Police here have arrested the operator and several members of an Internet swingers’ site and community considered the country’s largest such site—but police have since hinted that they might be on shaky ground.
The site, whose name wasn't disclosed but which was founded in September 2003, is believed to have over five thousand registered members and arranged as many as four hundred sexual encounters with both single and married individuals, according to Korean press reports.
The operator, a 37-year-old man identified only as Yu, was detained March 22 on charges of arranging "abnormal" sexual relations between members. Among the encounters he's suspected to have arranged include a mid-December guesthouse orgy in Yangpyeong and two-on-one sex.
The Website in question had posted over 1,200 videos and 300 still images from various of the arranged encounters, the reports said, and earned Yu about $50,000 from membership fees. Police were expected to question at least two hundred site members in the case.
The news reports said Yu told police site members—reputedly including the chief executive of a midsize company—would look at nude images or videos of couples having sex and arrange encounters with those in the videos. Men had to be 25 or older to join and women, 23 or older.
But police also said they could be on shaky ground because, while swinging "may be detrimental to public morality," as one Korean news report put it, it was still consensual activity with no legal grounds to prosecute it.
