Summary
A teacher (plaintiff A) won a partial civil judgment on Oct. 21 at the Incheon District Court, which ordered a former high-school student (defendant B) to pay 17.7 million won in damages in a suit that had sought about 72 million won. The suit related to allegations that B used deepfake technology to composite the faces of two female teachers and other women onto nude photos and distributed the images on social media, and that he used his smartphone at school to take close-up photos of parts of the victimized teacher.
According to reporting, B was indicted in July 2024 for using deepfake technology while he was a high-school student; his three-year prison sentence was finalized on appeal in December of the following year, and after turning 19 he received a fixed-term sentence in the second trial instead of an indeterminate juvenile term.