[TRIGGER WARNING] Update on Park Yoochun's case

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

UPDATE: Charges Of Sexual Assault Reportedly Dropped, Park Yoochun’s Side Responds

Local media source Sports Donga reports that Ms. Lee has dropped the charges of sexual assault against Park Yoochun.

Ms.Lee’s boyfriend spoke to Sports Donga today, June 14 KST, stating, “We submitted a document to an affiliate of the Seoul Gangnam Police station today at around 6:30 p.m. stating [we] are dropping the charges.” He continued, “An accident happened when A (referring to Ms.Lee) was drunk. When I heard about the accident that day, I got mad and that’s why [we] filed the charges. However, [I] thought it was our fault for not finding out the exact situation of what happened before and after and that’s why the charges were canceled.”

The boyfriend continued, “[I] didn’t want outsiders to know when I was filing the charges, but as the incident got reported, the situation got of out hand. A is under a state of shock, and too large of a damage was incurred by the other side.”

According to the report, A’s side was planning to directly submit the cancellation to the Seoul Gangnam Police Station, which is in charge of this case, but the police allowed A’s side to relay the cancellation from an undisclosed location in Seoul.

In response to this report, C-JeS Entertainment, released an official statement on behalf of Park Yoochun, stating, “Park Yoochun has not received either the initial notification of charges filed nor of the cancellation from the police.” It continued, “As we stated yesterday, the charges were one-sided claims that had yet to be verified. As we continuously stated, Park Yoochun is above suspicion and due to a rash report, he has received serious damage to his name.”

It states that the cancellation news also need to be confirmed, but the news points to Park Yoochun’s innocence, as the agency has continuously argued, and it believes that through police investigation, Park Yoochun’s innocence will be clearly revealed.

The agency once again asks for refrain in speculative, one-sided reports before the investigation results come out.

A source from the Youth and Women section of the Seoul Gangnam Police told several news media outlets that A has not dropped the charges.

Yesterday, it was reported 24-year-old Ms. Lee, an employee at an entertainment establishment/liquor bar, was accusing Park Yoochun of sexual assault which allegedly occurred on June 4 and submitted evidence to the Seoul Gangnam Police Station. The police stated they were investigating the incident, and C-JeS stated that the woman’s claims were false and were “malicious blackmail out to ruin a celebrity.”


JYJ’s Park Yoochun Accused Of Sexual Assault, Park Yoochun’s Side Responds
Update: More specific details are coming out.

The Seoul Gangnam Police Station revealed that they are currently investigating the charge submitted by Ms. Lee, accusing Park Yoochun of sexual assault.

According to the filed complaint, Park Yoochun is accused of sexually assaulting Ms. Lee in the bathroom of the room in a Gangnam entertainment establishment/liquor bar in which Ms. Lee and Park Yoochun were drinking in around 5 a.m., June 4.*

The two met each other for the first time here, and they had only known each other for about one hour. The filed complaint describes that Ms. Lee expressed her unwillingness. She was sexually assaulted, however, and the charge of sexual assault was submitted to the police on June 10, around a week later after the alleged incident took place.

The police has requested that the National Forensic Service conduct a DNA analysis on the evidence of underwear and clothing that Ms. Lee submitted.

There was no CCTV inside the room in which the alleged incident took place. The police were only able to examine the CCTV recordings of the hallway, and they did not find anything suspect in the recordings.

The police will soon call in Ms. Lee for the investigation, and then summon Park Yoochun for questioning.

Park Yoochun began his mandatory military service last year in August, and he is currently serving as a public service worker at a district office in Seoul.

C-JeS’s official statement in regards to the defamation of Park Yuchun

Hello

This is C-JeS Entertainment.

We have to straighten out the issue about the direction of the report that the related story of accusations against Park Yuchun, the unconfirmed report, and speculative articles are continuing on.

The details of the accusations that was first reported on a broadcast on the evening of June 13 have no footings in the contents of the police’s official investigation. The spurious, excessive coverage and the grave defamation of Park Yuchun caused by this, are of concerns.

The authenticity of the details on the accusations against Park Yuchun has not been found. Whether the articles –where there was the report as there were the acknowledgments of Park Yuchun’s innocence in some media-presses– are true or not; these are estranged, speculative reporting and obvious defamation.

