Crackdown on Spreading Deepfake Video of President Yoon Suk Yeol

Deepfake Video of President Yoon Suk Yeol / Online Community

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 22nd that it has requested the Korean Communication Standards Commission to delete and block the video titled “President Yoon Suk Yeol’s Conscience Confession Video”, which is currently spreading through various websites.

They are also considering investigating the person who produced and distributed the video.

According to the police, the video falls under defamation by false information (Violation of Article 72, Clause 2 of the Information and Communications Network Act).

In the 44-second video, President Yoon says, “The incompetent and corrupt Yoon Suk Yeol regime has indulged in privileges, cheating, corruption, and graft. I, Yoon Suk Yeol, have ruined South Korea and plunged its people into pain by adhering to ideologies that lack common sense.”

The video appears to be edited from President Yoon’s speech on TV Chosun during his presidential candidacy.

The Communications Standard Commission plans to hold an emergency communications review subcommittee on the 23rd to review the matter and immediately take measures to delete and block the video.

However, the Broadcasting Committee of the National Press Union criticized, “It’s comical that the government wrote a request to the Communications Standard Commission to delete a video which clearly states it was made virtually because the president’s honor was tarnished. Chairman Ryu Hee Lim’s fuss to hold an emergency review to prevent social confusion over a video posted last year is truly a tragedy.”