To delve deeper into the evolving digital sex crime cases in Korea and across Asia, The Korea Times has been collaborating with four media organizations ― the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, Tempo in Indonesia, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and ABS-CBN in the Philippines ― on a special investigation into this issue over the last seven months.
After releasing the first joint project on May 29th, although some partners are still working on more stories that will be published over the next couple of months, the Asian reporting team got together for a group video call to talk about difficulties they faced during the investigation, behind-the-scene stories and why they collectively agree that the continuation of collaborative reporting among Asian countries is important.