All language subtitles for Burning Sun_ Exposing the secret K-pop chat groups - BBC World Service Documentaries - English

In South Korea,

K-Pop stars have fame, fortune
and millions of female fans.

But some

led a double life.

A hidden world

where videos of women being drugged, raped
and humiliated were shared.

There was a room deep in the club.

Whatever were to happen in there

you wouldn't hear anything.

Their crimes would never have been revealed,

had secret messages
between them not been leaked.

This is the story of those

who tried to bring them to justice.

After coming back home

I was in shock.

Should I begin with the police collusion?

The sexual assaults?

Or the illegal filming?

I didn't know where to start.

It was overwhelming.

Hey, friend.

My name is Kang Kyung-yoon.

If you ask me

why I became an entertainment journalist,

I feel that what's happening in this industry

is like a microcosm of our society.

Money, power, women, sex...

The more I work in this field,

the more I see

the bottom of the pit.

Society's true face.

The fuze that ignited

this scandal was a K-Pop star caught secretly
filming a woman.

A crime known as Molka.

'Molka' is a word that only exists in Korean.

The correct term is illegally filmed footage.

A woman who is unaware

is captured in a situation where she can feel humiliation.

There are so many places where molka could happen.

In public places

like changing rooms or toilets.

It can be taken between people in a relationship

in order to destroy someone's life.

Once filmed, it can be distributed.

I am journalist Park Hyo-sil.

I was the first reporter to break the story that Jung

was accused of a sexual offence on September 23, 2016.

The tip-off we received

was that Jung secretly filmed his girlfriend

and she accused him of molka.

Jung had risen to fame as a singer songwriter,
self releasing love ballads like “Amy’.

He had an edgier image
than the typical K-Pop star.

He was critically acclaimed

and hugely popular with female fans.

I published the story on Friday evening

at 10:50pm as breaking news.

Following that, many media outlets

went into a frenzy to corroborate the story.

If we call her by the alias Kyung-mi.

While they were having sex at his house

Jung filmed molka

and Kyung-mi caught him in the act.

Concerned that the video might be distributed

Kyung-mi later reported the incident as molka.

Two days later, Jung is questioned by the police.

During the investigation

a major issue arose

when he didn't give his phone to the police.

Had he submitted his phone to the police

they would have run a forensics test

Maybe he was worried that deleted files could be restored.

That's why he consulted his lawyer

and left his phone with a private forensics company.

On finding the phone is with a forensics lab,

the police asked for a report

rather than looking at the phone themselves.

It became clear the investigation was rushed

with the intention of simply closing the case.

A recording of Jung's lawyer

putting pressure on the forensics
lab was later leaked.

We talked with the police and they'll be there soon.

The reason I called is

it doesn't matter to us whether it can be restored or not

but the police suggested it would be best

to say it's impossible to restore.

It's just an unnecessary legal case.

Jung is also a star in a national TV show:

“Two days and one Night” on channel KBS.

A lawyer representing the channel
contacts Jung's accuser, Kyung-Mi.

According to the lawyer, if there was insufficient evidence,

she could end up receiving

a harsh sentence for false accusation.

She was scared when she heard that

she didn't pursue legal action.

Kyung-Mi issues a public statement saying
Jung had done nothing wrong and apologising

to him.

Jung's agency

hastily calls a press conference to clear his name.

I never imagined that what was supposed to be

a joke between the two of us

would become public

and develop into such a big scandal.

I was wrong to think

that everything would go away

if I was innocent.

Public opinion framed Jung

as the innocent victim.

This created a narrative where the media was the villain

and I bore the brunt of it.

Jung's phone is never checked

by the police, and he
thinks he is in the clear.

What he didn't know is that a carbon
copy had been made of his phone data.

Three years later, someone with access
to the data decides to leak it.

It eventually reaches journalist Kang.

The KakaoTalk material I received

contained Jung's chat messages that he shared

between 2015 and 2016.

