Dive Shop Owner in His 30s Secretly Filmed Female Customer Showering... Gets Suspended Sentence

Court: "Considered that he reached a settlement with the victim, among other factors"

A dive shop operator in his 30s who was put on trial for secretly filming a customer showering at the shop was sentenced to prison, suspended.

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Jeju District Court Criminal Division 3, presided over by Judge Kim Heejin, recently sentenced A, a man in his 30s who had been indicted without detention on charges of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes by filming with a camera or other device, to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years. The court also ordered him to undergo two years of probation and attend 40 hours of sexual violence treatment classes.

A, who operated a dive shop on Jeju Island, was put on trial on charges of using his cellphone to record videos of female customers showering through a shower-room window on two occasions between July and August 2025.

The court ruled that he had "filmed body parts that could cause extreme sexual humiliation and committed the crime within an area under his control." However, it explained its sentencing decision by saying it had taken into account that he had paid a settlement and reached an agreement with the victim, confessed to the crime, and had no prior convictions.

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