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South Korea's disgraced K-pop star, Yoochun, was released Friday after a gruelling eight-hour interrogation at a police station over alleged bathroom raping. Police pledged a new round of questioning later.
The singer-actor wearing a black shirt and black trousers was released at 2:30 am and walked away without responding to a flurry of questions from journalists who had waited overnight at the police station in Seoul's Gangnam district.
"First of all, I'm very sorry for causing concerns to many people," he told reporters Thursday evening as he arrived at the police station.
The scandal has sparked rampant speculation since it surfaced on June 14, becoming the hottest talk of the town. So far four women have sued Yoochun who started his mandatory military service last August as a public service worker in Seoul's affluent Gangnam district.
Yoochun's management agency, C-JeS Entertainment, has insisted all the suits were based on groundless allegations but said Yoochun would leave the entertainment community if he is found to be guilty in any case.
The singer-actor has filed a libel suit against the first woman who sued Yoochun of raping her in the bathroom of a private membership bar in Seoul's Gangnam district. She dropped her suit later, but three other women filed separate rape suits against him.
Aju News Lim Chang-won = cwlim34@ajunews.com
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Park Sae-jin
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