Jung's phone data showed

he was in a chat group with male friends
on popular Messenger app KakaoTalk.

Hey, friend.

My heart still hurts when I think of that group chat.

I had no idea it would be that serious.

I had thought that the issue would be

whether the molka of Kyung-mi

from 2016 was in there

as was reported in the media.

The video of Kyung Mi wasn't there.

But Kang did find many other
videos of Jung with women.

And began to recognise other famous faces too.

This video shows Jung encouraging a girl
to drink alcohol with his fellow K-Pop star,

Choi Jong-hoon.

Choi, do it again. It was ******* sexy.

It was ******* sexy, that kiss.

- Really?

- Yes.

- It was ******* sexy.

- I don't want to.

- Do it just one more time.

Choi Jong-hoon led the K-Pop rock band FT Island.

He played lead guitar and was given
centre stage in their stadium concerts.

Choi, inside that chatroom, was just like Jung

incredibly obsessed with women.

but in terms of power relationships,

he was obedient.

He rarely initiated anything.

He did what Seungri told him to do.

The biggest celebrity in the chat
group was megastar Seungri.

He had become famous in the K-Pop
supergroup Big Bang,

and also had a solo career.

Branding himself the Jay Gatsby of Korea,

his party lifestyle was recorded
in slick promo videos.

Like Gatsby from the film ©The Great Gatsby',

he succeeded at a young age

and was one of the few in the country

who could throw the grandest of parties.

So he nicknamed himself 'Seungstby'

and likened himself to Gatsby.

Kang begins going through the KakaoTalk
messages chronologically,

tracking the secret life of the celebrity friends.

The data starts in late 2015,

as Seungri hosts a series of parties
to celebrate his birthday.

Seungri has invited
potential business partners

and warns Jung to be on his best behaviour.

Seungri had investors in Japan

in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China too.

So, when he went there, with his reputation,

he was able to make contact with the wealthiest people

and he saw a major business opportunity.

I think Seungri thought "I could really
become one of the richest men in Korea".

Seungri was using women as a tool

to get investment from wealthy people.

A month later,

Jung, Choi, and four other chat group
members go skiing in a resort near Seoul.

This promotional film shows off

the five star facilities.

It's in KakaoTalk messages from this trip

that Kang sees evidence
of serious sexual assault.

Choi and Jung's group

invited some of Choi's female friends

to a ski resort.

They shared drinks together.

And the women say that not long after the drinks,

they lost almost all their memory.

At 8 p.m.,

a friend of Seungri uploads a video to the chat group

to share with Seungri,
who was not on the trip.

In that situation, several illegally
filmed items emerged.

One was a photo taken from the first floor

looking down onto the ground floor

another was a video of a man and woman having sex

filmed from behind, through an open door,
like it was a joke.

The images appear to show
the rape of unconscious women

by another chat group member,
a friend of Jung and Choi.

I had enough suspicion the women
were completely unaware.

However, I didn't understand how they took this,

who the victims were,

and why these men took such photos.

That was a question for me.

Kang begins to see a pattern of abuse.

She finds messages from two months later
that directly incriminate

two of the K-Pop stars in sexual crimes.

An incident took place in March 2016

when Jung had a fan signing event in Daegu.

The day before at a nearby hotel

One woman was raped while she was unconscious.

The woman had been gang
raped by Jung and Choi.

With other friends and members
of the chat group present.

They say, 'she was so drunk she almost cracked her head'.

Most of their fans are female

but these chats had exposed the real face of these men

who were projecting a gentle image.

But those faces

weren't simple or plain

they were so disgusting,

playing around with women as if they were toys,

and incapacitating them to insult them.

to loathe them.

They were bragging and sniggering about that

as if they were trophies.

As Kang trolls further through
the KakaoTalk messages,

she finds clues as to why this
group felt above the law.

There are two parts to Jung's chatrooms.

One is the sexual violence by Jung and his friends.

The second is suspected police collusion.

