K-Pop Stars Opened a Night Club to Drug & Sell Women to Overseas Investors

[Music] bading badao in 2016 in South Korea a woman walks into the police station to report that her ex-boyfriend had taken explicit photos of her without her consent she wants to file a formal police report the ex-boyfriend then gets called into the police station where he says he's more than willing to do anything that he possibly can to show that he is innocent of what he is being accused of but the problem is it's broken the police were like what do you mean it's broken his phone was conveniently broken but the police they're thinking we

can't just tuck away the case and call it a good day we're going to have the man send his phone in to a data forensics company the same one that recovered all the data from this H fairy victims phones and have an IT specialist look at it to see if they can recover any data so an IT specialist takes it in and for his privacy we will refer to him as Park Park gets a assigned this man's phone and he's trying to work on recovering any and all the data from the device and he's really

good at his job he recovers almost everything over 200,000 text messages group chats 200,000 text messages yeah 200,000 individual text messages wow okay videos photos I mean anything that could be recovered he's recovered it but suddenly the police call the IT guy and tells him we don't need your services anymore I mean you can just stop what you're doing and give the phone back to the man who brought it to you they explained very briefly the girlfriend has since dropped the criminal case she's retracted her statements and said that she lashed out at her ex

out of anger and that there were no photos so the investigation is over wait so did the police look at the text messages no they didn't look at anything they're like just turn it in we don't even want to look at it we don't even want to bother ourselves with this MH but for the tech employee Park it felt like the investigation was just getting started while he had been retrieving all the lost data from the man's phone he couldn't help but Peak you know I mean could you really call it peing he has to

verify that the data is being recovered and how can you do that without even glancing at said data and what he saw were images of women unconscious naked videos of unconscious women being essayed women being Dred and abused in group chats there were prices under these women the cost of how much it would be to essay them yourself menus literal catalogues of woman for sale messages that depicted people discussing the quote sale of these women they would read like number one doesn't talk that much and kind of loves money she also has aspects where she

doesn't have much Charisma in drinking scenes but her visuals are great number three good visuals she's bright she's fun while drinking but the negative aspect is she gets a little messy messy when she's drunk but still lot of Charisma the receiving end text back then let's go with number five along with number three girls were just being sold to the highest spitter messages showed people sharing videos of unconscious women Dred dragged and essayed the receiving parties of these messages they reacted to the videos as if they were watching a funny Tik Tok something entertaining not

a literal crime they would text things like I fed her sleeping pills and assaulted her in the back then in the front then in the back again and then I finished people were responding hahahahaha redacted insert person's name ate him some other people commented the mouth on her is great another chat log showed a picture of a sleeping woman and the friends responded who is it her body is so freaking good another chat included a video of an unconscious woman being essayed with the text who wants to watch explicit videos tonight the friends responded what's

this is she unconscious the sender responds and if she is send a video with an alive girl it's because she's unconscious I can take these high quality videos with flash someone else in the group chat responds you her he he in another text they write she doesn't even remember who she did it with implying that the drugs they fed the victim altered her memory but someone else responds into the chat no she's just an RW as Park is reading some of these messages and glimpsing at some of these pictures he is realizing that there are

literal crimes being committed in these group chats women are beinged and essayed he needs to alert the authorities about it this feels like a shady crime syndicate out there running some sort of brothel out of their basement he opens the group chat in full to see what other crimes they had committed and he was shocked to see that he recognized every single contact name in there the phone belonged to a famous Korean Idol by the name of Tong Chun Yong or JJ y he was the lead of a band called jjy band another Idol from

FT Island named Choy Jong hun e jongan lead vocalist and guitarist of CN Blue and the biggest name of all was eing Lee from The Global Group Big Bang and these messages they revealed a complex traffic king ring operated by some of the biggest names in the Korean entertainment industry the chatlogs were between some of the most well-known beloved celebrities in the industry the wholesome kind of Idols like the ones that girls would look at and show their boyfriends and say he would never do this in another group chat the idols joke about how five

of them gang essayed a Dr woman the night before a fan sign event there was another shocking video of a woman being dragged out of a club owned by eing Le by her hair by a man who is about to do God knows what to her and she's trying to desperately get the club employees attention by smacking down their laptop screens as she's getting dragged out by her hair employees don't even look they act like nothing is happening the video was spread through the group chat and so was another one well it's a text message

and this is the reason why the employee of the data forensic company could never go to the police with these messages a text read I saw the messages between the H and the police chief they found out who snitched even high up police Commissioners were exposed to be VIP clients of this trafficking ring Park had just uncovered a trafficking ring run by celebrities police officials and there was nobody that could help him there was nobody that could save the victims because everyone at the top was dirty but Park would secretly make a copy of every

every single text message and 3 years later it would be released onto the internet exposing one of the most shocking Korean cases to date the burning Sun [Music] case we would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mango to support the joyful Heart Foundation whose mission is to transform society's response to sexual assault domestic violence child abuse and they really aim to support survivors through their healing and reclaiming of their lives through things like education advocacy and policy change this episode's Partnerships have also made it possible to support rotten Mango's

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like our quality of research has drastically improved so truly this is going to be a deep deep dive onto the horrors of this case because it's a lot we had multiple translators researchers help assist with this one there was one RM meeting where we had like seven people in three different time zones just on a call for hours trying to get through everything again we're like going through it three times four times just to make sure everything is good but as always if there's anything we've missed or anything that was Lost in Translation or wasn't

properly clarified please let us know in the comments and with that being said let's get started this case took place in Korea around 2018 but it's back in the news cycle for a lot of K nens because of a new picture that was posted to Instagram well two pictures we'll call them picture a and picture B if you're listening to the audio version of this podcast I'm going to describe both pictures to you picture a show a beautiful private swimming pool from a resort in Bali it seems like one of those Villas that you can

rent and someone took a picture of the private pool in the back the water in the pool is turquoise blue there's beautiful palm trees banana leaf trees surrounding the pool there's this beige cushioned lounge chair next to the pool that you can lay down in and sit in the sun it's beautiful it looks expensive which makes it a very typical picture to post on Instagram picture B is almost an exact copy of picture a but it's not a repost it's not like someone stole picture a and pretended I'm in Bali too it's a completely new

photo it shows more of the Villa than the pool from picture a but you can tell it's the same exact place two pictures in the same Villa in Bali so what's the big problem here it's a resort in Bali of course there's going to be lots of people from all over the world staying there and taking pictures picture a was posted by girl a since they want to remain anonymous in the news picture B was posted by girl B the problem here was they ran in the same circles where it was discovered that they were

both dating the same man former K-pop Star former inmate and owner of the nightclub burning Sun eung Le and I'm going to be brief with the Scandal that unfolds because there's not too much to it but eung Le was cheating on multiple women and taking them on backtack trips with the same exact itinerary so he would ask girl a who thinks she's in a monogamous relationship with him to fly out to Bali to see him he would rent a villa take her to very specific restaurants and dates and after 5 days she would fly back

to Korea and that same day that she leaves Bali girl be who also believes that she's in a monogamous relationship with him would fly into Bali to see him she would stay in the exact same Villa girl a had just left from I mean it's likely that girl A's perfume sent is still in the Villa at this point and he would take girl B on the same exact dates that he had just taken girl a everything is identical he had planned the exact same trip for both girls took them to the same restaurants the same

beaches the same hotels the same cafes he didn't even wait 48 hours before both trips it was back to back girl a flies into Bali girl a flies out of Bali girl B flies into Bal girl B flies out of Bali and all of this was quote unquote exposed when both girls discovered that they had posted the exact same picture of the villa and they started texting each other about their Bali trips the story was sold to dispatch and some neens commented on the Scandal I hope the girls don't think that it's just girl a

through b suly probably has woman A through Z I thought he was in jail that's what a lot of people were also saying like what what's going on why are we writing these random cheating articles about a literal criminal What's happen in jail or no he's free he's free out of jail jail he was in jail he's already out he was only in there for 1 and a half years and now he's back to dating yes people already back to yeah being involved with women w a lot of the comments of the same reaction as

you I mean they were just shocked they were shocked that he was in the news they were shocked that he was out of prison they were shocked that girls would even go out with him that they would travel all the way to Bali to be with him in the first place when his Club burning Sun was exposed for basically having a trafficking ring operating during club hours yeah how is he only a year and a half that's insane for the level of crime he committed a lot of people actually speculate that this is hungy trying

to get back into the industry it sounds counterproductive because why would a cheating scandal be good for him but to have these many scandals that sound like celebrity scandals are probably better than having burning Sun as the last scandal and God forbid he's trying to make a comeback like I'm not even sure how that's possible but just in case that's his end goal let us all refresh our memories of the case of the burning Sun what was later dubbed the VIP company a young woman named M Jong woke up in a bed and her eyes

still felt really out of focus that's how she describes this whole feeling is her eyes feel out of focus she tries turning her head to see where she is and she doesn't recognize the room that she's in she doesn't even remember how she got into this room to begin with in fact she doesn't remember much or really anything at all for the past few hours she keeps blinking and trying to reach for any memory of even the last hour there's literally nothing in there and then a man walks into the room she remembers him but

before she can act he's on the bed holding her down strangling her she's kicking biting him trying to push off of her but he's way too strong he's simultaneously strangling her with one hand and using the other hand to cover her mouth he's using his body weight to push down on her body she felt like she was going to die every time she tried to get up he pushed her harder down into the bed her neck is bent against the headboard at a dangerous painful angle and she would later say I felt like I was