In addition, despite the details confirmed online, we will be strongly taking legal actions against exaggerations and wrongdoings that are reproduced indiscriminately; as well as, the grave defamation.

Park Yuchun has not been delivered nor received the details of the official accusations from the police station; and henceforth, will attest to his acquittal in facing the investigation of the case faithfully, upon the police’s request for his presence. We would like to earnestly ask for your restraint in making baseless assumptions toward the one-sided claim that lacks the confirmation of facts, till the time the result of the police investigation comes out.

Thank you.

Article: Park Yoochun's visit to a room salon... three focuses in sexual assault lawsuit
Source: TV Report via Naver

1. [+8,265, -118] If he never went to the room salon, then he would've said so. The fact that he just says he's regretful just means that he indeed went.

2. [+6,045, -120] It takes only a moment to crumble. Even if the trial proves that he didn't sexually assault her, you can't deny that his image is done for now.

3. [+5,345, -284] Such a huge shock... he had such a clean image but it's all shattered now. Whether he went or not, assaulted her or not, I don't care for him anymore...

4. [+1,498, -40] Kim Hyun Joong and Park Yoochun are known to be best friends, even went on vacation together... birds of a feather ^^

5. [+1,362, -23] The facts are that he went to a brothel... whether he sexually assaulted her or not, his image is over with.

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Article: Park Yoochun calls it regretful, but the public is still disappointed in him
Source: Biz Enter via Nate

1. [+348, -8] None of this would've happened if he never went to the room salon in the first place. Farewell man, what a disappointment..

2. [+333, -19] He followed the girl into the women's bathroom? That's a crime in itself

3. [+298, -9] I never liked him from the moment I knew he was a smoker despite having asthma

4. [+26, -0] But hasn't Park Yoochun always been infamous for going to room salons? Or was I the only one who was familiar with that stuff?

5. [+24, -0] He's best friends with Kim Hyun Joong. What a mess these two are~~~

6. [+20, -3] Fans already know that all three of the JYJ members have some nasty problems with women. It's finally about time that one of these blew up. They've been like this for years, the media is actually late picking up on it.

7. [+20, -1] The true gods of the East were Yunho and Changmin

8. [+20, -0] So it's true that he went though. Who knows what he did there but it's true that he went. That's a disappointment in itself.

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Article: [Exclusive] 'Sexual assault suspicion' Park Yoochun, came for service but left for home right away
Source: Biz Enter via Nate

1. [+319, -5] Sigh, both Sangchu and Se7en and all these celebrities, I just don't get it. They already get so many perks in the army for being celebrities, why do they struggle to just do the two years that everyone else is obligated to do? They can't stay quiet for two years? It's that hard? ㅋㅋ

2. [+312, -13] Why is he able to get off work whenever he wants ㅋㅋㅋㅋ public service is a makjang. It's not even 10 am yet and he's already gone home?

3. [+252, -26] Aren't public service soldiers not allowed to leave after 10 pm?

4. [+24, -1] Is a public service soldier some type of freelancer now? What an awesome service, you can just go in and get out whenever you want in the day. The perks are unreal.

5. [+22, -1] So many two faced celebrities...

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Article: Park Yoochun's SNS picture on the day of the scandal 'fun times with friends on his birthday'
Source: SBS funE via Nate

1. [+266, -10] This picture makes it seem even more real ㅋㅋㅋ probably went to a room salon after dinner to celebrate his birthday ㅋㅋㅋ sigh, he must have so many women around him and yet he wants to go to a room salon and mess around with dirty women? Disgusting..

2. [+248, -5] I guess this picture was taken before he went to the room salon. The news report said it was a super expensive room salon too... happened around 5 am.. hm.

3. [+209, -4] His image is in the dumpster now... farewell

4. [+45, -3] So where do you think all those men went after drinking all night? ㅎㅎ

5. [+31, -2] No wonder all the stars try so hard to get into public service ㅋㅋㅋ you get to have a free service like this

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Source: Nate

1. [+849, -50] If you got into public service with a body that's physically healthy, then you should've known better to just stay quiet and work hard. What a comparison to Jung Yunho... please don't even bring up your asthma problems. You're a smoker, what asthma?

2. [+810, -25] For him to be able to have a recover in the industry, it's not just the sexual assault accusations he's going to be need to be cleared from but proof that he never even stepped in such a place

3. [+559, -142] Why do female celebrities never get their names revealed but male celebrities do?

