Warning for women traveling to South Korea — beware of hidden cameras

An Australian woman has issued a terrifying warning to female travelers visiting South Korea about the prevalence of hidden cameras in bathrooms.

Jazmyn Jennings took to TikTok to highlight what she says is a “huge“ but not discussed problem in the Asian country.

“If you go into any female bathroom you will find every single crevice plugged up with toilet papers,” she warned ominously.

She told her followers that women use this trick to stop cameras from being hidden in these spaces.

“’ This issue extends beyond toilets as well,’ she said. ‘We’re talking Airbnbs, hotel rooms … basically, anywhere that is a private area you run the risk of being exposed.’”

She also shared you can find hidden cameras in the most bizarre places including in fire alarms and clocks as well.

She urged tourists to travel with a device that can recognize a hidden camera.

“They can help you find the light in the room and it’ll show you [the hidden camera],” she explained. “You can either report it, or you can take it away.”

Pornography is banned in South Korea but the country is battling an epidemic of so-called ‘molka’ – spycam videos mostly showing women, having been secretly filmed by men in schools, toilets and offices.

‘Revenge porn’- videos taken of sexual relations without the partner’s consent – is believed to be equally widespread.

In 2019, a number of high-profile K-pop stars resigned from show business after admitting to filming and distributing illicit sex videos, filmed without consent, or watching them.

The biggest scalp was singer Jung Joon-young who admitted he had secretly filmed himself having sex with women and shared the footage online without their consent.

More than 30,000 cases of filming with the use of hidden cameras were reported to police in South Korea between 2013-2018, according to media reports in Time magazine.