A flight attendant has been jailed in Singapore for voyeurism, after he secretly placed a camera in the hotel room of a colleague…
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Singapore jails flight attendant for voyeurism
A 37-year-old South Korean flight attendant has just been sentenced to four weeks in jail in Singapore, after pleading guilty to one count of voyeurism. The man was a chief flight attendant for South Korean low cost carrier T’way Air.
This situation unfolded during a layover in Singapore on April 27, 2025, while the crew was staying at a hotel. The victim invited the other flight attendants to join her in her hotel room to have dinner. A group of colleagues, including the accused, entered her room at around 2AM (airline crews have weird schedules, of course).
The chief flight attendant had brought a mini camera into the room, which he intended to place into the victim’s bathroom, in order to record her. Just before 4AM, he entered the bathroom with the camera. He then turned on the video recording mode, and positioned it on the countertop, facing the toilet. He placed the victim’s hand towel on top of the device.
A short while later (while everyone was still in the room), the victim used the bathroom, and as she washed her hands, she picked up the hand towel and found the camera hidden underneath. The device also had a blue light, indicating that it was still in video recording mode.
So she asked her colleagues whether the camera belonged to any of them, but everyone kept silent. According to the prosecution:
“While the victim and the others in the victim’s room had initially agreed to report the matter to the hotel later that morning, the victim became increasingly anxious as time passed because of her fear that she had been recorded.”
So the victim then contacted hotel staff at around 5:20AM, and police were called. While all crew members were allowed to depart the country on their return flight on April 28, the accused was arrested upon his return to Singapore on May 16, 2025, when he was working a different trip.
It’s not clear how the camera was traced to the accused, but he ended up pleading guilty to the charges. Per the prosecution:
“The victim was severely distressed as a result of the accused’s offence, particularly because she had trusted and respected the accused who she regarded as a mentor.”
The chief flight attendant got off pretty easy, because in Singapore, voyeurism can carry a sentence of up to two years in jail, a fine, or even being caned. The victim has had to seek psychiatric treatment following the incident, for depression, anxiety, anger, and insomnia, and she also had to take more than two weeks off work.
What a horrible thing to do to someone else
It’s really unfortunate that anyone would do this, let alone a supervisor who is invited to the hotel room of a subordinate. The level of creepiness and intent here is really next level. He was invited into a hotel room and brought a camera, clearly with the intent of doing this, so it wasn’t a spur of the moment decision (not that this would be okay either, but…).
Then he thought the best approach was to simply place the camera under a hand towel, which would almost certainly be used to wash hands after use, when he was trying to creep on the flight attendant using the toilet? It’s almost like he was getting off on getting caught as well. Awful.
Tangentially related, I recently learned how South Korean cell phones have mandatory shutter sounds when pictures are snapped, specifically to avoid people taking (sexually creepy) photos of others without them noticing. That’s quite something. I guess I’m happy I’m not from South Korea, because my flight reviews would be a lot more complicated if there was a noise every time I took a picture!
Bottom line
A flight attendant from South Korea has been sentenced to four weeks in jail in Singapore, after being charged with voyeurism. He was the chief flight attendant, and one of his colleagues invited the crew into her room for dinner. Not only did he enter her room, but he placed a camera in her bathroom, pointed at her toilet. How terrible, as I can only imagine how violated the victim must feel.
Singapore has a low tolerance for this type of activity. In some train stations, you can see a drawing of a camera pointed upwards toward the legs and skirts of a female physique and a call in number. I've seen a similar massage on the side of taxis.
The perp probably would have been caned if he were Singaporean.
I am male myself and I find it disturbing and disgusted that the mostly the younger men are resorting to something like this and notoriously upskirt imaging etc. I do not know what to make of this? Can I profile this behaviour to certain regions or predominantly techies or tech geeks? Is the thrill the spying or just that these geeks are not socially adaptable?
This sort of thing is a huge problem in South Korea. It comes from too much repression, in my opinion.
Maybe like the Catholic Church ?
Uh oh...what have I started now !
Secret cams in girls bathrooms are a huge thing in Korea. I asked a friend that’s from there what are people supposed to do? She said you just make sure you wear a mask when using public bathrooms because the creeps upload it to websites. Yikes, hopefully she was just messing with me. Would not want to raise a kid there.
And in Japan they have signs on the metro escalators warning women to be careful of "upskirting" (yes that's on the signs). They also have women-only subway cars during rush hour to prevent groping. It's unusual because Japan is generally a safe and respectful society, but there are outliers.
I think there is/was and Indian airline which offered a female only seating area !
Sadly, a good idea especially in some cultures...
Japanese phones also have mandatory shutter sounds.
Imagine your own colleague doing this. Vile
Imagine having this law in the U.S. and all the mouth breathers screaming freedumbs.
Yeah, it's rotten. But, other than the fact that the person was a flight attendant and it occurred in a hotel, is this really a travel news item? VFTW 2
I could certainly see it related to females traveling to S. Korea and/or other countries where this may be a more common issue. Good to be aware & take a few more precautions if possible...