The huge success of films and Korean series that Netflix has worked on has made this popular streaming platform bring back their latest work. This time, Netflix presented a documentary based on a real case in South Korea that had gone viral and shocked the public.
Titled 'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror', the latest Netflix film officially premiered on May 18, 2022. Through this film, Netflix uncovers two cases of sexual crimes that occurred on the Telegram platform, known as the 'NTH Room' and 'Doctor's Room'.
What is the Netflix movie like and how does it relate to the chat rooms on Telegram that are ready to drain the emotions of the audience? Here are interesting facts about 'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror' that are worth watching!
Synopsis for 'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror'
'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror' tells the story of a sexual crime that occurred on a social media platform called Telegram. Through the official Netflix website, the synopsis reads, "anonymous and exploitative, the online chat room network is a fertile ground for sex crimes. The hunt to catch the operators also requires courage and persistence".
Briefly, this film reveals the controversy over sexual crime cases involving many women and underage girls from South Korea as victims.
The masterminds behind this case refer to themselves as 'Baksa' as well as 'GodGod'. The perpetrator's mode is by trapping the victim and forcing them to take indecent photos and videos. The perpetrators then sold them in Telegram chat rooms called 'NTH Room' and 'Doctor's Room'. There are thousands of users who have to pay a certain amount of money to be able to enter the chat room.
Thanks to a friend of the victim who couldn't stand seeing his friend suffer, he then spoke up by asking a reporter for help. Starting from this reporter, there were various parties who helped to reveal this case to the public as well as imprison the perpetrator.
Offer a Slick Storyline
As mentioned earlier, there are various parties who helped to uncover this case. It was said that there were two female volunteers who disguised themselves as chat room members to collect evidence, a reporter who was in charge of writing articles, and the producer of a television station who helped broadcast this news.
Despite good cooperation and strong evidence, catching the perpetrators is not that easy. They tend to be shrewd and experienced at tricking. In addition, the reporters to television producers even received threats from the perpetrators. Now, through this film, Netflix combines the efforts of various parties to uncover the case so that it becomes a common thread that is connected to each other.
The storyline that unfolds nicely makes the Netflix documentary 'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror' potentially not boring to watch. This 1 hour 45 minute film will also make the audience excited and curious about the real culprit.
Based on a true story
'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror' which aired recently turned out to be adapted through a real case that shocked South Korea. Two similar cases occurred where both were involved in the sexual crime controversy. There were two Telegram chat rooms that were being discussed at the time, namely Baksa's 'Doctor's Room' and GodGod's 'NTH Room'.
As an admin as well as the person who manages the 'Doctor's Room' chat room, Baksa has become a successful figure to anger in the real world. He is known to be cruel and cruel to his victims. In the chat room, he even referred to the victims as 'slaves' and often told them to hurt themselves.
Not only that, the 'NTH Room' case is no less annoying. Similar to 'Doctor's Room', he also exploits his victims to gain profit for himself. Through the film 'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror', Netflix presents the storyline of how the figures of Baksa and GodGod were caught.
Despite using pseudonyms, in fact the two people behind Baksa's and GodGod's figures were finally revealed. Baksa turned out to be a man who was 25 years old when he was arrested named Jo Joo Bin. As reported by AllKpop, the identity of the main suspect in the 'Doctor's Room' case was revealed to be Jo Joo Bin alias Baksa. Then for 'NTH Room' there was a man who was 22 years old when he was arrested named Moon Hyung Wook.
Case Progress
Both Baksa and GodGod had both been caught and sentenced. They were involved in the controversy and were sentenced for illegal sex trafficking which opened chat rooms on Telegram to share photos to vulgar videos. The victims, which range from women to minors, are forced and threatened to follow what they are told.
In early 2021, Baksa alias Jo Joo Bin was sentenced to 45 years in prison for his actions. He even had to wear an electronic location tracking device for 5 years after he was released from prison. Not only Jo Joo Bin, Moon Hyung Wook aka GodGod also got punished. According to Koreaboo, Moon Hyung Wook was sentenced to 34 years in prison for his crimes.
So, those were some interesting facts about the Netflix documentary 'Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror' which raised the cruel cases of 'NTH Room' and 'Doctor's Room'. For those of you who are curious to watch it too, you can watch it live only on Netflix. Happy watching!