BloombergThe suicide of popular K-pop singer Koo Hara has prompted calls in South Korea to overhaul laws on sexual assault, while K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted on Friday of gang rape and jailed for six years. Many in South Korea were already aware of her past that included assault by a former boyfriend who she alleged was threatening to release a sex video of her. The two most popular hashtags on social media in South Korea this week called for punishment of the ex-boyfriend and for the definition of sexual assault to be revamped. Separately, 30-year-old Jung was also convicted of filming himself having sex with other women without their knowledge and sharing the footage 11 times without their consent. Known as molka, spy cam videos are largely made by men secretly filming women in schools, toilets and elsewhere.
