Police have sought an arrest warrant for a man in his 20s accused of illegally filming patrons after entering the women's locker room at the Caribbean Bay water park in Yongin, Gyeonggi, while wearing a wig and other items.
Police said on the 22nd that the Yongin Dongbu Police Station in Gyeonggi sought an arrest warrant for a man in his 20s, identified as A, on suspicion of camera-use filming under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes and intrusion into a multiuse facility for sexual purposes.
A is suspected of entering the women's locker room at Caribbean Bay twice—in mid last month and on the 30th—and secretly filming patrons with a mobile phone and small recording devices.
At the time of the crime, A was found to have disguised the person's gender by wearing a short-hair wig, sunglasses and a mask. The person reportedly entered the water park in the afternoon and stayed for about four to five hours.
On the 30th of last month, the person reportedly roamed the women's locker room with the face covered and was stopped by a patron and an employee who found it suspicious. During identity verification, it was revealed the person was male, and the person then reportedly fled the scene.
After receiving a report, police traced A's movements using nearby closed-circuit (CC)TV and identified the person's identity and residence. About 20 days after fleeing, on the 21st of last month, A was arrested at a home in Seoul. A reportedly told police the filming was done out of curiosity for personal viewing and that the videos were not distributed externally.
Police seized a mobile phone and small recording devices believed to have been used in the crime, along with media containing illegal recordings, from A's home, and are conducting digital forensics. So far, two victims have been identified. Based on the forensic results, police plan to investigate additional victims, the scale of the recordings, and whether they were distributed externally.