going to die she could not get this man off of her he would proceed to rip off her clothes and Essay her each time he pushed her she could feel her neck bending more and more against the headboard she said she felt like her neck was going to snap after this brutal assault she grabs the mini trash can by the bed and she throws up everything that she has in her system the throw up was this dark brown color was blood she said at this point she really really really felt like she was going to

die because earlier the focus had been trying to get him off of her but now now that he's off of her she doesn't really know what his plans are mang likely ran through all of the options in her mind she clearly could not fight him off physically so she said she got on her knees on the carpeted floor and begged for her life she was trying to appeal to any sort of humanity or even empathy if he had any really she cried that she just wanted to go home she would never go to the police

about this oh my God she just wanted to see her mom that's all she just wanted to see her mom she finally looks up at the man this kidnapper this rapist and he just starts laughing he's giggling at her begging for her life and he responds if you take a selfie with me I'll let you go home what what evidence he takes out his phone turns on the front camera grabs M Jong and basically forces her to sit on him okay now smile Mong doesn't really know what to make of this is he playing a

game right now like why would he want to take a picture with her was he really going to let her go she said that she squeezed out a small smile and the man kept his promise he threw her clothes at her face and pushed her out of the room she booked it she didn't even wait to put on her clothes she just ran down the hallway of this hotel building out the main door into the middle of winter in South Korea middle of the night Pitch Black it's snowing she's half Barefoot but she doesn't feel

any of that she's running towards the main road with her shoes and her pants in her hand and this other hand is stretched out trying to flag down the closest taxi she wants to get out of here and as far away from that man as possible because who knows what if he comes back what if he changes his mind thankfully a taxi stops and she gets in frantically she gives her address and when she sees the hotel disappear from sight the fight ORF flight that it kicked in it probably finally calmed down because she looks

down and realizes she's still naked from the waist down and there was a taxi driver looking at her in the rearview mirror I mean of course we don't know why this man was looking at her it could be that she's naked from the waist down and he's like why is she naked we don't know if he had any Sinister intentions I don't think so but she put her clothes over her lap trying to draw the least amount of attention on herself from the taxi driver she tries to take inventory of everything she has she notices

she doesn't have her phone credit card or her winter jacket I mean it's bad but what's worse is that that she's missing hours in her memory she has no idea how she got to that hotel with the man that she was there with after getting home meong gathers herself as best as she can and goes to the police station she reports the physical and abuse and shows them all of the cuts and bruises on her body she said she wanted aest she knew that she had been I mean this had never happened before her memory

had always been fine but now she conveniently has a gap in her memory and ends up at a hotel with a man that viciously essayed her no she was this isn't right she demands a drug test and she knows that this is not only going to prove that he essayed her but heed her in order to do it this was going to convict him it was going to get her justice put that sick man behind bar so that he could never do it again assaulting woman making them beg for their lives before throwing them out

onto the street I mean it was Despicable she's going to make sure that he gets put away for a long time the drug test comes back there are no drugs in her system what that doesn't make any sense and I'm sure she could tell that the police were looking at her like she had lost her mind she said the police started treating her like she was a liar like she was a criminal as if she's just making up lies to get back at a man that she slept with and she's wondering why would I do

that I mean women don't get anything good out of being a victim of a crime especially in a place like South Korea where female victims are constantly shamed why would she make up this kind of lie because the man is chavos rakul let's call him chav he is a wealthy nepo baby of influential Thai politicians and he is considered a young businessman but he's honestly just a neppo baby the police were asking M Jong with these very patronizing looks on their faces as if they had just caught a kid in a lie so the police

knew it was him yeah she was like I know this man let me give you the name of this man I remember this man they're like are you sure it was really I mean we heard from witnesses that saw you guys at a club together and said that you guys were very close and he is from a wealthy family are you sure that you weren't just interested in him and maybe you went back to the hotel with him did something that you're not very proud of mung felt like the police aren't even doing a thorough

investigation they just saw negative test rich man being accused of must be some sort of gold digging scheme to get money out of the guy mang is like yeah no that doesn't make any sense do you have CCTV footage of the hotel reception because I in the hotel lobby I can assure you I did not walk in there willingly technically even if she did willingly walk into the hotel with this man I don't think that means she wasn't assaulted I just want to put that disclaimer out there but she's trying to prove something anything to

the police so that they take her seriously which you know they really should have done in the first place but regardless they pull the CCTV footage and mja is floored it doesn't make any sense she sees herself walking into the hotel with the man willingly he's not dragging her she doesn't even appear to Beed she's walking normally stable she's walking at a leisurely Pace if anything she's almost leading the man she's walking in front of the guy she's having an animated conversation with him she's seen on CCTV camera of the hotel lobby smiling at the

man how is this possible chav is taii but since he's the son of influential politicians he's a celebrity back at home the allegations followed him all the way from South Korea to Thailand he did some news interviews where he completely denied it all I mean as expected but he even reported feeling sad yeah he said I feel very unlucky to have been swept into a case like this I'm innocent and I feel that this is all very unfair and as a way of proving his innocence the news channels played the the CCTV footage of the

two of them walking into the hotel he said when I was going into the hotel she followed me she was 100% conscious the CCTV shows it all I didn't use any force or put her over my shoulder or carry her in mang felt like she was going crazy she was being framed as this liar accuser manipulator gold digger I mean they used a lot of eloquent words in the media news outlets but they basically said she found out that he was rich seduced him took a picture with him because she was having fun and now

she's turned around and cried rap because she wants his money so the photo was released yeah and that became like something that oh wow chv is like look we had a good time she's smiling does that look like someone who's fearing for her life Wow M Jong knew that she would never in a million years lie about something like this and you know what there was something odd about the CCTV footage sure at first it seems like she's happy to be there but she has zero memory of it and second of all it's 8° outside

in South Korea where is her jacket she remembers wearing a puffer jacket that night but she's not wearing it in the hotel footage so what is she wearing like thin light sweater okay like what you're wearing sweater okay it's just very strange she's an adult no one just leaves their jacket out of even if you feel hot you carry her jacket where is her jacket it just isn't something that she would do so she keeps trying to piece together the events of that night and it feels like there are just holes in her memory as

if someone had taken a scapel and carved out a section of her memory clean Precision she does remember though hours long before the the hotel she was getting dressed up to go with her friends to the burning Sun Club none of them were really clubgoers like that but they just wanted to see what the hype was about and it really did live up to its reputation they walk in and the club is packed everybody's letting loose enjoying themselves it wasn't one of those like stuffy stuck up environments where everybody is eyeing each other up and

down the music is good I mean it's loud but it's very good everybody's dancing it's a nice break from the work and the school she remembered it was it was fun she remembered her friends had all purchased a table they sat down and she offers hey I'm going to go to the bar and get us all some drinks at the bar she felt this gentle tap on her shoulder turns around and it's a man now to give you further context the burning Sun is kind of known to be a Wattpad Club yeah kind of right

in the sense that there were some anecdotal reports that women would go to the burning Sun run into wealthy young attractive foreign businessmen and start dating them which is just like an innocent cute watpad dream it kind of implied that most men at the burning Sun are well-connected high-powered High n worth individuals that are also kind of attractive so it's likely Mong was like oh oh my God this is kind of funny it's like my own little whatpad moment right the man is tall handsome but more importantly he was a gentleman he kept a respectful

distance kept his eyes on her face not her body didn't even try to touch her waist touch her arm while he laughs none of that no physical contact he's kind talkative respectful in this loud busy club with people dancing on each other this tall handsome guy is asking her about her pets and hobbies he's very nice she even joined him in his VIP room later to talk about all these mundane things and it was kind of cute and wholesome mean Jung's having fun but at the end of the day she is still a girl at

a club and that is something that you never really forget so when he offers her her champagne and whiskey she's like oh I don't really drink champagne but I'll take some whiskey she takes three shots of whiskey that night I'm not a big drinker so to me I have no idea how much that is but apparently it's not much at all especially if you know your limits which mean J it she knew that three shots of whiskey would not even make her Tipsy maybe on an empty stomach but she ate dinner before she came I

mean it was just it was nothing and she didn't even take the shots back to back she's not slamming it down she's careful she spaces them out drinking water in between she even told the guy straight up hey I'm not really fond of being drunk so I'm just going to take it easy tonight he was so nice about it he kept pouring her glasses of water and sliding in front of her here drink the water since you don't want to get drunk it helps she thanked him and they continued on with their conversation until she

felt this out of body almost a floating sensation mid conversation her eyes go fuzzy she was trying to be polite and focus on what what this man is saying but it's like her eyes were out of focus camera lenses she tries wiping her eyes discreetly blinking but even her brain starts to feel fuzzy it feels like she had been drinking heavily all night long but that doesn't make any sense because she had been so careful not to get drunk she had even been taking just glasses of water in between her shots of whiskey she tries

to rub her eyes again but she said that her hands were not coming up to her face now she tries to move even just one finger nothing's moving it's kind of like sleep paralysis where you can't even move though you try really really hard and even with something like sleep paralysis there's this strong level of panic associated with that feeling of not having control over your body but imagine that experience at a club with a bunch of strangers I'm sure it's a different level of confusion stress anxiety Panic her body was no longer responding to

