Burning Sun - Ep 6: The Reckoning

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The K-pop stars are jailed for their crimes and some women hope this and other sex abuse scandals might finally spark a real social change. Instead, all it does is fan the growing divisions between men and women. Then the gender war goes mainstream and plays out during the recent presidential election. 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 Local 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 Kang Kyung-Yoon: Julee Cerda Goo Hoin: Jun Noh Choi In-Ho: Je Seung Lee Drama director: Anne Isger

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.3	One thing before we start.
0:07.5	Most of the interviews in this podcast were in Korean,
0:10.8	so some of the voices you'll hear are actors,
0:13.7	but their words are real.
0:19.2	It's February 2023,
0:21.6	and I'm catching up with reporter Kang Yun-yoon at work.
0:25.6	SBS News headquarters.
0:27.4	Yes.
0:29.2	Is this your seat?
0:30.8	She's the journalist who broke the story of how a group of K-pop stars
0:35.2	were sending each other videos and pictures of women
0:38.0	they'd secretly recorded during sex,
0:40.8	some of whom weren't conscious at the time.
0:44.4	Actually, we thought we'd be standing out in the cold,
0:47.5	hoping to catch a glimpse of K-pop star Sun Lee,
0:51.6	not outside her concert hall or a nightclub surrounded by his fans,
0:56.3	but leaving prison a free man again after 18 months behind bars.
1:02.5	I heard that he was probably going to be released at midnight,
1:06.2	and I planned to get there earlier than the photographers and other media,
1:10.6	so I could secure the front row, but we all had it wrong.
1:14.9	He came out two days earlier, no media outlets were there.
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