Article: "Yang Hyun Suk sent concert tickets to whistleblower A"... "Madam Jung" comes up again
Source: SBS
New claims about former YG CEO Yang Hyun Suk's relationship with informant A has been revealed.
On the 30th, Yang Hyun Suk who's currently on trial for alleged cover up of iKON B.I's drug purchase attended court and his personal relationship with informant A (Han Seo-hee) was revealed at 5th trial.
When A's interrogation behind a barrier set up at her request, Yang Hyun Suk's lawyer stressed that the two met about 10 times at a so-called "Ten Pro" bar ran by Madame Jung, who's commonly known as "Jung Madame." When asked whether she knew her, A said "yes."
Yang's lawyer then revealed text messages after she claimed to "have been afraid of Yang Hyun Suk." The goal was the refute A's claims that she was "scared" of Yang Hyun Suk.
Former CEO Yang met A for the first time as a guest and a receptionist at TenPro [high-end escort bar] and Yang Hyun Suk also revealed that he actively did her favors by sending concert tickets to A's house. A called former CEO Yang "oppa" and the two were also seen talking "banmal" [informal speech].
However, when YG employee Kim took A to Yang 's office after B.I's name came out during police investigations over drugs in August 2016, A stated, "I wasn't an artist but I was scared at the time."
She continued, "I took out my cell phone and said I needed to call my mom and told him I was going to the bathroom. Employee Kim was even guarding in front of the bathroom when I went in. I was sitting at the urinal and he called out asking "you're not taking pictures, are you?" Hurry up and come out? I couldn't call someone in that situation."
Nevertheless, Yang's side questioned A during cross examination after it was revealed by prosecution that she called Yang Hyun Suk, an "old man." A replied, "Can I be honest? Yang Hyun Suk was stingy so I thought to myself why should be afraid of such a bitter old man? I should have recorded it, I don't why I was afraid."
Yang Hyun Suk's lawyer also tried to question the credibility of A's statement since she mistook the date when she came to YG Entertainment based on forensic data on A's cell phone and the fact that she doesn't remember "well" before and after her visit to his office.
A responded somewhat emotionally and stated, "Now that I think about it, it may be so." Her sloppy manner of answering caused laughter two or three times from the audience where Yang Hyun Suk, legal team and employees were sitting.
The court told A, "It has been so long that witnesses can't remember anything. However, answer only what you remember, not what you think of the question. Or just say 'I don't know.' Otherwise, the credibility of your statements can arise."
A responded and stated, "I'm sorry that I was emotional."
- Uh..?
- TenPro?
- Eh, I thought Han Seo-hee was rich? TenPro??
- Oh my..
- Yang Hyun Suk oppa?? This is shocking.. so why did she file that informant report?
- So how did she meet TOP?
- Wait.. so while she temp'd at TenPro, she became friends with Yang Hyun Suk and also with TOP right?
- I'm seriously in shock.
- Hul, she was a Ten Pro employee and Yang Hyun Suk was her guest??
- No.. Yang Hyun Suk is... why is he not in jail...?
- Wow YG is sh**. This is dirtier than I imagined. So he met women from places like that and took them in? And yet his maids kept shielding this agency and put on blindfolds saying she was a gold spoon and keep shielding the agency more and more..
- Wow, just realized just how dirty of a place YG really is.
- Daebak! Yang Hyun Suk is the epitome of a real yangachi [thug]
- Well, Yang Hyun Suk himself grabbed someone younger than him from his own agency and married her so it's not shocking he went to TenPro..
- It's even more shocking that a yangban like him with a wife and kids at home who's family has been revealed in the public is going to places like TenPro
- Ah, YG is truly jjang!
- Exactly why we need to boycott this thug agency.
- Eh, it's more shocking that Yang Hyun Suk met her 10 times at Ten Pro bar? This is the first time this came out?
- Madame Jung came out as part of the sexual favors case with Jho Low through introductions with Psy. It has nothing to do with Burning sun? Looks like Han Seo-hee knows a lot of celebrities and became close so I think this might be a case of her double dipping as a TenPro staff while being a trainee?
- No.. didn't it come out that she dated TOP? So she was a TenPro staff and hosted Yang Hyun Suk at the time and then fell in love with TOP?