The building of the Supreme Court of Korea is shown in this Sept. 25, 2023 file photo. Newsis

The Supreme Court on Thursday finalized a 13-year prison sentence for an elementary school teacher on charges of producing sexually exploitative videos involving some 120 children and adolescents.

The teacher was charged with producing about 1,900 sexually exploitative videos from 2015 to 2021 by ordering children and adolescents to engage in obscene acts and film themselves and keeping the videos in his possession. He has been teaching at an elementary school since 2012.

About 120 people fell victim.

He contacted the victims through messengers and was also found to have met some of the victims in person and engaged in obscene acts with them.

The Supreme Court upheld the lower court's 13-year prison sentence for the teacher, along with orders to ban him from working for institutions serving adolescents for 10 years and to require him to undergo 80 hours of education programs for sexual offenders. (Yonhap)