Rotten Mango - #166: The Korean Milk Princess & Burning Sun Sex Scandal

Episode Date: May 22, 2022

The Burning Sun scandal exposed some of the most beloved K-pop idols to be depraved predators. The Burning Sun was a popular club. The type of club where rich men ruled. If you wanted a rare bottle of champagne. They would get it. If you wanted the club to stay open an extra hour. They would do it. If you wanted the bartenders to roofie a random girl’s drink so that you could have her escorted into your private room to assault… they would do it. The Burning Sun exposed a lot - it would even take down one of the richest women in Korea. The Milk Princess. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Do you remember what you were doing May 2021? May 2021, that was a year ago. Yes, what were you doing exactly a year ago? Probably at this time taking a sh- It's all a blur, right? That's the appropriate answer. Probably still some form of lockdown was taking place. Maybe you're still working from home. Maybe you are sanitizing every single thing that you get from the grocery store still. Remember those days?

Yep. Well in South Korea, there were lines out of the grocery store, out of the convenience store. Lines of well-to-do, nice families who either knew someone who had gotten COVID or had died from COVID, they were scared. They were willing to do anything to try and mitigate the virus from taking their loved ones. They had read that one of the largest companies in South Korea, one of the biggest in the dairy sector, had just released a statement, Namyang Dairy, has become the first firm in the country that has discovered fermented dairy products are effective in preventing COVID-19 viruses. Our experiments show that Bulgaris, our brand of yogurt, helped remove influenza A, H1

and 1 virus at a 77.8% success rate. What is it, yogurt? Yeah, just the Greek yogurt. It kills COVID-19? Yeah, that's what they said. This massive company said that this is one of the biggest companies in South Korea. They came out with this news report. They said the given experiment was conducted by pouring the yogurt drink on monkey lung cells.

I don't know about you, but I'm usually not pouring yogurt into my lungs. I don't know how that works, okay? It wasn't a lot of hope, but it was something. And for people who are just told to sit at home, just hope for the best. They wanted to do whatever they could. Sometimes it just felt good to be proactive. So they lined up outside the stores, trying to buy as much of the yogurt as possible. The company shares spiked as high as 30%.

The Bugara drinks sold out in retail stores across the country. It was a scandal that would send Nam Yang's dairy CEO over the edge. It had been a rough couple of years for this guy, the CEO. There were two suspicious suicides linked to the family. Multiple arrests. Leaked recordings of his family members, leaked recordings of his employees, and even a connection to one of the biggest sex scandals in South Korea. The Burning Sun Do you remember that one?

Some of the nation's biggest, most beloved K-pop stars were caught sharing videos of themselves assaulting unconscious women. There was a club named The Burning Sun where K-Pop idols would bring foreign investors, they would have bartenders, drug random girls at the bar so that these random club goers that just came here to spend money to have fun, they would be dragged into the VIP rooms to be raped. They would literally, the VIP clients, they would literally look out into the crowd, pick a pretty girl, have her drink drugged by the staff so that they could take advantage of her.

A lot of the times, the rapes were recorded and circulated amongst group chats. You're like, okay, wait, what? How on earth is this dairy company and COVID-19 and the burning sun all freaking connected? All because of one girl named Hannah Huang. As always, full show notes are available at RottenMangoPodcast.com. But this is another Korean case. I really want to shed more light on Asian cases and it's been a bit hard to do with the translation. I hope you guys are enjoying it though.

You're like, wait, aren't you Korean though? Yeah, I'm not a good one. For some reason, I can speak it, but I don't trust myself enough to gather all the research for it. So thankfully, I had a ton of articles professionally translated, I had my sister help me with a ton of the research, and hopefully, I've compiled everything in like a clear concise way.

Let me know if anything was lost in translation, or if you know anything additional, this case is crazy. So as I mentioned in the last main episode I was going to talk more about Tibar. Well it's happening. Let's talk about it. A more direct translation of this word. It's actually pronounced if you're Korean it's Tibar because we don't we don't do the CH. It's a J sound Tibar. The direct translation is either a rich clan or the wealth group.

And it's not just anybody that's wealthy and has power and influence. It's a bit of a different level. In fact, there's only about two dozen families in South Korea that are known to be Teebars on this level. A lot of citizens believe that South Korea has become a playground for Teebars. That's it. Teebars families, they control everything, they have the last say, they're the first to eat. I mean, it's just the way it is to put it in perspective, right? America has a ton of family businesses.

And there's obviously nepotism. If I mark Zuckerberg, I'm totally gonna call up my best friend. Does the guy have friends? I don't know. I'm gonna call up my best friend, let's say, runs ABC company. I'm gonna be like, best friend, let's say runs ABC company. I'm gonna be like, hey, can you get my kid a job? It's kind of like that, but in Korea, it's a little bit different.

But also the same, like the same end result happens, but different methods. Like I mentioned before, in the United States, there's lobbying, there's bribery, there's insider trading, secret deals, there's political campaigns and propaganda. The rich and the powerful families are above the law here. But it's almost kind of done in secret. We're so busy focused on all of these other things that we don't really. I mean, sure, we've heard of Bill Gates, we've heard of Elon Musk, but do people really focus on the Sackler family?

Or the Mars family? We don't really hear that much about the Walton family. These are three of the most powerful families in America. It's almost done behind doors where so busy focused on all these other billionaires. Meanwhile in Korea, it's pretty in your face. Honestly, I don't know what's worse. In your face obviously causes rage.

It's so arrogant, but sometimes the secrecy can be much more venomous. So it's kind of up for debate. secrecy can be much more venomous. So it's kind of up for debate. Now, anyway, a lot of the largest conglomerates in South Korea are family-founded, family-run. So imagine the founders of Google. They just keep passing down the company and the CEO positions to their kids.

Sundar Pichai would never become CEO because his parents were not the CEOs. His grandpa wasn't the founder. It wouldn't matter how hard he worked his great ideas his business acumen Nothing would matter he would not be the CEO because he wasn't related to the founders That's it point blank and it's like that in Korea for the top companies like Samsung LG Hyundai and SK group Those like that or it's not like that. It is. You just, it goes to your kid.

Oh yeah, okay, okay. So yeah. Which would be kind of unheard of in the United States. It sounds more like a smaller mid-sized business type. Yeah, because I mean, US, it's a public company. So, you know, you have to vote on it, you have to, you know, everybody has to agree. This is the next

CEO. So Samsung, LG, Hyundai, SK Group, these are actually the four tibars that account for nearly half the income of all the tibars. Like these are the top four. Samsung LG, Hyundai, SK Group. Yeah, well I know I'm like really, if there's a Korean out there, they're like, Samsung. Hyundai. Hyundai, you know, but I'm like, Samsung.

LG Hyundai. I'm so sorry, mama. Which like I said, there's about two dozen Chebar families in Korea, at least the well-known ones. So that's a pretty, these four are the most powerful. I mean, truly, if you're not born into it, you do not get a seat at the table. It's simple as that.

K dramas like to call Tiber families this word a lot. And it's true, they call them the untouchables of South Korea. And a lot of K dramas will actually somewhat romanticize it. I feel like these days, the more woke dramas, they will have the dark side, the mistresses, the cheating, the family feuds. But a lot of it still centers around. You have a rich heir that was born into a family like this. And of course he's fucking six feet tall and handsome.

He's spoiled rotten, probably a big douche, and then this nice poor little girl falls in love with him. And now the rich heir's family tries to pay her off, so she won't marry into the family because they need to, if I'm Samsung, you need to go marry Frickin, the daughter of the minister of transport. I think that's who, one of them married. You need to go marry like a government official's kid,

or like another rich person's kid. You need to go marry a moody Pacific's daughter. It's like that, right? But instead, he's just in love with her for some reason. He's kind of a douchebag to her, but still likes her. And the character development plot where he humbles himself, he even gives up his entire inheritance to be with this poor girl. But in the end, the poor girl becomes the wife to the next CEO.

It's like, wow, what an amazing rags to riches moment. But the companies, these families, they're so vital to the economy of South Korea that they're almost always above the law. They're almost always above the government. And it's almost this feeling of betrayal for South Korean citizens. The sentiment is that most Koreans

are so proud of these big brands. They're so proud. Korean made, Korean funded, Korean operated. They're so proud of all of this. They will study their asses off for a chance to be qualified to work for one of these companies. The top three conglomerates, I mean, kids will dedicate their entire studies just to start at an entry level at one of these companies. They will put in the work.