4. [+65, -5] A public service soldier out after his 10 pm curfew in a room salon having sex in the bathroom... this is historical ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+34, -2] His dirty private life was totally caught

6. [+34, -2] The fact that he even went is already an impact on his image

7. [+32, -0] What was he doing in the bathroom? ㅋ Even if he does comeback, his image is going to be cheapened by so much.

8. [+19, -5] And this confirms that the final boss of TVXQ is Yunho

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Article: Gangnam police station, "We have accessed CCTV of the hallway of the room salon"
Source: TV Report via Nate

1. [+438, -11] ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Why would there be smoke without fire? What is a public service soldier doing in a room salon? What an easy life for this asthma patient

2. [+376, -12] The fact that a public service soldier went to a room salon means his image is over. Even if it's a lie, his image will not recover to its original state.

3. [+331, -9] I'm honestly glad this scandal happened ㅋㅋㅋ imagine if it never did, his stupid fangirls would celebrate his discharge with cakes and presents as if some war hero came home while crying tears of joy. Too bad for some psycho fangirls, even this isn't enough of a wake up call and are probably delusional enough to still trust him.

Posts on tumblr (don't know how accurate this is) mentionned that Yoochun took a "sick day" to avoid reporters

I'm very worried by the comments saying Yoochun's fans found the woman's address, I hope this isn't true and she remains safe

Soompi 1, 2, naver, MBN translated by: rilanna of JYJ3, netizenbuzz, TV Report via Naver, Biz Enter via Nate 1, 2, SBS funE via Nate, nate, TV Report via Nate, stoo.asiae, sports.donga, star.mbn, ohmynews

Comments

[saemcrh.livejournal.com]

Rot.

[velvetpocket.livejournal.com]

Netizen #3 at Nate needs to think again

[a-knot.livejournal.com]

Put him in a bin.

[alleybetwixt.livejournal.com]

nhf comments like this...

1. [+266, -10] This picture makes it seem even more real ㅋㅋㅋ probably went to a room salon after dinner to celebrate his birthday ㅋㅋㅋ sigh, he must have so many women around him and yet he wants to go to a room salon and mess around with dirty women? Disgusting

I wish prostitution was decriminalized. Bring it into the light. All the underhanded euphemism and innuendo and secretive stuff makes sex workers so vulnerable to all kinds of criminal bullshit. The power imbalance is too dangerous.

Assuming the assault occurred, I'm concerned there isn't enough evidence to uphold the case. Again, decriminalization would go a long way in letting someone in her position take strong legal action right away. And not just a lawsuit for 'compensation'.

Any fans threatening this woman need to sit the fuck down immediately and reevaluate their lives.

[bomsnose.livejournal.com]

yes, please, at decriminalization.
i think it was precisely this website where i got into a wordfight with other idealists here that were saying prostitution should disappear etc
but that's just not how humans work, so better just bring it into the light as you say.
i'm froma country where it's in the grey zone, living in a country where it's quite regulated... no matter how much people say how bad it is in countries where it's regulated and how people end up here as a result of trafficking -- they just have zero clue of how rotten things are in places where things are illegal or poorly regulated.

[hitthoselightz.livejournal.com]

what a horrible piece of shit

more fans are coming out and spilling some shit on him like him lying about his asthma/using it as an excuse, assaulting his manager etc.

honestly how you can stan that is beyond me but i bet he will still have fans after this. i just cant

i hope the victim is safe and isnt pressured by those stupid fans to change her words. ive seen so much slutshaming and victim blaming too ugh

[alleybetwixt.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to let the asthma thing go.

He attempted to qualify for active duty multiple times over, but he still has bad/sudden asthma attacks. Smoking doesn't help, but plenty of non-smokers have terrible asthma. He said he was advised by some older guys in the industry that forcing yourself into active duty with asthma can be dangerous out in the field. Not just for him, but the soldiers around him. In that sense, he made a responsible choice.

[kwonsoonyoung.livejournal.com]

Disgusting tbh

[scionofawhisper.livejournal.com]

this sort of crap just niggles at your mind, knowing how celebs can act so innocent and kind in front of cameras, but have such dirty private lives. how they can act so decent and kind so shamelessly in the public view and receive so much love and trust from fans, and yet be so deceiving... what kind of f*cked up sh*t.

