Part 1: Records of that day in July 2019

In July 2019, we saw hell in the palm of our hands.
The perpetrators and their spiritual supporters in the Telegram chatroom
Should we report on the Nth Room incident?
Are you the victim?
Opening a chat room for police and fireworks
Can we help?
You can't catch Telegram?
Chronicle of Sexual Exploitation Perpetrators
The Watchman who said he would never be caught
acquaintance rape
Victim A's tracker
Memorial service for the perpetrators
A ray of light called the media
The second Nth Room
Welcome to Video: Where the Freed Fly Away
We couldn't delete Telegram
Who gave the doctor money?
Even trust in the National Assembly
Nth Room Tracker and Doctor's Arrest
Sparks are rising

Part 2: The Story of the Fire and the Flame

Chapter 1: Encounter
Chapter 2 Something seems wrong, something feels uncomfortable
Chapter 3: Starting to Make My Voice Hear
Chapter 4: Where Should I Go to See Me Again?
Chapter 5: Starting the interview
Chapter 6: Nth Room Report, and What Happened Afterward
Chapter 7: The Beginning of the Chasing Flame

Part 3 Burning Together

Starting 2020
A week after the doctor's arrest, we
So that the victim can return to his daily life
Everyday sexual crimes
The victim is right next to us
The Beginning of the 'Outreach' Solidarity
“You guys have become this people.”
Don't demand victimhood from victims.
No victim deserves to be victimized.
Is victim support going well?
I was really a victim of God's will
How to Prevent Nth Rooms? Blind Spots Uncovered
Your Honor, what do the people think?
What is this again?
At the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office meeting
Two lectures

In conclusion - there is definitely an end
Epilogue - Our Chat Room

Appendix 1 - Rewriting Judicial Justice: Statement from the Citizens' Court (Rally) to Eradicate Sexual Violence and Sexual Exploitation
Appendix 2 - "Selling Child Sexual Exploitation Material?"... Illegal Activity on Telegram (First Coverage of the Nth Room)

A year ago, they were ordinary college students preparing for employment.

A year ago, in July 2019, 'Bul' and 'Dan' were college students preparing for employment.
Bul-Dan, an aspiring journalist, was preparing for a contest to build up his employment credentials, just like any other college student in South Korea.
I decided to enter the News Agency Promotion Association's 'Investigative In-Depth Reportage' contest and begin reporting on the topic of 'illegal filming', which I have been following with interest.
The name of the reporting team is 'Fireworks.'

As the topic of 'illegal filming' became a hot topic, the Internet was the place to report.
Sparks finds a Google blog called AV-SNOOP run by 'Watchman' after 10 minutes of searching on Google.
This blog first revealed the existence of the Nth Room. Following a link from AV-SNOOP, Spark infiltrates a Telegram chatroom called "Gotham Room," discovering that dozens of derivative rooms exist within the room. He then infiltrates one of them.
Spark witnesses the scene where 2,500 illegally filmed videos are exchanged in just one derivative room.
It wasn't over yet.
One of the reasons why participants in the derivative room exchanged illegally filmed material was to meet the conditions for entering the Nth Room.
Spark, who had been waiting for a participant to come forward with relatively easy authentication conditions, finally infiltrates Room 1 of the Nth Room.
The flame records the feelings at that time like this.

“Is this really happening in real life? Is this something that people living in our country, in our time, are doing?” (p. 23)

Spark, who witnessed a horrific crime taking place in a Telegram chatroom, reports it to the police, saying, "I can't just stand by and watch and write an article."
That came before the article.
Two ordinary college students begin to track down the Nth Room while simultaneously conducting reporting and cooperating with the police.
And their lives flow in a direction that can never be ordinary.

