Hello, I'm model Deokhwa Oh.
I'm here to answer any questions you may have about this incident
I would like to share my story about what happened to me.
I went to Artgravure in May 2020 to start a management contract.
I had been shooting a lot since 2018.
it was my first time working with gravure.
What the representative said during the meeting was
He told me what I should be careful of when managing, and the contract was very strict.
He told me that I shouldn't worry about how I look without a patch because it's difficult to correct, and that I should look natural. If I refuse, I can't work with amateurish ideas. I had never done that while shooting before, but I realized that it was because I wanted to make my gravure debut.
The camera test and the first shoot began.
During the first shoot, I was sexually harassed and molested throughout the shoot.
I was very humiliated and insulted by the representative's strange remarks and coercive elements, and I cried a lot and had a hard time, but I thought I should consider it because it was a gravure shoot that I said I would do.
The first work was not worth selling, so the first shoot was canceled.
After that, I was hurt by HIS words and actions.
I told him I couldn't sign a management contract.
And then in October, we did a second shoot.
During the second shoot, I was sexually assaulted.
I was 20 years old/19 years old at the time.
Before the shoot, I was told that gravure modeling is for kids who don't have a good relationship with their parents and have mental problems.
During the shoot, I was asked if I was being sponsored and who bought me the jewelry, and I said I bought it and I don't do any sponsorship.
After that, the shoot started.
I didn't want to do it, but he told me that my acting wasn't good enough and that it might be difficult for me to show sexual excitement because I was young, so he brought me a masturbator and asked me to use it.
I was nervous and didn't want to feel anything.
"If you don't want to say that you don't feel anything, this is the number one selling masturbator, and if you don't feel anything, you must be anorgasmic." He sexually harassed me by saying that he forced it himself and used it on me.
He then proceeded to sexually assault me by groping me, and after that, he started touching me and asked me to have sex with him. He recorded my consent and threatened to sue me if I talked about it anywhere.
Then he filmed me without my consent, and even when I asked him not to film me, he kept doing it, and when I asked him again and again, he said, "I'll just watch it," and when I asked him to delete it, he said, "Look in the gallery, I deleted it," but when he deleted it in his iPhone, the video remained in the trash, so I didn't think it was really deleted.
At first, I thought I was the only one who suffered this, and I couldn't talk to anyone, and I cried and was mentally exhausted, but now that I think I did it because I agreed, I feel like it's my fault, my mistake, and I feel so awkward.
I told a fellow model from another company about the situation
After that, the CEO kept asking me to meet up or have dinner.
but I remember rejecting them.
I didn't even know about grooming sexual assault at the time.
I just thought I was the only one who was experiencing it and that was because I consented to it.
I thought it was my fault and that she was trying to help me because I was an amateur and she couldn't, but I put it in the back of my mind and moved on.
The third shoot went well with the director.
On the 4th shoot, I shot with the CEO again.
At that time, there was no physical contact and I was shooting normally, but the photo work was taken so insincerely that I thought, "Oh, this is the kind of person he is."
I don't like that kind of coercion. After signing the Freelance contract
I worked as a freelancer until 2022.
At the end of 2022, I was hired as a web editor.
After this incident, I continued to shoot with good writers from other art companies.
When I went to see him, he would ask me to talk about my recent sex life, if I had a girlfriend, he would ask me about my girlfriend, or if I had any interesting sex-related stories, etc.
You were asking immature women in their 20s to model for you as a condition of employment.
gaslighting, intimidation, and grooming as a condition of modeling.
He sexually assaulted many models.
I would like to express my sympathy to the many victimized models.
