Korean singer Jung Joon-young has been dragged into a sex video sharing scandal together with Seungri of Big Bang.
Police are now investigating Jung Joon-young, who is suspected of sharing illegally filmed sex videos on Kakao group chats that included Seungri and other celebrities. Photos of women were also said to have been shared.
This is the latest saga involving Seungri, who is being investigated by the police of supplying women to potential investors in his company.
Seungri announced on March 11 that he is retiring from the entertainment industry amid the widening investigation.
An SBS news report stated that it obtained 10-month long chat messages dating as far back as 2015 wherein Jung Joon-young uploaded his secretly filmed sex videos to the chat rooms.
In one chat in 2015, Jung Joon-young allegedly told a friend that he had sexual intercourse with a woman and uploaded a three-second footage, according to the Korea Herald. The chat room videos and photos showed that 10 women were secretly filmed.
Jung Joon-young is currently in Los Angeles to film a Korean TV show. Because of the scandal, he has decided to go back to Korea.
His agency, MAKEUS Entertainment, said he will cooperate with the police investigation.
Meanwhile, Korean TV program “2 Days & 1 Night,” where Jung Joon-young is a regular cast member, announced his appearance on the program will be suspended because of the seriousness of the matter. It will also edit out his scenes on the TV show.
This is the second time that Jung Joon-young has been involved in sex video sharing scandal.
In 2016, his former girlfriend accused him of secretly filming while they were having sex. When police asked him to turn over his phone, he said it was broken. The woman recanted her story. He went on hiatus and returned to “2 Days & 1 Night” in 2017.
Under Korean law, “A person who takes pictures of another person’s body, which may cause any sexual stimulus or shame, against the latter’s will by using a camera or other similar mechanism, or who distributes, sells, leases, or openly exhibits or screens such pictures so taken shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or by a fine not exceeding ten million won.”
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