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▲ Bucheon campaign to eradicate nuisance livestreamers
Local government crackdowns on low-quality, nuisance livestreams featuring verbal abuse toward passersby and bizarre dances have led to a significant drop in provocative broadcasting levels.
Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, announced that eccentric broadcasting has decreased over the past year following its declaration of a strong response against nuisance livestreamers around Bucheon Station.
According to Bucheon City, public grievances filed through the People's Sinmungo portal regarding personal broadcasts around Bucheon Station totaled 22 in the first half of this year, down 71.4% from 77 in the second half of last year.
The city explained that while monitoring showed a slight increase in outdoor filming personnel during the summer season, eccentric broadcasts and high-risk behaviors causing harm to citizens were not observed.
The city added that it continues to maintain a cooperative system with the police to prepare for potential incidents when large numbers of people gather for personal broadcasts.
Online, they were dubbed "Bucheon power lines" because the sight of them lining up with their smartphones mounted on stands around the plaza resembled crows perched on utility wires.
Deeming that the low-quality broadcasts by certain livestreamers around Bucheon Station severely tarnished the city's brand image and inflicted massive damage on merchants and citizens, Bucheon City held a meeting at Bucheon Station on September 30 of last year to declare its firm response policy.
Police have also taken a strict stance by successively arresting livestreamers engaging in illegal acts, such as forwarding a YouTuber with 500,000 subscribers, referred to as A, to prosecutors in June on charges including defamation, insult, and special intimidation.
(Photo courtesy of Bucheon City, Yonhap News)
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