South Korean Perp Walks: What's Up With the Blurred Handcuffs?

If you happened to catch television coverage [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9duz2DZ480] of then-South Korean President Park Geun-hye arriving for a court hearing in May, you might have noticed that before she even disembarked from the jail bus, there was a pixelated blob on the screen waiting for her. The pixelation was strategically placed to cover the middle of Park’s torso when she stepped off the bus, thereby obscuring the handcuffs she was wearing, in line with a custom in South Korea w