They'll work over time to the point of being overworked. They will do this willingly and happily, obviously for a paycheck, but still you get the idea. But the conglomerates are not holding up their end of the deal. You're like, what do you mean? Well, it's not a simple problem. You're like, okay, if something happens, just boycott the Chibar family if they have a scandal, but they probably won't feel the pain. The regular people working at the bottom, the ones that have to work to pay for rent and put food on the table for their families, they're going to feel the pain of the boycott before

it ever reaches the top. That's the problem. So let me give you an example. Have you heard of the Korean Air Nut Regents? Korean Air. It's exactly what you imagine. The Nut Rage scandal. Yeah. The largest airline in South Korea owned by the powerful Cho family behind Han Jin conglomerate. Korean Air was actually a government owned airline. Han Jin bought it from the government, which is why they have the ability to have

Korea and Air in their name. Yeah. They went private with the acquisition by Hanjin Group, owned by the Cho family. And this is not a small group. Hanjin Group was formed around World War II. And even before acquiring Korean Air, the conglomerate had started. And their biggest customer early on was the US Army. So Hanjin Group was transporting material for the US Army

from the United States to Korea and to Vietnam. Hanging Group obviously did really well that they went on to sign another US Army deal and deals with the US Navy and the US Air Force. Listen, military deals are a whole nother level of money, a whole nother level of funding. a whole nother level of funding. Then the group went into business with the Middle East and proceeded to make even more ton of money there.

I mean, they were really, they were doing a lot. That's how they were able to acquire Korean air. And yeah, Korean air going private added immense growth. And the current CEO is the third family member to be CEO of Korean Air. All the vice presidents, all of the major executives are typically Cho family members. If not, Cho married members. They marry into the family. That's crazy. I mean, how do you ensure the company is running by the most talented people if you just all

you do is every position is owned by the family. So that's so interesting. And what is the incentive for a talent to really, you know, put in their heart and soul? Exactly. So let me take you to December 2014. Heather Cho or Cho Hyuna, she was the daughter of the former CEO of Korean Air. And I'm assuming the current CEO is her brother her brother but anyway you get the idea. Heather boards a flight from JFK in New York City to Incheon in Seoul. The plane is taxing away from the gate getting ready to take off.

You know how they like get in line? Yeah. It's just kind of funny when you think of plane standing in line right. She's obviously in first class. So she's typically getting served a bunch of things before they take off and the nice flight attendant decides to pass around some macadamia nuts. I've gotta be like the most stressful flight those flight attendants. Because it isn't Korean Air always, like they do more than other airlines, right?

Korean Air, listen. We have a friend who works for Korean Air briefly as a flight attendant. It is some of the most strictest standards to become a basic level entry level flight attendant and 90% of those standards are on your looks and your manners. Yeah. Like you have to be everybody's bitch to be a flight attendant on Korean Air. Yeah, exactly. So now imagine you're serving the CEO's sister.

Yeah. Who's also known as a bitch. Yeah, and I really hate to say this, but have you guys been on a Korean Air flight? It's like a world of a difference. Listen, I love my Delta flights, okay? I be on Delta and they be yelling at me in economy. I don't know, it's like really aggressive.

They're yelling the safety rules. Korean Air, you get on an economy seat. They're so nice. I feel like a princess. It's crazy. It is crazy. I'm not justifying their actions, by the way. I'm just saying these flight attendants work so hard.

So this nice flight attendant decides to pass around some macadamia nuts. He places a bag of nuts on Heather's tray. And I'm sure he did it eloquently, beautifully, with a deep bow while he did it and that's not sarcasm. I'm telling you the service really do be like that. They'd be bowing to anybody and everyone. They're so respectful. But Heather is looking at her little bag of macadamian nuts. She's thinking, what the actual fuck? Why are they not in a little porcelain bowl?

She's upset. She allegedly starts abusing the flight attendant verbally abusing like what the fuck is wrong with you? Are you an idiot? You know saying just some of the most discussed in front of other first class passengers who probably know that this is Heather Cho of Korean Air. Just gossing and get your boss over here. So she gets the chief crew captain to come and it's alleged that she forces the chief of the crew to kneel down in the aisle of first class and beg for her forgiveness. She allegedly smacks his hands over and over again with a tablet and then dismissed him, not from the aisle though, but like off the plane. But they're taxing to take off, meaning they had to go back to the

airport gate so that she could throw these two off the plane. What an embarrassment. Yeah, to Korea too. We were all Koreans were so upset because like first of all, why are you doing this at JFK? What's wrong with you? This is, imagine being on a Delta flight at JFK and the whole schedule is getting fucked up and the captain comes on and is like, um, this lady won in her nuts and a bowl, just hold

on everyone. So like the daughter of the Korean Air, she's throwing a tentrum like in the other lane like she won't even get into lying man. This is a lot of tea. I think they've already posted TikTok videos. I wouldn't even believe you. I would think someone probably had a medical emergency, or maybe the plane is having technical difficulties. But it gets worse. Allegedly the chief of the crew was pressured by the executives of Korean Air to keep quiet about the whole incident. And he was going to...

Till Heather allegedly started going around spreading rumors that he was sleeping with flight attendants. In particular, the flight attendant that served the nuts in a bag and not in a bowl. So he starts feeling cornered, like, whoa, this is my job, like I'm gonna lose my livelihood. No other airline would ever hire me. You're blacklisting me. So he felt cornered and he went public with the situation. And at first, Korean era apologized,

but kind of, through and, but Heather was just doing her job, you guys. She was supposed to inspect the in flight services and airplane safety. That's her job as vice president. Which this excuse was five different levels of stupid. Because back then, I guess, Korean air would serve nuts in these porcelain bowls for first class. But the airlines changed their policy.

Probably due to potential nut allergies, the flight attendants did with the company and with the law told them to do, which is you serve nuts in a sealed bag. So this flight attendant got fired verbally and allegedly physically assaulted because the vice president of the airline had no idea that the rules had changed and that the laws had changed because I don't know.

Maybe she's not the most qualified for the job. And anybody thought about that. But that's not even the end of the scandal. They fire the flight attendant that served the nuts in the bag. And when the story went public, they called him nonstop, pressuring him to tell the South Korean transport authorities that he voluntarily resigned. Other flight attendants were pressured by executives to delete their recordings of proof of the nut rage incident.

The executives were also allegedly coaching them to downplay the incident. To make it seem like it was blown out of proportion for media value. But a lot of the first class passengers who have nothing to do with Korean air that spent a pretty penny on their international first class ticket came forward describing the incident and it matched the victim's stories. They literally begged for forgiveness while being verbally abused, having nuts thrown at them and essentially physically assaulted at one point. What's wild is that the team that was investigating the incident was supposed to work for the

government, yeah, but two members of the investigative team were former Korean air executives, not like Haya, but had like managerial positions. So the whole thing just felt shady. The flight attendant refused to talk to them. They're like, you're acting like you're investigating this but I don't trust you. I don't trust this as much as I don't trust an internal investigation, okay?

So he's immediately talking to the media instead. And this is obviously not a big part of the abuse, but just kind of how the company I guess handles things. It's kind of funny, the reaction. There was a first class passenger who reached out to the company, outraged. She's like customer service. Listen, I paid a pretty penny for this ticket.

I thought I was gonna enjoy my first class ticket and I saw this traumatic, horrendous display of power and abuse. And as an apology, Korean air sent her a model airplane toy and a calendar in the mail. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. That is, that is um. So that's how they handle even their VIP first class

ticket passengers. Just think about what they'll think of you if you were an economy complaining about anything. It's ridiculous. Let me send you a march. Yeah. And it's like probably one of those cheap calendars about what they'll think of you if you were an economy complaining about anything. It's ridiculous. Let me send you a march. Yeah. And it's like probably one of those cheap calendars

and it's just pictures of their bowing fleet. Like everyone, you're like, what? It just adds to the whole, what the forkness of the situation. And because of the not-reg incident, it shed light on a previous incident that Heather had on a different flight. The year before, allegedly, she was on a flight and through a fit because she was improperly served ramen noodles.

Yeah, she has for ramen noodles and I guess maybe they didn't play it correctly. And she threw like the biggest fit in the world. Heather Cho was forced to resign as vice president of Korean Air. Now before you feel bad for her, she kept all of her shares and her position as chairperson of Korean Air was kept. She is still president of KAL Hotel Network, which is owned by Korean Air and Hanjin Tour, which is owned by Hanjin Conglomerate, that owns Korean Air.

Here's an odd aftermath though. Macadamia nut sales in South Korea rose by 250% after the incident. Huh. So that's weird. It's not weird. Yeah. But now it makes me want to eat Macadamia nuts in a porcelain bowl.