Choi of FT Island had been caught drink driving

but a police officer had protected him.

When I saw that, my legs shook.

You couldn't help but think there was

a very powerful police officer

behind Seungri and his friends.

Inside this world, Seungri was like the boss.

The friends share this video of Seungri

with a woman at a party.

Seungri’s membership of one of
the biggest K-Pop groups,

Big Bang, gives him enormous influence.

You have to be respectful.

- Do you want me to be respectful to you?

We should be respectful about everything.

- Yes.

Look, I might be a member of Big Bang

but here in this setting...

- I know, you're so nice. Really nice.

He believed that if he uttered a word,

people in Korea, China and America

would move for him.

And at the very least

that the Gangnam club scene would move for him.

Gangnam is a district of Seoul.

A city that¹s very different by day and by night.

By day, there are fancy restaurants

and many big companies.

By night, there are many clubs and lounge bars

and adult entertainment establishments.

Seungri is using his contacts
with police and investors

to become a major player in the lucrative
business of Gangnam nightclubs.

According to the KakaoTalk chats,

someone named the Police
Prosecutor General

is helping protect their businesses.

Seungri partners with a rich
businessman from the chat group

and gets his famous friends involved.

With Jung and Choi

they created their own drinking establishment

called Mildang Pocha.

Many people visited the place

and I understand sales were incredibly high.

Within days of the opening, Jung was
recording Molka on the premises.

Sharing it in a direct message
with another friend.

It's at this point in time,

August 2016 that Jung's phone data ends.

As victim Kyung-Mi makes her
initial complaint of Molka

and he gives his phone to the forensics lab.

But the police don't check his messages

and he's exonerated.

Park, who first reported on Jung's
case, is attacked by his fans

and men calling themselves anti-feminist.

The first wave of attacks

came as comments and malicious emails.

After about six months,

I started receiving phone calls in the early hours,

around 2am, and they would continue

for about three to four hours until 5am.

When I didn't answer the phone, they started sending

obscene images and expletives through Messenger.

At the time, I was pregnant, and I was in such shock.

I was so mentally shattered

that even going out of the house was difficult.

After that, I had two miscarriages

and now I am childless.

It was so difficult, but I couldn't quit

because I felt like if I did, they would win.

and many other female journalists

could suffer the same damage.

So I thought I should endure this time.

Seeing that in real time was so painful to watch.

And when I later came to report on the Jung case

I definitely worried about getting attacked by fans

in the same way or perhaps even worse,

and didn't know if I could bear it.

The friends ambitions continue unchecked.

Love moves in mysterious ways?

No, love is just moving a finger.

Seungri does a lucrative deal
to become the face of Tinder in South Korea.

Let's meet up for real.

And he plans his boldest business venture yet:

to launch the biggest club in Gangnam.

But as director, he will need investment.

In December 2017,

he hires an island in the Philippines
for his birthday party.

There was an event where Seungri

took a dozen young women from Korea

to a resort in Palawan, the Philippines.

He invited wealthy people
he wanted investment from

to that party.

He received huge investments

through those connections

and opened Burning Sun,

the largest club in Gangnam at the time.

The club was located in
Le Meridien Hotel in Gangnam.

Now derelict.

When it opened, Burning Sun was
the most prestigious nightclub in South Korea.

Former employees

spoke to us on the condition
we concealed their identities.

They were MDs, short for merchandises,

who would make sure there were girls
in the club to cater to VIP guests.

We would meet the guests or VIPs at the entrance

and go down the stairs.

It's not brightly lit,

but if you keep going into the dark,

you'll find the main bar.

From there, we would escort the guests to the stage area,

while the VIPs were taken directly to their tables.

I didn't have to worry about high-paying VIPs.

They brought their own bodyguards.

We heard a club was opening
at Le Meridien,

and Seungri was going to run it,

so we were all looking forward to it.

Burning Sun was special

because the CEO, Seungri, was a DJ there

which attracted many female guests

and more men reserved tables.

