He could end up in prison for up to 5 years for this. The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Jung hours after he appeared at a hearing and apologized to the victims and to “everyone who has showed affection for me.” He was later escorted to a police station in downtown Seoul in handcuffs. This is apparently something of a cottage industry in South Korea though Jung wasn’t doing it for profit, just to show his his friends, other K-pop stars and actors, notably Seungri of Big Bang. The latest celebrity dumbass to get bit in the ass by making sex tapes is Jung Joon-young, a massively popular K-pop singer who was arrested for taking videos of himself having sex without telling the women he was filming and then uploading them on the internet. And even though Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee made a bunch of money on their sex tape, we had to see him steer a boat with his dong and I’m calling that a loss. Kelly how well making sex tapes worked out for him.
I mean, except for Kim Kardashian, but she’s only a celebrity because she made a sex tape. It remains to see how the situation will unfold, but as women’s rights activist Bae Bok-ju told The Guardian, “This case just shows that male K-pop stars are no exception when it comes to being part of this very disturbing reality that exploits women.Why are celebrities always making sex tapes? It never ends well. Since the shocking reveal, rumors that a member of the popular boy band EXO was involved in the chatroom have surfaced, which were immediately shut down by the talent agency SM Entertainment, saying “It is a groundless rumour.” The singer had been a member of a chatroom where a handful of men shared videos of women, one being former Big Bang member Seungri, which police is now investigating further. Only a few Big Bang‘s Seungri announced he was retiring from K-Pop after being accused of running a prostitution ring at his Seoul club, singer Jung Joon-Sung has been convicted for illegally distributing sex videos which he filmed without consent. “I filmed women without their consent and shared it in a chatroom, and while I was doing so I didn’t feel a great sense of guilt,” Joon-Sung said in his statement to the police, also adding, “I admit to all my crimes.”
The Chosun reports that members of the police force were allegedly also a part of the group chats and may have been protecting the K-pop stars’ actions from the media and fans. His contract has since been terminated by MAKEUS Entertainment, his agency.īoth Lee and Jung were allegedly members of online chat groups where secret sex tapes were shared. He is currently cooperating with the police’s investigation into suspicions that he shared the videos.
He has denied these claims and stated that he will be cooperating with Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency.Īccording to the Reuters report, Jung admitted yesterday to sharing videos which he secretly recorded while having sex with women. UPDATE: Following unsettling news of inappropriate behavior Reuters reports that K-pop stars Lee Seung-Hyun of Big Bang (Seungri) and Jung Joon-Young are allegedly a part of a secret group chat where police officers were members of.Ĭurrently, Lee is suspected of reportedly paying for prostitutes on behalf of foreign businessmen who were potentially interested in investing in his company. The Straits Times also reported that the next artist to be arrested could be Seungri. The scandal has allegedly widened to include celebrities Roy Kim and Eddie Kim. The chatroom allegedly included former Big Bang singer Lee Seung-Hyun (Seungri) and ex-FT Island member Jong-hoon. According to The Straits Time, “authorities said he had been indicted on charges of violating the law after a probe into his alleged filming of women in sex acts, and sharing of the footage in a chatroom.”
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UPDATE 04/19: Singer Jung Joon-Young is the first star to be arrested in the K-pop scandal that originally surfaced last month. Both Jung and Choi quit music in March after the now-confirmed allegations surfaced. As reported by BBC, a judge found Jung and Choi guilty of sexually assaulting women who were “drunk and unable to resist.” Jung was additionally charged with filming the victims nude and posting the footage on a group chat.