her brain the man that she had been talking to still going on and on about how you had a flight scheduled tomorrow to go back to Thailand and he's just fading into this big blur and she heard His Voice through it all and it felt like she was listening from a completely different dimension it sounded very distorted she heard him say so you have to make me happy today and that's it she doesn't remember anything else after that just waking up in that bed to be assaulted she knew she wasn't going crazy even though everyone

including the police are trying to convince her that she's going crazy she's thinking I must have beened and she had a sneaking suspicion that something was in the water at Burning sun and water is a big business at burning Sun the employees of burning Sun are incentivized to bring VIPs water to procure good water and protect the vip's water and deliver good water to the VIP tables and rooms if the employees were capable of doing that some of them would make close to $88,000 in a single night from tips from VIPs wow all all from

the Big Shot forign VIP clients that are really really happy about water the employees of the club would work together as a team to make sure VIP customers got their water they would even have group chats in real time while they're working about how things were going how the VIPs were looking for water how they are enjoying their water who needs more water they would text things like the VIP in the room is looking for good water tonight okay I'm looking for good water hurry he's pestering me for water he's very thirsty he said it

doesn't even need to be good water anymore just someone get him some water his fellow cooworker responds I'll get him a side dish then little confusing in another chat an employee texts the other employees someone is approaching the water I secured for a VIP bouncer hurry up and go protect my water he gets a response from the bouncer on it the bouncer pushes through the crowd towards the bar scanning the area he spots the water that the employee is talking about a man is with the water water so he approaches this man tells him to

get lost and he's standing there awkwardly with the water but it's not what you imagine it's not a cup of water it's not a bottle of water it's a woman she's very pretty she would make the VIPs very happy employees at the burning Sun had their own vocabulary when they were working when they say water they were never talking about real water they were talking about women female clubgoers that's what they call them not humans not people not women water so in Korean like mo mo yeah it's like a phrase that you would use if

you go outside and you see a ton of pretty people that day you might say something along the lines of wow why is the water so fresh today that's a way of saying wow everyone is so attractive today because the slang is the water is fresh means the fish in the water is fresh and tasty water can refer to all genders when it's used in this phrase like when people say the water is fresh it's not just referring to women it could mean oh the guys are attractive like everybody's attractive okay I sometimes I'm lurking

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survey the women coming into the club pick the prettiest ones that would please the VIPs get them drunk them before the VIP get there so they can deliver them to the VIP the goal would be she is beautiful she is beyond the point of consent the VIP is happy because now the VIP doesn't have to waste his time getting her drunk so that he can essay her he can just go ahead and do whatever he wants to her illegally VIP is Happy the employees get a big tip that is the ultimate goal of the employees

at burning Sun and nothing makes them happier than watching the little essay of a young woman they would text videos go into their group chat of VIPs are wording unconscious woman they would text things like look at the VIP room right now they're doing it they would text back wow it's true from burning Sun to Hong Kong to go to Hong Kong means reaching the height during intimate activities so if a weird Korean guy asks if you want to go to Hong Kong tonight he's not asking you to catch a flight with him for a

spontaneous trip he's asking you for something and employees of the burning Sun knew VIPs were more likely to tip them and come back if they were going to Hong Kong but very few girls ever got drunk at a club to the point of not being aware of their surroundings or passing out or at least you don't do that without having friends that you can trust to not let you out of their sight I feel like most girls know how dangerous that is so it's up to the employees to get girls into that state quickly and

discreetly their solution was date they employees sometimes even bartenders would date the own their own female customers which you know a few things about this are so terrifying how easy it is to spite someone's drink terrifying but also I imagine if I went to a club I might be cautious of strange men around me but I don't think I would ever be really cautious that the bartender would spike my drink or that the employees would especially burning Sun one of the most like famous club highend most high-end club like yeah what the employees would da

their own female customers to serve them on a silver platter for higher paying male VIP customers who came to essay the female customers they women essayed them took pictures and videos of the assaults created a product catalog of the victims to see if other VIPs wanted to pay to essay these victims as well that was the real business model of burning son they were in theory running a complicated trafficking ring and they got away with it for very long time not because they're flying under the radar and never getting called out on it it's because

they were being so blatant about it there is a saying I believe in German and it's translated into English as the devil was covering it with its own tail and it's in reference to something being so out in the open it's basically right under your nose but you miss it because the devil has just barely hid it out of plain view like hiding in plain sight mhm the burning Sun's reputation was the tale and if anyone heard any strange questionable stories coming out of the burning Sun first they would question if the storytellers were even

sober enough to remember the events correctly and if the answer was yes they would all just kind of shrug and say something along the lines of this just what happens at the burning Sun the club was owned by a well-known Korean celebrity and a bunch of investors and the sentiment for a lot of Koreans at the time was what else do you expect to happen at a place like the burning Sun it doesn't have a wholesome reputation the club was was co-founded by E hung Le who is known as The Great Gatsby of South Korea

and not because he's a fan of literature and that's his favorite book but because he throws insane lavish parties I'm talking a whole line of bottle girls coming out in line holding $11,000 bottles of champagne in each hand with insane sparklers shooting out of them and it's not just one or two bottle girls it's like a whole parade of them stack champagne glasses ready to be filled pretty women everywhere uniformed girls in white and gold sparkly dresses popping $10,000 bottles $50,000 bottles it was crazy this is the same guy singly where for his own birthday

he had booked at a full luxury resort in the philippin so that nobody else could stay there flew 150 of his closest celebrity nepo baby politician children friends from all over East Asia not just South Korea but China Taiwan Malaysia Singapore Japan everywhere to the resort flew them out in the Philippines to party for 4 days and three nights straight these are not people that sit in economy he's booking first class tickets for all of them that's crazy he spent $20,000 $20,000 on just fireworks for his birthday countdown which is like really a crazy thing

to do and the whole weekend ended up being around $444,000 that's crazy cuz his image is like the opposite of this in the band big B this is a guy willing to drop hundreds of thousands if not like half a million dollars on his birthday party and he started as this humble insecure boy we're going to get into all of it you know this became the appeal of burning Sun the general population of Korea had started to hear about single's parties started to hear about the new Great Gatsby of South Korea and they wanted to

go to one of Gatsby's insane parties but back before SLE opened burning Sun there's no way how do you get on a cele C's guest list but now with burning son the club they can experience it firsthand so yeah chaos is expected people would say did you hear about that underage girl what the underage girl that stole her mom's credit card and spent it all at burning Sun apparently the mom found out rushed to burning Sun the bouncers called the cops on the mom mom gets handcuffed dragged away but the crazy thing is there's speculations

that it wasn't just a girl with a fake ID who wanted to party that maybe burning Sun was trying to Target underage girls to come to the club wow I don't know how true that is that's just what happens at the burning Sun these are the reactions people would give there was another report of a couple that went to the burning Sun and the girlfriend had you know she felt comfortable she was going to this wild crazy Club but she was going with her boyfriend so if anybody approached her she would just say oh I

have a boyfriend and he's right there or if she was scared she could just ask the boyfriend hey can you just take me home I don't really feel safe that night at the burning Sun her own boyfriend her with date drugs at the club then assaulted her at a hotel and filmed it without her consent that's true or true she filed a police report against him wow the boyfriend claimed my girlfriend consented to it all we're dating of course she consented she wanted it she said when you're on GHB the date it feels like in

a trance you just do whatever you're told to do and you kind of hear things but then you have no recollection of anything once you truly wake up and snap out of it you feel like a zombie that you can take orders but you don't remember any of that but it's just what happens at the burning Sun right how can they control what kind of boyfriends come in with what kind of intentions then another story came out a witness Miss Kay stated that she was with this guy that she had met at burning Sun and

he's like hey do you want to come up to my hotel room upstairs cuz the burning Sun is is attached to a hotel she accepted she said that she was just going to go up there to have a drink with him but as soon as he opens the door to the hotel room she sees something very very alarming a woman is laying unconscious on the couch and a man is shoving his face in her chest and climbing on top of her he gets off immediately like he had just been caught doing something he's friends with

the guy that she walked in with so I guess they're sharing this room or something and he just starts laughing and he's like oh yeah like you know this is my girlfriend and she's super drunk right now but that's not what it felt like the girl didn't just look super drunk and something about the whole vibe it didn't seem like his girlfriend either she called the police but they responded super nonchalantly about it saying well technically no crime really happened did it so once again some people including the police were just saying it's just what

happens at the burning Sun another story was of a girl named Sarah well let's call her Sarah Sarah said that she didn't really know too much about the burning Sun other than than the fact that her friends would go to the club and come back with these crazy stories of how they felt so extroverted and crazy and it was a blast and how fun it was and she's thinking wow this is kind of this is insane my friends are normally insane introverts that hate leaving the house and this club is bringing them out of their

shells naturally she's curious she gets connected to a friend of a friend named Anna who said that she had been a big partygoer and they formed this friendship Anna offers to take Sarah to the burning Suns than she had been there before and Sarah has no clue that Anna didn't just go to the burning Sun a few times Anna worked at the burning Sun as a runner once they get to the club Anna gives Sarah a pill and encourages her to take it it was K which is known to sedate incapacitate and cause short-term memory

loss in people it can also be used as a date which an employee of a business befriending a young woman lying about her affiliation with said business business and supplying the young girl with atet business that sounds like it's been ripped out of some sort of trafficking handbook but again people were like we don't really know the relationship between Sarah and Anna and let's say an employee did that she could have just been a weird employee that does drugs it's not representative of the club and it's just what happens at the burning Sun there were

