist you should actually know that. This was fun but I have to get going. I have to pick up a package.
The producers want to stall. They want to keep him on the chat.
Is there a similar delivery system in Cambodia like there is in Korea?
Don't look down on Cambodia.
The doctor is playing games with them.
Is he in China? Is he in Korea? Is he in Cambodia? Is he a PI? Does he sell drugs?
How old is he?
Some parts of his text message,
the cadence talks like a young college age student.
And then other parts of his text message,
he uses older traditional Korean words
that only someone in their fifties would know.
Like a scholarly man in his fifties,
not even an average 50 year old man.
They had so little leads, the producers were lost.
They don't even know where to start.
He's playing chess. They're not even playing checkers. They're sitting there with their
coloring books. It's not even the same sphere. So in order to level the playing field, the doctor
decides to give them an upper hand. He shows them a cryptocurrency account that he owns.
It's the way I get paid for my rooms. Have you ever heard of the trolley dilemma?
Yeah, of course.
So you're in a trolley, a train, if you will,
and the trolley is headed straight for five people
who are on the train tracks, unable to move.
The trains' brakes are broken, they will not work,
and five people will absolutely be hit and killed
by the trolley.
There is no way to outsmart this.
These people are not dead already.
There's no terms and conditions. Five people are about to die. The only option is,
at the very last moment, you see that the railroad tracks split into two, and you can pull a lever
to divert the trolley to the other set of tracks where there is only one person tied up on the
tracks. The dilemma is, do you do it? You either let the train go the original route,
the route where you do nothing and let five people die, or you pull a lever and the train
changes tracks and only one person dies. What do you do? The people who choose to let the
train keep going on its original path argue that five people dying is fate and if they
intervene, they're intentionally causing harm. So even for a greater good, they're causing harm
to someone.
It goes against their moral rules.
They argue that intentionally harming even one person,
even if it's for the heroic,
exclusive saving other people,
it violates the moral principle.
The people who choose to pull the lever
and divert the train, letting it kill just one person,
instead of five would argue,
minimizing overall harm is the end goal.
Pulling the levers justified because it leads to a lesser, minimizing overall harm is the end goal. Pulling the lever is justified
because it leads to a lesser total number
of casualties in the end.
It is for the ultimate greater good.
Sacrificing one person to say five is the greater good
for the greatest number of people.
They would argue that the other opposing group
that inaction is action.
Knowing that there's a lever that you can pull
to kill four less people and not pulling it is not fate. It's still action
So you've still decided what to do
What would you do in the trolley dilemma and why?
Because the doctor was about to give the producers a trolley dilemma that would result in death
When a broadcast is aired about me a woman will go to the SPS building and set herself on fire until she dies.
Blood will be on your hands.
The producers are now in this inescapable dilemma.
If they air the episode, the doctor will create a new victim,
one that might even lose their life
and blood will be on their hands.
If they don't air the episode,
the doctor will have endless victims
and someone might still lose their life
and blood may or may not be in the producer's hands.
There is no winning, there's no right choice.
People are gonna get hurt in the end regardless.
He messaged them, you're gonna make a slave of your own.
Catch me if you can.
It was a game to show them
that there is no difference between him and them.
The producers will create new victims just like the doctor himself.
Ding.
A new photo had been uploaded to the doctor's room.
The watermark, which typically reads doctor or doctor slave, now read
reporter Kim's first victim.
It was a photo of a victim standing hips bent and leaning forward to
depict all of her private areas.
So the watermark actually read Han Gye-rae's first victim, which is the newspaper that
reporter Kim works for, but he's calling out reporter Kim. Ding! Another photo of a completely
different victim in the same exact pose, and the watermark read Han Gye-rae, reporter Kim's second
victim.
Reporter Kim tried to look through all the other photos to try and see if these two girls
were already victims, but they weren't.
They were brand new girls.
The brand new victims that the doctor had created because of him.
He had blood on his hands, is how he felt.