[iviih.livejournal.com]

but it isn't just celebs. People do it. They act decent with friends and relatives, everybody thinks x husband/father is cool, nice kind guy, but he actually beats his wife at home or sexually abused his own kids/step kids.

I know two cases about it, everybody thinks he "isn't this kind of person" , that he would never, he was always a nice person *outside*.

[saltyaf.livejournal.com]

Twitter is a mess. Slut shaming, 'oppa didn't mean it' and comments like 'you can't rape a prostitute' or 'who wouldn't want to be raped by yoochun'. mess. mess. mess.

Shouldn't his fans generally be older than average kpop fans? We need to lock them up in a room and force them to watch seventeen seasons of law and order: SVU. They need to be schooled by Olivia Benson that 'No means No'.

[saemcrh.livejournal.com]

If the internet has taught me anything, it's that there's no age limit for delusion.

Most of the 'big' Larries (iydk, people who believe Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson from One Direction are in a secret relationship) are women in their 30's, sometimes 40's. They believe the most delusional things and send death threats to people all in the name of their creepy ship which isn't real.

ETA: Not to mention the grown-ass people defending Johnny Depp and reaching for excuses for him.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

2. [+333, -19] He followed the girl into the women's bathroom? That's a crime in itself
^^^^^^^
3. [+559, -142] Why do female celebrities never get their names revealed but male celebrities do?
excuse me idiot but were you under a rock or on the moon when g.na's name was freely released

[ckino (from livejournal.com)]

The stuffs that comes out from this scandals are astounding. The latest pann post on kpopkfans were crazy. Theres also rumors of him sleping around with sasengs! Omfg
Im think this is just the tip of the iceburg tbh and apparently the boyfriend is some sort of her manager since the club is exclusive club for celebrities. people said she's a stripper and he follow her and assault her in the bathroom. This is such a horrible revelation. Its just horrible.

On different topic as a forensic scientist, i cant help but highly interested to read this case unfolding tbh. im seriously interested to learn about prostitution in SK. I read that pimp act as a manager and to make it legal, the bussiness is run through all these so call managers. Just like in Malaysia, loansharks (known as Ah Long) run their bussiness and illegal activities through acting like a marriage agents and provide loans for marriage couples in the name of providing, marriage counselors/advisor. From there they scammed the innocents couples into debts and treats.

Anyway I hope some kind folks can share more info about this case over here.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

My first thought was that the boyfriend was actually a pimp.

[keki7.livejournal.com]

These comments from netz all focus on Yoochun or slut shaming.

How sad that they can't even empathize with the woman and the kind of head fuck she must be in right now. Sexual assault and rape isn't a bad meal you can sleep off dammit, it's deeply traumatizing and a psychological scar that most victims never fully recover from.

But let's ignore all that and talk about how oppa shouldn't have gone near that dirty prostitute house in the first place, shame on him! Now my staining is ruined! Boo hoo!

[torontok.livejournal.com]

It pleases me that even if he somehow gets away with it, his career is permanently in the gutter anyways

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

Yup. Same for Se7en and KHJ. Their names and careers forever tarnished. Karma still bites in the end.

[missshallelujah.livejournal.com]

The more I read about this, the more disgusted I am. He needs to rot in hell.

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

sorry for changing the subject, but everyone keeps saying yunho is the only decent one, so what did changmin do? i more or less know about jyj, although tbh i'm not sure what junsu's screw up was either

[chihana11.livejournal.com]

No idea. I think that netzien is a Yunho fan.

[http://users.livejournal.com/reminisce__/]

I want the survivor to find justice, so bad. Sex worker shaming is gross and people who do that are super fucked up, because it is a job like any other job, and everyone is entitled to consent and respect of their bodies.

I've been feeling disoriented the whole day due to the Orlando shootings and hearing about Yoochun, and it just makes me so angry that people can do so much hurt to others, especially as someone who identifies as a survivor. I'm sending hella love and if there's anyone who is feeling triggered or is a survivor/etc just wants to vent, please send a message to my inbox and I'd be down to chat ^^

I don't even know what Junsu or Jaejoong are going to do or even what I think about them at this point, or what statement they are going to release. I'm fairly sure JYJ is dead though from this, it would be really disgusting if he went on forward. Ugh, this is fucked up!!