other rumors that burning Sun employees had undercover doctors to be around just in case a VIP or someone in the club overdosed on drugs so that these doctors would be available to try and resuscitate so that no one would get busted for Drs this is a very speculative rumor so take it with a grain of salt but later with everything that comes out it's not completely unbelievable all in all all these people that were coming out with their stories of the burning Sun they're getting brushed off so of course if the police if their closest

friends and family don't really take them seriously why would they go to a bigger audience and tell the world hey something weird is happening at the burning Sun it almost became normalized for alarming stories to come out and people would just laugh it off and say h burning Sun is crazy so let's talk about the business model of the club the burning Sun Club was attached to an upscale Hotel it's called Hotel Le Meridia I'm trying to pronounce it in the French way and uh both club and hotel are going to be linked in a

really dark way later burning Sun's business business model was that once those Club doors open and patrons start flowing in two separate business operations are going to be running at the same time the legal operation and the underground VIP operation the legal operation runs like most popular high-end nightclubs weekends there are lines wrapped around the building every young adult wants to party at this exclusive nightclub it became a Lifestyle brand even if you weren't necessarily having fun at the burning Sun just by taking a picture picture and tagging it on your Instagram story meant that

you were someone not everyone could get in and that's why everyone wanted to get in of course like other clubs guys had to pay a cover fee to get in but if you were a tall attractive young woman you would get in for free side note I'm not a clubgoer so this doesn't really impact me either way and I'm not saying that women shouldn't get into clubs for free I think women should be allowed into a lot of places for free like the boardrooms but we are a capitalistic society and at the risk of sounding

dramatic if you are not the one paying you are the product a bunch of guys wanted to go to the club because they knew burning Sun had high standards for women so only the prettiest girls got in for free a bunch of girls wanted to go to the club because they knew that in order for guys to enter not only did they have to pay a cover fee but burning Sun Also attracted a certain kind of man and usually if you saw a guy with at a VIP table at the burning Sun that meant that

he did very well for himself and then of course there were just the people that were curious about about what the hell is going on inside so they're like let me just go once so within the first few weeks of opening burning Sun made around 1.4 million oh after 6 months of being in business their earnings doubled and that's just the legal side of their business I would imagine they're bringing in a lot more money with their underground business cover fees are a small source of the legal income the main Money Maker for the club's

legal business was alcohol packages VIP tables burning Sun made the money spending experience fun and lavish if you purchased an alcohol set for your table beautiful woman in short dresses would come with sparklers and Bottles parading around you to let the whole club know that you just made a horrible financial decision they had five main sets the heaven set which included five bottles of champagne for $10,000 Continental set a $50,000 for 80 bottles of dawn um 80 I don't even know wait so the heaven set is the cheapest one the heaven set is the cheapest

one oh yeah for $10,000 yeah wow Continental set B included 30 bottles of Jay-Z champagne and it's $50,000 Continental set C 40 bottles of a different high-end champagne $50,000 and lastly the most expensive set was called the Monsour set apparently it was named after the Vice President of the UAE who is known in Korea as a worldclass rich person that's what they call him literally a worldclass rich person his net worth is $30 billion so yeah I would say so he is a worldclass rich person he's part of the royal family oh I see I

see yeah the set comprised of 22 bottles and it was priced at $100,000 it's alleged that singly made up the Monsour set for fun thinking nobody's going to spend $100,000 but people did there was one Taiwanese businesswoman that would come in and blow $200,000 in one night a businesswoman well some sources report she's a businesswoman I would say most sources report her to be the housewife of of a businessman oh yes she would later become an investor in the club and sui's bottomless purse side note about her I don't know if she saw the future

of the business that's why she invested and spent so much time at the club or if she just had a laugh for Big Bang I kind of get the feeling that she's just obsessed with big bang she would bring her luxury designer bags to be signed by big bang members it just seemed like she was a super rich fan so we went over the legal alcohol menu for clubgoers but in order to experience the full menu of the burning Sun you have to be a consistent VIP this is going to open you up to A

Whole New World when a VIP walks in through the door first of all they get a separate entrance and if you spend around $10,000 a night you get two guards to accompany you and they are also kind of like you're Butlers the employees in the club know when a VIP walks in and they all cater to that person all night long making sure that everything they could possibly want Under the Sun they've got it VIPs want to do drug even though it's highly highly illegal in South Korea no problem there's a VIP bathroom at the

burning Sun where allegedly could be taken orally but also through the vein if that's what the VIP clients Wanted full service side note a lot of these employees would spend their time working as merchandisers this is a very important position at the burning Sun so most merchandisers at like most establishments they need to keep inventory of the alcohol make sure the bartenders are giving topshelf alcohol for someone that orders it and keeping the house vodka to the house vodka orders but there's another side of merchandisers working at the burning Sun and we're mainly going to

be talking about them moving forward when I talk about merchandisers they are there to provide all other products quote products for the VIPs the regular merchandisers take care of the alcohol the food the napkins the crystal glasses for the whiskey the VIP merchandisers are almost like personal shoppers personal concierges Butlers for the night and they usually try to plan ahead for the vip's needs over the weekend on Thursday every merchandiser from the burning Sun sends out text messages the regular merchandisers will send out the weekend specials to the regular their clients about imported champagne that

they just received that's on special or a new claw-footed bathtub filled with ice and champagne or a new party theme with cover fee being slashed in half or a new DJ that's going to be featuring this weekend the VIP merchandisers will send out similar text this week's specials are almost like a restaurants weekly specials Catch of the Day at supermarkets but instead of promoting cover fees being discounted or alcohol sets being on special they were sending pictures and videos of women all unconscious women they were naked and had just been essayed by other employees or

VIPs the merchandisers believed that these women these victims could be victimized again so it's just a matter of which one the VIPs wanted under each picture or video of a girl was a price to drug and Essay the girl they're selling essay they're not even selling they selling right so they're going to what lure the girls back in wow so they get their numbers usually the weekend before when they're and lure them back in and just like how the alcohol specials changed every week the girls changed every week the merchandisers would text the VIP you

can have this one or how about this one or you can like this a kind of playing like this so they're referencing videos like you can also do it like like this or text that read I can make you a reservation guest if you come I can get you this girl if there was more than one VIP client that wanted the same girl that weekend they would open a bid the clients would bid auction on the woman who had no idea that any of this was even happening many of the club investors and VIP clients

were wealthy businessmen from other countries so there were a lot of Rich Chinese Japanese and Thai businessmen who would travel for work to S and they would stop by the burning Sun to let off steam the merchandisers were really good at knowing exactly what kind of girls each of them wanted they always stated that the Chinese VIPs really liked kangam Onis so kangnam is like the Beverly Hills of s and unni means older sister it's a really nice way of saying they like faces with a lot of work done so when they knew that a

group of Chinese VIPs were coming in they would send them the weekly specials filled with kangam on it's like none of the VIPs wanted workers that's the part of a lot of netizens were infuriated by because regardless of how anybody feels about sex work if it is between two consenting adults there is a level of understanding there there is a transaction that's being made and in the best best case scenario it's a win-win both parties get exactly what they want and I say that in defense of the workers right cuz usually they get the shorter

end of the stick no anyway it would be a bit more acceptable if this club was illegally running some sort of brothel but that's not what's happening there's straight up trafficking I mean this is like human trafficking none of the VIPs wanted SE workers they wanted a girl next door truly did not know that she was getting and being filmed while being assaulted they wanted victims that's what they wanted but let's say they didn't choose a girl through text ahead of time they showed up without advanced notice the merchandisers would go out and pick out

the girls that they felt best suited the vip's types and bring them into the VIP room so they just walk around on the floor yeah and just any girl that had come come to spend money at their establishment a potential victim or the VIP would already have their eyes on a girl or two in the club and they would just be brought in they would request I want that one and that one the employees would go those girls and bring them in and just to reiterate this point home sorry if it feels redundant but it

is a huge part of this case these women that they're picking to bring to the VIP rooms are not employees of the club and they are not sex workers and I don't say that to say employees or sex workers are not as important but I'm saying if it was an employee or worker they would be there for work like these women literally came as customers have no idea that they're being chosen to be victimized they're like Mong just hanging out with friends the assaults would either happen right in the VIP rooms or upstairs in one

of the hotel rooms of the LA Meridia and the hotel also happens to be an investor in the club so there is a question of how big and how well thought out this operation was from start to finish the hotel owns close to 50% of the club okay the speculation being perhaps that was the whole point that burning sun was created for this reason it's not a club that happened to fall into trafficking yeah rather a front for trafficking I think the unsettling thing about this case is both operations were done pretty out in the

open this is a club it's not like one of those moneya laundering schemes where a front is a turo shop and behind the scenes is God knows what we'll never know because the public will never see it hear about it know anything about it but with burning Sun they're running these operations in front of all the clubgoers I would liken this to the feeling of going to a supermarket shopping for beef not knowing that there are security cameras watching you and another group of people behind those cameras shopping for human meat like that's the feeling

