The face of the scandal Seungri hails from Big Bang, one of the country’s biggest K-pop groups having sold over 140 million records and counting.
Seoul authorities also mobilised some 8,000 workers to find and remove hidden cameras from public places, such as toilets and changing rooms. They carried banners that said “my life is not your porn”. In July last year, tens of thousands of women participated in a large public protest to decry the filming “epidemic”, calling for better enforcement and punishment for perpetrators. These revelations come against a backdrop of illicit “ hidden camera” filming already plaguing South Korean society. Broadcaster SBS reported on Thursday that Lee had also watched videos shared by Jung, and replied with lewd comments. Seungri, Jung, Choi and Yong have all announced their departure from their respective groups.Īnother member of the chat group is Lee Jong-hyun, 28, from the band CNBlue. Yong, 29, posted an apology on Instagram, admitting that he had viewed and responded to footage shared by Jung. Other notable K-pop stars who were confirmed to be members of the illicit chat group include Choi Jong-hoon of FTIsland and Yong Jun-hyung of Highlight. He was questioned by the police on the same day as Seungri. “I filmed women without their consent and shared it in a chatroom, and while doing so I didn’t feel much guilt,” said Jung in a statement on Tuesday (March 12).
Police said he recorded videos of at least 10 women without their consent. Singer-songwriter and television personality Jung Joon-young, 30, has admitted to illicitly recording women he slept with and spreading them online through the KakaoTalk chat group. Several other high-profile K-pop celebrities are involved in the growing scandal as well. Suffering minor internal bleeding, he skipped out on a YG company concert in Singapore. In 2014, the car Seungri was driving collided with the one in front of him, before hitting a rail guard and flipping over. In 2012, Japanese media had leaked photos of him with an unknown woman in bed together. The recent scandal is not Seungri’s first. Outside the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Thursday (March 14), he told reporters that he was “sorry to the nation and everyone who has been hurt”. In March, it was revealed that Seungri and seven other people were part of a KakaoTalk group chat who shared footage of sexual encounters with women, some of whom could have been drugged. Prostitution is illegal in South Korea, and Seungri faces up to three years of jail time if convicted. The Burning Sun’s staff are also suspected of drugging women to help their customers rape them.
In February, another broadcaster, SBS, revealed incriminating text messages showing his involvement in procuring women for business clients. Seungri was the executive director of the club. The controversy began in January when Korean broadcaster MBC revealed footage of a man being assaulted by security officers at a nightclub called the Burning Sun, while purportedly attempting to help a woman who had been sexually assaulted. The 28-year-old who calls himself “The Great Seungri” - after F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby - is accused of being part of an online group chat that had shared sexually explicit videos of women, of supplying prostitutes to foreign investors at nightclubs in Seoul and of bribing the police. SINGAPORE - As far as scandals involving South Korean celebrities go, the one involving former Big Bang member Seungri could possibly be the biggest yet.
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