Ko Eunsang is a reporter

who was one of the first to
investigate Burning Sun.

In order to book these tables,

you'd have to pay a minimum $1500

$7500 at the weekend.

At an event like Halloween or Christmas,

from thousands to tens of thousands,

to even $75,000 for a table.

Dozens of girls line up and come in,

lighting up fireworks and cheering,

with the billboard showing that this is the one

who bought a $75,000 package.

Because the VIPs pay that much money

to come in, right?

They obviously expect something extra.

'I've spent this much money'

'What pleasure can you give me in return?'

So they started making secret spaces for just the VIPs.

To attract male customers,

MDs take pictures of pretty women who are drunk,

secretly, without their permission,

and send them to the VIPs.

MDs Use KakaoTalk

to communicate throughout the club.

[The date rape drug] GHB was used a lot.

Normally, the customers that used it were in private rooms.

There was a room incredibly deep in the club.

There were lots of guards outside the room

and whatever happened in there,

no-one would hear a thing.

I saw women unconscious

after being given GHB at Burning Sun

almost every day.

One VIP client I met

told me that if a VIP client picked out a woman

and said: 'Bring that woman to me’,

they did whatever needed to be done to her

to make her unconscious.

The VIP would then take her up to the hotel

or get a car to a different location.

A young woman

who was a regular guest at Burning Sun
agreed to speak to us about her experiences.

We are protecting her identity.

When I went to Burning Sun,

we would get a table for ourselves, all girls.

It was after I’d had one or two drinks, perhaps?

I went to the toilet with my friend and said:

'I feel weird today, I'm getting drunk really quickly.'

'I think I shouldn't drink anymore.'

Then we came back to our seats.

But then suddenly I woke up on a bed.

She found herself in a hotel room

with a man who had given
her drinks at Burning Sun.

Then he suddenly ran at me

and forced my clothes off.

I tried to scream but he covered my mouth,

and I tried not to get attacked

so I keep trying to get up, right?

And from above, he kept

sitting on me and pressing me down.

Because I was screaming, he covered my mouth

with both hands.

He kept shoving me down, as if he was giving me CPR.

I couldn't breathe.

My mouth hurt so much,

but because he was sitting on me,

my ribs were hurting too.

However much I struggled, it didn¹t work.

So I gave up.

I felt like he was going to kill me.

I was in so much pain, but he wouldn't stop

and he kept trying to do the deed.

So I just gave up

and just lay there.

I felt so sick.

I grabbed the rubbish bin and vomited.

I vomited and...

I knelt down on the floor and begged.

I begged him to send me home.

I said I missed my mum so much.

I cried and begged.

He said he'd let me go if I take a photo.

He told me to smile but I couldn't.
I wanted to cover my face.

Because he didn’t let me, I just made a peace sign.

Then I rushed out.

But my memory of that is hazy.

She goes to the police to report rape.

The man claims they had consensual sex
using the photo as evidence.

He was allowed to leave Korea.

In that secretive space,

things you could barely imagine were happening,

but no-one could know.

It gradually became

their very own dark fortress.

The main reason why so many incidents

happened in Gangnam clubs

was because the police did not enter

to deal with the incidents.

People I interviewed who worked at the clubs

said they gave cash to the police

to try to cover up the incidents.

In January 2019,

Seungri 's empire is dealt a public blow.

A customer at Burning Sun makes allegations
he'd been beaten up by club staff

and that police had stood by.

CCTV from outside The club shows
him being beaten in the street.

A customer in his 20s was assaulted
by security guards at a club.

His ribs were severely injured,
but the police who were dispatched

did not arrest the people who attacked him,

but arrested the victim.

CCTV footage emerges of a woman

being dragged from the club by staff.

As these problems kept emerging,

the Burning Sun situation snowballed out of control.

Then, a shocking case of Molka surfaces,

filmed inside Burning Sun
and known as the Red Bathroom video.