I'm sure and because nobody really knew what was going on inside the burning Club aside from victims who were staying quiet out of fear people were lining up fighting paying to get into the burning Sun a place that would turn out to be a literal hell for the victims and it all gets exposed by a 29-year-old Man by the name of Kim hu we're going to call him Kim for the rest of the story November 24th 2018 Kim went to burning Sun with a bunch of his friends it was his friend's birthday they're all there

to have a good time it also happened to be the first snow tun which is a very special day in Korea we're supposed to make a wish and spend it with your loved ones it's very cute romantic day so Kim decides to go outside he's in the burning Sun and the snow starts falling so he's like oh my God I'm going to go outside just quickly to see the snow he kind of parts with his friends and on his way out he sees a woman half passed out barely conscious being dragged out by a man

she looks like she's trying to grab on to pass her by she doesn't want to leave it's clear this is not consensual she clearly wants help so Kim decides I'm going to help he decides to block the man from taking this woman and this man happened to be a VIP client and the employees of the burning son did not take well to Kim standing in the vip's way wow so they they're like blatantly oh in front of people wow yeah the employees also did not appreciate that Kim was now standing in their way of making

a fat tip so they draged Kim outside in front of burning Sun CCTV cameras into the Snowy Road and they start beating him they start pummeling Kim the club executive was one of the main perpetrators he trips Kim with his foot grabs Kim by the hair to hold his head in place uses his other hand to punch him in the face repeatedly it was getting to the point where even one of the bouncers was like hey let's chill out a little bit on this customer but this this executive is not listening another bouncer jumps in

to help hold Kim in place so it's easier for the club executive to hit him at one point point the club executive even walks away from Kim who's on the road just sitting there because now he has three broken ribs it's painful to even try and get up this is not a light beating the club executive walks over to his little bouncers takes off his jacket only to walk back over and continue beating Kim then when he's finally done he just walks back into the club with the bouncers leaving Kim on the ground Kim is

confused scared but also rightfully really really really pissed he calls the police who gets there 12 minutes later and he's explaining to the police what happened and he's pointing at the CCTV camera is like hey it's all on there everything that happened you're going to see it on there so go look at it the police don't really do anything and Kim is like what are you doing I said the person that did this to me is in there he went that way so go into the club and find him they're still not really doing anything

frustrated Kim kicks the trash can in front of the VIP entrance and they still don't do anything finally officers decide to go into the club leaving Kim outside they talk with the security they talk with the club executive that beat up Kim and once they get back outside of the club they arrest Kim they tackle Kim to the ground and arrest Kim they handcuff him from the back which I imagine is quite painful as he has three broken ribs employees are oddly seen helping the police arrest Kim which is just really suspicious if you think

about it because yeah yeah yeah exactly even if some even if a client did something wrong and they're getting arrested on the premises why would you help like there's enough cops already yeah Kim would state that as he's being dragged into the police station the officers intentionally tripped him and since his hands were handcuffed behind his back he had nothing to break his fall except with his face a officer tripped him yeah he had busted his face had a severe nose bleed he claimed the police also kicked him and hit him several times where he

had already broken his ribs he had several broken ribs and they still refused Medical Care he was seen at the police station yelling single's Club you guys got money they do hard and they doana in [Applause] there January 28th 2019 Kim starts going on interviews and making posts about what happened to him inside the burning Sun his main accusations were women are being at the club police are getting paid by the club to look the other way he said screams could sometimes be heard coming from the VIP rooms of girls begging for help these are

masked by Club security and then the paid off Police Department nearby protects the club from legal liability the police aren't here to protect the public they're corrupt Kim started a blue house petition and it received more than 200,000 signatures in just one day the petition detailed specific and assault cases that allegedly happened within the burning Sun Club as well as their sketchy and corrupt relationship with the local city police it game so much attention the president at the time promised to have his team look into it but when the blue house looked into it the

police just turned in random reports that Kim was committing assault in the club they argued look Kim is the one that was essaying people in the club he was caught dragged outside by employees and beaten should he have been beaten like that no but the employees just really hate scum of the earth asers you know so we came out and we arrested the guy with this all the news atas started reporting Kim as some sort of criminal which it's a whole long story we're going to get into later but the burning Sun even came out

with an official statement stating Kim was an offender and they had no choice but to kick him out to support their statement they submitted two complaints from women who allegedly were assaulted by Kim at the club suddenly the story very quickly becomes a he said she said situation rather than a very serious allegation of trafficking inside of a club but neens did notice something strange the person who filed a complaint against Kim saying that she was harassed by him at the club was an employee of the club not saying that they can't be harassed by

clients but like she was a merchandiser at the club it was Anna the runner mhm people didn't know that yet but still it was just weird right after he alleges that there's an underground ring happening at the club an employee of the club says that he is the essayer m Kim said that he was charged unrighteously and inaccurately on charges including defamation indecent acts criminal battery and more and our team tries really hard to not make something about something that it's not right but there was a Feeling by the K neisens and by a lot

of people that had gone to the burning Sun okay a man has spoken out about the club MH and sure it's kind of a he said she said situation but a lot of netizens were still on this man's side and supporting him and it kind of felt safe enough for women to come come forward now because if it had been a woman whistleblower to this there had been other small cases of women trying to anonymously come forward that something weird was happening at the burning Sun they were shamed to hell and back but now that

there was a male at the center of this whistleblowing situation right they felt like okay maybe we can also help bolster his story because we have our own stories about the burning Sun damn that says a lot yeah a lot I mean just like the crime it's self says a lot about the violence against a certain gender and then this just reiterates that so you know like I said before that it was people like Mong people who are getting victim blamed and now a man comes out and they're like okay maybe this is our chance

to expose what's really been happening so because of Kim a lot of anonymous women start coming forward with their stories of the burning Sun many of these stories would confirm Kim's allegations of police corruption because many of these women reported their essays to the police and they did nothing it was revealed that the most commonly used to essay women at the club was GHB it's called in Korea well at least that's what most commonly use slang for it it is the most commonly used date even here in the US it comes in a clear liquid

form or white powder that becomes completely dissolved and invisible in liquid it is odorless tasteless and colorless there was a journalist who experimented by taking GHB herself under the care of a doctor she was is so loopy she alternates from being passed out to being awake and like writing things on her hand and talking about her mom she doesn't remember a single thing none of it wow but that's not the only damage long use of GHB can result in poor memory and even brain damage if you take a lot while consuming alcohol it could even

result in death the victim usually starts becoming semiconscious just from one sip it's like the lights are turned off suddenly but it can't really be detected that well it's often compared to a state of dementia you can walk around by yourself but you don't remember walking around and everything feels separated from your own free will at the burning Sun some employees would request to be brought zombies for VIP room 3 for example they'd be like okay we need zombies in room three because GHB makes the victims able to walk and talk but they're not there

they're not making any decisions themselves so they know that these victims are either entirely unconscious or their cognitive abilities are all heavily affected by the so they know damn well that there is no consent that is given and the worst part of GHB is that the is basically untraceable I mean yeah it it's not untraceable but it it's not for long so that's how the girl tested negative yes so depending on the person the can be completely metabolized anywhere between 5 to 24 hours of use meaning if you go home feeling like something very Sinister

happened you feel like okay I need to get my thoughts straight before I go to the police station because I can't walk in there and say I don't know something happened I don't know but by that point the be completely out of your system mhm wow and you would be labeled as a flower snake in Korea it's referencing a woman who seduces men sleeps with them and then wakes up the next morning deciding to sue them for money in Korea the drug is often described with this phrase I did this action but I don't remember

doing this action which I think is a really good indicator of how hard it is in a place like Korea to prove that you've been Dred and assaulted and have the police take you seriously at this point everything starts snowballing it went from a man was being assaulted and maybe a single VIP was assaulting a woman or at least trying to then it snowballs into no they are running a sex trafficking ring and there are many many women getting drugged and assaulted by many different VIPs and the employees are all in on it and the

big question on everyone's mind which yeah I I don't know if it was the most appropriate question at the time but it was how much of this did K-pop Idol Lee hung Lee know about it as one of the co-owners of the club people wanted a public statement from him ASAP did he or did he not know that his employees were running a business at his Club sule's dad did an interview with media first where he claimed SLE was blindsighted by all of this he stated that his son had businesses everywhere and he's still an

idol after all at at the end of the day these businesses are not his main business as much as he wants to be super involved at the burning Sun he just didn't have the time and now now he's super shocked and disappointed just like all of you the public the dad said and I quote there's too many speculative articles about this burning Sun case they're only taking The Other Side Story and it's unfortunate that they're only focusing on that just because it's called the SLE Club does not mean that my son was directly involved D

with the things that had happened he would later go on to insinuate that the media just wanted to attach tungi so heavily to the crime because it makes for a better story makes for a better headline the dad even went on to say that singi didn't even own the club anymore and that he wasn't in a position to give instructions or give orders at the club he had a CEO in place for that so SLE is not the CEO of burning Sun just a co-founder his dad goes on to say I talked to Sly today

he said his fans and everyone will want to hear an explanation he sounded like he was having a hard time he can't help but feel misunderstood my son is not in a position to directly work at burning Sun he's rarely in Korea and he's busy with his Ramen franchise yeah he has a Ramen franchise and solo concerts abroad this time I'm sure he really felt the burn it's unfortunate but last month he received the 2019 Korea consumer evaluation best brand award but none of that was covered by the media instead it comes out as if

he's a criminal his true intentions will be revealed through the investigation but it's upsetting that even before the results come out he's accused of doing hard he did Aur test because of this issue and the results showed nothing was wrong my son feels wronged fake news is being spread by the media he's not a child that could hurt others my son is having a hard time especially because the media is making things up my heart hurts too then single did an interview of his own where he stated he never bribed any police officers or a

police he stated even if he wanted to he didn't have that much power he was basically just a boy that sang on stage he said that all he did was lend his name and fame to help the club gain more foreign fans and have more clubgoers come and sometimes he would DJ at the club but that was really his involvement in the club he said I don't even know the financials of the club he goes on to throw his business partner of Yuri Holdings the company that owns 20% of the club that is co-founded by

sui so his dad is saying sui my son doesn't even own shares of the company of burning Sun and like technically s Lee doesn't own shares of the burning Sun but he owns a company called Yuri Holdings that owns 20% of the club wow and singly is like you know I heard that my business partner was talking about women and asking for women and trying to buy sex and I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen to me and I don't really hold that kind of power over a business partner so there's nothing I

can do if that's an adult you know throws him out of the bus sing Promises to the media and to the public that he's going to do anything to help with the investigation and he wants the truth out there as much as anybody else of course their responses make the case blow up more but on top of that the business partner that he threw under the bus is actually married to a then very famous actress by the name of parkar so he's like hey you know that actress well her husband is like looking for workers

so of course the case blows up even more right but at least sule's fans are super relieved they felt like we dodged a bullet SLE is still good he's still the guy that we know and love other people doubted that they thought tungi knew exactly what was going on he's The Great Gatsby of Korea and just like The Great Gatsby singly has a raging inferiority complex the holiday seasons I usually get a lot less sleep but I am solely energized through peppermint flavored sweets and sparkly holiday decorations just running straight off of Vibes but one

