By Lee Kyung-min
About 200 men are under investigation for buying or attempting to buy sex, by participating in orgies organized by three men who ran a website where they allegedly distributed footage of their events, police said Thursday.
This is an expanded investigation of an earlier case involving the three website operators who hired nine female prostitutes to bring in 71 male buyers.
Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency said it secured cellphone numbers of the 200 men after reviewing the call logs of the website operators who gathered customers for the event between January last year and September.
The suspects include a resident at a university hospital near Seoul, a high school teacher in his 30s and a soldier in his 30s.
Police detained them in September in a parking lot near a motel where the orgy was about to take place in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province.
Police said the three organized 29 similar events in motels in Suwon and nearby Anyang.