Park Ji-hyun

Park Ji-hyun (; born 29 March 1996) is a South Korean politician and social activist known for exposing one of the largest online sex-crime rings in South Korea, called the Nth Room. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), she served as the co-interim leader of the party from March to June 2022. Park was named to the Time100 Next, Time magazine's list of emerging leaders, as well as the 2022 BBC 100 Women and Bloomberg 50 lists, in recognition of her work in combating digital sex crimes and fighting for gender equality in politics.

Team Flame In 2018, Park was studying journalism at Hallym University and working as a student reporter, when #MeToo protests took place in central Seoul, demanding that the government do more to combat illegal filming of women and girls.

In July 2019, Park and Won started infiltrating the Nth room, a notorious sexual-abuse ring on Telegram, under the name "Team Flame". Working with the police, their investigation led to the arrest and eventual conviction of the two ringleaders, whom they discovered had been blackmailing and coercing women and girls as young as 12 years old into performing degrading acts, and then selling their images and videos illegally. In the days following the March presidential election, 11,000 new members joined the Democratic Party in Seoul alone, 80 percent of whom were women. while the conservative People Power Party won a decisive 12 out of 17 posts.

Park promptly resigned, along with other party leaders, blaming the party's resistance to reforms. The Korea Times noted, "She was also one of the rare leadership figures within the party speaking up against issues many tried to ignore, such as sex crimes committed by men in power, the DPK's failed real estate policy and radical voices that have wielded too much influence over the party." Park had formally joined as a party member on February 14, 2022.