SBS News received a video from the doctor that a victim was going to light herself on fire in front of the HQ if they aired their episode
They ended up airing the episode the police tracked down the girl in the video
They rushed over to her house and they were able to protect her before the doctor ordered her to go to the SPS building
But the police had to tell her parents
Everything that their daughter had been through
But the police had to tell her parents everything that their daughter had been through.
It was not an easy conversation and the police found the red threads still scattered around her room and little sticky notes everywhere that read, I love you the doctor. I'm a slave.
I'm the doctor's slave. The doctor's chat rooms please love me. The sticky notes that she was
forced to write in videos.
Yeah, so this was the girl from the very beginning of the video. Yes, they found her and they were able to protect her.
Now, JTBC, the other producers that were involved,
the other news network had an impossible choice to make
and they decided to go live with their episode.
The doctor was pissed.
He posted a video of a victim in all of his chat rooms,
not just the VIP rooms, to tens of thousands of file watchers.
He uploaded a video of a victim, and the watermark this time
was the victim's full name, her phone number, her job title,
the address of her workplace, and her home address.
And the message read, JTBC victim number one. The producers working on this
case were in the chat rooms watching the photos and videos that were being posted. And they said,
I started feeling like both my brain and my heart were contaminated. It was such a lonely fight,
like I did not have energy to continue anymore. Side note, the JTBC producers reached out to the victim
because they had all of her information
because the doctor doxxed her
and they apologized profusely for airing their episode.
And it probably would have made it so much easier
for the producers if the victim screamed at them,
yelled at them, threatened to sue them,
took her anger out on them
because at least that way the producers
can feel like they're being punished in a way.
But instead the victim just responded, it's okay, he would have done it anyway for
whatever other stupid reason he could find. The producer said, was it my fault? I didn't
even know what to say to that. I made her a victim. I felt so guilty. Another producer
said, what was agonizing was watching people get victimized
at every moment and you keep working
and you keep writing articles and you keep investigating
and yet nothing is being done.
There are still victims being hurt
and new victims coming in every single day.
It got to the point where I wanted to just leave the country
because why would I live in a country
that can't even shut something like this down?
But then I realized it's everywhere.
So they stayed and they had to watch
and they had to keep reporting.
Some managed to channel that feeling into anger.
One of the producers said,
I felt the urge to kill them.
I was so angry that I had thoughts of murdering
every single one of them and going to prison for it.
She said she had fantasies of jumping into the screen
and grabbing people's necks, the creator,
the managers of the chat rooms, the watchers, all of them.
She wanted to murder all of them.
It was very clear that they needed to find more victims
because it was the only way to try and protect them.
One victim actually reached out to the producers
and she met up with them and she said,
she'd been recognized.
And the more she talked, the more panic was in her voice.
And she said, now random people come up to me on the street
and ask me if I'm really that girl in the video.
And I feel like everybody who passes me on the street
just knows, they just know who I am.
They know what I did.
The producers tried to comfort her.
It's okay, it's okay.
Nobody knows, nobody knows. That's okay. Nobody knows. Nobody knows.
That's crazy because those people are peddled. Yeah. And
they're just publicly announcing who they are. And they feel
like they're, they feel like they're good. What is the victim
gonna do? She's so scared. And the police can't catch them.
There was the proof that they're in these chat rooms? The producers told her
nobody knows, but they were lying because when they first saw her walk in, they
recognized her from one of the videos. Because the producers are all watching
the videos as well. They knew who she was. And that's just one victim from one
room.
The reporters knew this, trying to study this complicated web of trafficking.
Every day there were at least a dozen new chat rooms that would appear.
Completely new rooms, copycat rooms with new victims, where they're just trying to copy
the winning formula.
There were reseller rooms, creators selling old content from older rooms, their spin-off
rooms, themed rooms.
One room was called the Desire for
Equatance Room. It had over 28,000 members in one chat room and it was filled with people who
wanted to quote, dominate someone that they knew in their real lives. The chat was filled with people
posting videos and photos and doxing their own co-workers, friends, family members, and classmates
that they wanted to see get turned into a slave.
