Burning Sun - Ep 2: Kakao Talk

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Someone is holding popstar Jung’s phone in their hands. And what they see on it is shocking. Another journalist Kang Kyung-Yoon gets a tip-off and starts investigating the chat-rooms, and is overwhelmed by the crimes she sees. Sex videos being shared by well-known celebrities, and in some the women are unconscious and being sexually assaulted. She tracks down some of the victims, and the more she digs, the more she uncovers. For the first time, we give the definitive account of the sex scandals that brought down some of Korea’s biggest K-pop stars. It’s a tale of depravity, power and excess - hidden behind a facade of wholesome pop music. Co-creator, presenter and writer: Chloe Hadjimatheou Location Producer: Lee Hyun Choi Assistant Producer and researcher: Loonie Park and Jeong-One Park Translator and researcher: Jinny Yeon Music: Tom Haines at Brain Audio Sound Design: Carlos San Juan at Brain Audio Co-creator and executive producer: Kavita Puri ACTORS Joh: Pricilla Chung Kang Kyung-Yoon: Julee Cerda Jung Joon-Yung: J Sebastian Lee Kakao chat voices: Jun Noh, Wontek Woo, Je Seung Lee Drama director: Anne Isger

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:07.0	You're listening to Intrigue from BBC Radio 4. This is Burning Sun.
0:13.0	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.0	But if you're in the UK, the whole series is available right now, first on BBC Sounds.
0:25.0	One thing before we start, all the interviews and some of the clips in this podcast were in Korean.
0:31.0	So the voices you're here are actors, but their words are real.
0:41.0	I think the first thing that we have to clarify is why you don't want to go on the record.
0:47.0	What is it that you're afraid of that means that you don't want to reveal your identity?
0:52.0	You know, I think what I did was ethical, but it did have negative consequences. Some people.
1:02.0	Because of what I did, people lost their jobs, they lost their fame and honour.
1:07.0	You know, and people ended up in prison. So I'm scared that maybe some of them, if my identity were revealed.
1:18.0	This is someone I'm calling Joe.
1:22.0	Over the last year and a half, I've travelled to Seoul lots of times and met Joe for long chats in traditional Korean diners.
1:31.0	Late nights over, soju and noodles. And I've got to know her well.
1:36.0	This is the first time she's spoken in any kind of detail about this case.
1:42.0	That day, the one when this story walked into Joe's life and changed it forever, was as the cliche would have it.
1:49.0	Just a normal day, like any other.
1:52.0	Yeah, you want to watch out for those kinds of days.
1:55.0	This particular normal days, hot and muggy.
1:59.0	I think it was around the end of August of 2016.
2:05.0	What makes this day stand out from all the others is that Joe has pop star Jun Jun Young's mobile phone in her hands.
2:13.0	Jun, huge Korean TV star, lead singer of drug restaurant and solo artist.
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