{"id":10790,"date":"2021-08-12T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:49:52","slug":"former-k-pop-idol-seungri-sentenced-to-prison-on-prostitution-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/former-k-pop-idol-seungri-sentenced-to-prison-on-prostitution-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Former K-Pop idol, Seungri, sentenced to prison on prostitution charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If in the past <strong>Seungri<\/strong> was one of the biggest K-Pop idols as part of the group <strong>BIGBANG<\/strong>, now he&#8217;s in trouble with the law. He was sentenced to 3 years in <strong>jail<\/strong> after participating in an <strong>illegal<\/strong> gambling and <strong>prostitution<\/strong> scheme. He already left the group in 2019 after the \u201c<strong>Burning Sun<\/strong>\u201d scandal, which involved other celebrities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Seungri, 30, was <strong>convicted<\/strong> of mediating <strong>sexual<\/strong> favors for foreign investors. With that, he received benefits in return. Since he violated the laws of South Korea, he will also have to pay a <strong>fine<\/strong> of 5 billion Korean won.<\/p>\n<p>The former BIGBANG member has at the same time <strong>denied<\/strong> his involvement in prostitution systems. However, he took on minor financial crimes. Apparently, he did not convince in court. Responsible prosecutors claim that he &#8220;<em><strong>never showed remorse and tried to blame other people for his actions<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; Artists such as <strong>Jung Joon-young<\/strong> and <strong>Choi John-hoon<\/strong> (formerly FT Island) have also been convicted of the same case.<\/p>\n<p>In BIGBANG, Seungri reached hits like &#8220;<strong>Tonight<\/strong>&#8220;, &#8220;<strong>Fantastic Baby<\/strong>&#8220;, &#8220;<strong>Loser<\/strong>&#8220;, &#8220;<strong>Bang Bang Bang<\/strong>&#8220;, &#8220;<strong>Let&#8217;s Not Fall in Love<\/strong>&#8220;, among others. Even before groups like BTS, BLACKPINK, and EXO entered the music industry, BIGBANG was already established in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p> It turns out that for some years the group has not launched new <strong>projects<\/strong>, but that could change soon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8d5QEWdHchk\" title=\"BIGBANG - TONIGHT M\/V\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8d5QEWdHchk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In other news related to BIGBANG, according to the <strong>Koreaboo<\/strong> website, member <strong>G-Dragon<\/strong> recently sent to <strong>DAZED Korea<\/strong> magazine that he has written many songs for BIGBANG.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>I&#8217;ve been working on music and BIGBANG lately, so I focus on finding keywords related to them, I spend most of my time writing lyrics, so I usually take notes<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; G-Dragon said.<\/p>\n<p>G-Dragon returned from <strong>military<\/strong> <strong>service<\/strong> in 2019, and at the time, he promised to deliver new music without specifying whether he would be as a solo artist or with BIGBANG. It is worth mentioning that during his absence, the group was rocked by a series of <strong>criminal<\/strong> investigations involving member Seungri, who ended up leaving BIGBANG.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BIGBANGDOMINATE\/status\/1378955058247725058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BIGBANGDOMINATE\/status\/1378955058247725058<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If in the past Seungri was one of the biggest K-Pop idols as part of the group BIGBANG, now he&#8217;s in trouble with the law. He was sentenced to 3 years in jail after participating in an illegal gambling and prostitution scheme. He already left the group in 2019 after the \u201cBurning Sun\u201d scandal, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":10791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}