the full timeline of burning sun (and goo hara)
2015 - 2017 crimes committed pre-burning sun
13 december 2015: seungri throws a birthday party for himself in shanghai with his friends and investors. here, he requests for girls that "give it good" for his investors (bbc)
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2016 jung joon young (jjy)'s molka (secret recording) crime
january 2016 - jjy, choi jung hoon (cjh) went to a ski resort with 2 others. at 7.39pm, kim sent a video to seungri (who wasnt present) about sexually assaulting a victim at the resort (bbc)
*note: seungri was in japan for the big bang made concert tour from jan 9 - jan 11
february 2016 - jjy's ex gf filed a police report about him secretly recording a sexual video of her
15 march 2016 - jjy, cjh, park and kim assaulted a victim in daegu (bbc)
16 march 2016 - jjy had a fan meeting, one day after assaulting a victim
22 august 2016 - police requested that the private forensics company write a report to the police that "jjy's phone is unable to be restored and there are no data recovered"**
23 september 2016 - exclusive article released by reporter park hyo sil about the crime. for the next 3 years, park hyo sil will be a victim of a public witch hunt, having 2 miscarriages from the stress
06 october 2016 - jjy was cleared on all crimes. public opinion was in favor of him.
**today, we know that the private forensic company had secretly recovered all the files from his phone, and kept in 3 USBs. it contains data from 2015 - 2016. in 2019, a female from the company dropped of the 3 USBs at an attorney's office, who later contacted reporter kang kyung yoon. this will be the break of the burning sun case in 2019
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9 december 2017 - seungri rented an entire resort for his birthday party in palawan, philippines. here, he invited investors that would help him in his opening of the burning sun club. (bbc)
23 february 2018 - burning sun opened
2018 goo hara's assault from her boyfriend
10 september 2018 - goo hara has lunch with her manager and a male colleague for an upcoming schedule, without informing her boyfriend, choi jeong beom (cjb). cjb was known to be very jealous and overprotective of goo hara meeting other men, even if it is totally platonic and for business
13 september 2018 - choi jeong beom assaults goo hara
12.30am: cjb enters goo hara's home, drunk, and assaults goo hara
1.26am: cjb emails dispatch to provide them with "goo hara tip"
1.39am: cjb's friend helps to move cjb's luggage out of goo hara's house
2.04am: cjb sends goo hara their sex tape
2.21am: goo hara kneels to cjb in front of her elevator
2.22am: goo hara follows cjb down to his car
2.23am: cjb sends goo hara a second video of their sex tape, while loading his luggage into his car
3.30am: cjb called the police and was dispatched
4.21am: cjb emails dispatch a 2nd time about this "goo hara tip"
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the rise and fall of burning sun
24 november 2018 - club-goer kim sang kyo was allegedly physically assaulted by burning sun staff members when he was trying to save a victim
28 january 2019 - news reports about the assault at burning sun are released
26 february 2019 - reporter kang kyung yoon releases the kakao chat messages between the perpetrators
14/15 march 2019 - goo hara privately contacts reporter kang kyung yoon, telling her that she wants to help with the investigation since she is a victim of revenge porn. goo hara calls choi jung hoon (cjh), who were close friends since their trainee days. she persuaded cjh to tell the reporter who the police officer that was covering up their tracks were. the police officer was revealed by cjh to be yoon kyu keun, who had worked in the president's residence. (bbc)
16 march 2019 - articles about police officer yoon kyu keun are released, less than 48 hours after goo hara called cjh
14 october 2019 - f(x)'s sulli, goo hara's close friend, commits suicide
24 november 2019 - goo hara commits suicide
14 january 2020 - someone steals goo hara’s safe in her house
jung joon young: 5 years of prison
choi jung hoon: 2 years of prison
seungri: 18 months of prison
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others related to this case
people that were part of the group chats and admitted to watching the videos illegally filmed, but had not actively sexually assault anyone
beast/highlight yong jun hyung
hyuna and yong junhyung relationship
2009 - 2010: 4minute hyuna and goo hara became close friends while filming invincible youth
2011 - march 2013: yong junhyung and goo hara's relationship
may 2016 - november 2022: pentagon edawn/dawn/kim hyojong and hyuna's relationship
january 2024 onwards - yong junhyung and hyuna dating and getting married
