Woman gets two-year jail sentence over false rape suit against K-pop star

By Park Sae-jin Posted : January 17, 2017, 15:55 Updated : January 17, 2017, 15:55

Park Yoochun [Photo by Yoo Dae-gil = dbeorlf123@]



A woman was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for defaming South Korea's disgraced K-pop star, Yoochun, with false accusations that she had been raped in the bathroom of a private membership bar.

A Seoul district court also handed down a jail term of 18 months to the woman's boyfriend while a former gangster was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The two were accused of conspiring with the woman to extort settlement money from Yoochun.

The woman surnamed Lee has dropped her initial rape suit, but prosecutors indicted her for committing calumny and trying to blackmail Yoochun of his money. Yoochun has been cleared of rape allegations but he was accused of buying sex.

The high-profile sex scandal surfaced in June last year with four women suing Yoochun of raping them, but police could not find any evidence related to forced sexual relations. Two of them stood trial on libel charges.

"Because of this incident, (Yoochun) was framed as a sex offender and suffered financial losses as well as a fatal blow to his image, clouding the future of his entertainment career uncertain," the court said in its ruling. 
 
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