K-pop star Jung sorry for sharing sex videos filmed without consent
SEOUL: Singer and TV star Jung Joon-young has publicly apologised for for sharing sex videos filmed without the consent of the women who appear in them.
He also announced that he has retired from showbiz.
Jung had been filming a reality TV show in the US. After SBS TV reported on the scandal, he abruptly flew back to South Korea.
From late 2015, Jung had slept with over 10 women and had filmed these trysts without their consent.
In his statement, Jung said: “I admit to having committed all the wrongs that have been reported. I filmed women without their consent, spread (the films) in chat rooms. I did these activities without any guilt.”
Added Jung: “Throughout the rest of my life, I will repent on my immoral and illegal acts that constitute crimes.”
The K-Pop scene is falling apart, no thanks to a sex, drugs, and pornography scandal that has lowered the bar even by the genre’s infamously dismal standards.
K-Pop has a 30-year history of serious wrongdoings, including allegations of sex-tape blackmailing, affairs, secret marriages, suicide, drugs, and physical abuse.
New depths were reached this week when superstar “Seungri,” of the hugely popular group Big Bang, retired amid allegations he procured prostitutes for bigshot investors, and allowed a drug trade in his nightclub.
Prostitution in South Korea is illegal. If Seungri — real name Lee Seung-hyun — is found guilty he will get three years in prison. Seungri’s passport has been confiscated by police. He denies the allegations.
Seungri was booked by Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency last Sunday, after texts from 2015 and 2016 obtained by Korean TV network SBS suggested he had hired prostitutes.
Police had started investigating Seungri weeks before.