The Seoul Women and Family Foundation (Director Park Jeong-sook) announced on July 2nd at the Seoul Women’s Plaza that it signed a four-party business agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education , Dongjak-Gwanak (Superintendent Kim Yeong-hwa), Seoul Dongjak Police Station (Chief Jeong Seok-hwa), and Seoul Gwanak Police Station (Chief Choi In-gyu) to strengthen the prevention of digital sex crimes against children and adolescents and response to victims.
This agreement was promoted with the purpose of jointly establishing preventive education and victim response systems through inter-agency cooperation to protect children and adolescents from digital sex crimes.
According to the agreement, the Seoul Women and Family Foundation plans and operates digital sex crime prevention education and provides professional support such as counseling when damage occurs. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, Dongjak and Gwanak will expand prevention education centered on elementary, middle, and high schools in the district, and the Dongjak and Gwanak Police Stations will be responsible for investigation and protective measures when damage occurs. In addition, they plan to establish a sustainable cooperation system centered on the region through regular information sharing and operation of working-level consultative bodies.
The Seoul Women and Family Foundation has been gradually expanding digital sex crime prevention education throughout Seoul, and is strengthening accessibility to prevention education and victim response capabilities through cooperation with regional educational institutions and investigative agencies. In the first half of this year, prevention education was conducted in 32 classes in the Dongjak and Gwanak areas, and with this agreement, the plan is to expand education to 44 classes in 12 schools in the region.
This agreement is an example of regional cooperation between policy implementation agencies, educational institutions, and investigative agencies, and is being evaluated as a model for strengthening capabilities to respond to digital sex crimes against children and adolescents.
Park Jeong-sook, head of the Seoul Women and Family Foundation, said, “Digital sex crimes are difficult to effectively respond to with just the efforts of a single organization,” and added, “Through this agreement, we hope to strengthen the joint response system among related organizations in the region and establish a foundation for practical protection of children and adolescents.”
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