The great ordinariness of this age

The titles ‘Nth Room first reporter and first informant’ follow the flames of the tracking team.
But the flame does not give meaning to the symbolism of the word 'first'.
Rather, I am angry at the reality that makes it inevitable for that word to be attached.
During its reporting, Spark learned that the existence of the Nth Room and the criminal activities taking place within it had already spread through male-dominated online communities.
However, it is said that the movement reported during that time has not been seen.
Additionally, Spark has learned that sexual exploitation, such as the Nth Room case, has been occurring steadily on Twitter and other platforms since 2016.
The crime, which had been ongoing for a long time, was only made public in March 2020, giving Spark the title of "first."
The fact that the tracking unit's flame was the 'first reporter' has great implications for us.
We can see in this incident that the spark instinctively focused on the 'victim'.
The Nth Room case is a case in which all the victims are women.

“We held on to our convictions, but we didn’t realize that the psychological shock we received from our perpetrators was seeping into us like a drizzle soaking into our clothes.” (p. 34)
“We didn’t witness the damage, we experienced it.” (p. 301)

While the media focused on reporting on the perpetrators, the tracking team Spark stood on the side of the victims.
The modifier 'first' attached to the flame of the pursuit team could also be said to mean 'the first reporter and first reporter to stand on the side of the victim.'
The two college students, who were aspiring journalists, were more faithful to the reporting guidelines than anyone else, and were concerned that their reporting might cause secondary harm to the victim. They could not just stand by and watch the damage, so they reported it to the police, informed the victims of the damage, and worked together to arrest the suspect.
Isn't this what the ordinariness we've forgotten looks like?
It's about being angry at injustice and sympathizing with the weak.
In the wake of the Nth Room incident, we are busy talking about the “banality of evil” that Hannah Arendt spoke of when referring to Nazi war criminals.
But the fireworks showed us the 'great ordinariness'.
What we should pay attention to is not the ordinariness of criminals, but the greatness of ordinary people.

The Fireworks investigation and police cooperation method involved observing dozens of chat rooms where sexual exploitation was taking place, capturing content that could serve as evidence, and reporting it.
Some people laughed at this, saying, "The tracking team collected evidence like children playing detective."
The flame speaks.
He said that he had to move forward by capturing all the conversations in the chat room.
From the time the Nth Room was first discovered in July 2019 until it was made public in March 2020, the tracking team's flame felt the loneliness of fighting alone for about nine months without anyone knowing about it, and the helplessness of wondering if the world would ever get better.
A very ordinary beginning, a very ordinary way, the anger, frustration, and empathy of two very ordinary college students.
The Chaser Flames are those who have presented the 'greatest ordinariness' of our time.
That is why the flame calls out to you, an ordinary person, and no one else.
Let's become 'us'.
Even the ordinary 'Our Flame' came this far in an ordinary way.

This book began with the desire to call you ours.

“Just seeing the footage of the Tracking Unit’s flames makes me angry.”

This is a comment left on a recent YouTube video of the Chaser Fireworks.
The tracking team Spark continues to report on digital sex crimes and report on sex crimes on social media.
He said he felt sorry that reporting a crime could be frustrating for someone.
Because even the fireworks themselves know how painful it is to have to repeatedly testify about the facts of the crime.

But Spark says, knowing full well that if we don't pay attention, digital sex crimes will worsen into even more brutal crimes, he has decided to reach out to you once more through this book.
In this book, the two people included their ordinary stories and the Nth Room tracker that had never been reported in the media.
The Nth Room tracker is in Part 1, the story of a simple but extraordinary day in the life of a single person is in Part 2, and solidarity with the victims and the future that the Republic of Korea must move towards is in Part 3.
From the time the Nth Room case was first reported to the public, the two had to fight amongst themselves for quite some time.
The trauma that arose during the reporting was a wound that the two of them had to bear entirely.
Sparks says that it was fortunate that there were two of them.

“While working as a pursuit team, I often think that it’s fortunate that there are two of us.
I'm realizing that there are so many things I would have given up on a long time ago if I were alone.
I wonder what kind of energy would be created if more people joined us.
“How wonderful it would be if we could get closer to readers through books.” (From the beginning)

The 25 women who read this book first all said the same thing:
“We all owe a great debt to the Tracking Flame.” This book began with the desire to call you “we.”
It is now time for us to join hands with the Spark of the Tracking Unit so that the Spark can say, 'Thank goodness it's us.'