Burning Sun- EP6: 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.
0:05.0	One thing before we start, most of the interviews in this podcast were in Korean,
0:10.0	so some of the voices you'll hear are actors, but their words are real.
0:19.0	It's February 2023, and I'm catching up with reporter Kang Yun-yoon at work.
0:25.0	SBS News headquarters.
0:27.0	I was this your seat.
0:57.0	I was in prison, a free man again after 18 months behind bars.
1:02.0	I heard that he was probably going to be released at midnight,
1:06.0	and I planned to get there earlier than the photographers and other media,
1:10.0	so I could secure the front row, but we all had it wrong.
1:15.0	He came out two days earlier, no media outlets were there.
1:19.0	The former member of K-pop group, Big Bang, and co-owner of the nightclub,
1:24.0	Burning Sun, was found guilty of procuring prostitutes 29 times in a seven-week period,
1:32.0	for himself and his friends, but mostly for rich business associates from Japan and Taiwan.
1:38.0	And guilty of spy camp crimes, for sharing an illicit photo of naked women in messages with his friends.
1:46.0	Guilty two of other crimes, like in bezeling money, including from the Burning Sun nightclub,
1:52.0	and arranging thugs to intimidate people who annoyed him.
1:57.0	But lots of Sun Lee fans around the world think he was unfairly tarnished by the sex scandals,
2:03.0	because he was never charged with assaulting any women.
2:06.0	I think he believes he's innocent. He sees himself as a victim.
2:12.0	I wondered if that was true. After he got out, I asked Sun Lee for an interview through his lawyer, but he declined.
2:23.0	Do you know anything about Chung and how he's been doing in prison?
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