‘My heart still hurts’: The personal sacrifice of revealing a K-pop scandal - BBC News

Two journalists reveal how they bore the brunt of fans' anger after exposing K-pop's dark underbelly.

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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.

It was September 2016 and Park, a Seoul-based newspaper reporter, had logged off for the weekend. She was about to meet a friend when she received a phone call from her editor with a tip-off from a trusted police source.

"He told me there was a big case being investigated which involved secretly recorded sex footage and a big-name celebrity: Jung Joon-young."

Jung was a huge singer-songwriter in the band, Drug Restaurant, and a TV star loved by millions. But the source said Jung's girlfriend had accused him of secretly filming her during sex, a crime known as "molka" in South Korea.

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