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Third Korean Star Quits Industry, Admits to Watching Video in Wild Sex Scandal

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    A third K-pop idol announced his exit from the industry this week amid a spiraling scandal that began from the exposรฉ of an alleged prostitution scheme and spy porn sharing in group conversations.

    In an Instagram post on Thursday, Yong Jun-hyung, 29, confessed that he had watched a video of fellow star Jung Joon-young, who previously admitted to filming himself having sex with women without their consent.

     

    โ€œIn the KakaoTalk messages with Jung Joon Young from late 2015 reported by the news, we drank the night before and went home, and I asked him how he is doing the next day. Jung Joon Young told me that he got caught after sending illegal video footage to someone, and I responded, โ€˜You got caught by her?โ€™ I did not receive a video at the time, but I did receive a video at a different instance,โ€ Yong wrote, according to Soompi.

    โ€œIn addition, I participated in inappropriate conversations regarding it. All of these actions were very immoral, and I was foolish. I treated it as not a big deal without thinking that it is a crime and illegal act, and it is also my fault for not firmly restraining [Jung Joon Young].โ€

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    ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” ์šฉ์ค€ํ˜•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ €, ์š” ๋ฉฐ์น  ์ €๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํž˜๋“  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์„ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ชจ๋“  ํŒฌ๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” 11์ผ SBS 8์‹œ ๋‰ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜จ ์งํ›„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์—ฌ๋ถ€ ํ™•์ธ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์„ ๋•Œ ๋…ผ์ ์„ ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จํ†ก๋ฐฉ์— ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ๋งŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ €์˜ ํŽธ์„ ๋“ค์–ด ๊ณต์‹ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋„ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ „๋‹ฌํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต์‹์ž…์žฅ์„ ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์™€ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋˜ ์ค‘ ๊ทธ ์ผ์ด 2016๋…„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋˜ ๊ฑด, ์ •์ค€์˜๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ œ ์นดํ†ก์— ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๋‹น์‹œ ๋‚ ์งœ ํ™•์ธ์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ๊ฐ€์ค‘์‹œํ‚จ ์ , ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2015๋…„ ๋ง ๋‹น์‹œ ์นดํ†ก ๋‚ด์šฉ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋‰ด์Šค์—์„œ ๋ณด๋„๋œ ์ €์™€ ์ •์ค€์˜๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋‚ด์šฉ์€, ๊ทธ ์ „๋‚  ๊ฐ™์ด ์ˆ ์„ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ง‘์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„ ํ›„, ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ์•ˆ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ •์ค€์˜์ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ผ(๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ๋™์˜์ƒ ์ดฌ์˜๋ฌผ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋‹ค ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š”) ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ์ œ๊ฐ€ โ€œ๊ทธ ์—ฌ์ž์• ํ•œํ…Œ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ณ ?โ€ ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋•Œ ๋™์˜์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์ ์€ ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋™์˜์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋„ ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ํ–‰๋™๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋ถ€๋„๋•ํ•œ ํ–‰๋™๋“ค์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆฌ์„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ด๊ณ  ๋ฒ”๋ฒ• ํ–‰์œ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹จํ˜ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ œ์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์  ๋˜ํ•œ ์ œ ์ž˜๋ชป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด์ œ ์ €๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฐธ๊ณ ์ธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์—†์ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ , ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ์— ํ˜‘์กฐํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ์ธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ๋Œ€ํ™”๋“ค์„ ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ€๋„๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์ฐธ๋‹ดํ•จ์„ ๊ธˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ๋„ ๋ชฐ์นด๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋Š”๋‹ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์œ ํฌํ•œ๋‹ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฒ”๋ฒ•ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, 2016๋…„ ๋ง๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์ •์ค€์˜๊ณผ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์•ˆ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„๊ฐ„ํžˆ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋Š” ์ •๋„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋งŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ์•˜์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌํƒœ๊ป ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ €์˜ ํ–‰๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌต์ธํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๊ด€์ž์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๊ป ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊ณผ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์— ๋ณด๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ๋กœ ์ €๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋“ค๊ณผ ํŒฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ €๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ •๋ง ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์˜ ์‹ฌ๊ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ณ , ๋˜ ์ €๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹ค๋งํ•˜์…จ์„ ํŒฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ํ”ผํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์›์น˜ ์•Š์•„, 2019๋…„ 3์›” 14์ผ์ž๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ํƒˆํ‡ด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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    Jung, who announced his retirement on Wednesday, shared the videos in a chatroom that included BIGBANGโ€™s Seungri, who is accused of supplying prostitutes to wealthy investors in 2015.

    Jung was booked on March 12, while Seungri โ€” who denied allegations โ€” was booked on March 10.

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    #Goodbye_20’s #0509_6pm

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    Yong maintained that he did not participate in taking any spy cam video and circulating it afterward. He added that he had only greeted Jung โ€œonce in a whileโ€ since late 2016.

    โ€œI am very sorry to have not been able to repay the overwhelming love and as I betrayed the trust of the members and fans who have trusted me due to this issue. I realize the severity of this matter, and I do not want any further harm to be done to my fans and members who must have been disappointed because of me, so I will leave the group Highlight as of March 14, 2019. I will live while reflecting on myself again and again. I once again apologize sincerely.โ€

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    ELLE MEN HK With GUCCI 💜

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    Shortly after Yongโ€™s announcement, his management label, Around Us Entertainment, released a statement clarifying details and confirming his departure (translation via Allkpop):

    โ€œSome time at the end of 2015, Yong Junhyung met Jung Joon Young at a drinking gathering. The next day, while contacting each other 1:1 via Kakao Talk, he was informed that Jung Joon Young filmed illegal, hidden camera footage. Afterward, Junhyung admitted that he viewed this hidden camera footage, and he and Jung Joon Young went on to exchange inappropriate remarks about the footage.

    โ€œEven when Junhyung became involved in an unfavorable scandal, we were unable to obtain the clear facts right away and released a hasty statement, causing confusion; for this, we apologize. We will take caution so that such incidents do not occur again. We apologize one more time to fans who cherish Highlight.โ€

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