Katalks and CCTV from Kang Ji-hwan's home the night of alleged sexual assault has been leaked.
According to an exclusive report by Sports Chosun, they were able to secure CCTV footage from Kang Ji Hwan's home and victims katalks at the time of the alleged sexual assault incident.
▶ Kang Ji-hwan "blacked out" in CCTV, victims stayed at his home
CCTV footage of that day on July 9th last year showed the victims A and B and Kang Ji-hwan sitting at a table enjoying a drinking party until late afternoon. Prior to this, Kang Ji-hwan and A swam at an indoor swimming pool inside his home. Later, Kang Ji-hwan "blacked out" due to excessive drinking and the two victims helped move him to his room.
The victims showered while Kang Ji-hwan was asleep and could be seen wearing only wearing their underwear looking around the house. Kang Ji-hwan had prepared special deposits to thank the victims for leaving the agency and CCTV footage showed them opening the envelopes to check the amount.
However, there was no CCTV installed in Kang Ji-hwan's bedroom where the incident occurred.
▶ Victim B's Katalks: "X's home is f*cking amazing!.."
Sports Chosun was able to obtain one the victim's katalks at the time of the incident. In the katalks, B is seen jokingly having a conversation with an acquaintance the morning after the incident. In particular, B is seen explaining the situation to the acquaintance stating, "I'm at Kang Ji Hwan's house, "It's three floors with a roof top pool and an oncheon (hot spring)", "The house is f*cking amazing...!"
In particular, B was seen on a phone call at 8:30 pm and 9:09 pm with the same acquaintance the night before saying things like, "if this is real, it'll be an article...its ○○ㅋㅋㅋ"
But yet in the police report filed by B, she alleged she was "locked up" at Kang Ji-hwan's house after he has sexually assaulted her and asked the police to "save her."
▶ Kang Ji-hwan's DNA not found on the victim vs. the victim "Kang Ji-hwan wasn't drunk."
Kang Ji-hwan's lawyer Shim Jae-woon spoke to Sports Chosun and stated, "There was no semen or DNA of Kang Ji-hwan's found on A. As for B, they found some of his DNA on her period pad on her underwear. We think that DNA was transferred in the process of her wearing Kang Ji-hwan's clothes and using his things after taking a shower. If the actual sexual assault happened, his DNA would've been found on her underwear as well and Kang Ji-hwan's hands. But none was found. Kang Ji-hwan who usually doesn't drink much drank 7 bottles of soju and even champagne that day."
"Regarding the rumor that victim B's phone was out of service at Kang's home, we were able to confirm that her cell service and katalk service strength was just fine. The victims' statements were inconsistent and continued to change after it was revealed that no DNA was found. We always argued in the first trial about the inconsistencies of the main witness B's statements but for some reason the court rejected it without any grounds."
Public defender Park Ji-hoon told Sports Chosun, "We judged that Kang Ji-hwan was not drunk at the time only from the katalks because we weren't able to check the CCTVs."
In the meantime, Kang Ji-hwan was arrested by police on July 9th after two outsourced staff who helped him film at his home in Gyeonggi-do alleged he sexually assaulted them at his home. In the first trial in Dec 5th last year, Kang Ji-hwan was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years in prison suspended for 3 years probation. The same was true of the second trial.
However, new circumstances have been discovered one after another and the third trial is likely to proceed in a completely different direction.
- [+2,200, -30] Aigoo ~ Kang Ji Hwan-ssi find strength. I'm rooting for you.
- [+1,387, -25] So if a woman can make such claims without proof the guy just has to take the loss and suffer humiliation like this? She needs to get hit with a strong penalty for defamation
- [+1,158, -5] Isn't it weird that she went to a stranger's house, took a shower and walk around his living room naked wearing underwear?
- [+839, -15] Hul~ she's a kkotbaem...no? And why is his DNA not on her underwear but only her period pad? She didn't rub that on;;;;;;;;;omo--;;;;;;; she even claimed she was locked up at his house? how ridiculous is that? Her story sounds fishy. I really believed her as a woman but this is just...hul and they came to an agreement? Doesn't that mean this was a cash grab?
- [+419, -4] Just look at their katalks alone... I was assaulted when I was a young girl and got a trauma...there's no way she would've had the spirit to chat it up with an acquaintance like that...no way. And who walks around a stranger's house naked wearing underwear. They probably knew Kang Ji-hwan was a weak drunk so they got him to drink until he passed out and followed him to his house. They probably realized how nice of a place he had and came up with that comedy of a story to get some money.
- [+379, -2] Kang Ji-hwan kept saying that he couldn't remember because he drank too much, but everyone thought it was just an excuse. But he really didn't remember so he apologized for making a mistake like that. Aigoo I feel bad for Kang Ji-hwan...his image hit rock bottom after being wronged like this. This is why celebrities are so pitiful.
- [+351, -2] Wow..this is the best plot twist since Sixth Sense. So the women asked to be rescued from his home because they were "locked up" there after being assaulted only to find out they took a shower at their rapist's house and even walked around naked in their underwear ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
What are your thoughts on the new evidence?