Seungri Announces Retirement as Scandal Grows to Include Sharing of Hidden Camera Sex Recordings Via Text with Other K-stars Involved

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• He was proven guilty that's why he was banned from leaving the country but International bloggers didn't translate the exact report instead the translate the question one only. Commit the crime, serve the punishment.

• They need to release the rest of the names in the group chat fast.

• I am interested to know who are the rich overseas investors.

• Was his night club ( from what I know it legally belongs to YG) not accused of ignoring rape that was happening on the premises and actually helping rich guys to find future victims on the premises? I'm not sure so if anyone has any info please share.

  I'm not a hater but Seungri was always shielded like no tomorrow no matter what he did and unless you're a blind teenage oppa folower you could guess that he's not a great person. Now, that there's all that evidence against him I'm really suprised that there are still people defending him.

• I am more surprised how people can easily declare judgment without any knowledge of the whole thing. Leave it the police.

• You mean the people who hid the whole thing? Sure why not. I'm not Korean so this issue doesn't really affect me, passing judgement is very easy. This is not a witch hunt, there is a lot of evidence against this guy. If he doesn't get jailed it's only because YG is behind him.

  • Evidence? where? Are you the police? I am not defending him but I am only pointing out how people pass judgment not knowing the fact, even little bit of sighting of one evidence, like fools. Just leave this matter to the police.

    Oh well gullibility is equivalent exercising ones entitlement of freedom of speech in here.

    • Are you purposely saying the 'police' who are in bed with them will do a fair and just investigation without any bias? The journalist didn't trust the corrupted police that is why she went to submit the evidence to the anti-corruption agency.

    • If a person is clean and innocent he don't need to retire especially with a case this big. He would fight to the end to clear all the allegations. This can ruin his name for a long times. People who are relevant will not buy his crap.

    • Yes the police and reporters have evidence and they have repeatedly said so? Your morals must be very low to defend an abuser instead of caring for the victims. Lay people will never know the whole or real truth which is why powerful people can buy out everything from law to judiciary. Atleast respect the witnesses and reporters who have put their lives at risk to expose the truth. Making a conclusion from available facts is not judgement.

    • There are plenty of evidences released so far but you chose to not believe in them. And lol @ leaving this matter to the police when the police themselves are being investigated for corruption by a higher authority.

    • Morals? You morals are low for judging too quickly without sighting the evidence. No wonder there many injustices because of people like you? And the evidence you saying, have actually sighted it? No? So it’s plain accusations. The police can’t even arrest them right away... which means there is no clear evidence yet but here you are people quickly passing judgment like fools.

      You have to be mindful of due process and stop judging people because one day you may be one of these people.

    • @MistyEyes just wow!!! "one day you may be one of those people."

      You must be the most beautiful person with the most morals here. It's pretty clear he scared the truth is coming out that's why he resigned to make people like you pity him. I wonder if you were him would you retire and let people tarnish your name and everything you build up for this far with out a fight. Seungri is probably the nicest and kindest heart person to let everyone accuse him with all the false rumors. Heck no if I not guilty no effing way I'll retire. Maybe you are so nice and beautiful to have the same as him. Will continue to have all the high morals while others are low.

    • @mistyeyes SMFHO....OPPA FAN GIRLS ARE ALL DEFENDING HIM BECAUSE HE'S NOT GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN. HOPING KARMA WILL HIT ANYONE THAT JUDGES HIM.

      A REASON TO WHY HE'S SO FULL OF HIMSELF BECAUSE HE HAS SUCH HIGH MORALS FANS. AT FIRST I WAS OH WAITING FOR HIM TO FIGHT FOR HIS RIGHT BUT DAM, DUDE JUST CALLED OUT RETIREMENT DUE TO ALL THEM ACCUSING AND HATRED HE CAN'T STAND ANYMORE. BELIEVE OR NOT HE'S GUILTY AT A DEGREE TO RETIRE WITHOUT A FIGHT. IT

      DOESN'T MATTER WHO'S GONNA GET DRAGGED IN. IF YOU'RE INNOCENT YOU'LL FIGHT TO THE END TO REDEEM YOUR CLEAN NAME.

