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Coupang's subcontractors caught employing over 40, uninsured workers. Close for 24 hours. Posted : By Park Si-soo Lee Jong-hyuk, a salaried man in his mids, was baffled last week when he checked the alert of a new follower of his photo-sharing Instagram app. Instagram users and experts said the trend will become more noticeable as the app continues to gain popularity in Korea.
As of the end of last year, an estimated 6 million people in Korea use Instagram, double-digit growth from the previous year. This has caused a sharp increase of obscene content on the app and other social media outlets. According to the Korea Communications Standards Commission, 72, "inappropriate" postings on social medial were blocked last year alone, up The Korea Times explored Instagram with sexually explicit keywords in Korean and was able to find dozens of accounts instantly.
Many of them were containing sexually provocative pictures with memos promoting paid sexual services. Living in Incheon," an account wrote with several sexually provocative images uploaded. Another account wrote, "We arrange for you a highly profitable part-time job, which is having sex with divorced lonely women in their mids.
