SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer Jung Joon-young on Wednesday admitted to having secretly filmed sex videos of women he slept with and sharing them with fellow entertainers, vowing to halt all activities in show business. “I admit to all of my sins,” the 30-year-old K-pop star said in a statement. “I filmed women [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have launched a probe into allegations that Jung Joon-young, a K-pop star, secretly filmed sex videos and shared them with fellow entertainers, including BIGBANG member Seungri, in a mobile chat room. The singer-songwriter and TV celebrity, best known for his part in KBS’ variety show “2 Days & [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With BIGBANG’s Seungri officially booked for his sex-for-business favor deal, the entertainment industry is nervous about the aftermath. It was revealed on Monday that there were other celebrities in a messenger chat room that contained conversations about sexual favors, and that some of them have also been investigated by [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid snowballing criminal allegations that Seungri of globally popular K-pop boy band BIGBANG was behind a sex-for-business favor deal, the singer on Monday offered to retire entirely from the entertainment scene. “It would be better for me to retire from the entertainment scene at this point,” Seungri said in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Sunday accelerated their probe into sex-for-favors allegations involving Seungri of South Korean boy band BIGBANG, as they booked him as a suspect and raided a Seoul nightclub associated with the performer to gather evidence. Investigators are looking into the suspicion that Seungri used various nightclubs in Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seungri of South Korean boy band BIGBANG will join the army late this month to carry out his mandatory military service, his agency said Friday. “Seungri will enlist in the army on March 25,” YG Entertainment said. The 29-year-old singer is currently subject to a police probe into allegations [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Seungri of the popular boy group BIGBANG denied drug use and sex-for-favors allegations during a questioning, police said Thursday. An investigation team of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sent him back home after grilling him overnight. The 29-year-old singer, during the questioning, denied all suspicions surrounding him ranging from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — YG Entertainment, the management agency that represents boy band BIGBANG, denied a media report Tuesday that member Seungri attempted to buy sexual services for foreign investors in his new business. “We asked him about the matter and want to confirm that the article is based on fabricated text messages [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An employee at a nightclub affiliated with a famous K-pop singer has been detained in connection with suspected using and trafficking of drugs, police said Monday. A Seoul court approved the warrant Sunday to hold the suspect, whose identity is withheld, under custody, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seungri of boy band BIG BANG will put on solo concerts in several Asian cities early next year before he starts his mandatory military service, YG Entertainment said Monday. He will perform in Hong Kong on Jan. 12 and Tokyo from Jan. 26-27. He will meet Japanese fans in [...]