music: vvip by seungri ladies and gentlemen... ..introducing. .. in south korea, k—pop stars have fame, fortune, and millions of female fans. music echoes but some led a double life. a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, raped, and humiliated were shared. rock and roll! cheering their crimes would never have been revealed, had secret messages between them not been leaked.

this is the story of those who tried to bring them to justice.

kang begins to see a pattern of abuse. - she finds messages from two months later that directly incriminate two of the k—pop stars in sexual crimes. the woman had been gang—raped byjung and choi, with other friends and members of the chat group present.

the friends�* ambitions continue unchecked. seungri does a lucrative deal to become the face of tinder in south korea. and he plans his boldest business venture yet — to launch the biggest club in gangnam. but as director, he will need investment. # happy birthday to you! in december 2017, he hires an island in the philippines

for his birthday party. all right, guys, let's go back and let's work, yet? # burning, burning... the club was located in le meridien hotel in gangnam. now derelict.

when it opened, burning sun was the most prestigious nightclub in south korea. former employees spoke to us on the condition we concealed their identities. they were mds, short for merchandises, who would make sure there were girls in the club to cater to vip guests.

electronic music plays ko eunsang is a reporter

who was one of the first to investigate burning sun.

mds use kakaotalk to communicate throughout the club.

a young woman who was a regular guest at burning sun agreed to speak to us about her experiences. we are protecting her identity.

she found herself in a hotel room with a man who had given her drinks at burning sun.

she goes to the police to report rape. the man claims they had

consensual sex, using the photo as evidence. he was allowed to leave korea. injanuary 2019, seungri's empire is dealt a public blow. a customer at burning sun makes allegations he'd been beaten up by club staff and that

police had stood by. cctv from outside the club shows him being beaten in the street. cctv footage emerges of a woman being dragged from the club by staff. then, a shocking case of molka surfaces, filmed inside burning sun and known as the red bathroom video. it goes viral on porn sites.

under pressure from the police and the media, the management of burning sun are forced into a decision. seungri pauses a solo concert to make a statement to his fans.

kang knows the phone data from the informant, which incriminates seungri and his friends, could now become a huge story.

kang then talks to her employers, sbs, a leading korean broadcaster. they agree she'll begin by publishing a story on seungri, citing evidence from an unnamed celebrity's phone and showing he procured prostitutes for investors in clubs. it immediately becomes major news. within hours, seungri arrives at a police station for voluntary questioning.

he is interrogated for almost nine hours. within 48 hours, migratory publishes her two biggest stories which make headline news. —— within 48 hours, kang publishes her two biggest stories which make headline news.

commotion.

hello there. we had a very wet start to the day on saturday with low pressure in charge, extensive and pretty heavy outbreaks of rain. the afternoon got a bit better. sunny spells came through but we also had quite widespread showers, like this shower cloud working across the horizon in the scottish borders. now, the wettest place in the whole of the uk was rothamsted, in hertfordshire, near luton and here, we had 37mm of rain.

that compares with the monthly average of 52 so, in other words, we had, well, nearly three—quarters of a month's worth of rain in just the space of 24 hours. now, showers have continued to affect eastern areas of scotland, northeast england into the first part of the night but over the next few hours, many of the showers will tend to fade away but i think we'll see another clump working into wales and southwest england as we head into the first part of sunday. now, sunday is overall the better of the two days of the weekend. many of us will start off with some sunshine first thing in the morning but we'll have those showers from the word go across wales and western england and through the day, those showers push eastwards. it is always across england and wales that the heaviest downpours are likely to be with some hail and thunder mixed in, and, to a degree, northern ireland seeing heavy downpours, too. in scotland, there will still be showers but they perhaps won't be quite as heavy as the ones we've seen over the last 24 hours. now, monday's forecast. it's another pretty unsettled day. again, starting off on a promising note.

many areas will start the day dry and sunny but showers will develop across northern areas of the uk and it looks like we'll see another area of rain start to work into the southwest, so that could affect southwest england and parts of southern wales as well. the area of rain is associated with this next area of low pressure, which pushes its way northwards across the country very slowly through tuesday and wednesday, so tuesday looks like probably the wettest day of the week ahead. extensive and heavy outbreaks of rain in england and wales. some wet weather for northern ireland. eventually, the rain reaches northwards into scotland and again, as the rain eases off, it willjust be followed by heavy showers and thunderstorms. top temperatures high teens to low 20s, much as the temperatures have been over recent days. that is below average for this time of the year. and beyond that, it does stay pretty unsettled. might see something a little bit less soggy as we head towards the following weekend. bye for now.

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