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South Korea's Supreme Court Confirms Life Sentence for Telegram Sex Crime Ring Leader

South Korea's Supreme Court upheld a life sentence for Kim Nok-wan, the 34-year-old leader of a Telegram-based sex crime ring accused of sexually exploiting 261 people. The court also approved 30 years of electronic monitoring, employment restrictions and 10 years of personal information disclosure.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-10 12:58

The victim total is the largest recorded in a domestic sex crime case, according to Yonhap News. It is more than three times the number in the notorious “Baksabang” case of 2019-2020, in which Cho Joo-bin blackmailed 73 individuals into making child and adolescent sexual exploitation material that he sold online through encrypted Telegram chat rooms.

Kim was found guilty of running the crime ring known as “The Vigilantes” from August 2020 to January 2025. Yonhap News reported that the ring produced and distributed sexual exploitative videos, coerced victims into appearing in illegally produced videos, and sexually assaulted children and teenagers.

Members of The Vigilantes also blackmailed men and women into submitting nude photos of themselves and used those photos to produce and distribute sexual exploitation videos, according to the report. The Supreme Court confirmed the life sentence and the additional penalties on Thursday, Yonhap News said.