Korea — Network Act illegal-sexual-content report
South Korea's Network Act (Art. 64-5) and Telecommunications Business Act (Art. 22-5), from the two bills passed on 20 May 2020, require online service providers to take technical and managerial measures against the circulation of illegal sexual content — illegally-filmed content, deepfake (“fake”) images and videos, and child/youth sexual-abuse material — and to publish an annual transparency report on them. Google publishes one per calendar year covering Search and YouTube jointly; this dataset holds all six reports so far (2020 → 2025). The 2024 and 2025 reports add a full monthly breakdown by complainant, reason and outcome; 2020–2023 give only the year's headline URL counts (2020 covers just 10–31 Dec, the law's implementation date). A tidy-long dataset: each row is one measured value identified by publisher × period × section × category × metric. The four monthly sections are cross-cuts of the same requests, so they aren't additive across sections; annual_summary is a rollup that sits beside them. Pin a section (and metric) before aggregating.
URLs received & removed per year
The headline series across all six reports (2020–2025). Reported URLs grew from 61 (a 22-day partial period in 2020) to a 2024 peak of 158,052, of which Google removed the large majority.
Monthly detail
The month-by-month breakdown for the selected year (2024 and 2025 publish it; earlier reports don't). Each chart has a text alternative for screen readers.
Removal requests received per month, by complainant
URLs reported to Google for removal each month, split by who reported them — victims and other users vs. government agencies and organisations.
URLs removed per month, by reason
URLs Google removed each month, by the category of illegal sexual content.
Requests received, by reason
The URLs reported for removal in the selected year, by the category of alleged illegal sexual content the reporter selected.
How requests were processed
The outcome of the reported URLs in the selected year — voluntarily removed by Google, or not actioned (already gone, insufficient information, not found, or other), plus any sent to the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) for assessment.
Removed content, by reason
The removed URLs in the selected year by category. Almost all were illegally-filmed photos and videos.
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