I'm like, what am I missing out on? What is Macadamia nuts? I don't know. I only have it covered in chocolate. I don't know. She must have gotten it from somewhere, right? Is Heather Cho really just like a third generation, privileged little kid? Well, her mom had hit the news before. Her mom, Heather's mom, the matriarch of the Korean Air Dynasty. She was exposed for forcing an employee to kneel in front of her and slap that employee's face side to side because they forgot to buy ginger from

the grocery store. Ginger. She drenched her driver with water for driving too slowly and allegedly she smacked employees in the forehead with a mop handle for no reason. She would spit on you for being late and she would also kick you for being late if you were super late. She allegedly was pissed at her gardener for not taking care of the weeds like she wanted, so she threw his metal shears at him. And when he climbed on top of a 10 foot ladder, she kicked it out from under him, so he fell in her knees. Allegedly, she went to work, and these two staff members, I guess, were pissing her off. She threw a ceramic vase at their faces. And allegedly, when the vase did not break,

she was so embarrassed. She screamed at them. You bastard sense of, just bring the fucking vase. And she threw it again at their faces, making sure it broke. Jeez. There's this one video that was released to the public, where she's yelling at a bunch of employees. And they're all standing with their heads lowered. I mean I've really only taken this

position when I used to be religious and I would pray. Like truly lowered head in front of someone as if you're in front of God on judgment day. It's a weird workplace environment that's for sure. She pulls one by the arms and pushes her around, grabs a stack of documents and just throws them on the ground while yelling. A flight attendant that served the matriarch of the family has come out and said, pushes her around, grabs the stack of documents and just throws them on the ground while yelling. A flight attendant that served the matriarch of the family has come out and said, oh yeah, she's worse than how you guys are describing her. You wonder almost how someone like her can even exist in this world.

It's beyond your imagination. Now according to this flight attendant, I don't know if it's true, but employees are told, if you're ever hit by the family, just pretend it didn't happen. Don't act shocked, it'll only piss them off more. He said it's like becoming voluntary slaves in this type of environment. Abuse should be taken happily because loyalty to the family is the most important thing. The only thing you're rewarded for is loyalty to the family. And you're not going to be rewarded well because money money is money, and they want to keep all the money.

You're going to be rewarded by not being smacked around. Allegedly, the dad is probably the same if not worse. If you set anything that pissed him off, such as, hey, profits are down. Just the reality of things. You just say, who the fuck are you? Make this manager a regular and walk away. What does that mean regular? Like your regular entry level employee now, even though you just

worked 10 years to become a manager and you say one thing in front of the CEO and he looks at you, looks at his assistant and says, make this manager a regular. Like what? The mom has denied the charges against her, but after her daughter is not Regensonant, it's hard to believe that this isn't true. And even the other daughter Emily Cho, Heather's sister, she was publicly shamed and forced to lose her position because she threw water bottles at employees' faces during a business meeting. Jesus, so it's a whole family as a bunch of... Yeah, there are probably...

Raging kids. One of the worst to our families, or at least publicly that we know of. They have the worst public approval rating, not that they care. So she apologized by basically saying, oops, sorry, that's a bit foolish, wasn't it? Allegedly, she also kicked her chauffeur a lot

for not loading her luggage into the car fast enough. Like just imagine standing there, they're watching this man load your luggage and just kicking him. I can't even imagine a kid doing that. If three-year-old Sophie did that, I'd be so embarrassed. So, this incident was kind of the first time a lot of foreigners were exposed to the power trips

of tabars. And that's, what's crazy is that the tabars weren't even self-made. The tabars were government-made, government-funded, the government created them. They pet them when they were good, they praised them, they propped them up, and now the companies have become so powerful that the government shakes in their presence. Like the tides of power have changed. It's like you were feeding a lion, nursing it to health, and now you're the lion's bitch.

That's what's going on with the Korean government. The majority of Tiba families rose from the ashes of the Korean War. After the war ended, the government was trying to rapidly rebuild the country. So they're just giving out super cheap loans to businessmen, but they had to prove that they already had money and funds. So these are not going to small businesses. These are going to the ones like already wealthy families, already prominent families.

They were stealing practically all the money that the government was giving out. So they were getting so much help at low interest rates, practically no interest rates. They had so many different forgiveness programs for if you couldn't make back your loans and really only handful of them were getting this government attention and their businesses boomed in success. The government helped these South Korean companies like Samsung, LG, SK Group, all of them by making

sure foreign businesses that were trying to enter the South Korean market were not going to get ahead of them. The government even cracked down on labor strikes of the workers so that these companies could expand their businesses. And it's a double-edged sword because the companies played a major role in South Korea's rise as an industrial giant, but now in a lot of people's eyes, they're out of control. Too big to fail. Yes, some of these companies control nearly two-thirds of the entire market share of South Korean manufacturing. And that's a statistic from the 90s.

It's probably much worse now. So anyways, incident like these really helped popularize the word Kapju, which is an expression in Korean. For when someone who has power, money, and authority is arrogant, power trips, and disrespectful to the people that are socio-economically before them. CUP means superior status, and TIE is kind of like an expression of like negative actions, like negative things you're doing.

So now that we've heard of that, let's talk about one of the most annoying taboured families. Have you heard of Namyang Dairy? If you've ever been to an Asian market or to Korea, you've probably passed by a ton of their products. They're a massive dairy company that makes milk, instant coffees, infant formula, instant beverages, juices, like yogurt drinks, like yogurt too, soybean milk. They're giants in the industry. They have an annual sales of 540 million and at one point they had an astonishing 43% market share.

Wow. This is a big cow of a business. They're really moving products and numbers. Thank you. Thank you very much. It said, okay, that was a bad one. It said, and I don't know if this is true because I haven't actually personally interviewed the babies myself, but it said that one and every two babies in South Korea drinks NAM Young instant formula. My mom grew up drinking NAM Young products.

It's crazy, but it's not the only thing the company does. NAM Young has subsidiaries that focus on catering, real estate, and that's just the name of you. I mean, it's a big, big business empire conglomerate with milk at the center. Or I mean, I guess at the center is the incredibly scandalous Hong Tiber Royal family. Let me explain.

Namyang Derry was founded in the 60s. Around the same time as the rest of the big conglomerates were founded. It was founded by a man by the name of Hong Tuyang. And he was the CEO. He built the business and afterwards he looks at his three sons. He picks the best one to take a spot. Now I don't know what he uses to define best.

Like is this some the smartest, the most productive? Definitely not the nicest you'll see why. Because as CEO he managed the son manages to get caught for tax evasion, for owning stock under fake borrowed names, so yeah, like the daddy of white collar crimes. And for that, he keeps his position, gets no jail time, and is given a $1.5 million fine. Sure, sounds like a lot of money, but this guy has a net worth of over $250 million. This is a drop in the bucket. So I mean, truly, this was a slap on the wrist. Now, before we get into the case, let me give you a look into the family tree of

the Hong Dynasty, because I mean, that's what they really are, a rotten milk dynasty. I want to call them cash cows, but that seems a lot of mean, okay, to the cows. So the founder had three sons and two daughters. One of his sons, Hong one, she takes over the business. His other two sons were high level positions that were essentially gifted to them. One of his sons, Hong Wan, she takes over the business. His other two sons were high level positions that were essentially gifted to them. One of them is the CEO of total communications. The other one runs a number of upscale Italian restaurants. And the two daughters, no job in the business.

I mean, they get shares of Nam Yang-Derry but they don't get a position. They don't get an executive title. So they have money, but they don't really have a job to some extent. Yeah It's the best. Yeah, it's kind of better. It's super old school I mean even Samsung the king of tibars they let their daughters and wives have powerful positions Thank you so much Samsung For like letting equality exist. So the Namsang Derry is not like that. They're like, nope, your

girl, you don't get a say. So one of the daughters of the founders goes on to get married, lives a normal rich life. Honestly, other tubars might have been jealous. I might even suspect some Samsung kids might have been jealous. Because you know, the daughters, they only have to have fun. They didn't feel the pressure that they had to outsmart their brothers. Like I'm sure a lot of the woman andibar families not only do they have to perform well, they have to perform even better to make up for the fact that they're a girl, to prove themselves. Not the Namyang girls, they could just live what normal, obscenely rich people do, spend money like it's nothing.

And that's the life that Huang Hanna was born into. So I know it's confusing because they're all related. But she is the granddaughter of the founder of Namyang Milk Company. But now the new CEO is her uncle. So she's the niece to the new CEO. And her mom has a bunch of shares in Namyang because she's the daughter of the founder. So anyway, when she's born, her grandpa is still the CEO. And he spoils the shit out of her.

I mean, she was the only granddaughter. It was said that she was always very cute and polite and pretty. So she just knew how to win her grandpa's love. She had this big, big personality and he probably thought she was this breath of fresh air. But as she grows older and older, she kind of starts heading down a different path. Why would you break into these apartments?

For money, for drugs, whatever was in there? Why aren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this? No, who's gonna catch us? What a police! It was the height of the crack era, and instead of locking up drug dealers, some New York City cops had become them. I would suit up in my uniform and we're going to want some drug dealers.

And I know how to do it really well. This is the inside story of the biggest police corruption scandal in NYPD history and the investigation that uncovered it all. Did you consider yourself a rat? 100%. I saved my soul just like everybody else does. Listen to and follow the set, an Odyssey originals documentary podcast series available now in the Odyssey app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your shoes. I'm not a big guy man, but I love being that dirty mother f***er. Now we've talked about the Korean Air Tibbers and their antics. So I'm not saying Tibbers are amazing people, but other than Korean Air, like, you know, I feel like we're inclined

to sit on the Samsung family because they're the biggest, but typically their scandals are like white collar crime scandals, which are still bad, but you don't have these acts of arrogance come out from those families as often. They seem more typically in line with their family. They're pretty smart. They don't outwardly party. They don't really do social media unless it's from a PR standpoint. They live very company driven lives.

