K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon have been charged six and five years in prison (respectively) by a South Korean court on account of filming and gang-raping drunk unconscious women. This high-profile case has sparked a series of protests through the country.
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Jung Joon-young is a singer-songwriter, and Choi Jong-hoon is a former member of the boy band FT Island. Both were found guilty of raping two different women in two different incidents in 2016. Jung Joon-young was separately also charged with filming and distributing videos of him having sex with other women.
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The two will have to undergo 80 hours of sexual violence treatment courses apart from their jail time and have also been banned from working with children.