Burning Sun - Ep 6. The Reckoning

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 30 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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:41.0	One thing before we start, most of the interviews in the podcasts. but their words are real. It's February 2023,
0:57.0	and I'm catching up with reporter Kang Union at work.
1:01.0	SBS news headquarters.
1:04.0	Yes.
1:05.0	Oh, is this your seat?
1:07.0	She's the journalist who broke the story of how a group of K-pop stars
1:11.0	were sending each other videos and pictures of women they'd
1:14.5	secretly recorded during sex, some of whom weren't conscious at the time.
1:20.4	Actually, we thought we'd be standing out in the cold hoping to catch a glimpse of K-pop star
1:26.5	Sung Li, not outside a concert hall or a nightclub surrounded by his fans but leaving prison a free man again after
1:36.1	18 months behind bars. I hope that he was probably going to be released at
1:41.8	midnight and I plan to get there earlier
1:44.8	than the photographers and other media so I could secure the front row but we all
1:50.0	had it wrong. He came out two days earlier, no media outlets were there.
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