‘My heart still hurts’: The personal sacrifice of revealing a K-pop scandal
By Luis Barrucho & Kai Lawrence
The lives of Park Hyo-sil and Kang Kyung-yoon, two female journalists based in South Korea, took a shocking turn when they helped bring to light a sex scandal involving famous K-pop stars. Little did they know, their pursuit of truth would come with immense personal sacrifices.
Jung’s management team sprang into action and released a statement which called the police investigation an “unimportant incident inflated by the press”.
“I started receiving phone calls in the early hours… and they would continue for about three to four hours. When I didn’t answer the phone, they started sending obscene images.”
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