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better hydration today using promo code rotten mango at liquid i.com to give you context on sing Le he was part of a five-person K-Pop group called Big Bang and I feel like for anyone who knows even a little bit about Korean entertainment or even really Korean culture at this point Big Bang is just one of those groups that needs no introduction so I'm going to try and keep it brief for those that are just not in the K-pop world this bang is like the One Direction of K-pop meaning they will always be remembered at one

point as being one of the most iconic boy bands in K-pop history I'm not saying right now I'm just saying at one point they were and I'm not saying that they're better than your faves or even like they paved the way or anything but they were really really popular yeah like between what 2008 to 2012 like they dominated the world dominated yeah it is unclear how much revenue the group generated or at least we couldn't find out an exact figure but we did find out that they brought in $800 million in ticket sales for their

concerts during their career that's probably a very small cut of the overall Revenue that they generated That's not including album sales streaming Revenue appearance fees ambassadorships royalties from music that's just concert sales is $800 million so they're an influential group and tungi always felt like the black sheep of the group it's pretty evident in Hind it that he had an intense inferiority complex while he was part of big bang and it does seem like there were a few pain points for him singly applied to be a traine for the K-pop group that would be later

Big Bang there was a series of cutthroat competitions till a group of boys was narrowed down they just wanted five members everything was ruthlessly judged and criticized by YG who is picking the trainees they had four members already picked and it was down to the last spot SLE and another boy were competing eting neck and neck for it singly barely made it it was so neck and neck it was like I guess we'll go with singly it wasn't like oh man he won by a landslide that was so good he really stood out it was

such a close call and that type of complex he felt like I'm not as good as the other members y was so certain on the other members but for me it was kind of was kind of iffy now that kind of complex doesn't necessarily make someone a bad person fans actually fell in love with sing Lee for the sides of him that were shown they remember during the early days of big bang There were reality shows that they would do that showcased what their lives were like as trainees and they would all be crammed together

inside these very not so great apartments that the company was paying for they would have to clean up after themselves after training and dancing for like 18 hours a day and Sly being the youngest of the group in Korean culture that means he has to do a lot more chores than the others he has to do things like wake everyone up which is harder than you think the oldest of the the group Top he refuses to wake up so it's standard to sees hungy go into the kitchen grab pots and pans to bang together to

wake up his hung another member would start vacuuming the wall on top of Top's face to try and wake him up because he's just I guess a heavy sleeper and it's kind of like a heartwarming moment it's relatable it's funny and considering how young the boys were at this point it was endearing but Singley was always being compared to his other bandmates I would say I remember and this is just from memory and not research G Dragon top Tang like they had so many stands from the people that I knew personally s Le just didn't

really have a lot of stands from what I remember he did seem to get a good chunk of hate comments people joked they didn't like the size of his head that it was really big they also said that his legs were too short and that other members were very good-looking but singly was um had a relatable looking face they said he said he especially didn't like the comments about his head because and I quote it's not like I can get a head reduction but even that moment is a good example of why a lot of

people started to dancingly he seemed like the underdog and he was not shy to show that he was vulnerable and he wasn't like trying to be like I'm actually really good guys he was embracing it he's like yeah I am the ugliest of the group but what am I going to do about it right he said he was always anxious about never having enough money and he said G Dragon earns extra money from songwriting and writes to the copyrights of their songs because he writes a lot of their music top does acting in movies and

dramas do solo albums and concerts singly said that he was anxious because all of them were so diverse in their earnings and their income and he said I am making quote 1% of what G Dragon is making wow and like a lot of people with a potential inferiority complex he starts overcompensating it felt like he's desperately trying to make something work and I just want to make it clear I'm sure his Idol life like a lot of Idols if not every Idol in South Korea is cutthroat is hard potentially miserable and rough but from what

we can tell the man is not starving he's not paycheck to paycheck so when he's saying I'm making 1% of what G Dragon is making he's not out here working a restaurant job after his training like he's he's talking about like at that point if top is doing acting and solo like they are already popping at that point like he's a millionaire he yeah he's killing that like as a part of big bang like but they he kind of made it his personality and a lot of fans felt bad for him but it's like I

just want to preface we don't need to feel bad for him but his image at that point is just like this soft good boy like very like little you know very soft energy people love it people love him yes nice guy nice guy image yes he said he just wanted to keep up with other members so he learned English Chinese and Japanese he opened up one of his first businesses a training camp for Idols lot of big names came out of there lot of big names huh so he did a training camp mhm huh I

was going to list some names but I don't even want them to be like associated with s Le but like a lot of big names came and they don't even know like s Le and they're not connected with anything that he did but just in case but yeah lots of big names closed down after a few years because one of the teachers had gotten romantically involved with a student not a good luck he moves on with other business ventures and by 2018 he finally made a name for himself outside of sooni of Big Bang he

was hosting multiple talk shows going on TV shows acting in dramas doing promotional activities for y entertainment that's the agency that created Big Bang he calls the founder of YG Mr y entertainment himself he calls him apaa which is Dad because of how close they are he started a Belgian waffle Cafe for his mom to run he co-oped a restaurant called monkey Museum in China he had a Ramen franchise called aori Ramen and it had multiple locations in Korea and even a branch in quala lur he owned 10% shares of a cosmetic medical company called

Dr goldm he was serving as a brand ambassador for a new music label launched by Sony Music he was heavily involved in ygx which is a sublabel under y entertainment he would also go on to build this image of himself as The Great Gatsby of Korea which was great marketing for all of his night businesses like his bars and clubs so now we have a potential inferiority complex love for avish parties lots of businesses in The Nightlife party scene but still that doesn't make someone complicit in something as serious as a trafficking scheme did he

really know what was going on his fans argued absolutely not they felt like he was innocent this is Tung Lee that we're talking about do people not remember a lot of people dug up an old clip of sun Le and it had been on a TV show called I live alone he was talking to another actress it's a reality show they're sitting there talking and the actress recently had a baby and out of nowhere she asks Sly I can give you some if you want and he's like give me what the soap I use breast

milk soap and Sly looks very shocked oh uh what go what is what is it made from it's soap made from a mother's breast milk singly puts his cup down to take a few seconds to gather his thoughts H breast milk is very healthy yeah because he doesn't want to offend her but he still doesn't know what to say in that moment and it's a really innocent comical moment the actress keeps explaining the whole process of how the soap is made and tungi is coughing because he's shocked by all of this information and he's just

trying to be polite so he says okay yeah thank you yes of course I I would love some how many do you want I have a lot you can just text me he's like basically about to throw up some water if he has any in his mouth and he's text you to ask for the breast milk mil it seemed like the actress was genuinely having a fun time shocking tungi messing around with him and tungi comes off super naive super innocent super polite so fans are like you're telling me that this guy that's shy when

someone offers him breast milk soap is a brilliant Mastermind behind a sex trafficking ring breast milk boy do you know what it means to bomb a chat m-m you usually friends will start group Chats on Kaka talk which is like the WhatsApp or WeChat of Korea and when they're done with the group chat or if they've said enough inappropriate comments or told enough secrets on that group chat someone will text blow up the chat one by one the notifications come in blank left the chat blank left the chat and once every single person leaves the

chat everything in that chat gets automatically deleted by kako so it's not like you can leave the chat but still see what's in the chat it's gone the chat history deleted along with any videos and pictures sent into the chat when the burning Sun Group would feel like the chat had gotten a little too incriminating when they had texted too many pictures and videos of unconscious women when they had talked about too many VIPs as saying unconscious women they would periodically text out bomb the chat blow it up which helps with making sure that if

someone's phone is ever taken in by the police if someone's phone is ever lost they might see the current group chats that are probably very incriminating they won't see years and years of incriminating activity it's almost like an insurance policy to everybody in that chat that they were going to at least cover their asses and it was in everyone's best interest to bomb the chat to delete it or so they thought JJ y was part of these group chats and some quick context to jjy um he's what they call a multiplayer in Korea he's a

singer songwriter TV personality he's known for having this wild fun personality so a lot of talk shows love him he's also very very good at singing he never left the chats he was part of all the burning Sun chats he was part of every single singly chat about unconscious woman selling woman bidding woman he never left it because he felt so sad to part with all the amazing pictures and videos of women being victimized so he always pretended to leave the chat last but the truth is he never left any of them he kept each

and every single one and when his ex-girlfriend reported him for taking videos of her without her consent and he would turn his phone in to the tech company he would be the one to bring the whole operation down wow so even when he did that he thought he can just break his phone and he's good yeah but these are this is the tech company that recovered the data from SE fairy victims phones so like they knew what they were doing and they take their jobs very seriously but he was like oh well I basically smashed

my phone so it's fine it was not fine even years before this there was an incident that felt like foreshadowing to everything that was about to happen JJ y was on a show with Chico another celebrity and Chico joked about JJ y's golden phone and immediately because they're on set filming a show JJ y's face changes for a split second his not his like he drops his face mask not his literal face mask but he drops his smile and he has this very sour look on his face it's very much the stop talking about this

look what's a golden phone people thought golden phone is in these sex videos now but Chico would later be involved in the burning Sun controversy because neens accused him of knowing what jjy was doing on his phone he's like you probably saw the videos then yeah why would he if he does why would he put that information in TV right like that's what SEO is saying he's saying guys I meant golden phone like sometimes people use it to refer to someone who has a lot of good connections so if you were to have Beyonce and

