Gim Joo Hyung, a 28-year-old South Korean who is a Singaporean PR, pleaded guilty to 3 counts of voyeurism and was sentenced to 22 weeks imprisonment on 4 October.
24 other charges were taken into consideration during his sentencing.
He was an NS Man with the Singapore Police Force’s Police Coast Guard, and was most notably the interpreter for the Trump-Kim summit held here back in 2018.
He was caught earlier this year in February using a pinhole camera to record videos of women who were using the toilet.
What happened?
Gim purchased a pinhole camera and installed it secretly inside a toilet on 23 February 2021.
He made sure that it was properly concealed and not visible immediately, turning it on and leaving the toilet.
The camera was spotted by a 23-year-old woman who removed the memory card and viewed the contents, discovering footage of herself along with 2 other victims who had used the toilet.
The memory card also contained a video of Gim handling the pinhole camera.
A police report was then made and Gim’s personal laptop was then seized, and forensics uncovered 178 downloaded obscene videos and 31 upskirt videos.
Gim later admitted to investigators that his voyeuristic act started in 2013 after he watched similar videos on p*rn websites.
He would use his phone to film women in public before transferring the videos onto his computer to watch them.
Images source: police.gov.sg and mha.gov.sg