So it's almost like these private people who we don't really get to see an inside look at, but Hannah, she's like, no, no, no, no, no. I want everyone to know that I'm the milk princess, that I'm the granddaughter of Nam Yang-Derry, and I want them to know that I'm rich. So she just starts going down the road of her belly in. And I think it all started because Hannah's mom had a baby boy. Now, you would think that having a younger brother would bring some happiness to her life. But the minute that he was born, she was cold rice.

She was a day old milk. Someone needs to get these jokes, because I thought they were really good. Nobody wanted her. I mean, Hannah's mom wasn't allowed to sit at the table since she was a woman. But now by having a son, he's still related to the founder and he could potentially grow up and have a seat at the table.

So she just kind of tossed Hannah to the side and showered all her love onto this baby boy, Hannah went from being a spoiled little granddaughter to kind of an invisible girl who was still spoiled. Don't get me wrong. It sounds like one of those sad movie tropes, but a lot of people said that Hannah really only saw her parents whenever she got in trouble.

The parents would be called for a parent teacher conferences. And that was the only time that they showed up. So of course, if she's being rewarded in some way, she might keep doing it. It said that crying children get milk. Sorry. Okay. Now it only gets worse.

One time Hannah was live streaming and she asked her followers on social media, which I couldn't find the exact follower account, but I think that she did have quite a bit of attention online. I think it's cool to see the rich lavish lives of nepotism babies. I mean, that's why people watch like rich kids of Beverly Hills, right, or even like Bling Empire, that's what it is. And it's, she's honestly very pretty on the outside.

So anyway, she's live streaming and asking everyone, look, my boobs are super pretty, right? Anyone who has ever seen my boobs, like, you know, without clothes on, they said that they were the most beautiful boobs that they've ever seen. I want to show you guys my boobs, but I'm worried that the platform is going to take me down. I want to show them to you because my boobs are actually fake. I bought them now in conservative... Whoa. In conservative South Korea, coming from the granddaughter of Namyang Dairy Company,

viewers were f**king speechless like this was gonna make the news. And Hannah's mom was so pissed when she found out. She started cursing her out, you're ashamed of the family, look at everything you've done, get outta here! That's it, I'm sending to the US to study, I can't do this anymore. Her parents even told her siblings don't contact your sister Hannah, she's a freak, I don't know what's wrong with her. Hannah gets shipped off to the US still

loaded like they're not cutting her off for anything and she's not really learning anything from being in the US if anything she's in LA where things are a bit more wild. She graduates college and most of her energy was spent on partying and in 2011 everything comes crashing down because Hannah is deported from Los Angeles back to Korea for drug usage. Can I just say in LA, you really had to have done something like, like you're not, it's probably, yeah, you probably did something crazy. Now this is a big deal in general, but an even bigger deal when you're talking about

the completely drug intolerant country of South Korea. Korea is wildly strict on drug laws. If you're a Korean citizen and you go to the United States, let's say, specifically, Colorado, California, for vacation, and we just legal there. You smoke medical marijuana while you're there in the state legally, not that you're even trying to bring it back to the Korea or that you're going high onto the plane back to Korea. No, it's like, you're staying there for a month, you smoke at once.

If South Korea somehow finds out if you post it on your social media or anything, you're gonna get charged for drug use in South Korea. Even though you did it in California where it is legal, so you didn't break the law, but you broke the law? It's weird. So there was a small scandal from Hannah's drug usage being exposed, but the family put

a lid on it. She was given probation, and everybody just kind of forgot about it. Now, fast forward to Hannah's life in Korea. She settles in real quick, and because of her status, she's able to rub shoulders with a lot of high profile people, including Park Yutun. Does that name ring about anyone? So Park Yoo-chun was a former member of the famous Korean boy group, TVXQ.

Dong Bang-heng-hee. Yes. Now this is not a small time, time bad. Dong Bang-heng-hee made the Guinness World Records twice in their prime. The first one they won for the record at the time for having the largest fan club. They were huge. Oh yeah. When I was in middle school, the girl that sits next to me, the- Just say the girl you had a crush on again. No, no, not at all.

She's my table, classmate, tablemate. She's my girlfriend. She's my tablemate. Okay. Oh my god, I's my table mate. Okay. Oh my god, I've never seen someone so upset. Cause back in the days, K-pop was new. Oh yeah, I was in middle school. That was like really for it.

And she was like hardcore tone pang hinky. And her favorite was Mickey. That's Park Yutun. Ah. Yeah. Ah! Ah! I've never, like, heard so much about Mickey in my life. Like, I'm still traumatized.

Oh my god, she was still. She's the traumatized that the girl you liked was a special Mickey. In 2009, they broke the Guinness World Record for being the most photograph celebrities in the world. Yeah, they beat, like, N-Sync, FAST NSYNC BASC Street Boys Michael Jackson at the time. Like they broke a lot of records. Crazy. I mean, they sold 500,000 albums in an era before photo cards and fan signs were a thing. They were huge.

Listen, I'm not trying to compare them to any current bands. I'm just saying at the time it was so tragic. Yeah, you're not here. Like, oh geez. Now, the news of their relationship between Pak Yuchun and Hannah broke Korean tabloids. They were seeing kissing on the street. And sure, U-Tun fans, I'm sure some of them were toxic.

They were upset. They thought that they were going to marry Mickey. You get it. But most people thought the pair made sense. Pak Yuchun was not only a celebrity, but he grew up with some sort of wealth, at least in the beginning made sense. Park Yuchun was not only a celebrity, but he grew up with some sort of wealth, at least in the beginning, okay? Yuchun's dad was a businessman.

He even moved his family to the United States briefly so that their kids could get an American education and in the US the parents split up. So now they're being raised by a single mom who's working all this time. And it was just this really painful time. It kind of ruined Yuchun's entire view of America. It shattered his American dream. So he moves back to Korea after school and he joins a trainee band that was under SM Entertainment.

As Dongbang-shin-gi, he worked his ass off. They debuted in 2003. Now, it wasn't instant explosive success, but they had a really good start compared to other debuts. They were getting booked on TV appearances. They won their first music show award with their debut song, but after six years, the group split. Now, Uchun's bandmates filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment stating that their 13-year contract was excessive, which yeah, I mean 13 years, holy cow, that sounds excessive. They also said that the earnings were not fairly distributed amongst the members either. Now, once this lawsuit was filed, and this is at a time where K-pop was not developed to the point that it is now. I mean, I think now we're at a point where we're all rooting for these actual humans versus these massive companies.

But then, back then, I mean, a lot of fans were heartbroken. They always thought that Tomuangshiki were best friends and like living their happy lives fulfilling their dreams. But now it just caused this massive divide, not just in the members, but also in the fandom. Listen, Messi is an understatement to how this group split. There were multiple lawsuits involved, a Japanese talent agency even gets involved. There were whispers of another contract, and in the end, everyone kind of went their separate ways with a little bit of tarnishing on their reputations. Now U-turn decides, I'm going to use this chance to get into my other dreams.

So he gets into acting, writing songs. And he was received really well. He went on K-Drama. He featured in one of the biggest songs in K-pop at the time, called Sorry Sorry by Super Junior. Mm, okay. Yeah. So honestly, I think his start-up only grew after the split with the group.

Like, he was truly thriving until his mandatory military servants. So if you're a Korean citizen and a male, you have to go to the army for two years. It's mandatory. Now, there's very rare cases where they will spare you the enlistment, but it's really rare. And it's not because he had to leave for the army that his career took a hit.

No, it was the fact that he was accused of sexual assault by many women while he was enlisted in the army. It's that he would go out after training, hit at some bars, and alleged brothels, and allegedly sexually assault women. Let's call the first woman Miss A. She said that she met U-turn at a bar, and they had just met like an hour ago. They didn't know each other prior to this. He asks her to come to the bathroom with him for whatever reason. And once inside, he locks the door, wouldn't let her out, and sexually assaults her.

She turns in her underwear and clothes for DNA testing. Then another woman comes out. Miss B. She said that she too was assaulted by him in a club bathroom. Then a third woman, Miss C. She said that they met at a bar around 4am. They decide to go back to Utah's house with another group of people. So she felt safe going, because it wasn't just them too.

And even if it was, that doesn't mean anything. So when they get back to his place, they're all drinking and he's like, come here, come here. Let me show you something. And allegedly, he is to alter in the bathroom of his house. Then another woman comes forward and she said that they met at a club while she was working. Now, it's said to be a bit of a gray area club where some sexual favor, some sex work happens, but not all the time. She wasn't engaging in sex work while she was working there. Not that I would change the story. Anyway, they were dancing with each other and it was just so noisy, so loud.

