The slightly expansive set of lawsuits towards cyberwrecker Sojang that was began by IVE‘s Wonyoung and Starship Leisure has led to Sojang being handed a suspended jail sentence of two years with a three-year probationary interval, in addition to a 210 million received advantageous and 120 hours of group service.*
*Can I simply rant about how all people will get a majority of these sentencing fallacious? I anticipate it out of translation mills, however even mainstream retailers fucked it up, they usually all the time appear to. Followers get the impression that criminals are going to jail, however they’re mainly out on parole in quite a lot of instances. The opposite factor they do is report the punishment the prosecution asks for because the precise sentence. It’s maddening. Get it collectively. A shitposting weblog shouldn’t need to dig to seek out this straightforward shit out.
Moreover, this appears pretty much as good a time as any to cease slacking and catch you up on what else has been occurring in this Sojang case.
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Let’s backtrack a bit to begin issues off.
Unbeknownst to most on the time, Starship Leisure and IVE member Wonyoung filed a lawsuit to unmask Sojang again in the midst of 2023, which was finally granted by the court docket. This grew to become public a couple of 12 months in the past when Wonyoung was granted a 100 million received judgement towards Sojang (who made a comical attraction) in a civil swimsuit whereas a special civil swimsuit from Starship and legal prices from each her and Starship have been nonetheless pending. All of this proved vital as a result of it set precedent for different cyberwrecker accounts and allowed authorized motion from others towards Sojang to proceed.
Thus, in a while these legal lawsuits resulted in an indictment of Sojang for defamation of Wonyoung and 6 different celebrities. Amongst these have been EXO‘s Suho and aespa, who filed in April and whose legal case was accounted for within the judgment.
In a separate case was Kang Daniel towards Sojang. He had filed legal prices again in 2022, however was solely in a position to proceed after the Wonyoung/Starship ruling. Ultimately, and after some hilarious footage of Sojang working, Daniel’s company ARA introduced that Sojang had been fined 10 million received within the legal trial for defamation (no attraction). Additionally they filed a 100 million received civil swimsuit within the aftermath of the choice, which resulted in Sojang being ordered to pay 30 million received plus curiosity and 70% of the authorized prices. Either side appealed and the case is at the moment in mediation.
Moreover, BTS members V and Jungkook filed a civil lawsuit looking for 90 million received in damages, and in addition filed a legal criticism as properly. A part of the damages they search entails Sojang allegedly utilizing their copyrighted work in movies.
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Whereas quite a lot of this has gotten jumbled within the protection, by my depend she nonetheless has at the least a civil swimsuit from Starship, no matter appeals are produced from this legal case, the mediation with Kang Daniel over the civil case, and the civil and legal instances from V and Jungkook. It’s additionally attainable aespa and EXO’s Suho filed civil lawsuits, however I can’t discover that anyplace.
Past simply this explicit cyberwrecker account, it may have a preventative impact on different accounts, at the least for many who are Korean residents since they will not successfully conceal on websites with abroad servers.