A new BBC World Service documentary revisited the Burning Sun club scandal in 2019 that made ex-K-pop idol Seungri quit the group Big Bang and retire from the entertainment industry, filming sex videos without the consent of women, and the courage of two female Korean journalists who exposed...
Seungri, a former member of K-pop boy band Big Bang, was released from prison on Feb. 9 after completing his sentence for various crimes. An official from Korea’s Ministry of Justice told Korean media that Seungri was released at about 5 a.m. on Feb. 9 from Yeoju Prison in Gyeonggi Province,...
Convicted ex-idol Seungri, former member of K-pop boy band Big Bang, will be released from prison in February after serving his sentence for various crimes including prostitution brokerage. Seungri will be released from the Yeoju Prison, located in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, after serving his...
Convicted idol Seungri, former member of K-pop boy band Big Bang, was to be transferred to a civilian prison on June 9 along with his discharge from the military. Last May 26, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld his prison sentence of one year and six months. Seungri (inset) will be serving the...
K-pop group Big Bang will be making their comeback in four years. "Big Bang will release a new song this spring. They have finished recording the new song and they are currently preparing to shoot a music video,” said YG Entertainment on Feb. 7. (From left) Big Bang's T.O.P, G-Dragon, Taeyang and...
Former K-pop boy band Big Bang member Seungri scored victory when a military court commuted his sentence to one year and six months from three years following his conviction in August last year on nine charges including prostitution mediation. On Jan. 27, the High Military Court of the Ministry of...
Former Big Bang member Seungri (Instagram) Former K-pop boy band Big Bang member Seungri, 31, filed an appeal with the General Military Court in Korea, which convicted him on nine charges including prostitution mediation. Last Aug. 12, the General Military Court found Seungri guilty on nine...
Seungri (Instagram) The personal information of Seungri (real name Lee Seung-hyun), 30, former member of K-pop boy band Big Bang, will be registered with the government for his sex crime after he was convicted by a military court on Aug. 12 on nine charges. A general military court...
Seungri (Instagram) A general military court sentenced on Aug. 12 former K-pop boy band Big Bang member Seungri to three years in prison on various charges such as prostitution mediation. Seungri, 31, was ordered by the military court to be immediately detained, Yonhap News reported. His...
Seungri (Instagram) Embattled Korean celebrity Seungri, former member of K-pop boy band Big Bang, must be put in jail for five years if prosecutors have their way. Military prosecutors have asked a general military court to sentence Seungri to five years in prison for different charges and...
Kim Sang-kyo (left) and Girls’ Generation’s Hyoyeon at Burning Sun club (Kim Sang-kyo’s Instagram) K-pop group Girls’ Generation member and DJ Hyoyeon was dragged into the Burning Sun club scandal that forced Big Bang member Seungri to retire from the entertainment industry in March...
South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld the jail terms of disgraced K-pop stars Jung Joon-young, 31, and Choi Jong-hoon, 30, former leader of band FT Island, for raping women and other crimes. In a ruling handed down on Sept. 24, the 2nd Division of the Supreme Court headed by Presiding Judge Park...