[nrafx.livejournal.com]

welp, apparently the charges have been dropped so this is about to get 10x more awful.

cassies rly aren't shit rn, some of them have been disgusting.

[http://users.livejournal.com/reminisce__/]

This is HORRIBLE. God. If the charges really aren't true, then this fucks it up for everyone who really is a sexual assault survivor and is trying to get justice. If the charges are true and Yoochun and his side found a way to coerce her to drop them and get compensation, that's horrible too.

Too many feels, I just want to cry since I'm so frustrated

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

I hope he rots in hell but I hope even more that the woman who had to go through this is safe and that she doesn't let the delusional fans and their shitty excuses for his behaviour get to her. I can't imagine how it must feel being at the receiving end of that, like it's her fault he was exposed for being a complete piece of shit.

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

INTO. THE. TRASH. HE. GOES!

[jcdhwg.livejournal.com]

You all here are so quick to judge.. If he did sexually assault her then that is of course unacceptable and disgusting. But apparently she dropped the charges now, what if she just wanted to get some quick ca$h? I hope the truth will be unveiled soon!

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

to get some quick ca$h
Please explain to me how someone gets quick cash going to the police. Like independently of what really happened someone going to the police and accusing other person of a crime only to get money doesn't seem reasonable at all.

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

the comments attacking sex workers from his fanbase/people in general are sociopathic tbh
as for him, while i know now (its in the news!) that the woman has retracted her claim, tbh it's so rare for people to lie to the extent of going to police....i find it hard to believe that it's as straightforward aa she lied.
maybe her husband or 'manager' coerced her into lying (which is deeply disturbing in itself) or she backed down due to fear from outside pressure either from fans, press, family and friends etc or yoochun's team. it is more likely for abused women to retract claims out of fear or desire to make all the extra negative attention go away than it is for women to lie about rape.
idk about all this but he does seem like an asshole anyway (from what fans uncovered/exposed yesterday).

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

And let's not forget a lot of women that hear all the time "you deserved it/it was you fault". So it could also be a possibility that for a moment she knew what happened is wrong but she end up changing her mind because she feelt pressured and end up blaming herself to the point that she thought she was ruining that man's life and he didn't deserve it.
I want to clarify that I'm not agreeing that a man doesn't deserve to have her life ruined because of that, but I'm trying to explain that's what it could be going on on her mind.

[happydirections.livejournal.com]

Gangnam police: We received a lot of inquiries about the withdrawal of Yoochun's alleged rape case, but it's not true. (https://twitter.com/paulisteu/status/742675072540774400)

— リア (@paulisteu) (https://twitter.com/paulisteu/status/742675072540774400)June 14, 2016 (https://twitter.com/paulisteu/status/742675072540774400)

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

i fucking knew it.
welp, i hope he rots and this is resolved quickly because i genuinely fear for this woman's safety when it comes to his fans

[hurtmybones.livejournal.com]

what does it mean "an accident happened while she was drunk" and that's why he got angry and pressed charges? because if yoochun had sex with her while she was drunk uhm that's rape... sounds like they were paid off and/or threatened a la park shi hoo. I guess we'll have to wait and see because these assholes always talk big about suing back and clearing their name but surprise surprise they never do as soon as they can get the women to drop the suits hmmm

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

I'm still curious to find out what kind of "accident" happened that led her to accuse Yoochun of sexual assault. Was she drunk the day of the assault or the day she complained to her boyfriend and filed the complaint? And they're dropping the charges because they didn't think it would get this big? What is this mess? I'm gonna refrain from commenting on this issue until official statements are made.

[jcdhwg.livejournal.com]

Summarizing what's happened so far with Yoochun


Credit. (https://twitter.com/ohmyjunsu/status/742681370229542912)


Credit. (https://twitter.com/ohmyjunsu/status/742683815273857024)

[alleybetwixt.livejournal.com]

And that same account is saying the initial report was for during a time when Yoochun was with his friends for the party... so the accuser(s) changed the time in a follow-up report?!?!!

What the hell.

This is a rabbit hole.

[chihana11.livejournal.com]

This is making me nauseous. I hope this woman is ok. Someone on JYJ3 already released her name and wants fans to go question her.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

WHAT. THE. FUCK???!!!