And he keeps telling her, I have something to tell you, but I can't hear you. Come to the bathroom with me, let's talk. I have something to tell you. She's a little confused, but okay, whatever. So she follows them into the bathroom. and he puts his hand in her underwear And she's like, well, what are you doing? Stop and he immediately just keeps asking her What how much money do you need and she's embarrassed and honestly it pissed her off like he's trying to buy her with money

He just kept talking money this money that and he grabs her by the face and allegedly starts making out with her She was so shocked pulled away and told him I don't want that, I don't like you like that, I just might you. And he kept trying to tell her, but you want it though, like you like me, right? He then allegedly forcefully kissed her some more, tried to lift up her skirt. She tried to bite, fight him off and beg to him by telling him, listen, I'm on my period, please. He said, but I think I need to check if you and I are a good match. And he allegedly assaulted her the whole time she cried begging him to stop and he kept telling her, it's okay because we're going to date now. You're going to be my girlfriend after this. So

you can do this for me just one time, right? A lot of people accused her of making a per story and she argued, why would I make this up? Like, as a woman, why would you want to do it in the bathroom, add an establishment where you work, where people could possibly hear you, and you're on your period? Like I wouldn't even have sex on my period with my boyfriend at home. Like this is, it's not pleasant. I was so embarrassed. He treated me as something less than human. He knew that I was working there so I wouldn't be able to report him. No one would believe me anyway. And the bathroom has no CCTV so I can't sue him. He also probably thought because he's some top pop star, I wouldn't regret doing it with him.

But I will never forgive him for looking down on me like that, and disregarding me just because I work there. I will never forgive him." When this news broke, of course, rightfully so, there was immediate backlash against Yuchun. Even though he denied all the allegations, I mean it was very suspicious that there were so many, and their stories were very, very similar. Many netizens also dug up some past interviews from Yuchun. He is playing some sort of word association game, unlike one of these TV shows. And he chose the words, bathroom, conversation, and sigh, and associated them with the word beautiful.

He also revealed a drawing on TV many years ago that he did. A little doodle. There were two toilets in the drawing. Like the f- So, I mean, the guys seem to have a very creepy preference for toilets. It just wasn't the most normal thing. That makes it with the allegations. There was just a lot of suspicion on him.

But then out of nowhere, one of the women drops their charges. So in the eye of the public, it starts to cast doubt on all the woman's stories, for some freaking reason. And by the end of the month, media outlets reported that the police said Pacu Chen was not a suspect and was acquitted from investigation. And now the netizens are like, oh, thank God, we love him. Yes, he's got this innocent boy vibe.

Like, thank God, he's so good in the car. Like the K dramas, he's got the innocent main romantic leads. Whoo. But then things take another turn. When that news broke, the police came out to say, wait, we never said that. We don't know why the media is reporting that. We've talked to you, John, five times already,

and we plan on subpoenaing him at least two more times in the future. We have not made any conclusions to these cases yet. And almost right after, the police confirmed the DNA on the underwear submitted by the first accuser belonged to Paku Chun. And okay, so at this point, we don't know if the sexual assaults have been legally proven, but it is proven that while he's enlisted in the army, he is going out and having sex with women. That's already a bad look. You're supposed to be dedicated to the army. That's how you do your two years of service.

What are you doing playing around? It was also revealed that he was trying to pay the first accuser $80,000 to keep her quiet. And it seems like she agreed. We don't know if the transaction of the money actually took place or if they had just agreed on the payment account. It's not clear, but it's not looking good. So U-turn retaliates and he decides to sue the accusers for defamation and blackmail. Now in one specific case, the court ruled in favor of her. They felt that one of the accusers was blackmailing U-turn for money. She was sentenced to two years in prison, along with two of her friends.

But then the next accuser was found not guilty of alleged false accusations and defamation. So she countersued Puck U-Tone afterwards for damages, and the court ordered him to pay about $80,000. So the vibe that people are getting is, one of them was Blackmailing him, but it seems that the others were not. So does that mean there's truth to it? It's just getting mudier and mudier and murkier and it's really difficult. It was also revealed that Yuchun was under investigation for bribery to cover up these sexual assault

allegations. So during all of this, Pak Yuchun and Hannah meet, kind of in the beginning of the beginning part of the sex scandals and they start dating. And it was a welcome distraction for the media, I guess. A lot of people were intrigued by the relationship. A pop star meets the wealthy aristocrats of Namyang Milk, a household name. It made sense the two were aesthetically very pretty together. They even intended to get married. But they started pushing the wedding by date further and further back.

They weren't seen together for a while, and since the sex scandals were raging, people wondered if there were truth to the allegations. If even his own girlfriend, if even his own fiance, is pushing this wedding date back, is something going on? After their alleged breakup, Hannah even made a cryptic Instagram post.

She wrote, although I did some things wrong, you always will be worse than me. You engaged in sex trade, abused animals, engaged in domestic violence, and even ran away after doing something bad with the broker. Now I hear that he discussed with the company and his family about how to turn the victim into an inflictor by Skit Slander. So it's like a really aggressive sub-tweet. She didn't tag him or add him, but everybody's instant thought was,

oh my god, is she talking about Paku-chan? Later, she deleted it. And I think because the tides kept changing from the sex scandals and remember how he beat the first case of Slander in defamation, Uchan wasn't necessarily branded full on guilty yet. It seemed like a lot of people were just kind of confused at what was going on. Then, Burning Sun happens. Okay, let's get into the Burning Sun.

This is a monster of a situation in and of itself, but somehow Hannah is all tied up in here too. The Burning Sun's sex crime scandal. In 2018, a new club opened up in Gangnam called the Burning Sun. Now, just to add some context, Gangnam is like the Beverly Hills, the upper east side of Seoul. It was going to be the next IT club. Since Seung-gi, Seung-gi, I always can never say his name, even as a Korean. It's so hard.

From Big Bang, it was going to be an investor in it. He was going to be the face of the club, a huge influence on the business. It just made sense because he was often called the Great Gatsby of Korea. Really? Yeah, he was known to throw lavish wild parties that were just a blast to go to. Like he knew how to throw an opulent,

over-extravagant. Yeah, just. It's crazy, like just from the look of it, I would never knew this. It's true. So now in 2018, the burning sun makes the news again. Because of an assault that happened during club hours, a customer, Mr. Kim was seen on CCTV being beat up outside the club.

Like I think he had either cracked or broken ribs, his face was all bloody and torn up, and all for what? Well, Mr. Kim got interviewed by these media outlets and he says, this is what happened. I saw a woman at the club, a stranger, not even someone I came with, you know, just a regular patron. She was being sexually harassed. And I wasn't going to put up with it, so I tried to help her and I stepped in and I said,

hey, stand behind me, I'll deal with this guy. Like, what are you saying to her? Why are you doing that? Now, the staff saw this happen. And instead of taking out the sexual harasser, they grabbed Mr. Kim out of the club and beat him. Like, they jumped him. You see a bunch of staff members just literally kicking the shit out of his face

outside the club. And it really begs the freaking question, why would the club director and staff beat Mr. Kim up for saving a patron of theirs, for saving a potential sexual assault victim? So, Seungri posted on Instagram since everybody was looking at him for answers because he was such a public figure of this club and he wasn't there that night. He just overall tries to distance himself from the club and it seems like a very calculated move because more and more people started coming forward. Mr. Kim's assault unlocked a wave of scandals.

It said that burning sun provided itself on catering to the whims and wishes of all the rich men that stepped fun in the door. You want a bottle of some highly coveted wine that is nowhere to be found at any other club? We'll jump through hoops to get it for you. You want us to stay open and extra hour for you? You got it. You want us to spike that girl's drink over there and roofie her because she doesn't want to have sex with you while she's conscious, but maybe if she's unconscious and we escort

her to the VIP room, we leave you to be and do whatever you want, is that what you want? Got it. We're on it. A former employee said that a rich client would come in and demand two unconscious women and he would straight up ask the employees for bait them, bring me zombies. And if the clients wanted not unconscious women or maybe they wanted girls, yeah, you know where I'm going with this. The club would even recruit underage girls and pay them tens of thousands of dollars to have sex with elite customers that were probably in their 60s.

It's said by former employees that a lot of the times the sexual assaults were incredibly violent. These underage girls were just random clubgoers that were drugged unconscious. They would be taken to a nearby hotel where they were raped while being filmed. Their abuse was filmed. But then the sex scandals got even deeper. Text messages came out to expose Big Bang Seung-li. He had been looking to recruit girls for sex.

He wanted to sell the girls to potential foreign investors. Yeah, they were pimping out women. So they could what get funding for another stupid bar like it's so dumb. More messages exposed to Seung-li talking to other well-known K-pop singers from bands like CN Blue, FTI-Lint, and they were sharing videos of unconscious women. One of the guys, Zhang, he shared videos of him assaulting 10 different women.

