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Samples of video clips uploaded to domestic portals. Video clips have been spreading fast on the web since the debut of U.S.-based UCC site YouTube. / /Image capture.
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Korean net surfers have been enraged by several videos on Youtube, the world's largest UCC (user created content) website, that depict foreigners denigrating and sexually harassing Korean women.
In a video entitled "Seoul subway ride to the club," four or five foreigners in their 20 and 30s are laughing and singing out loud on Seoul Metro no. 4. The lyrics of the song include curses and language graphically describing a sexual act.
Another video "Seoul Hooters" includes a scene of a foreigner sexually harassing a Korean waitress. In another called "Ron walking the streets of Seoul," a passerby is beaten up on the street.
The videos were posted about a month ago by a user with the ID "jon88aconda". Netizens believe the person is an American who is thought to have shot ten or so such videos in different places around downtown Seoul.
YouTube hosted the videos for about a month and removed them last weekend after fierce protest by Korean netizens.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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