#Lee Seungri

[keehomania]

some kpop stans genuinely need a fucking reality check actually some of u little ku klux keyboard klan members need to go outside and touch grass instead of mouth-breathing ur wack ass opinions that deserve a death sentence and i mean f(x) electric shock nananana death sentence. why are u going out of your way to defend people like zico? kris wu?? taeil??? seungri???? i cant stand some of you hoes i gotta sit tf down to stop myself from filming a live where i kill myself with everyone watching to change the trajectory of ur sad sad lives. wanna get picked so bad by a bunch of googy boogy rapists and child touchers the fuck is wrong with yall ashy asses bro. what u bitches need is to get picked by a priest and the feds. weirdos fr

[koffeenoe]

[seungrimyprince]

Let's talk honestly and clearly about:

SEUNGRI'S CASE

[polarpolarpolarx]

“BigBang, hurray!” ⁽ʰᵃᵖᵖʸ ᵇᶦʳᵗʰᵈᵃʸ ʸᵇ ⁵/¹⁸/²³🎉⁾

[fantastic-babies]

i think about this moment a lot...

[daesungindistress]

Reminder that Seungri is a sex offender. Convicted and registered.

As some of you may be aware, Seungri was recently released from prison after serving a criminally short sentence of just 18 months for the commission of 9 crimes ranging from economic (financial) crimes, crimes of violence, and sex crimes.

That's right. Sex crimes.

In his sentencing hearing in August 2021, at the conclusion of the first trial in the Lower Military Court, just before he was whisked away to prison, the judge explained to Seungri that he would be subject to "registration of personal information related to sex crimes." See below:

This was not widely reported, or even given much attention, with most of the media's focus being on the 3-year prison term and accompanying fine related to gambling. (Surprisingly, it did make it into Soompi's coverage, but I've reached my image limit on this post so here's a link to the report instead.)

Side note: as expected, his stans did not discuss this openly (or at all), and even their big "trusted translator" accounts either glossed over it or omitted it from their translations altogether, so many of his international supporters were unaware.

In the second trial with the High Court (first appeal), in which Seungri pleaded guilty to all charges (except for habitual gambling which he appealed again, hoping to lower it to "occasional" gambling, a lesser charge... he was unsuccessful with that, by the way), the court granted him leniency, cutting his prison term in half and forgiving the nearly $1 million fine. A generous reduction in punishment simply for saying, "I'm guilty, I'm sorry, go easy on me."

At the time, I couldn't find any information on whether or not the registration requirement for sex crimes remained in place. Even after the Supreme Court finalized everything in May of last year, there seemed to be no mention of it.

Now, however, days after his release from prison and return to society, we finally have confirmation:

Required to register but exempted from disclosure. More on that below:

In short, Seungri is a registered sex offender required by law to submit (and keep current) his personal information to the authorities. He must also return each year to the local police station having jurisdiction over his home address and have updated mugshots photos taken -- once a year, every year, for the next 15 years. To put this into perspective, they'll be keeping tabs on him until he's in his late 40s.

So, yes, his information is registered. However, at the judge's discretion he was exempted from disclosure. This means his personal information (such as home address) will not be available, i.e., publicly searchable, on South Korea's online sex offender registry. Police will have access to this info. The public will not.

What was his violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes? Well, we knew he had been charged with distributing some form of illegally filmed sexual material, also known as hidden camera footage or molka. It was described as being a photo of women, in bed, naked -- and, importantly, photographed from behind, which raises the question of consent.

Seungri admitted in 2019 to sharing something in a group chatroom, as there was chat evidence of this that could not be disputed. However, he challenged the notion that he'd taken the photo himself, claiming he'd received it from someone else. He later took it a step further and disputed the nature of the photo altogether by trying to pass it off as a "business advertisement" sent to him in a "spam text message" from an employee of an adult entertainment business. For publicity purposes.

The court rejected his excuse explanation for the photo and deemed him guilty of distributing illegally filmed footage. But as for who took the photo, whether it was Seungri or someone else, the court's decision didn't seem especially clear to me... until now, thanks to JTBC recently reporting details from the ruling:

The KKT chat log, made public in 2019, did not support Seungri's claim. The testimony of other members of the chat, when questioned in court about the photo they received from Seungri, did not support it either.

So much for his fans' stubborn insistence that he "wasn't in the molka chats." Thanks to the chat evidence, court docs from Jung Joonyoung's ruling, and Seungri's own admission in an interview with Chosun Ilbo, we've known for years that Seungri not only knew about his friends' molka habits but received such things from them directly and even reacted to them with amusement (laughter). Now, with the detailed results of Seungri's court proceedings before us, we can be certain that he took part in the practice too.

[chanyoelsears]

Please note that the photo is not mine. Give credit to original owner.

[danielle-on-the-flower-road]

Seungri's smile really is everything!!! 😍😍😍

And I loved the outfits too!!

Pics not mine^^

[vinyl-head]

I’m out of the loop of K-pop now.. can you give me some updates on big bang?

Hello!