Taylor Swift on speed dial you have a golden phone cuz you have their numbers and so he was briefly involved in the burning Sun Scandal But ultimately JJ y's golden phone would bring down some of the biggest names in K-pop February 26 2019 the first round of messages are released to the public and multiple celebrities would go down after the release along with investors the management team and employees of burning Sun they're weing few key people in the group chats Troy jong-hun wholesome singer from FT Island boy group yeah e jongan Idol from boy bansan

blue qu hun brother of girls generation Yuri jjy Singer TV host celebrity TV personality and of course s Le of big bang owner of the burning Sun and it clearly shows that s Le is involved he is texting employees about Investors that are coming and he writes give them everything they want call the girls over there's also a guest coming from Taiwan employee responds which girls can we call right now oh man it's the Chinese already oh my God take care of them so they don't get involved with others yes I will stick by the

VIPs Sly text you better do it right and make no mistakes another business partner tells the employee put a boy in there too someone who can serve redacted a boy who can't speak English someone like redacted employee responds okay we'll do I'll do the job well Sly even text and which girl are you going to bring get the kids who give it easily get the kids who gives easily yeah like as in is easy to essay is the presumption here JJ Y is randomly in that group chat and he's like I bet the Chinese like

plastic surgery girls and singly is just like all right just do well another partner of the business text into the group chat I'm preparing the right now so when the two come I will guide them and make sure they end up smoothly with the VIPs in the hotel room singly text Chairman's guests are also coming I think we need to set up a separate party for them let's give them back a hundred times what we received from them guys please look for any prettyl looking girls who can possibly speak some Japanese let's pack the place

for Christmas rather than us having fun let's experience a Christmas of finding satisfaction and making others happy this time let's give the chairman a great time and make him happy for all the Summers he sent us Yachts with staff and chefs from Japan to pan for us to enjoy bro like he is the worst because he's literally manipul masterminding this whole ring he is the culprit he is The Mastermind behind this whole operation like he's the worst he's like the ones connecting everyone like none of this would have even been possible without him yeah he's

doing this for the money and profit and he's literally selling woman for money yeah yeah I mean I feel like a lot of media Outlets I don't know if it's legality or they're just trying to keep it professional but honestly he's just straight up in my personal opinion like a pimp like disgusting yeah vile trafficking Pimp Like honestly yeah in another conversation sing Le talks about a girl that he likes and he writes redacted is actually art I admit it jjy text I touch the hell out of her boobs her boobs big they're fake singly

text redacted is coming like a girl is coming and JJ y says stop these foreigners from coming Sly text you there are investors then another conversation Sly writes the party last night was a hit another Idol says it was successful Sly writes that girl I admit it I'm hooked her older sister is good too Sun Le say that yeah jjy text yeah her sister was a surprise there were a lot of hidden gems yesterday friend text but there seems to be hella guys around too Sly says we have to steal let's all eat domestic girls

together in Korea and then get married to foreign girls friend texts why is blank so pretty JJ y says she's the both Mr B and I at LOL Sly text and I plan on eating her too anyone here got her number an employee of burning Sun text if you do it with that it's guaranteed a secret she's very I don't know anything singly texts LOLOL she has Amnesia she doesn't even remember who she does it with jjy texts nope not Amnesia just our word LOLOL singly text could be she just doesn't remember JJ Y is

angry he says when she first met me she was all bsing about I don't watch TV so I don't know you but after she got drunk she was whining and asking me to sing for her s Le says want me to tell you something more funny or rather absurd I opened my eyes and I was like why am I sleeping with Cuna when I was like I thought I was sleeping with these other two girls where did they go LOLOL in another chat single is asking a VIP client about what kind of woman they like

and the client responds I'm not sure South Asian men like white skin so someone with fair skin and innocent and pretty features were the opposite just sexy girls like blank blank and blank who are innocent yet sexy or just a super fancy glamorous girl those types of girls wouldn't that type of style work we want over 160 cm tall thinner it's not too picky though girls from Korea will do there are other chat logs where it seems like slingly is sending girls on trips with VIP clients he asks a VIP about an Indonesia trip that

he has coming up and the VIP says says that they want ones that are under 10k per person singly writes I understand it's 10K per person right Mr CEO he proceeds to send pictures of five different girls and he writes number one doesn't talk that much and kinds of loves money she also has aspects where she doesn't have much Charisma and drinking scenes but her visuals are great cry Emoji in another conversation JJ y texts the group that he's boarding the plane soon and he says I will Korean b as soon as I arrive I'm

going to invite them to my house before going out German have huge asses his Idol friends write get back safely fly safe an employee of the burning son writes I bet Germany smell like sausages jjy says not bad LOL we had fun a lot of nens noted that it's kind of crazy that they're so polite to each other even saying things like get back safely have a safe flight we miss you meanwhile they talk about women I mean in the most degrading ways possible another Super controversial conversation involved the idols talking about who H Le

had with yesterday and they asked was she delicious and they said things like I want her number and one person wrote yes she is Comfort woman level let me tell you comfort woman is a very very sensitive topic for most Koreans it is aside from the crimes the most horrifying comment that was found in the group chats Chinese too it's it's a huge problem so to give context Comfort women was one of the worst atrocities that the Japanese government committed towards Korean and Chinese women and a lot of the victims so when Japan colonized Korea

along with various other countries in Asia so I don't believe that it was just Korean and Chinese they promised a bunch of women from all these different countries but we're just talking about Korean women here that they could work in factories to make just enough to barely survive they're like you can barely get by and you can maybe feed your kid but because these women had no other choice nothing else they were basically forced to agree not knowing that the Japanese government never intended them to work in factories they were actually forced into trafficking they

were locked up and made to be assaulted by Japanese soldiers every single day Comfort women have come forward to say that they were essayed at least 30 times a day while they were held captive I could go into further detail but it's very very depressing they were impregnated they contracted diseases they were experimented on tortured so the topic of comfort women is highly sensitive additionally because it's not really something that happened long long ago to multiple Generations before us many of the Comfort women the victims were elderly women in Korea I believe the last few

are still alive many of them have since passed but they have yet to receive an apology from the Japanese government and a lot of the tensions in current time between between the Korean government and the Japanese government not to get too political is this is one of those things many Korean citizens want apologies for the comfort women before they pass on and the Japanese government has refused to acknowledge their crimes and here we have the Korean faces of the entertainment world making fun of comfort women and recreating the tragedy so to speak I mean even

if we take out the literal crimes committed in the group chats even just the way they talk about women while they have a predominantly female audience as Idols is Despicable it's filled with crude emotionally violent disgusting comments and jokes and side note about the messages being released some people hate the tech employee for not turning in the tech sooner they state that if it were them they would have turned it in sooner and that could be a th% true especially as a woman I'm like yeah maybe I would have turned it in sooner few things

to note police corruption is really bad anywhere and in creates the same there were already strong indications in the data that the tech employees saw that high high high up police officials were involved in the trafficking ring if you will so what would you do go to a different officer what if they all answer to the same person how do you know that person's immediate boss isn't involved as well and in Korea when you mess with the police as a normal person you might be ending your life right then and there they could easily get

you fired from your job they could get you outcasted you could lose everything your family your livelihood you would be on the street and guess what burning Sun would probably still be up and running in vict iing people and in Korea defamation laws are honestly dumb like they're not even defamation laws so in the US defamation is when someone knowingly States a lie about another person claiming it to be a fact so the basis is you are lying about someone else and you're not allowed to do that which makes sense in Korea it's even if

you tell the truth about someone and that someone doesn't like what you said because it hurt their feelings or hurt their reputation they can sue you for defamation which a lot of people in Korea even think it's very goofy cuz that's not really even the definition of defamation MH but here we are this employee could have been sued to the point of having nothing but the clothes on his back cuz they're not even dealing with one celebrity or one rich business owner they're dealing with a whole roster of them all cozy with politicians and police

what chance does this Tech employee stand and even if they went through all of that the burning Sun could still be up and running so I don't know if I would sit here and say oh my gosh well that person is messed up I do think it is frustrating that they sat on the information for 3 years while people continue to be victimized but I think that there's so much cultural societal Nuance that goes into a decision like that and I think that we could technically all sit here and be like I could never do

