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Jeong Yoo-jung, who chose the victim through a tutoring app…
Other non-face-to-face apps are also not a safe zone

When the crime of Jeong Yoo-jeong (23), who murdered a woman of her age whom he met through a tutoring brokerage application (app) and mutilated and left the body, became known, the app came up with measures to strengthen the authentication. process for each subscriber. However, it seems that it is not easy to calm users’ anxiety just by preparing countermeasures in the app. There is a loud voice that the general non-face-to-face brokerage apps that have surged through the Corona 19 pandemic should be checked. According to a report by the Hankook Ilbo on the 4th, tutoring apps are easy targets of crime because they reveal tutors’ personal knowledge is just too much, while students’ and parents’ knowledge is poor.