The criminal case, The "Nth Room" case (n번방 사건), involved blackmail, cybersex trafficking, and the spread of sexually exploitative videos via the Telegram app between 2018 and 2020 in South Korea. A man nicknamed god god (갓갓, later revealed to be Moon Hyeong-wook) sold sexual exploitation videos on Telegram channels and groups. A copycat crime, known as the "Doctor's Room", (박사방) was operated by a man using the screen name Doctor (박사, later revealed to be Cho Ju-bin), who is accused of blackmailing dozens of women, forcing them to take sexually exploitative videos, with some involving rape. The number of confirmed victims is at least a hundred and three, including twenty-six minors. It was revealed that the victims' pictures were shared and sold to over two hundred and sixty thousand IDs (narrowed down to about sixty thousand users, taking into consideration overlapping profiles) and were anonymously paid for in cryptocurrency. In October 2021, Cho Ju-bin was found guilty of his crimes and sentenced to a total of forty-two years of imprisonment. He coerced twenty-five victims into filming sexually exploitative content between 2019 to 2020. Cho reportedly said that he wanted to apologize to his victims. In November 2021, Moon was also found guilty and sentenced to a total of thirty-four years. He coerced approximately twenty victims into filming sexually exploitative content between 2017 to 2020. At total of three thousand-seven hundred and fifty-seven people linked to the Nth Room crimes have been arrested and two-hundred and forty-five of them have been imprisoned, as of December 2020. The videos created in the Nth Rooms are still being sold worldwide via foreign messaging platforms and the dark web.
Choi Jin-sung paints a vividly disturbing pictures of Baksa and god god, using their own words and actions against them, but wisely and compassionately makes this film as much about the victims. This is a powerful and dramatic story, and it’s hard to imagine anyone watching it won’t be riveted as the details pile up. The probing new documentary from Netflix looks at the true story of the infamous Nth Room criminal case and the heroic people who took it down. This latest Netflix documentary, which like most of the streamers docs employs a variety of hokey and staged dramatizations, is a film that won’t easily be shaken. The story is powerful enough to justify the experience, but the film hardly does right by the material with its overproduced delivery. Who knows how many more victims are out there? It’s a chilling realization and a truly heartbreaking one at that.
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Simon says Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (사이버 지옥: N번방을 무너뜨려라) receives:
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