Nine out of 10 connecting to illegal websites are men

/ Yonhap

Nine out of 10 people who connect to illegal websites are men, a report said Sunday.

An average of 130,000 people access illegal websites everyday at home or from their workplaces, according to the report by the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC).

Among them, men accounted for 89 percent ― those in their 20s and 30s took up 86 percent.

The KCSC conducted the research by getting information on 60,000 web users aged over six who connected to the Internet via computer more than once a week last February.

The number of users connecting to those sites with smartphones far exceeded that of users who connected via PCs. About 440,000 smartphone users connected to the sites everyday during the same period.

The sites provided information on prostitution, gambling and illegal drugs.