And even the way they talked about women was so disgusting. One of the guys in the group chat said, I gave her sleeping pills and dinner. Another guy responded, oh, so you raped her? LOL. Messages were also released, referring to these women as if they were just menu items. Singly allegedly wrote, girl number one isn't very talkative, but she's kind and likes

money. Also, she's a girl that's not very charming when drunk, but her visuals are great. Girl number three, her visuals are good, so is her personality. When she's a little tipsy, she's fun and nice, but the problem with her is that she gets super drunk and she's just a wreck. The customer responds, so let's eliminate girl number one from the selection and let's do two, four, and five and let's see if we can get one more. We need more girls like number three.

Singly response, number five is also good. These are humans that they're talking about, not in big Macs like, what are you? Sometimes the staff would message VIP customers, pictures of unconscious women and VIP rooms, and say things like, come and take a bite, come and taste her, as if she's a plate of cookies. The public was furious. They wanted answers, they wanted justice.

The police were already involved. They were investigating the burning sun for drug activity as well at this point. They did find drugs. They found ecstasy, ketamine, roofies, like it was bad. And in hopes of getting the attention off of him, Seung Lee announced his leave from the entertainment industry. But that's not even all.

It was revealed that police officers were bribed. And many of them had a hidden taken part in chat rooms. So it's just another incident where the rich and powerful really get away with anything. And yeah, there were a lot of them facing jail time. Police eventually arrested 13 people. Many of them were K-pop stars. 53 people were booked on drug charges

and there were also tax evasion charges. But who are their clients? And why weren't they arrested? That's a real question. Could it be the same clients that were on Tang Dayeon's list? Remember from the main episode? She took her own life. She said that her agency made her have sex like with a hundred different clients. Some of them are the most powerful business moguls politicians, money movers in the whole country. The ones that were never investigated? Could they be the same ones? So because of that anger, there were protests all around Korea with women holding up signs

that said, my life is not your pornography. And I know it sounds a little random, right? But it's not. So I've talked about this briefly before, and I forget if it was on the podcast or a YouTube video. But this was especially painful for women in Korea because MOLKA is a huge thing in Korea. It's actually even a huge genre of porn in Korea. MOLKA means MOLLE camera. MOLLE camera means secret camera.

Secret videos are such a big problem in Korea to the point where you know when you silence your phone in America and you take a picture, you don't get that shutter sound. If you buy your phone in America and you take a picture, you don't get that shutter sound. If you buy a phone in Korea, doesn't matter what brand, you can never turn off the shutter sound. So even if you silence your phone, you take a picture, it's gonna make a loud shutter. People hide video cameras disguised as outlets on door hinges and women's bathrooms. There was recently a huge scandal of, I think like over a hundred different motel rooms were being live streamed On to a platform in South Korea where members would pay $45 a month to watch women shower

Completely unaware that this motel room had a camera. They were being hundreds if not thousands of men were watching them in real time So you're like, okay, well, how does this have anything to do with Hannah? Well, Hannah was a well-known big customer of Burning Sun. In fact, the police were putting two and two together and they believed the alleged drug dealer for the Burning Sun was also her drug dealer. The government was cracking down on the Burning Sun. They also even reopened Tang Dian's case

because of the time of the Burning Sun. They're like, we do wanna look into all of this corruption. We do wanna look at all of this. I think that the police were more inclined to look into Hannah because she was a chibarrh daughter. Kind of make an example out of her, I guess. So they wanted to get samples of Hannah's hair for drug analysis.

Now, oddly enough, after they obtained the warrant, I don't know if Hannah found out through her connections, but she cryptically posts on social media about how she's going to chop off all her hair. She's like, can't wait to get a bob! And then she quickly takes out the video. She's constantly refusing to cooperate with the police, just making it very difficult for them to continue the investigation, and then NBC, somehow obtains a video of Hannah, looking dazed,

waving her arms around, saying nonsense. The person who gave the video to NBC told them, listen, she wasn't drinking, she was on drugs. I saw her inject her self with meth several times. At hotels, at her friend's house, she does drugs all the time. NBC starts doing some digging and they come out to say, Hannah was probably getting favorable treatment because she was Nam-young's granddaughter. She's a tabo girl. They dug up that previously,

a friend of Hannah's was sentenced to two years and six months from Matthew's stage. Now, it was revealed to the police that Hannah was the one that supplied her with the drugs, and that they had done drugs together in the past. So that means Hannah should be arrested, right? Because she already had drug charges. She was on probation. Because she was deported from the US. Well, the prosecution didn't even care. They just acquitted her. They were like, ah, yeah, yeah. So the authorities are like, okay, well, typically if you get caught twice with drugs, no matter who you are or where you are, for any illegal drug, your punishment typically is going to be a little bit more severe, but not Hannah. In fact, Hannah had a conversation with a friend that was

also recorded and given to NBC. You can hear Hannah laughing and saying, oh, the chief prosecutor at the Central District's Office. Yeah, my uncle and my dad, they know him. My uncle and my dad, they know everyone, including the police chief. Like, are you kidding? They're totally best friends. Essentially bragging about how she won't get in trouble because her family is well connected

and they have power. So once NBC releases all of this, the public went nuts. I mean, are you kidding? First of all, drugs are illegal. Is she really above the law because her grandpa was the founder of a milk company? Like is this what our country has come to? It got so bad that Namyang Milk released a statement. They said listen, we're not even connected to her.

The CEO is her freaking uncle. She's got like five different uncles. He's just one of them. Move on to the next scandal, please. Have you seen the girls at Kermian Air? They're fucking crazy. They didn't say that, but pretty much they said that. They just brushed it off.

They're like, she has no position here. The CEO is just her uncle. I mean, not even her dad. And the public was not having it. So under the pressure from the public, the police had no choice but to take Hannah in. So April 9th of 2019, they take her and then test her for drugs. The test come back positive.

Yeah, I know, shocking, right? But her excuse to taking drugs was really shocking for the entire nation. Hannah confessed that the reason she took drugs was because Pakiuchan, her ex-boyfriend, and she told the police this while crying hysterically. Honestly, everyone who heard her story said that she sounded super sincere.

She said, I started doing drugs in 2015, I quit. And then in 2018, I took drugs again because my ex-boyfriend, who happens to be a star. She doesn't name him by name, but she said who happens to be a star, wanted me to. He pressured me to. Now, there's a lot of lies in this because she did us for God that she was deported

from the US in 2011 for doing drugs. So how did you start doing drugs for the first time in 2015? It's just weird, right? She also didn't have to mention him by name. Everybody knew that she was talking about Pacu Chun. She continues to say, my ex-boyfriend injected drugs into my arm after I fell asleep,

and I knew nothing about it. I don't know why he would inject me with meth while I'm asleep. This was confusing because they broke up in 2017, and now it's 2019. But maybe they're kind of talking, I don't know, maybe they're seeing each other, rekindling their love. So netizens are freaking out. You Chun decides to hold an urgent emergency press conference. He comes out wearing a suit looking like the picture of innocence and he tells the world, at the beginning of last year, I decided to break up with Hannah. However, I was coerced by her out of my sense of responsibility and I will apologize for that.

I have never taken drugs, let alone persuaded others to take them. To prove my innocence, I am willing to cooperate with the investigation of the police from today onwards. Honestly, he was pretty convincing. He is an actor after all. In the last part, I don't know if he genuinely thought the police would hear that. I'm be like, you know what? Now that you said you'll cooperate, we don't even need your cooperation.

Because right after his press conference, the police tried to get a hair sample to test him for drugs. And he immediately starts dying his hair 5 million different colors and he shaped all of his body hair off. No freaking way. Yeah, like immediately after he was a hairless little dolphin. Just concealing it around. Oh my god. Which is like, I don't know if that's willing to cooperate with the investigation of the police, you know?

So after 19 days of frustrating, hey, stop shaving your leg here, you dude! What the fork, right? The police test him, they found drug residue in his hair. Now, Uchun's lawyer accepts that the drugs were found in Uchun's system, but he denied that he took it willingly. So the lawyer said, we are actually looking into that right now of how the meth got into his system. So he fell asleep.

He fell asleep. I thought that she, she, exactly. Now, a lot of people, police, fans, netizens, they were confused. What do you mean? So Hannah is saying that you drugged her. And now you're saying you would never, because you never did drugs, but then drugs

were found in your system. And now you're saying you don't know how it got in your system. I just, it's fascinating. So soon after that, Paki Chun was dropped from his agency. His contract was canceled. Essentially, he was forced into retirement. And with that, Paki Chun was also arrested, sentenced to 10 months in prison and find $1,100. Oh, you'll have $1,100.

I know. Wow, big fine. He's going to go bankrupt. Now, Hannah was also sentenced to one year in prison, but I think she only served like three months. She was required to take a 40-hour drug therapy course, so now that it's confirmed that Yuchen had taken drugs, that coupled with all of his former sex scandals,

I mean, genuinely, at some point, people did see Hannah as a victim of sorts. Maybe she was drugged. When she was released from prison, she was dressed like the picture of innocence. She had like this smart business casual, she her hair was a short bob neatly straight in. She showed a ton of remorse with reporters. She even wrote a statement promising to change and get better and to take time to reflect deeply on her actions and how they hurt those around her. Nam Yang released their own statement and it went something like,

this is the Nam Yang dairy products chairman, Hong Wan-Chik. I bow my head to sincerely apologize for the fact that my niece recently caused trouble with her immature actions. Even if she is a relative, there is a limit on my involvement with her parents and my limit on watching over her. But I regret that I wasn't able to correct her deviations. It's ultimately my fault that I wasn't able to look after my family.