I'm not sure how long you've been out of the loop but here's a few updates just off the top of my head for the overall group as well as individual activities.

It's nothing juicy, scandalous, or groundbreaking, just the facts I'm aware of with no thoughts behind them. If I'm missing anything, feel free to add on or correct me.

BigBang

The group’s latest release is ‘Still Life’ (2022)

Bang Bang Bang’ becomes their first song to surpass 200 million streams on spotify as of March 2023

T.O.P

Departed from YG Entertainment in February 2022

Attended a Versace show in LA on March 9th

Joined the Dear Moon Project (a tourism mission and art project launched by a Japanese billionaire that will take a single lunar free return that’ll last over 6 days with 9 crew members including T.O.P and Steve Aoki)

Has developed his own wine brand (T’SPOT)

Although previously stating he would give up on idol life and music overall, he’s planning to release not only his solo debut album but a feature film as well (no confirmed date)

Taeyang

Married February 2018 and became a father December 2021

Confirmed to have signed with THEBLACKLABEL January 3rd after parting ways with YG Entertainment in December 2022

Released a collab with BTS’ Jimin called ‘Vibe’ on January 13th (has one win)

GD

Currently the only BigBang Member under YG Entertainment

Has attended a few Chanel shows as it’s ambassador

7 months after it’s release, his cover of Elvis Presley’s ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ has been added to the deluxe version of the  ‘ELVIS’ soundtrack

Rumored to be making a comeback album and potentially hold a concert

Daesung

Left YG Entertainment December 2022

Was a guest on ‘Roommates, not Marriage’, his first appearance on a variety show since 2017

Seungri

Willingly parted ways with both YG Entertainment and Big Bang in 2019 following the Burning Sun scandal

Released from prison February 9th, 2 days earlier than scheduled, and has kept a low profile for now

[getintok]

I just find it really funny when people that got into the fandom a few days ago and are like "I watched all the variety shows and interviews and it's soooo obvious how much they disliked Seungri 🤓☝️" like ???? are you okay?? Because it must be so frustrating watching all those moments where the boys are like "Seungri is so precious to me/us, we love him a lot, he's the best maknae" the way GD is always seeking Seungri, touching him and laughing at every little thing he does, how all of them couldn't stop talking about him and TOP literally couldn't, for the love of god, stop posting pictures of him in diverse situations and the fact that YB decided to call SR before any family member or close friend and it must be so hard for you to do all those mental gymnastics to make it fit into your own narrative. Like, it may be that now they have no contact with him but from that to say that they always hated him is a reach specially when in all the time they spend together it was never brought up the narrative that they don't liked Seungri. Not even once, because it wasn't like that. You may hate him but you can't erase all those moments, happiness and hardships they shared together.

[welcome2thetop]

[keehomania]

Wait. For context, who is Zico and what did he do?

hello ml!! zico is a famous producer and rapper. he debuted in 2011 as the leader of “block b” and eventually grew as a solo artist around 2014-15 but block b disbanded around 2018. he was also a judge on i-land and basically formed the groups “boynextdoor” and “enhypen”. you might've heard some of his solo songs because they're catchy, unfortunately. he has a song with jennie (blackpink) called “spot!”, another one called “okey dokey” with mino (winner, mobb). aside from him embarrassing seolhyun (AOA) (his ex-girlfriend; they were caught dating by dispatch and he denied it all to save his reputation which led to embarrassing her), his blatan racism (wearing a confederate flag jacket, said the n-word in his 2010 track “if i ain't got jjanggae”, said one of his talents is “talking like a black person”) and homophobia (saying the f slur), zico appeared on a show around 2016 with JJY aka jung joonyoung, the ringleader of the burning sun scandal. to make a long story short, zico and jjy were very good friends (he was good friends with a lot of the cunts involved in that scandal). to make a long story even shorter, he said he had seen/was looking at jjy's “golden phone” which is what jjy ultimately had been using to distribute videos and photos of women being drugged and raped. zico denies seeing any of the footage, which i and anybody with 2 brain cells find hard to believe because they were close, and the phone was deemed golden for a reason. jjy literally confirmed that zico scrolled through the phone hours and hours on end, just to say he didn't see any of what was happening. i loved block b back in 2015 and listened to them with my dad, and some of zico's songs stood out to me but it's very important to not trust idols, especially the male ones, just because they portray themselves a certain way. zico has always been known for lying to save his own ass no matter who pays the price for it, just like the situation with his ex i previously mentioned. as you may know, goo hara, (KARA) may her beautiful soul rest in peace, had her house broken into not too long ago. she played a vital part in helping a journalist uncover the horrors of the burning sun scandal. not too long after, she ended her life. she died a hero and the entirety of korea failed her miserably. her house was broken into just a while back and, what do you know? zico is the prime suspect

[koffeenoe]

[seungrimyprince]

Let's talk honestly and clearly about:

THE MOLKA CHAT 📵

[polarpolarpolarx]

his laugh🥹

[fantastic-babies]

seungri calling security on a fan