South Korean police investigate man making prank calls to police stations and embassies and making money from ”abusive language battles”

A group that has been making prank calls to police stations, embassies and other institutions to engage in "verbal battles" over internet voice chat for several years has been causing social controversy.
Police plan to investigate the group that used anonymity to disrupt various business activities. According to a report by SBS on the 14th, the group was involved in a channel called "7pm Abusive Language" on the voice chat platform Discord.
"Battle" produced content such as prank calls and received sponsorship money from viewers. Discord Channel is a platform that mainly uses voice chat, and is mainly used by people in their teens and twenties.
of young people use it to communicate while playing games. According to app analysis service WiseApp Research, from January to May this year, 10,000 people in their teens and 20s used
It was the second most used service. The first place was the university communication app "Everytime". Discord was originally designed to facilitate voice chat between small groups of acquaintances.
In recent years, however, content in which famous users engage in "verbal battles" with others has become more active. In addition, prank calls to public institutions have been made to obtain donations from viewers.
The person believed to be the operator of this channel called the police station and imitated a child's voice saying, "My father hit me," creating a scene of an assault, and also called the British Embassy in Korea.
"I was kidnapped. There was a gun next to me." When the embassy suspected that it was a prank call, the caller made abusive remarks and mocked them, saying, "Record it. What are you going to do?"
Last October, this channel was also responsible for the incident where a prank call was made to Children's Grand Park in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, claiming that an explosive device had been placed there, causing citizens to evacuate.
SBS reported that the police have launched an undercover investigation into the channel.