Baek Ji Young Scandal
Korean singer Baek Ji Young burst onto the Korean pop charts in 1999 with her début album ”Sorrow” but was soon defamed and blacklisted after an X-Rated bedroom romp with her former manager surfaced on the internet in 2000. Her manager Kim Seok Jin, AKA Kim Si Won, AKA Kim Seok Wan later admitted that he had filmed the video without Ji Young’s knowledge in his office in 1998. Kim fled to the United States and is allegedly wanted by the Korean police for defamation charges related to the production and circulation of sex videos on the Internet.
In February 2008 Kim, 45, was arrested by the police in the Koreatown area in Los Angeles on suspicion of having sex with a minor aged below 18. He had been on the US wanted list for two years. A request for bail was put up but rejected by the US court, after US officials received an extradition request from the Korean government.
Meanwhile over in Korea, Ji Young, 32, was last seen in public on 2 Feb 2008, performing at a charity concert at Yonsei University in Seoul. She then reportedly underwent vocal cord surgery to remove a cyst that had caused her voice to break during performances. She is now supposed to rest and not talk for three to four months, to allow her vocal cords to heal.
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