The people you’ve idolized the most could always become the most gruesome people to exist on Earth. People you wouldn’t even have thought of, or people who even seemed so innocent that you wouldn’t have expected, they could be the ones behind the many horrible cases that have been inserted into the media. Let’s introduce you to the most well known and most jaw dropping case that has circulated from Korea to the US, the Burning Sun Scandal.
Behind the scenes
While these people who have been doing unknown horrific acts in their private lives, have also been on stage entertaining their fans. They have been completely putting on another mask to cover their inhumane acts that have been committed. Living their lives as if they have been the most crime free beings, singing, dancing, performing, making content for their own fans who have been oblivious of their actions.
Most of them had also been attending award ceremonies with their group for their achievements and successful albums. Receiving the titles others thought that they had wholeheartedly deserved. Behind the personality that they have shown to others and were known for, they had been doing vigorous exploitations on others.
Seungri, familiar from the big group BIGBANG, had owned a club named “Burning Sun Club” which is where the name of this scandal had come from. In this club, idols would sometimes religiously enter to commit heinous, disgusting, disheartening acts any person could ever do.
Dreadful group committed crimes
You would think a club would be somewhere you could be free in and have fun with other people, but in the Burning Sun Club you would be tortured for other people’s fulfillment. Women would continuously be drugged, sexually assaulted, raped, and videotaped without permission.
Park, who had been working in the police department, helped police recover data from supposedly “Broken” phones, had been retrieving the data from one of the people who had been involved in this case. He had discovered multiple pictures of undressed women, drugged women, women being heavily abused and even more disturbing photography in this phone. There were group chats that were created for this specific topic.
Demented catalogs
The most astonishing information that had been recovered from the phone was women being sold, these women were being sold for high prices and soon to be sexually assaulted if they ever got ‘bought’. There were catalogs of women who were being ‘sold’ which even had descriptions of what the women would do, what they liked, what they looked like, and their personalities.
The idols and others would choose to their likings, the women who got picked would get bided on and whoever had the most bid would get the woman. Dismaying videos that had gotten spread were sent to this group chat, many were laughing and expressing their entertainment by these unsettling clips.
People involved
After seeing all this grim information, Park realized that illegal crimes were being committed. Park opened another chat just to realize all the contact names were people whom he had known, which were the higher up police officers. That’s when he realized that he couldn’t inform nor trust anybody in the police department.
This phone which had been used to recover data belonged to Jung Joon-young, who was the lead of the band titled ‘JJY Band’. Choi Jung-Hoon from FT-Island, and Jung Yong-Hwa who was the lead singer and leader of the group CNBLUE and others were all involved in this case.
The Burning Sun Scandal
After the tragic crimes that had been committed in the club, Jung Joon-young, Choi Jung-Hoon, Seungri, and Jung Yong-Hwa were all sentenced to prison. Some of them got less time than others did, but they’re all out roaming around outside of prison. Yoon Jun Hyung who was also involved in this case is now expecting to be married to the artist Hyuna, a solo artist. These were the tragedies that were committed in the Burning Sun Scandal.