Jang JA -YEON'S CEO FOUND GUILTY ADMITS TO FORCING SEVICES+ FINED 24 MILLION WON

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

A Seoul appellate court has ruled that the late actress Jang Ja-yeon had been coerced by her management agency to entertain socially influential figures at drinking sessions against her will.

A recent verdict from the Seoul High Court ordered the agency’s chief to pay the family of Jang, who committed suicide, 24 million won ($22,600) for sexually exploiting her.

The initial revelation took place in March 2009, when then-aspiring actress Jang killed herself and left a seven-page suicide note claiming that she was pressured to have sexual relations with more than 20 prominent figures in the entertainment and media industries.

The prosecution earlier decided not to indict the agency chief, surnamed Kim, citing lack of evidence. In addition, in a civil suit filed by Jang’s family, a district court said there was little evidence to prove the alleged coercion.

While the district court only acknowledged Kim had beaten her, the appeals court ruled that Kim engaged in both violence and pressuring her to serve alcohol.

As a result, the legal compensation Kim will have to pay the family has climbed from the initial 7 million won to 24 million won.

The Seoul High Court’s verdict clarified that Kim frequently ordered Jang to participate in dinners or alcohol gatherings and pressured her her to sing and dance in front of the figures. “Though coercion was not cited due to lack of evidence during the criminal case, it is hard to say that Jang attended the alcohol gatherings at will,” it said.

The verdict also said that Kim conducted verbal abuse and physical assault during the alcohol parties, adding that it seems that “she was deeply humiliated.”

Her death caused a national scandal when it emerged that she had been sexually abused by a number of prominent entertainment executives during her career, and that this abuse had contributed to her depression.

Since the death of her parents in a traffic accident in 1999, Jang had been living with her older sister and younger brother. Jang made her acting debut in 2006 in a television commercial.

Meanwhile, conservative vernacular newspaper Chosun Ilbo lost lawsuits against two broadcasters ― KBS and MBC ― which reported that Chosun CEO Bang Sang-hoon was included on a list created by Jang.

Bang, after losing initial and appeals trials against the companies, dropped the litigations last year.


Netizen reactions

1. [+1,116, -15] Can you really trade 24 million won for someone's life..

2. [+1,023, -9] Why won't they release the names of who they forced her to provide services to?

3. [+1,023, -9] 24 billion isn't even enough. Would the judge like it if they tossed his family 20 million won after he died? The laws in this country, I swear...

4. [+37, -6] Judges are just as bad as the men who made her do it. 24 million won, are you kidding me?

5. [+33, -5] In China, sexual criminals are given the death sentence. We need that too.

6. [+26, -5] I feel like Jang Ja Yeon would be so regretful and angry to know that her scandal was buried under 24 million won ㅠ

7. [+25, -4] Is this a joke? Why won't they release the names of the bastards who received the service?

8. [+23, -4] Can't believe this scandal. I don't know why women's organizations aren't doing anything. And I hope that police who said that she probably voluntarily provided those services is thrown in jail too.

9. [+22, -4] Bastard of a judge, you better fix that 24 million won fine into a 24 year jail sentence.



source the korea herald, netizenbuzz, nate

I have been following this story since the beginning . all those CEO's , directors and producers
just get away and  the CEO who beat her and forced her to sleep with them only gets fined with 20600$ It's beyond disgusting

Comments

[torontok.livejournal.com]

So, new tally
Male celeb, beats girlfriend:Drooped charges and inevitable light sentence
Male celeb, beats and stalks girlfriend:$7000 fine
Male celeb, kills woman and tries to hide body: 1 year in prison.
Male teachers, sexually abuse students: reinstated at same school.
Male CEOs who rape,pimp out and beat a girl to the point of suicide: $20600 fine
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Female celeb, attempts blackmail: led away with hands tied, could face lengthy jail sentence
Female celebs, use propofol: lengthy trials, television bans, continous public abuse



Moral of the story:
Female lfie is worthless.
The law will always bend for rich men

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

THIS the situation for women in Korea is awful and it becomes painfully obvious when when summarizing it up
like you just did

[torontok.livejournal.com]

And these are the situation I can recall off the top of my head.
It's so fucking terrible and it's exhausting to keep gettign angry because this fuckery happens so much

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

basically

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

People still think of us as men's property and not separate human beings. So they can do whatever they want to their "property" and get away with it.

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

Exactly. My friend witnessed a guy hitting his gf on the street in Korea, and she tried to stop him. My friend yelled to a police officer nearby, but he said he couldn't do anything because "she was his gf" so he had no right........ what??

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

You've said it so very clearly

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Pretty much ugh.

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

ifkr

[oncloud999.livejournal.com]

urg this summary makes me mad.