that but I don't know I guess know it's like how powerful are these people all of these people combine and who can he go to like really you don't know it seems like all the the people in charge are in on this and technically he committed a very big crime by keeping the data yeah so he broke the law as well now I will say that when he finally did turn in the evidence after The Whistleblower Kim so he saw that and he was like I think you know along with all the other Anonymous women

that were coming out he was like I think this is the time that people would actually listen and not think that these are fake he was very smart he hired an attorney who was also very smart and they decided instead of handing it over to the police who were foaming at the mouth for this they handed it over to the Civil Rights Commission office and that is how a lot of it became public because the police would have never made this public which again I don't know maybe he could have done that 3 years ago

maybe it wouldn't have worked all we know is yeah it's out now many of the involved parties continue to state that these text messages are fake but a lot of these texts are the foundation of the investigation into burning Sun by the prosecutor's office which n as feel like that wouldn't have been the case if there was a question of the validity of them and the CEO of the burning Sun even said If s these kaca messages from 3 years ago or a crime aren't all Korean men criminals insinuating that all these jokes about work

and women and all of that is just how men talk wow which is the most absurd thing to say ever but it also does kind of confirm the validity of the chat logs but to cover our basis is alleged for now that these are the real messages between the involved parties but naturally neens had visceral reactions to the released alleged messages a lot of fans were devastated that they supported someone like this there were even chat logs that described how JJ Y and four of his friends took turns on a victim who is drugged they

joked about how she woke up saying she doesn't even remember anything other than having a drink with them they also talked about how they thought it was so funny they had gang essayed her while while taking pictures and then the next morning JJ y went to a fan sign so I mean it's crazy he had the nerve to look his predominantly female fans in the eyes while smiling at them when he had just done one of the worst things that you could do to a woman the night before the snpa the soul Metropolitan Police Academy

officially take over the case early 2019 media is all over this case neens want to know who's involved how much they knew and they wanted all of them to go down the shares of the burning Sun were split like this 42% owned by the hotel 8% owned by the hotel's chairman 20% owned by Taiwanese businesswoman ly Samo 20% owned by Yuri Holdings which was allegedly set up by SLI implying that he has potentially 20% interest in the club but Yuri Holdings was also technically run by his friend yuin Hook yuin huk is also married to

a famous actress by the name of Park hanar remember I was telling you about her and 10% is owned by a business businessman eunho he was close friends with Singley and he is said to have been running the day-to-day operations he is the CEO of the burning Sun so all the foreign investors they left the country and were safe from backlash including the Taiwanese businesswoman who owned 20% of the burning Sun the rest of the Korean celebrities and business owners were left to be investigated burning Sun and sing Lee were also under investigation for tax

evasion which you know really doesn't feel that significant compared to the other allegations but I think that it does shine light on a lot of the things that he was doing it was suspected that with all of the business from his VIP clients with the selling of sa essentially allegedly and a lot of the alcohol packages he would encourage payment in cash it's alleged that he was evading taxes money laundering you remember the restaurant that he had monkey Museum they called it a restaurant but it was like a nightclub he tried to file it under

a restaurant so that he could pay less taxes his Ramen business was making a suspicious amount of money turns out he was laundering money from burning son through the ramen franchise it was a whole lot it was a mess like I think it also shows he was heavily involved you know he knew what he was doing so while everybody is being investigated Singley announces his retirement from the entertainment industry and it's a very off-putting statement he's basically like I think it's a good idea to retire at this point I decided to retire because the issue

has caused so much Social controversy and I've been criticized and hated by the public for the past month and a half and now with all the investigative agencies in the country investigating me I am being labeled as a national traitor I cannot allow myself to cause harm to everyone around me just to survive neens hated his apology it felt very you guys blew this whole thing into something that it's not so now I'm just going to retire then I don't want to face your criticism also it had this Aura of I don't know what's going

on I'm just as confused as you are you know it's like what's going on there were even AR articles titled the burning Sun Scandal case that everyone except hung Le knows about he also stated that this would be a good time for him to enlist in the Army and serve his duty as a good Korean Citizen and everyone got riled up for that because in Korea men have to serve two years mandatory enlistment they're like the Army is not a place for you to escape your reality so even with all of this the consequences just

weren't that great I mean okay maybe that's a strange word to use it wasn't even comparable I guess would be a better way to phrase it right some of the more notable sentences included jjy Idol sentenced to 5 years in prison uh Choy jong-hun Idol sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison brother of girls generation Yuri sentenced to four years in prison meanwhile soon Le enlisted in the Army and he was able to have a military trial dude wow he had nine charges ranging from work violent crimes and then breaking food sanitation laws

occupational embezzlement things like that he was found guilty of all nine charges sentenced to three years in prison he would have to file to be a offender and he was finded almost $855,000 he appealed he was given one and a half years in prison instead of three here's a convenient loophole that's going to piss you off in Korea if you go to prison for less than one and a half years you can serve quietly meaning it's not going to be on your record when you get out singly was sentenced to exactly 1 and A2 years

so technically he missed the cut off and would be on his record somehow he manages to get out 2 days early meaning that it would be expunged from his record oh and he's spotted clubbing and cheating on women and Bali since then it's on the record now like we're not going to forget about that and so he has fans yeah there are some people that comment things like he's still young I hope that he can overcome the mistakes of the past and lives an amazing life isn't the rest of his life too long for him

to just crumble like this he paid the price of his sins through the law already let's all give him a chance I will say most of the comments are pretty logical and they read every country needs harsher punishments for R and sex assault he suffers 2 years in prison his victims suffer a lifetime two years isn't enough if you ask me anyways if the system doesn't give them what they deserve Society should regardless I think we can all agree that many of the perpetrators got off with much less time than expected even corrupt police officers

who were exposed of being in on the whole thing they were just either dismissed from their positions and those were just the lower ranking ones the high ranking officials that were involved they weren't even dismissed nothing happened to them there wasn't even some sort of PR statement of like we're going to reorganize the police force and make countermeasures set in place against bribery and Corruption nothing nothing yeah yeah and all of the VIP clients they essentially got away with it for essay and somehow even Kim remember the whistle blow who broke three ribs and got

punched in the face he started the blue house petition well he gets arrested too for allegedly abusing Three Men and harassing people inside the burning Sun which half the people argue Kim is a wolf and sheep's clothing he did good on whistleblowing the burning Sun but he was probably involved in some weird stuff too and a lot of others believe no it's just fishy like the allegations against him are just fishy at this point he was sentenced to a year in prison but he says that he will be appealing the decision so it seems like

minus Kim everyone else got off with a slap on the wrist with all things considered unbelievable the fact that the guy is roaming around living his best life a lot of Kens think that it has to do with Korean Society of victim blaming and shaming victims Who come out for crimes like this remember the Ean case that we covered we talked about how some horrible people didn't feel that bad for hundreds of victims who died because they said well why would they go out for a party for Halloween anyway it's not a good place for

young respectable people a lot of families of victims for Ean wanted their names not to be made public because they were scared that their loved ones would be victim blamed and it was the similar case with burning Sun the victims were scared to come forward because they would have been blamed of then why did you go to a club then yeah well that's just the risk you take as a woman at a club and because there weren't really that many victims that spoke forward at the court speaking directly on the case they got off way

too easy I think the only way to come back that is to for society to speak up more about to support in support of victims right like that's the only way for other people to realize you're so dumb by saying that like like we need to make it keep talking about it to to lift up the victims yeah yeah and um another thing was it's just really annoying in the justice system that you would think drugging victims to essay them makes the crime that much worse right because now you're doing more things to their body

but it actually helps the perpetrators get away with it in the eyes of the justice system because you know what's Justice right it's a way for perpetrators to say she's not credible because I her but that's not the point and it's just insulting and infuriating at this point in other case related aftermath news the hotel on top of burning Sun was shut down in 2021 the building was sold to Hyundai construction and they are now going to change it to be an apartment building the co-founder of YG Mr YG himself stepped down as CEO of

Y entertainment one of the big three entertainment agencies in South Korea because of this Scandal it is stated that y lost close to $100 million worth of investment money because of the burning Sun case and recently Choy one of the idols was released from prison as well and Paparazzi found out which church he was attending with his mom and they stopped him in the church parking lot to ask him for an interview and in the footage he literally you can hear this man whining for his mom he's like Mom like a kid when you're seven

and a Stranger Comes to the door to ask if you have time to talk about the Lord and Savior and you're like Mom that's what he sounds like his mom walks up and starts clucking away like some crazy mother hen she states he wants to live in faith now what do you want Paparazzi why are you making a big deal out of nothing do you want to get punished by God and again this is to show you the family's character not the character of people who attend church or are religious a lot of Christian netizens

were commenting like these types of people use religion as a way to Shield themselves from their own evil acts other neens were just shocked by both family members Behavior they wrote calling your mom like that at that age is legendary but the mom who pops up and coddles over her son is even more legendary and I will end you with this note one chilling fact is you know how a lot of big K-pop groups have names for their fans so black pink has blinks BTS fans or Army big Bang's fans were called VIPs they made

it to say that their fans are very important people to them but single's VIPs were not his fans they were his best and I just hope with him being back in the news with these scandals burning Sun is never forgotten because how do you get away something that he shouldn't be able to to have anyone foaming over him or yeah yeah he should never yeah never be able to make a comeback he's just a vile criminal yeah so what are your thoughts on the burning Sun and let me know in the comments and please be

safe I'll see you guys on Sunday for the mini so bye