Hannah is only a relative. She has no relationship with the business or any matters of Namyang. Despite this, I feel terrible for causing harm to the executives, staff members, franchisees, stores, and consumers who purchase our products. Regardless of my embarrassment, I give the citizens and Namyang my sincerest apology. I will deeply reflect and humbly fulfill all my social responsibilities. I am sorry. We can only hope that she receive a fair and severe punishment and hope the truth be revealed and then no one will be wronged. It sounds like they cut her off right? Yeah, I guess.

No, after being released from prison she went straight back home to living with executives at NAMMANG or shareholders, aka her mommy, and just went back to flaunting her wealthy life on social media. As if nothing had happened. Then in 2020, she uploaded a long post on social media talking about looking at my sick dad right now makes me strive to live my life with integrity. Her resolution to be a better person lasted all of two months because she was right back under investigation for drug use.

So here's what happened. Hannah was dating a new guy, let's call him O. So now Hannah and O were doing drugs together and somehow O ends up at the police station. Now there are mixed reports. Some say he walked in, some say he was getting a parking ticket by a police officer and then just started confessing some things to him. The guy is heavily under the influence. He's having literal hallucinations when he gets to the police station.

He's under, he did drugs. He's so freaked out that he just confesses. He's like, I'm on drugs. You know my my girlfriend Hannah, listen, I know I know it seems like she's probably on drugs too because I'm on drugs But no like you have to believe me. She's not on drugs. The police are like we're gonna go find out if she's on drugs because you're being so weird Then he goes on to confess if you find drugs in her system It's because I injected her with drugs after she fell asleep. What? Yeah, it's like the weirdest thing the same story as... Not even a year later. What? She has no idea she has drugs in her sister, my drug term. Yeah, just a year ago Hannah had that story.

Honestly, Korean citizens were offended. Does she think that we're so dumb? That we have like goldfish brains that we're gonna believe that? What? Or does she really just not care and think that her mommy and uncle are gonna take care of the situation? The police continue questioning the world. And then they're like, that we have like goldfish brains that we're gonna believe that? I-I-what? Or does she really just not care and think that her mommy and uncle are gonna take care of the situation?

The police continue questioning the boyfriend, oh! They're like, listen, you're a first-time offender, how could you be so skilled at injecting someone with drugs? Like, you injected it into the vein of her arm, like methamphetamine? He's like, yeah, yeah, for sure. The police had no choice but to hand over the case to the prosecutors, and oh was going on trial. Now, at the time, Hannah seemed to be safe from prison for now.

The police were going to do a thorough investigation this time, and now, this is where the Tebar life goes from privileged and arrogant to terrifying. While being investigated and waiting trial, Hannah and O get legally married. And it's done very secretly. There's no huge million dollar wedding, no Instagram picture, no massive lavish party, nothing really. I mean, that's strange. It just literally goes against Hannah's character.

But then, December 2020, the couple were out of friends' house and they were getting drunk. Hannah decides, you know what? I'm richer than everybody here, but I'm gonna steal my friend's stuff. Yeah, she steals her friend's purses, perfume, and a bunch of cosmetics, and just left while everybody's passed out. So of course, the next day, the friend wakes up and is like, I've been robbed.

I need to check the CCTV. Guess who she seats, hauling away her stuff. Her friend Hannah. That's dumb. Exactly, so I don't know if Hannah is just a kleptomaniac, and she likes to steal all her friend's things, thinking she won't get caught. Maybe she doesn't care, she doesn't for the thrill.

Makes sense, I mean, she grew up such a privileged life. Or maybe she was cut off from cash from her parents. So she's like, I need to buy some things to buy some drugs, but God forbid I sell my own things, you know? So like any friend, this girl was pissed. But she decides to post the video of Hannah stealing on social media. And in that post, she even claims that Hannah did drugs that night at her house, which is almost like slapping Hannah, but also slapping

herself in the face because now she too is under investigation by the police. Yeah. Yeah. So the police see this. She's like, I don't care about burning myself as long as I take her down. Please see this immediately. Hannah O and the friend are being investigated even harder. And in response to the pressure of this investigation, Hannah posts the very next day pictures of her bleeding on social media. The blood is coming from her wrists and it looks like she cut herself in a suicide attempt. She posts screenshots of her and her husband. she cut herself in a suicide attempt. She posts screenshots of her and her husband, oh, Hannah had texted him saying, please don't betray me again. I don't want to do this

because I don't want to be childish. I'll forgive you for anything, but please return the car that you stole from me. So it kind of makes it seem like, oh, is this really bad person? She's been pushed to the brink of suicide. She's like a victim in all of this. Maybe he was injecting her with drugs, making her lose her mind. Like that's kind of the perception she's trying to give off. It was a very bizarre post. Hannah's other friend also posted on social media saying,

I'm Hannah's friend. She tried to commit suicide and is now in the ER. She kept mentioning, oh, in her suicide note. She said, please don't leave any bad comments, which is almost the same as killing her. What? So please don't kill her. Please save her.

In a picture of Hannah was posted in the yard. I mean, it's terrifying and confusing. Why would she take her own life? What is this cryptic message? What is the suicide note? Well, the suicide note said to her husband, oh, even if I'm dead, you should still miss me. Don't see other women if I'm dead. Let's be together again. Don't cheat anymore women if I'm dead. Let's be together again.

Don't cheat anymore. Just look at me, I love you. Hannah was released from the hospital and the police wanted to talk to her. But when they get to her mom's house, her mom's like, oh my, I have no idea where my daughter is. Wish you could talk to her, but I guess you can. Whoops, well, I'll let you know if I see her around.

So now the police, they have no choice but to question the husband. Oh, again, now I'm not sure which changed for oh, maybe he realized Hannah's true colors with this bizarre series of Instagram post. Maybe he knew that she only saw people in her life as ponds to push the blame to. Maybe he was terrified of being arrested again. I don't know, but he went to the police station and he confessed that he and Hannah did drugs and she asked him to lie about it. He said, Hannah told me that she was on probation and would be imprisoned if she was arrested again. She asked me that I say that I injected meth in her secretly and that when I get out of prison since I'm

a first-time offender, it'll be a short time and we'll live together again and be happy. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. So he was forced to do this. Now this is the part that gets shady. Two days after his new confession, he jumps off a building and dies. As soon as I noticed found it, it said, I'm sorry for forcing Hannah to take drugs. Now this is so confusing.

What? Yeah, exactly. So there's so many different theories of what could have happened, right? He could. So he's like, he flipped law three times. Exactly. Why would's so many different theories of what could have happened, right? He could. He flipped law three times. Exactly. Why would he do that? That makes no sense. And usually people when they take their lives in a situation like this,

their last thing is not protecting others, but is wanting the truth out there. So I mean, trying to believe that this is not the truth, you know? So he could have taken his life from the pressure. Regardless of what he did or didn't do, he was still facing drug charges himself, he was facing allegedly injecting Hannah with drug charges, you know? These are not taken lightly in Korea. I mean, at this point, your entire life is over.

Unless you have rich parents supporting your entire adulthood, maybe he did take his life. But the suicide note was weird. Why would he want to protect Hannah when it seems like just two days ago, he had even talked to one of his friends, and the way that he was talking about the whole situation made it seem like he knew that Hannah was the reason for all of his trouble. So there's a few theories. He took his own life, and he wrote the letter, either out of love for Hannah or maybe fear.

Another theory is that he took his own life from the pressure of the investigation, and somebody else who had something to gain from this letter wrote the letter. The third theory is that he didn't write the letter, and he also didn't want to die. A lot of people believe the last theory. And to make things wilder, a friend of the husband, O's friend, posted on social media, made the deceased rest in peace. Many people's lives were ruined because of Hannah. She is a murderer as well as her parents who covered up for her.

