K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon have been sentenced by a South Korean court to six and five years in prison for gang-raping drunk unconscious women.
Jung, 30, was also charged with filming the assault and distributing the footage. The men will have to do eighty hours of sexual violence treatment courses and are banned from working with children.
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Several sex and abuse scandals have rocked the K-pop world in recent years. Judge Kang Seong-soo said it seemed Jung viewed the victims as a tool for pleasure. He said that Jung had raped women who were “drunk and unable to resist, filmed them nude and having sex, then spread it on a group chat,” adding:
“We can’t imagine the pain the victims might have felt who found out later.”
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Jung rose to fame on a TV talent show. He left the music business in March after admitting that he secretly filmed women and shared the videos. He said in his final testimony:
“I deeply regret my foolishness and I feel great remorse. From now on, I shall only… live in remorse.”
Choi is a former member of the band F.T. Island, which had several number one albums in South Korea. The court remarked that the 30-year-old “did not feel remorse after mass-raping drunken victims.”