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

for those d you who want know more about the story here are some
links+ the list of alleged abusers

The alleged list reads as follows:

* Former CEO of Chosun Journal
* Vice-President of Sports Chosun – Bang Myung Hoon
* Chosun Central Journal’s Director of Advertising – Lee Jae Young
* Chairman of Kolon – Lee Woong Ryeol
* Chairman of Lotte – Shin Kyuk Ho
* Former KBS PD, CEO of Olive 9 – Go Dae Hwa
* Producer (PD) of KBS’s “All My Love” – Jun Chang Geun
* Producer (PD) for KBS, MBC, SBS – Jung Seho
* Producer (PD) for KBS’s “Boys Over Flowers” – Jun Gi Sang
* Broadcasting/Music PD of “Playful Kiss”, “Boys Over Flowers”, “Perfect Couple”, “Goong” – Song Byung Joon (Married actress Lee Seung Min in January of 2010)

links

part 1

http://thethreewisemonkeys.com/2011/03/14/the-jang-ja-yeon-tragedy%E2%80%94a-strangely-disappearing-paper-trail/

part 2

http://thethreewisemonkeys.com/2011/03/28/the-jang-ja-yeon-tragedy%E2%80%94making-it-go-away/

[sakura-holic.livejournal.com]

Those are some really big names, holy shit!!!
Fuck, I just feel so enraged just thinking about how they are able to roam about free with money and power still in their grasps + the fucking fact that they won't even go to jail.

I hope Karma gets them good.

[leighbee333.livejournal.com]

It won't. Karma is notoriously unreliable.

The only thing that will change is if people themselves change (usually prodded by the work and commitment of activists for these causes) and put intense pressure on the powers-that-be to take violence/rape/exploitation/abuse of power seriously. More seriously than drugs. More seriously than gambling. More seriously than attempted blackmail of powerful men.

[rivaille-levi.livejournal.com]

And I bet half of these people are still working despite exploiting other people.

Ugh

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

song byung joon is producing tomorrow cantabile.

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

that just makes me soo mad

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

I'm really bitter about this, doesnt matter if you force a girl to sleep with you to a point you drive her to suicide, you just pick up a popular drama and popular actors you'll still get away with it. Bazillion people watched Tomorrow Cantabile today and some of these had to be aware of this issue.

[e-bone (from livejournal.com)]

Pretty disgusted at this. A reminder of what could be happening to these kids. Stay woke.

[califei.livejournal.com]

this is disgusting. a life is priceless, 24 million won is only about 22,000 US dollars. and no one is getting jailtime??

[springsky.livejournal.com]

[asth77.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[maishi-obuki.livejournal.com]

all the men involved probably drive cars far more expensive than that fine.



women are like CHATTEL in s.korea. First world technology with antiquated third world values.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

where is Anonymous when you need them

[leighbee333.livejournal.com]

This.

It's ridiculous.

[undeniablysarah.livejournal.com]

Proving no one gives a shit about female life. We are all just holes for men. Screw these people and the court system.

What will it take to get some respect and justice.

[xxhna.livejournal.com]

completely agreeing with netizens rn.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

This is horrid...and that's after the judge raised the fine...just crazy

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

BTW OP...did the r in services not fit in the title?

[theharleyquinn.livejournal.com]

It's crazy. For all of the big scandals we hear about from larger companies, there are probably two times more instances worse than those that are happening in smaller companies, where management is pressuring idols to pay off their debts in anyway possible even though they aren't selling records. What Dahee from GLAM tried to do was horrible but I'm sure she isn't the only idol out there that desperate to pay off these debts. It's just shitty that companies get to exploit people this way and get off punishment-free most of the time.

[hurtmybones.livejournal.com]

this makes me so mad. he's getting away with a fine and the men who raped her won't get even that, fuck everything.

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

sick and gross. a manslaughter charge should also be on the table if you ask me

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

this is so heartbreaking and infuriating, she suffered so much in life and she can't even be brought to justice after her death.

[paper-palms.livejournal.com]

I'm so upset right now
This world, I swear.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Smh

[oppameansit.livejournal.com]

at least the appeals court acknowledged that this shit happened, unlike the lower courts and that fucking idiotic prosecutor

that's all i can say about this without going into a rage

[kicking-tenshi.livejournal.com]

24 million won isn't even enough to cover my undergraduate tuition. A life is not worth any multiple of my undergraduate tuition. I can't imagine how her siblings are feeling at this point - with the case dragged on for so long and this being its resolution.
I hope the netizens never forget. I hope the people around them never forget. I hope their children and wives and parents know.

[asth77.livejournal.com]

I'm so pissed @ this whole case since the day she's died.
RIP.

[magicpineapple.livejournal.com]

absolutely disgusted & sickened right now

[chihana11.livejournal.com]

So ridiculous! 24 million won for driving a young girl to suicide? For once I agree with netziens.
Fuck you S. Korean judges, fuck you!

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

Jesus Christ, so disgusting

[bumie.livejournal.com]

this is painfully disgusting

[luvey.livejournal.com]

i remember this case.
that is some 100% bullpockey!

[mundanetuna.livejournal.com]

No words can describe how awful this is.

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

This whole case really change my view on the actresses working in Korea. She needs to sleep with lots of people just to get jobs so I really wonder is this how other actress (or top actresses in Korea) need to do to land roles? :O

[chloe1910.livejournal.com]

Only USD22,600? WTF T____T This is so awful.

But at least the Seoul appellate court acknowledge the case and raise the legal compensation to 24million from the initial 7 million.Though 24 million is nothing compared to a life lost and all the humiliation and abuses she went through T_________T

[10135.livejournal.com]

Lol... seems you can do some evil shit just to get off with paying an amount of money...

[leighbee333.livejournal.com]

Seems that way.

[cette-amour.livejournal.com]

This is sickening news. Absolutely terrible