Removal of Sexually Exploitative Content Involving Children and Adolescents Rises Nearly Tenfold After AI Introduction
Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Introduces AI-Powered 24/7 Detection
Supports Removal of More Than 96,000 Items in Six Months
Following the introduction of an artificial intelligence (AI) system to remove online sexually exploitative content involving children and adolescents, the average number of items processed for removal each day has risen nearly tenfold.
On November 11, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said the AI system, which began full-scale operation in April 2026, had supported the removal of more than 96,000 items of sexually exploitative content involving children and adolescents over the past six months.
In 2025, before the AI system was introduced, staff handling removals processed more than 45,000 items manually, one by one. That amounted to an average of 20.8 items per person per day. Since the system was introduced, however, 96,000 items have been processed in just six months, raising the average number of removals per person per day to 202, or about 9.7 times the previous figure.
The AI system automatically detects and analyzes sexually exploitative content and information used to lure children and adolescents online around the clock. It collects and analyzes such content and information from social networking services (SNS) and random chat apps. Staff then review the findings before monitoring distribution and submitting takedown requests.
Another positive effect is that, as AI detects harmful videos first, staff are less frequently exposed directly to sexually exploitative content.
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The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family plans to work with the Ministry of Science and ICT to enhance the AI system by 2027. It aims to significantly expand the platforms covered by the system and improve the accuracy of detection and classification by using AI models trained on large-scale datasets. The ministry also plans to provide regional digital sex crime victim support centers with installable software for supporting content removal, incorporating key functions of the Central Digital Sex Crime Victim Support Center’s system, to strengthen their response capabilities.
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