SEOUL — South Korea’s election authorities and law enforcement are scrambling to tackle a surge in deepfake videos ahead of the June 3 presidential election.
In mid-April, the campaign team of opposition frontrunner Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party, revealed it had received reports of a deepfake video in which Lee appears to hurl verbal abuse at his wife, Kim Hye-kyung.