      NOWONDERS THERE'S SO MANY HITTING CRIMINALS BECAUSE THERE'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ALWAYS WISH KARMA FOR OTHERS. CHOOSE TO DEFEND THE WRONG DOING.

    • @Skie I wonder how old are you? I’m probably just talking to a wall. FYI, it’s SK. whether someone is guilty or not, has no choice but to resign from any public engagement if he is involved in a scandal.

      I am not defending Sueng-ri or whoever is involved. I am saying these people have the right to process.

      Just pray that you won’t be a victim and be wrongfully accused in your life.

    • *right to due process

    • @Palai if you don’t know what you have done wrong in this argument, something is wrong with your life.

      Btw, I don’t wish anything bad to others, I am saying don’t be quick to judge. If the world don’t have due process, you can be like them anytime.

    • @MistyEyes I'm not sure if you don't know how police investigations work or just choose to be ignorant. Just because you have evidence and witness statements doesn't mean you can immediately arrest someone. He has a ban on leaving the country from the Minister of Justice don't think they put flight bans on people just because they felt like it would be something fun to do. There has to be a whole lot of evidence stacked up to put a flight ban on someone. Its a huge deal to do that. They need to sift through every single piece of evidence and prove a lot of things before they can either arrest or prosecute does not mean the allegations are false. It just means the system moves slowly because that is how a bureaucracy works. You sound so ignorant in each and every statement you have made till now. Just be thankful what happened to those women hasn't happened to you. How ungrateful you are.

    • @Really Do you know stand what you are writing?

      Those women? FYI, you have to understand there people who are working in that industry. It maybe illegal in South Korea but sadly there are sex workers in the country. These people are not abused it’s their livelihood. However, it does not mean anyone can just spread videos about them but it does not also mean that anyone can just make accusations. Thus proper investigation should be conducted.

      Am I talking to high schoolers? I am curious.

    • @MistyEyes - you are the most prejudiced person as I have read here. Why do you need to know how old people are? HOW OLD ARE YOU? What's wrong with high schoolers? Is intelligence measured by age? Is there an age cut-off when people cannot express their opinion here?

    • lmao, are you seriously asking "are you the police?"
      There are plenty of evidences released everyday, if you so interested, you can look it up.
      And to see you calling the "police" to investigate, it seemed that you missed the most important part. The police themselves now is being investigated by the Korean CIA (similar equivalent), and is directed to do so under the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has called this scandal an embarrassment as it does not just involved Seungri but also the allegation of police bribery. The recipients of these police bribery had admitted to their acceptance of cash in exchanged for being hush-hush.
      You're asking for evidence when it's freely on the internet. Your ignorance of these evidences doesn't mean they don't exist.
      And to add onto your ignorance, the police that you sound revered has also admitted that the kakaotalks chat has been verified to be true. So there you go.
      Passing judgement without evidence is wrong. But ignoring evidence to support an opinion is also wrong. Don't yell innocent until proven guilty when you are so willing ignore the evidences in front of you.

    • Don't know where you are getting at but you need to do more research. Your response to those commenters are all ignorant and low morals. Why waiting for the police when they are part of this whole mess from the beginning. The journalist were smart that's why she entrusted the case to the CIA instead of the corrupted police.

      Seungri think he is smart to resign with the hope of enlisting in the army to be free. Probably a good escape to be forgiven from the public knowing enlistment means alot to the Koreans.

    • 'Evidence' like the entire verified group chat of these criminals sharing illegal videos of women?

      Keep ignoring it but the truth is right there. Seungri's chickens have come home to roost, all the oppalogists of the world can't save him from the consequences of his shitty actions.

    • @candycane I asked if you hig schooler because you don’t sound you know the implication of what you say. You don’t understand what is due process. You already pass judgment when the police even can’t and have not arrested these people, yet you call their is clear evidence. No mature people will say something like that. Prejudice you say? How ironic!

    • @MistyEyes Of course everyone is innocent until proven guilty and I can see that you're trying to give him the benefit of a doubt because noone else is.
      If I ever end up unfairly accused of rape I would also hope that noone turns on me before the final judgement has been made and the Korean public is know to jump the gun.

