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She was one of the country's most prominent female stars who rose to fame in the all-female group Kara. This week the cry for harsher penalties turned into an outright roar after the suspected suicide of K-pop star Goo Hara. They've signed an online petition for the attention of the presidential office in Seoul calling for tougher sentences for those convicted of sex crimes - the majority of which in South Korea involve illicit filming. 'Now, as a parent of someone who's been a victim of it, ten months is not enough.' 'Even two years would have been so little,' said Mrs Lee. 'People don't take it seriously,' Mr Lee told me. The maximum penalty for illegal filming is five years.Įun-ju's parents have decided to appeal against the decision. Prosecutors had asked for a two year sentence. She was really afraid of that.'Įarlier this month the man, whom we cannot name for legal reasons, was sent to prison for ten months. Even if he didn't share it online maybe he would have showed it to other people. So what she feared the most was maybe he shared the video with people she knew. 'The perpetrator knew a lot of the same people my daughter knew. 'The weight of the harm caused might be the same, but the effect can differ for each person - some might be able to pull through, others like my daughter might not be able to. 'You can kill someone without using weapons,' her father told me.

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The encounter, her parents say, caused such anguish that it made her feel she would never be free of the perpetrator. I'm afraid I will run into him again,' she manages to say before handing the phone to another nurse. 'Just come out, just leave the hospital now,' urges the union representative. She appears unable to breathe and her voice is barely audible. In a panic she phoned the hospital's union representative who taped the call. She had accidentally run into the culprit on her way to the hospital. Her parents played me a phone call Eun-ju had made in her final days, which they believe shows the effect this had on their daughter's mental health. When he was caught upskirting a woman, police seized his phone and found illicit footage of four victims. Her colleague at a major hospital in the south of the country had drilled a hole to place a tiny camera in one of the ladies changing rooms. It was around 1am, and she had called her dad yet again after waking in terror from another nightmare.Ī few days later she would take her own life.Įun-ju, not her real name, was a victim of South Korea's so called spy camera epidemic. 'I feel like he's still watching me,' Eun-ju Lee told her dad. The sentences for so-called 'spy cam porn' are relatively lenient in South Korea, but as the BBC's Laura Bicker in Seoul writes, their victims can face a different kind of punishment. For this, she was viciously attacked online. When K-pop star Goo Hara, who died last week, was secretly filmed by a boyfriend, she publicly fought for justice.