Former K-pop star Jung Joon-young left prison Tuesday after completing a five-year term for gang rape and illicit filming, in one of South Korea’s high profile spycam scandals. — Picture via X/@official_JYrockSEOUL, March 19 — Former K-pop star Jung Joon-young left prison Tuesday after completing a five-year term for gang rape and illicit filming, in one of South Korea’s high profile spycam scandals.
Known as “molka” in Korean, spycam videos are typically made by men who secretly film women in schools, toilets and elsewhere, although the term can also be applied to clandestinely-shot footage of consensual sex. Wearing a black hat and mask, the 35-year-old Jung walked out of the prison in Mokpo, some 350 kilometres south of Seoul, without talking to waiting press early today, the News1 agency reported.and had a number of solo hits before the spycam scandal emerged in early 2019, when he announced his retirement from entertainment business.At the time the rape accusations had yet to emerge, but he said he had “committed crimes that cannot be forgiven”.