It goes viral on porn sites.

One of my team members told me

that a VIP customer went into the room

and asked him to take a video with him.

They filmed it together, but now it's spreading around.

He was worried it could become a problem.

In that video,

the girl had a completely blank expression

and was completely naked.

Because so many videos

and photos like that

were being taken and shared,

I didn't really think of it

as being a big deal at the time.

Under pressure from the police and the media,

the management of Burning Sun
are forced into a decision.

An official of Burning Sun has revealed
that, due to internal circumstances,

Burning Sun will cease operations from tomorrow.

Seungri pauses a solo concert
to make a statement to his fans.

For all the incidents that arose due to my shortcomings,

for making many fans worried,

disappointed and causing them concern, I'm really sorry.

Actually, last year, while I was running my business,

there were certain images that were shown on TV,

which gave me a nickname.

A lot of people called me Seungtsby.

I think I wasn't humble enough.

Burning Sun closing down was...

Seungri likened himself to Gatsby, right?

So, it felt like Seungtsby¹s kingdom closing its doors.

Kang knows the phone data from The Informant,
which incriminates Seungri

and his friends, could
now become a huge story.

I was carrying out the investigation while I was pregnant

and my morning sickness was horrendous.

Every time I saw Jung's chatrooms,

I went to the toilet every 10 minutes

to vomit and then came back.

I didn't tell my colleagues.

I didn't tell my family, not even my husband.

I kept it to myself.

My husband knew I was pregnant,

but even he didn't know about this investigation at the time.

It was a huge secret.

I was at the most important point in my life

with what was happening inside my body,

but I had to get on with it.

Since we couldn’t know how it would turn out,

it was a difficult time.

I felt lonely and exhausted.

My name is Bang Jeong-hyun.

I am a lawyer in South Korea.

The first time I came across

this group chatroom was

when an anonymous informant

left the USB drives

containing the files in our office’s post box.

This was forensic data from the mobile phone

of the Korean singer Jung.

There was a need to make it public through the media.

That's how I came to collaborate with reporter Kang.

Kang then talks to her employers

SBS, a leading Korean broadcaster.

They agree she'll begin by
publishing a story on Seungri,

citing evidence from an unnamed
celebrity's phone

and showing he procured
prostitutes for investors in clubs.

I wondered if people would trust me.

An entertainment journalist

reporting on something as important as this.

Will there be credibility?

I was very worried.

It immediately becomes major news.

Within hours, Seungri arrives at a police station

for voluntary questioning.

This morning,

I submitted a petition to the police

asking for a thorough investigation on me.

In order for all these allegations
to be resolved as soon as possible,

I will cooperate in this investigation with sincerity.

What about prostitution and drug allegations in Burning Sun?

He is interrogated for almost 9 hours.

There is now huge speculation
about which celebrity’s phone

the evidence was from.

But Kang is still trying to corroborate
other key evidence.

The messages that imply
the stars have a senior

police contact.

The person who appears in the KakaoTalk

group chatroom as police,

who on earth is that person?

That was such an important point.

It was the most unsolvable problem.

Then Hara appeared and opened the door for me.

Hara was a successful solo
artist and member of K-Pop band Kara.

She was famous beyond Korea,
recording hits like “Wild in Japanese”.

Her image was streetwise and independent.

I still remember that day and her voice

saying: ‘Reporter, it's Hara.’

She said: ‘I really want to help you.’

I was so grateful.

Hara and Choi had been close since their debut.

Hara also knew Seungri and Jung too.

She told me that because she was friends with them,

she’d seen them on their mobile phones before,

and she said: ‘They’ve got some really weird things on there.’

'What you said was right.’

She asked me: 'How can I help?'
So I spoke honestly.

I need to know about that police officer,

but there's no way to know.

So could you help with that?

Then Hara called Choi

and asked that question for me.

I'm Hara's older brother, Hoin.

