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Korea is a country that is lenient toward child sex crimes. The operator of the world’s largest child porn site tearfully requested to be punished in Korea, not in the United States.
Welcome to Video - Son Jong-woo Case
South Korean man Son Jong-woo is the operator of the world’s largest child porn site, “Welcome to Video.” Son uploaded child porn and earned virtual currency. He made a profit of 415 bitcoins from a total of 220,000 child porn files through this method.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which first discovered the site, requested cooperation from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The investigation revealed that the operator was South Korean. HSI requested cooperation from Korea and arrested the operator, Son Jong-woo.
Son Jong-woo hired 7 lawyers, received a suspended sentence in the first trial, and was ultimately sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison in the second trial.
However, Son’s father filed additional lawsuits against him not only for child-related crimes but also on charges including the Act on Regulation of Concealing Criminal Proceeds. The key point is that several months earlier, a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury had indicted Son on six charges—including producing, distributing, and advertising child sexual abuse material, as well as money laundering—with nine counts, and requested that Korea extradite him to the U.S.
At that time, analysis indicated that if Son were extradited to the U.S., he could face a minimum of 50 years in prison for child pornography-related crimes. In other words, it was far more advantageous for Son to be punished for all his crimes in Korea rather than the U.S. It appears Son’s father sued him directly to ensure he would be tried and sentenced in Korea instead.
Son Jong-woo personally appeared in court, tearfully pleading, “If I can be punished again in Korea, I’ll accept any severe sentence,” begging the court to block his extradition to the U.S.
The court granted Son’s wish and denied his extradition to the U.S. While foreign governments have frequently requested criminal extraditions from Korea, all but five cases were approved. Those five exceptions involved political motivations or expired statutes of limitations—neither of which applied to Son’s case. The U.S. Department of Justice expressed disappointment over the decision.
