Burning Solar Scandal: How Two Feminine Reporters And Late Idol Goo Hara Uncovered Okay-pop’s Greatest Intercourse Crimes ( Photograph Credit score – Twitter )
The Okay-pop style has taken the world by storm, mesmerizing tens of millions throughout the globe with its well-crafted music movies, high-energy performances, and, to not be missed, the irresistible charisma of the idols. Nevertheless, what we see usually differs from what it seems to be. Conditions are direr than they appear, issues are extra harmful than they appear, and individuals are extra horrifying and complicated than they fake to be. Such was the case with the Burning Solar scandal, also called Burning Solar Gate, the darkish reality of which was uncovered in 2019.
The tragedy that started approach earlier than it was dropped at the general public’s consideration, was an leisure and intercourse scandal in South Korea, which concerned a number of celebrities, together with Okay-pop idols of in style teams and police officers. A current BBC Eye documentary titled ‘Burning Solar: Exposing the Secret Okay-pop Chat Teams introduced one of the vital sinister instances within the historical past of Okay-pop as soon as once more into the limelight. The documentary significantly highlighted the position of two feminine reporters, who risked every part to uncover the reality, and that of the late Okay-pop idol Goo Hara.
The Burning Solar scandal got here into the limelight when MBC, an area broadcaster in South Korea, reported an assault case in Gangnam, a complicated district in Seoul in January 2019. They revealed {that a} man named Kim Sang-kyo attended a celebration on the Burning Solar membership in Yeoksam-dong two months prior in November when the membership’s employees beat him up. The person knowledgeable the employees that he noticed a woman slumped over, however the employees, as an alternative of serving to, dragged him outdoors the membership and beat him up. Furthermore, when he referred to as the police, they handcuffed him as an alternative. This incident snowballed into one thing extra vicious, one which nobody may ever think about.
Park Hyo-sil reported Jung Joon-young’s involvement in secretly filming his girlfriend
Journalist Park Hyo-sil was the primary one to report about Jung Joon-young’s involvement in secretly filming intercourse movies in 2016. He was an immensely in style RJ and singer-songwriter for the previous drug restaurant band. Park says that she obtained a tip-off, which claimed that Joon-young filmed his girlfriend whereas having intercourse and even accused him of ‘Molka,’ an illegally filmed footage of ladies that can be utilized later to humiliate her. Through the investigation, Jung refused handy over his telephone to the police, and as an alternative, he despatched it to a personal forensics firm. Whereas the police questioned the Okay-pop singer, they didn’t delve a lot deeper into the case, speeding to shut it again in 2016. Quickly, Jung’s company held a press convention to clear his identify.
Nevertheless, Jung remained oblivious that the information from his telephone was carbon-copied when he despatched it to the non-public forensics firm. Somebody who knew of it determined to leak the data to the media, and SBS’s leisure reporter Kang Kyung-yoon was one such one that ultimately obtained the information. She came upon Jung’s group chat along with his male buddies between 2015 to 2016 on a well-liked messenger app in South Korea, KakaoTalk.
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Whereas Kang thought that the information would come with Jung’s girlfriend’s Molka, it wasn’t there. Nevertheless, it opened a Pandora’s field of legal actions involving Jung and his different celeb buddies, together with Choi Jong-hoon, lead guitarist of rock band FT Island, and Seungri, an enormous star of the Okay-pop group BigBang.
Jung Joon-young, Seungri and Choi Jong-hoon conversed about raping an unconscious girl
The BBC documentary launched the conversations of those celebrities within the group chat, revealing some extraordinarily disturbing exchanges, together with the one the place they gang-raped an unconscious girl. ‘Seungstby’ aka Seungri even used ladies as a software to lure buyers for his enterprise. The info additionally revealed that police had been additionally concerned in overlaying up their crimes like drunk driving. The chats uncovered somebody named ‘Police Prosecutor Common’, who offered them with safety.
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Seungri companions with a wealthy businessman and opens a consuming institution referred to as Mildang Pocha along with his buddies Jung and Choi. And simply days after the opening, Jung Joon-young filmed Molka on its premises. Furthermore, his telephone’s information led to August 2016, shortly earlier than his girlfriend accused him of filming her secretly.
Seungri opens the notorious ‘Burning Solar’ membership
In December 2017, Seungri hosted his party on an island within the Philippines to lure in buyers for his enterprise endeavours. He took younger ladies from Korea and invited dozens of prosperous businessmen to his celebration. Quickly after receiving big investments, he opened his scandalous membership, ‘Burning Solar’, the biggest in Gangnam. Former staff of the membership spoke to BBC and shared that they had been referred to as merchandises (MDs), who would be certain there have been women within the membership to cater to the VIPs. The MDs would do all types of unlawful actions to draw male prospects together with taking photos of unconscious ladies within the membership.
Burning Solar’s unlawful actions had been uncovered when an assault video of a person went viral
Quickly the unlawful actions occurring on the membership got here to the forefront when Kim Sang-kyo’s assault footage surfaced within the media. In the meantime, different proof additionally saved rising together with a surprising case of Molka, filmed inside Burning Solar and often known as the Pink Rest room video, which went viral on pornographic websites. After days of this incident, Burning Solar ceased its operations, and Seungri even apologized to his followers at his solo live performance. When Kang Kyung-yoon printed her expose, Seungri voluntarily appeared on the police station for questioning.
Late Okay-pop idol Goo Hara satisfied her buddy Choi Jong-hoon to disclose the identify of the police official
The SBS journalist encountered a roadblock in figuring out the ‘senior police’ who had helped these males on varied events. That is when the late Okay-pop idol Goo Hara got here in. She reached out to Kang to assist her with something associated to the Burning Solar scandal as she was acquainted with Jung, Choi and Seungri. She satisfied Choi Jong-hoon to reveal the identify of the ‘Police Prosecutor Common’. Hara helped Choi to confess it. For these unversed, Hara was a sufferer of revenge porn herself. Only a 12 months previous to the Burning Solar scandal, her ex-boyfriend threatened her with their non-consensual sexual video. Sadly, she reportedly took her life in November 2019.
A number of different victims got here ahead, accusing the Okay-pop celebrities of gang rape. Whereas the culprits within the scandal had been punished, the 2 feminine reporters, Park Hyo-sil and Kang Kyung-yoon bore the brunt of the followers of those Okay-pop idols. Park was below a lot stress that she miscarried twice, leaving her childless so far. In the meantime, Kang fell prey to misogyny and on-line trolling.
