Top Level Entertainment Agency Executive Sexually Assaults A Drunk Woman, Leaves Her On The Road Afterward

A high-profile entertainment agency executive has reportedly been referred to prosecutors for allegedly sexually assaulting a drunk woman and then leaving her on the roadside.

On November 20, KST, Korean media reported that the Seoul Seocho Police Station had transferred the 50-something executive, referred to as Mr. A, to the prosecution without custody. Mr. A stands accused of picking up an intoxicated woman in his car when she was completely unable to control her own body and sexually assaulting her in the vehicle. He then abandoned her on the roadside, injured.

The incident occurred last August in the Gangnam district of Seoul. The victim was found one and a half hours later of being abandoned, after a passerby reported it to the authorities. She was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage, skull fracture, and optic nerve damage. She ultimately lost her vision in her left eye.

According to a report by Hankyung, Mr. A committed the crime just four months after serving time in prison for a similar crime. In January 2021, he was sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting five women. In April 2023, the entertainment agency where he served as CEO suddenly announced his resignation, with the company citing personal family matters as the reason.

After he was released from prison in April this year, the police applied for bench warrants against him twice over flight risk concerns, but both requests were rejected.

The incident has left netizens enraged at the country’s legal system.

• “And yet, the warrants were rejected. Are we really okay with the country’s courts being like this?”
• “They shouldn’t have released him in the first place. A b*stard like that should be starved so that he can’t think of doing anything else out of hunger.”
• “The court rejected arrest warrants twice… The court frees all criminals! Are they still not going to reform the judiciary?”
• “Which entertainment agency promoted him to an executive position just four months after his release from prison?”
• “Even this administration won’t be able to clean up the trash judges.”