NBC also released a new recording that they obtained. Listen, I don't know how they're getting it, but they are. It was of three people, Hannah, O, the husband when he was alive. And a third friend of theirs, Mr. N. They were all giggling and talking about how many drugs they were doing. They talked about it like it was a competition. Oh, you only shot up this much. I did this much. Giggle, giggle. After that was released, Mr. N, the friend in the clip, allegedly, he was a member of one of the largest drug organizations in Korea. And again, either by desperation or by force, Mr. N was friends with O, by the way. So, you know,

they were close friends. Mr. N jumped from a building and was taken to the hospital in critical condition. That makes no sense. Exactly. Now, I believe this was Mr. N's first charge as well. And if everything was going the way it's been going, I mean, these two guys were looking at maybe a couple months in jail Maybe a year max. It's hard to imagine that they would take their lives over that Yeah, exactly So if okay, so the husband oh went to the police and confessed

Yeah, so he knows he's ready to yeah be honest be honest and take on the consequences or whatever Why would that make no sense? Well, maybe this provides some insight. All through the drug investigation surrounding Hannah, one was dead, another one's in a coma, I mean, it didn't make sense. Later, it was reported that originally Hannah and O promised each other that O would take the blame, right? Like I said, the parents would be happy and once he got out of prison,

they would live happily ever after. But when he went back to the police station and told them the truth, this pissed off Hannah and she was threatening to divorce him and threatening to accuse him of rape as well. That makes sense. With her family backing her up, allegedly, he took his own life. Honestly, it's even hard to believe

that he took his own life at this point because if he was being threatened, I don't really see that as. The power of the family just seemed to be unwavering. Now what's also true is that Hannah's drug scandals were not the only public scandals the company had dealt with. Back in 2009, six employees from Namyang were sued for spreading rumors online about their competitors using animal feed in their baby food products.

It was a lie. So they're sued. In 2010, Namyang rolled out their first instant coffee, and they were going up against a giant coffee company. So they created this whole fear campaign around sodium castenate. They said how their instant coffee, unlike competitors, doesn't contain sodium castenate. Well, the leading coffee provider at the time, Tongsong Foods, they sued them because sodium castinate isn't even harmful to health is what they said. And the government

ruled in favor. Namyang was fined for false and exaggerated advertising and fear-mongering. In 2013, a recording of a conversation between an employee at Namyang and a small dairy distributor was released. So to give you some context, the distributor is essentially Nam Yang's bitch. Nam Yang has the power and the distributor has none. The distributor was also an older man in his 50s. Meanwhile, he's talking to a sales rep from Nam Yang in his 30s. The distributor, he was stressed. He was just saying, Hey, you guys are making me buy a lot more product than I need more than I can sell. So I end up trashing a lot of it and it's hurting my bottom line. I need to put food on the table. I like this is a mom and

pop business. And the sales associate is like, I don't give a fuck what you do with the product. You're going to buy all that product or you're going to lose this deal. He's just hurling insults, cursing the old man out, saying things like, do you want to die? Just take the goods and throw them away then. Fuck off. I don't care. Now, I know it doesn't sound that bad compared to everything that we've talked about today But if you hear his voice, it's like laced with disrespect and hate. It's sickening honestly and I think as a Korean So Korean culture, there's this huge thing of respecting elders Not only that this is just a straight power trip even if they were the same age

But on top of that this older man is relying on the steel to make a living. He's not even making much money and this big powerful company is treating him like utter trash. It was just so disgusting to hear. And it was dubbed the cursed milk incident. A huge boycott in protest took place over Namyang products. It was made worse with the Namyang's initial reaction, which was, what? Those are all lies.

The recording is fake, that never happened. In fact, we're actually going to sue the distributor. So now the public is like, OK, so not only do you cuss out the underdog, you canceled his contract, and now you're going to f**king sue him. We hate you even more. So there's sales plummeted. And at the same time, there are rivals,

there are competitors, their competitors that they were sued by constantly, they were rolling out sales for the hell of it. They're like, hey, our milks on sale for no reason at all. Nobody was buying Namyang. Namyang sales dropped down 50%. That's a lot in a month. I mean, they were plummeting. The FTC got involved and find them 10 million dollars for their actions. And in order to counteract that in their sales numbers, Namyang had registered a separate trademark for multiple different companies, but one in particular being Pegmedang, which is an ice cream brand. Now this brand had always been seen as.

Not a mom and pop brand, but a smaller brand. A smaller brand that focuses on artisan craftsmanship, high-quality materials, and it was but a smaller brand. A smaller brand that focuses on artisan craftmanship, high quality materials, and it was gaining a lot of popularity, especially since people were trying to avoid Namyang. Ice cream is a huge dairy product. Nobody knew it was Namyang's product till years later.

Which like I hate when companies do this, like just if you go online and look at what all of these smaller, quote, smaller brands are owned by, you would be shocked to see that the average American grocery store, I mean, this is a figure that I'm pulling out of my ass, by the way, so much of the shelves are owned by the same five companies. Just different names, different branding, right? You put out your regular brand, then your organic sector brand, and then another name

to make it look like a small business started by like these two old farmers, but it's all owned by like craft it nestly. Okay, it's just the way it is, I guess, in life. Now, that's what Namyang was doing, but they were doing it more, more sneaky. Like, their goal is to hide it. Exactly, so like, you know, these American companies,

they're not gonna put craft next to Antiannis, cause Antiannis is owned by craft if you don't know. Yeah, but they're not going to put craft next to Auntie Annie's, because Auntie Annie's is owned by craft, if you don't know. Yeah, but they're not going to put it right next to it, but you can easily Google it. It's so easy to find out. So citizens were getting outraged. Everybody was like, oh, we're by this one, guys, since we're boycotting Namyang. It turns out it's a Namyang product.

They just got pulled one over on them, and it's almost disrespectful to the consumer, like, you think I'm dumb? So they developed an app, consumers. Some dude developed an app where you can simply scan a bar code and see if Nam-young made it. Hey. Yeah, so they were really mad, okay? No, eventually the scandal and the boy caught died down.

Then COVID hits, and Hannah's uncle, the CEO of Nammyung Terry Company, he puts out that his yogurt is essentially the curative of COVID. Not smart. Not smart. You just, you just can't go around telling people it's going to cure COVID. It's freaking yogurt. Listen, I love yogurt. I believe in the power of probiotics in yogurt. But at the end of the day, it's freaking yogurt. Like it's not curing anything. I'm sorry. After that press release, the food ministry seized Namyang's six offices, executed search

warrants because, listen, you just can't go around with COVID. That is beyond any tibble. That's like something else. Now, because of changing times and also how bad COVID was, the CEO was said to be forced to resign. He couldn't just even resign by himself. The uncle said, I will resign from Nam Yang's stereo position to take responsibility for my actions.

And I will not pass on management to my children. Whoa, that's huge. Yeah. And he knew that nobody would be happy until he said that. Like, the company was going to go under. I mean, that's true, I guess. If you step down, your son takes over. Yeah, everything happened.

Yeah, you are still controlling your son. Yeah. Now, that's what to say. They have no power. They still have the Hong family to this day have a combined stake of 53% in this company, which is one of Korea's top three dairy companies by revenue.

But I do think that they are trying to sell it. Still doesn't matter because they're gonna make money from it, it's not like they're selling it for free. So they're just something else I tell you. Now, all this to say that the former CEO had bigger things to worry about than his trouble making niece. And now without the support of her cash cow,

Hannah was arrested for drug use. And during the investigation, she just kept saying that she was unconsciously stabbed by a needle. The police felt compelled to ask her, do you feel responsible that the people that did drugs with you, they jumped off buildings, like they took their own lives in one case and one of them is in the hospital right now? No.

It's even said by an insider close to the family that Hannah was incredibly calm when she found her husband had taken his life. She even read his suicide note very calmly. Either you knew this is going to happen or you're a heartless person. Or you did it. Exactly. Allegedly don't sue us. Now it's just, it's frustrating for a lot of people to see, Hannah, this girl that was born into wealth, power, influence, she could have anything in this world that she wanted. And instead of that, instead of living a good life, a good, not even like, oh, she needs

to, yeah, not even a good life in the sense of you need to be a good person and volunteer and do good with your money, but just like a fucking good life of partying on yachts and just being a normal rich nepotism baby. Like, that's all you needed to do. Nobody would have even been mad at you for doing that, because we were all done that if we were in your position. But instead of that, she destroyed it and she destroyed people around her along the way.

So Hannah, who was 34 at the time, she was sentenced to one year, eight months in prison and find a whopping $400 fine. That'll show the family. What? A lot of netizens had problems with this. They said she was caught injecting meth three times, violated her probation, but she only got a year and a few months. Why is it that these criminals always cut the tail when money is involved? Does this mean Puck you Chen was her victim too? She'll be out and doing drugs in no time. Someone said, so the sentence is the same whether or not you steal a piece of bread where

two dollars or commit three separate drug crimes while on probation. And to that, all you can really respond is, that's not true. It's only that way for Hannah. It would not be that way for the rest of us. Because we are not Tibars. And I don't really think that's a bad thing because they have not proven themselves to be great people yet. And that's the story of Huang Hannah and just the destruction of a life that she led so far. A year and a month, like that's nothing. Listen, people get more time for weed charges in the United States. And the thing is, I feel like she would be out in a year?

Probably less. And then back to the same routine. Yeah, that's crazy. That is crazy. Obviously, you don't want to be friends with her, but I would be even terrified to be in some degree near her. Like, even if a friend of a friend of a friend knew her, I'm like, mm-hmm, no, gotta go. I gotta cut myself off from all these friends.

Cause it seems like she just brings everyone down with her. If she's going down, she's bringing down the boat. Now, what are your thoughts on this case? Let me know, and I will see you guys on Wednesday for the main episode. Bye. Wednesday for the main episode. Bye!