An elementary student looking for a homework shortcut was shocked to be rewarded with a video clip of a gang rape. The clip appeared when he typed the words “a novel idea” into the Naver search engine, his homework assignment having been to come up with one. The seven-minute porn video was accessible to anyone without restrictions online for 18 days.

A gang rape video posted on the website of the Hankook Economy daily (HanKyung).

The child was so startled by the brutal novelty before him that he turned off the screen, but his parents found out and alerted the press. In the video, a woman is dragged into a room by two men who proceed to put a beer bottle into her vulva and take turns raping her.

Naver is washing its hands of the matter, saying it cannot screen out porn videos since they get reposted on plenty of blogs and no one reported it. “It is impossible for us to manage all web content since more than 10 million users upload content every day,” Korea’s biggest portal says. The phrase “a novel idea” become the most frequently searched on Naver now.

(englishnews@chosun.com )