Porn is illegal in South Korea and a group of around 800 volunteers who are dubbed ‘Nuri Cops’ (Net Cops) are trying to enforce that.

These ‘Net Cops’, as reported by AP news, surf the net on their free time monitoring the net for any sites that they believe may be harmful to South Korea society which of course is usually porn sites. They range from students, to housewives and professors.

The aid government censors and so have helped crack down on people who have been involved in making, selling and posting pornographic content online.

One such ‘Net Cop’ is Moon Tae-Hwa who was the top-ranked anti-porn monitor in 2010 and 2012 noted: “I feel like I’m cleaning up dirty things.”

However, there are critics including Ma Kwang Soo who is a Korean literature professor at Yonsei University in Seoul. He said: “It’s a reign of terror against sex…No country in the world has ever reported that banning porn results in a drop in sex crimes.”

Soo wrote a book in the 1990s called ‘Happy Sara’ which was about a university student who set out to explore her sexuality. It was quickly banned and Soo was arrested.