My sister Hara and Choi

had been close friends since their training days.

So she persuaded him to tell

journalist Kang what he knew.

When my sister spoke to Choi on speakerphone

I was listening next to her

She said:

'Choi, I can help you.’

'Tell this reporter everything that you know.’

Kang records the phone
conversation she has with Choi.

She asks him to identify
the officer referred to as

the Police Prosecutor General in the messages.

It seems like he must know someone very high up.

Yes, yes.

We actually met once and played a round of golf together.

I've heard he's currently at the presidential residence.

He did work for the police.

Choi told me that

the Police Prosecutor General was not a fictional character,

but a real person,

a police officer called Yoon Kyu-keun

who also had worked at the presidential residence.

Hara had helped Choi admit it.

Hara was a very brave woman.

She also said to me

'I am also a victim

of revenge porn.’

Hara had been a victim of Molka
the previous year.

She had reported her boyfriend to the police
for threatening to release intimate photos of her.

I remember he threatened her,

saying: 'I will end your celebrity career.’

My sister had become the singer

she'd always dreamed she could be.

She was worried she'd lose everything.

She was scared this would go public.

She was on her knees, begging him not to do it.

Security footage from Hara’s building goes viral,

showing her boyfriend in the lift,

and Hara apparently begging him
not to publish the photos.

On that CCTV, seeing that top star
who had shone on stage,

kneeling before a man and begging him

not to publish them, made my heart break.

Hara was desperate because she knew
she could lose everything.

Haras boyfriend was eventually
convicted for assault and blackmail.

Now, Hara had given Kang what
she needed for her investigation.

Within 48 hours, Kang publishes her two biggest stories,

which make headline news.

The police have launched an investigation
into Jung Joon-young

for allegedly illegally filming and distributing sex videos.

He was filming abroad at the time.

When my story broke, he returned to Korea

and was arrested straight away.

Is the reported KakaoTalk content true?

I'm sorry.

Do you have anything to say to the victims?

Do you want to say anything to the viewers and your fans?

Do you accept the charges?

In the KakaoTalk chatrooms involving Seungri and Jung,

Senior Superintendent Yoon
of the National Police Agency, referred to

as the 'Police Prosecutor General’, has been suspended.

I feel I have done a disservice to the police force.

Former FT Island member Choi
has been remanded as a suspect.

Choi has been accused of sharing
illegal video in the chat room

and of colluding with the police.

If we talk about the characteristics of this case,

the fact that the victims were unaware

they were victims was the main characteristic,

because they were victims of molka.

The situation was the victims were anxious

and so they came forward to make contact.

So it was like this:

'I hung out with them during that period.'

'I met up with them.'

'Am I in there too?'

Just days after the K-Pop stars are outed,
someone contacts Kang.

The woman from Jung's fan signing event

in Daegu.

The victim was a woman who had been

gang raped by Jung and Choi,

but she was unaware of what she'd suffered at the time.

So I went with lawyer Bang and met her

and asked her if she wanted to press charges.

After confirming an assault had taken place,

she said she wanted to press charges.

So, a lot of contacts came through in that way.

Among them, six victims came forward

and wanted to press charges.

Their main shared reaction was:

'Did it get distributed?'

Anxiety around this was so big.

This is a shared concern of all molka victims.

Not being able to give a definitive answer on that

was so frustrating.

Bang becomes the pro-bono lawyer
for five anonymous victims.

He launches a court case against
Jung, Choi and others

in the group for Molka and Rape.

Until the police do their job properly...

As more arrests are made,

the scandal is becoming increasingly
divisive, stoking Korea's tense gender politics.

Women hold a series of protests

calling for the police to do
more to protect them.

For women, everywhere we go
feels like the club Burning Sun.

Some men claim they're being
unfairly targeted by feminists.

A warrant examination for Lee, CEO of Burning Sun,

will take place this morning.

Lee, Seungri’s friend and business partner,
said in an interview

that if Seungri's KakaoTalk messages
from three years ago are a crime

then aren't all Korean men criminals?