And if they couldn't install some sort of hidden camera to get explicit photos or videos of them,
they would collectively help Photoshop their heads over naked videos of torture videos that were
from other chat rooms. And their motto was, all the girls in our lives are candidates for our sexual desires.
Then you had the dance room, which would include typically girls, young girls, photos, names,
ages, and which dance studios they dance at.
Like, because you know they learn ballet, they go to these dance studios when you're
younger.
And a lot of these dance studios, because they have parents that want to come and watch,
they have glass walls.
And you can watch from a second room.
They will dox all of that and encourage strangers
to go watch these children during their dance lessons
and almost encourage either stalking behavior
or even violence if they so please,
as long as they record it.
There were rooms for everyone.
So the producers kept the episodes up.
They posted them and they kept them up.
And the episodes had aired and there was one statement
made by the doctor to the producers
that made it to the final cut.
The doctor was talking about another competitor
and he used their username.
He called them out directly in the broadcast.
He said, oh, God God of nth room?
He produces low quality shit.
Watchers had always said about doctor.
In the world of telegram chat rooms,
the doctor is a god-like figure.
He was their God.
But what's better and what's higher than God?
The only person that could take down or rival the doctor
was God God.
God God had disappeared for 11 months.
He handed off his enthroned chat rooms
and 60 victims to be managed by the watchman.
He had been MIA and his watchers were left
to mourn his absence.
And a message pops up in the enthromes. Ding! Tell SBS to contact me if you see them. LOL.
The chat rooms went crazy. Is this seriously God? God? God? Are you back? God? God is back.
He's back. They went from chat room to chat room announcing, God, God, are you back? God, God is back. He's back. They went from chat room to chat room announcing,
God, God, the legend is back.
Some chat rooms felt like he was even too much for them.
They wrote, but he's so fucking sick in the head.
Why are you guys celebrating?
He's back.
The watcher said, if the doctor does all this
for the sake of making money,
God, God does this for the sake of having fun.
God, God will often give out free videos and photos
to all of us because he's just in it for his passion.
He's in it to hurt the slaves, that's it.
The doctor is here to make money, he's a capitalist.
But God, God is our sadist king.
God, God was the creator of the enthromes and he was back.
Ding, God, God would message the doctor.
Hi, doctor. God, God. Why haven't you been caught yet? No matter what happens, they're not going to find me. Well, how about if they track your money, God, God? Oh, I only gave gift cards to
the slaves. Even if they track the money, they can't find me. If I throw my phone away, then
there's no proof at all. They can't send me to jail, even if they track the money they can't find me. If I throw my phone away then there's no proof at all.
They can't send me to jail even if I turn myself in.
Yeah, well, I'm abroad so it doesn't even matter, you fucker.
Besides, your videos lack actual quality and you're way too obsessed with being sadistic.
Listen, doctor, this is all just a game for me.
If a slave leaves after a whole year, I'll just let them go.
And then I'll start spreading their videos everywhere.
Look, doctor, I'm reaching out because I want to, I want to,
I want you to promise me something promise me that you're going to reset your
settings. What are you talking about? Your telegram settings.
Make it so that if you don't log on for 10 days,
all the explicit videos you posted on all platforms get posted for free.
Every victim's video gets mass spread on the internet.
What?
And why would I do that? In case we get caught.
And why would we get caught?
We don't get caught, but just in case we got to make all the videos public, we got to go out with a bang.
We gotta make all the videos public. We gotta go out with a bang.
The conclusion of the conversation
between God, God and the doctor being,
if we go down, we're taking all the victims down with us.
But why?
They hate each other.
They're competitors.
Why on earth would they work together?
Because you know what they say,
an enemy of my enemy is my friend. And that is where I leave you with part one. Part two
will be up on Wednesday, so stay tuned, please be safe, and I will see you guys then. Bye.