      Having said that, the police investigations cannot be trusted most of the time - I've been there. There is a lot of the messages released already from his phone and they prove that he is a terrible human being. If he was just witch hunted based on rumours it would be very wrong and then we could be talking about how someone would feel if it happened to them but there is PROOF so thinking about his feelings is a waste of time. There are more people who need to be hunted down in this and the issue is much biger that what we probably can imagine but world is not fair and for now we only have him and a couple of other celebrities to get angry at so we do.
      I disagree with whoever who said that you don't have morals - you do and your moral standpoint is admirable but reality makes people more flexible - it doesn't mean that we lack morals, though. I gave this message some thought and I hope that noone feels offended.

    • @MistyEyes - are your eyes so misty that you cannot read? WHEN did I comment about the police? WHEN did I pass judgment? My comment is purely about YOU. YES you are prejudice in your tone and your way of treating others here.

• I’ll make a prediction. He’ll go and serve in the army and Bigbang will get back together and have a come back. They have a large enough fandom and the scandal will have been pushed to the back of people’s heads.

  Need examples?

  Park Shi Hoo
  Kim Hyun Joon

  You’ll see

  • unfortunately that is true.

  • Umm, I learned this just recently, but wasn’t Park Shi Hoo ruled innocent? The victim admitted to her friend that it was fake???

    • He wasn’t ruled innocent but he settled out of court and the girl dropped the charges. But my point is that he was attached to a big scandal and now he is back on the small screen

    • But isn’t that good then? Imagine if someone’s whole career can be ruined just because of a fake accusation, that’d be horrible! I do think that men have it easier to make a comeback in Asia and that is sick. I remember watching Dream High and when the teachers were arguing whether to report the assault towards Baekhee, I was shook! A person getting a stigma for being the victim!

    • How do you know if it was actually fake or she was threatened to say it was fake. Only the ones involved can say the truth or hide it.

    • That’s exactly my point. No one knows, so a person’s career shouldn’t be ruined because of it. You can bring in so many what ifs, but don’t ruin someone’s life because of your speculations. I hope it’s fake because I wouldn’t wish for someone to be raped, but if it isn’t fake then I wish he gets what he deserves.

  • This case is way more serious than any other scandals in kpop history and it's deeprooted in politics so no, Seungri is here for the judgement. PSH and KHJ just need to shield out money to silent their victims but Seungri is involved in a larger scheme of prostitution, tax evasion, spy cam, rape, drug trafficking, bribery... and everything we havr known so far is just tip of an iceberg. He has been booked as a suspect so he has to stay for investigation; he can no longer just go into hiding by serving the army.

  • Yeah, I think it will like other Celebrity cases, they will pretend to calm themselves while waiting for all blasphemies from public to subside, then win the case in court with lack of evidence as the reason, then they will wait until the public begins to forget, then they return to TV like nothing happened

• Evidence like his messages that were provided by reporters who by the way said that more was coming. We can assume that it's all made up because some jerks were trying to ruin him and the police - who by the way hid the whole thing - will uncover the true truth and say that Seungri is innocent. I know that Korean netizens tend to overreact but we're dealing here with facts and not speculation anymore. He is guilty of most stuff they're accusing him of, although with a good lawyer he'll be able to escape most punishment. It's also obvious that he's a scapegoat and that there are important people involved in this scandal and I would like to see more news on them and less news on him.

• He is incredibly sleazy. People who are still brainlessly defending him can eat their words when the final verdict comes out. Sadly it’s these same die hard fans that allow individuals like park shi hoo and Kim Hyun Joong to make come backs. Bevause “oppa can do no wrong” in their eyes. It must be the police and everyone against “oppa.”

• Look at him. He is only 28 but looks like a degenerate sleazy middle aged man. Usually Koreans look very young for their age.

  • When he debuted, he was just a goofy kid who almost didnt make it in big bang. I wonder if being exposed to yg and whatever other things going on behind the scenes somehow led him down this path. YG himself is the biggest of all creeps. Seungri is the focus on all this as he should be, but it's sad that other people with more power involved behind the scenes will probably get away. Despite being a celebrity, he is still a small fish in a pond compared to those who have been getting away with this stuff for decades.