Since publishing the stories,
Kang has been heavily trolled.

What those fans gave me

were deeply personal attacks.

At the time, I was pregnant, right?

So they called me femi*****,

pregnant femi*****.

left-wing femi*****.

using my name,

putting those sort of nicknames.

I was harassed for three years.

K-Pop star Hara had been instrumental in
enabling Kang to expose police collusion with the stars.

But now she faces a personal crisis.

Her close friend Sulli, another K-Pop star
who had spoken up for feminism in Korea,

has just taken her own life.

Sulli unfortunately passed away.

Hara had been performing in Japan at the time.

She turned on her Instagram Live

and seemed incredibly unstable,

crying and saying things like:

'Sulli, I’m so sorry. I’ll go to your funeral at all costs.’

But there were a lot of malicious comments

on that live video stream too.

'Why are you using your friend’s death
for your own popularity?'

This kind of stuff.

I can't sleep. I woke up.

That image of her

felt like a certain signal to me that day.

I was detecting huge danger.

So I sent her a text.

'Hara, you're such a brave woman and so admirable.'

'I want you to be happy.'

Hara then sent back a text, quite brightly saying

'Hello reporter, I'm okay. Yes, I'll stay strong'

So I was relieved.

I recall Hara’s last Instagram post

was a black background

with just the word 'Goodnight'.

After my sister’s funeral,

we came home

..my wife revealed she was pregnant.

My sister grew up under our paternal aunt,

so I think she wanted to become an aunt too.

I cried so much on my own then.

I was so sad.

If she'd just waited a few more days

If she hadn't made that choice

she'd have become an aunt.

Five days after Hara’s death, the court sentences
Jung to six years for the gang rape in Daegu

and for taking and distributing Molka.

Jung was brought back into the spotlight after three years

and my report began to gain attention again.

I went on a radio programme to give an interview.

Many comments were posted about my interview

and most of them apologised to me.

Some even admitted to unwittingly

leaving malicious comments at the time

and expressed sympathy for what I went through.

The Jung case brought me great disgrace

and made me feel I was unqualified to be a journalist.

I was so happy when my reputation was restored.

I was more proud than anything else.

I'm sorry.

Choi is sentenced to two and a half years

for his part in the Daegu gang rape.

Senior Inspector Yoon,
the Police Prosecutor General in the chat,

was acquitted of all charges
related to the chat group members.

Seungri is convicted of obtaining
prostitutes for investors,

embezzlement, Molka and inciting violence.

He was sentenced to 18 months on appeal.

Despite the convictions of
such high profile K-Pop stars,

former club staff tell us little
has changed in Gangnam.

Burning Sun. There is no difference

between Burning Sun and current clubs.

What happened back then is still happening now.

Though there was lots of coverage about GHB,

they are still using it in my club.

Some women from the Burning Sun
scandal never made it to court.

When I think about my case,

I don’t anticipate

that justice will be served.

It’s just a wish.

Though I think I'm fine,

when I talk about it, I get tearful.

I don't think I'm sad anymore,

but I get tearful.

And it's difficult,

but I think I should speak up when I can

because people need to know

that’s the way to stop there being more victims.

I want the perpetrator

to forever blame himself and feel guilty.

Three years later, Kang

is still being trolled for her role in exposing
the crimes of the three K-Pop stars.

I think I’ve merely thrown

a single pebble into a huge pond.

So, there may not have been a huge wave,

but against the issues around sex and power,

that have been accepted for decades,

I think it made a single warning against them,

though the pond seems to have calmed down again.

This is actually the first time

I’ve uttered a word about this.

There was a photo,

that I did not want taken at all,

captured of me.

And later, when I knew I'd been photographed,

I snatched that phone and pressed delete.

I was at university, so it's 20 years ago,

but the fear that it may spread

to the outside world was so great.

I think I always live with that anxiety.