But I'm not 14...
Thought my Kim Nana post was one of my most thoughtful and impassioned of 2013. Ended with the great line, "If I'm fourteen years old I know who I'm in love with."
But I'm not fourteen.
Anyway, lots of busyness over the last year and a half, some wonderful, some desperate, but not giving me time to more than glance at ilX K-pop, much less bother with the gossip sites, so I had no idea there'd been a Dahee story until I stumbled on it today.
"Although the defendants have admitted that they did blackmail Lee Byung Hun with a video file of a lewd conversation, they insisted that they did not do this with financial gain as their goal, but rather due to feeling betrayed and scorned that Lee Byung Hun had used Lee Ji Yeon simply as a sexual object, after Lee Byung Hun had notified Lee Ji Yeon of wanting to break up. However, after looking at the KakaoTalk history as well as various documents, it does not appear that the victim [Lee Byung Hun] and Lee Ji Yeon were lovers, and it seems that the defendants had committed the crime for the purpose of financial gain."
Dahee's side was that:
"As Dahee is very close to Lee Ji Yeon, she felt that Lee Ji Yeon had been manipulated. She thought that if Lee Ji Yeon offered the video to a media outlet, she could receive money. She thought that the money the media outlet offered would be the same as what the actor would give, so they requested 5 billion KRW. Dahee was under the wrong impression that this was a normal transaction."
I'm not going to recount everything. Here's the Allkpop tag, if you want to explore. No telling of the story makes Dahee look good.
http://www.allkpop.com/artisttag/dahee
And this one makes her seem especially bad:
The two girls also apparently planned on capturing a scene in which Lee Byung Hun and Dahee would be hugging. So last month on the 29th, they called Lee Byung Hun to Dahee's home and Lee Ji Yeon's phone was set up near the sink to capture such a moment. However, a chance for them to hug did not come along, so Lee Ji Yeon, who had been waiting outside, came inside and showed the actor the video they had taken of their lewd conversation and threatened him. Dahee and Lee Ji Yeon brought out two travel bags and asked for 5 billion KRW. However, the actor left and reported them to the police, and on September 1 the two ladies were arrested.
The tale ends, for the time being, with Dahee and Lee Ji Yeon released early from jail in March, after six months, now on probation for two years, presumably with their careers ruined. And with daring, audacious group GLAM disbanded.
Anyone been keeping tabs on what Zinni is up to?
Two thoughts:
(1) The incident doesn't altogether translate from Korea to America. Nothing I've read about the vid makes it seem as if it would in itself have been blackmail material here. He and they got drunk and made lewd remarks and told dirty stories and that's all. ("When was your first sexual experience?" "What part of the male body turns you on?" and "Do you like the face more or the body more?") So, unless Lee Byung Hun - a married man - is actually caught coming on strong to one of them, what's there to blackmail him with? Which pretty much may have been his opinion when they did try to blackmail him and he went to the police rather than paying.
(2) The prosecution said that Dahee owed her agency $284,300, which (as reported by Allkpop) "is presumed to be the training and promotional expenses which she has yet to pay off due to the lack of her group activities." Which sure makes the agency seem to have the upper hand over group members, though I can't say I know nearly enough to have an informed opinion about these finances. But anyway, Dahee had gotten attention for her portrayal of the smoldering sex symbol in Monstar, had been the voice of SeeU, the Korean version of Vocaloid, and was in a group with minor success but lots of potential. Yet she was massively in the hole.
But I'm not fourteen.
Anyway, lots of busyness over the last year and a half, some wonderful, some desperate, but not giving me time to more than glance at ilX K-pop, much less bother with the gossip sites, so I had no idea there'd been a Dahee story until I stumbled on it today.
"Although the defendants have admitted that they did blackmail Lee Byung Hun with a video file of a lewd conversation, they insisted that they did not do this with financial gain as their goal, but rather due to feeling betrayed and scorned that Lee Byung Hun had used Lee Ji Yeon simply as a sexual object, after Lee Byung Hun had notified Lee Ji Yeon of wanting to break up. However, after looking at the KakaoTalk history as well as various documents, it does not appear that the victim [Lee Byung Hun] and Lee Ji Yeon were lovers, and it seems that the defendants had committed the crime for the purpose of financial gain."
Dahee's side was that:
"As Dahee is very close to Lee Ji Yeon, she felt that Lee Ji Yeon had been manipulated. She thought that if Lee Ji Yeon offered the video to a media outlet, she could receive money. She thought that the money the media outlet offered would be the same as what the actor would give, so they requested 5 billion KRW. Dahee was under the wrong impression that this was a normal transaction."
I'm not going to recount everything. Here's the Allkpop tag, if you want to explore. No telling of the story makes Dahee look good.
http://www.allkpop.com/artisttag/dahee
And this one makes her seem especially bad:
The two girls also apparently planned on capturing a scene in which Lee Byung Hun and Dahee would be hugging. So last month on the 29th, they called Lee Byung Hun to Dahee's home and Lee Ji Yeon's phone was set up near the sink to capture such a moment. However, a chance for them to hug did not come along, so Lee Ji Yeon, who had been waiting outside, came inside and showed the actor the video they had taken of their lewd conversation and threatened him. Dahee and Lee Ji Yeon brought out two travel bags and asked for 5 billion KRW. However, the actor left and reported them to the police, and on September 1 the two ladies were arrested.
The tale ends, for the time being, with Dahee and Lee Ji Yeon released early from jail in March, after six months, now on probation for two years, presumably with their careers ruined. And with daring, audacious group GLAM disbanded.
Anyone been keeping tabs on what Zinni is up to?
Click to viewTwo thoughts:
(1) The incident doesn't altogether translate from Korea to America. Nothing I've read about the vid makes it seem as if it would in itself have been blackmail material here. He and they got drunk and made lewd remarks and told dirty stories and that's all. ("When was your first sexual experience?" "What part of the male body turns you on?" and "Do you like the face more or the body more?") So, unless Lee Byung Hun - a married man - is actually caught coming on strong to one of them, what's there to blackmail him with? Which pretty much may have been his opinion when they did try to blackmail him and he went to the police rather than paying.
(2) The prosecution said that Dahee owed her agency $284,300, which (as reported by Allkpop) "is presumed to be the training and promotional expenses which she has yet to pay off due to the lack of her group activities." Which sure makes the agency seem to have the upper hand over group members, though I can't say I know nearly enough to have an informed opinion about these finances. But anyway, Dahee had gotten attention for her portrayal of the smoldering sex symbol in Monstar, had been the voice of SeeU, the Korean version of Vocaloid, and was in a group with minor success but lots of potential. Yet she was massively in the hole.