Bigbang member Lee Shengli
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On May 26, 2022, after three years of investigation and evidence collection, South Korea's Victory Gate finally announced the final trial.
After being convicted of nine counts of sexual assault, D-smoking, gambling, money laundering, prostitution, prostitution, and mafia-related crimes, Li Shengli was sentenced to one year and six months in prison, and is expected to be released in February 2023.
Compared with other celebrities involved in the case, Zheng Junying, who was suspected of sexual assault and secretly filming and disseminating indecent videos, was sentenced to five years, and Cui Zhongxun was sentenced to two years and six months.
Li Shengli, who committed multiple crimes, was only sentenced to one and a half years?!
In fact, as early as May 2019, when the case was first interrogated, Li Shengli expected that he would definitely be able to "retreat from the whole body" and could not help but show a smile.
When Li Shengli went to the investigation site, he even had the leisure to go to the artist's special makeup studio to make up.
On the way to investigate, I also constantly make up my makeup and dress myself up brightly...
Three years later, as soon as the final verdict of the case was announced, it quickly caused an uproar in China, Japan and South Korea!
South Korean netizens were shocked and found out what Li Shengli had abused South Korean law in the past.
Use this sentence to satirize South Korean law and question the chaebol forces behind Lee Shengli.
Chinese netizens also questioned the final verdict, and all nine counts were convicted.
As a result, the price to be paid for each crime was only two months.
Li Shengli said that he would continue to appeal in an attempt to "perfectly" exonerate himself.
As a star, why can Lee Shengli override South Korean law, and how did he go from being a top Korean idol to becoming the first pimp in Asia? The root cause of all these sins begins with the sudden bankruptcy of his family during his elementary school years...
01 The second generation of the rich fell into a poor boy, and his view of money began to distort
In the late winter of 1990, Li Shengli was born into a wealthy family.
His father was a professional golfer, and his mother was at home devoted to her husband and children.
Because of his father's profession, Li Shengli has lived the life of the second generation of the rich since he was born.
Whatever he wanted, his parents were blindly satisfied, so when he was a child, he had no specific concept of money.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, Li Shengli was 11 years old, his father, who had quit the team, failed in business.
Immediately afterward, all of my father's savings were swept away by his business partners.
At this time, the family situation, which had been severely damaged, was even worse and became destitute.
Without money, the luxurious life of the past is completely gone.
Li Shengli, who is in the sixth grade of primary school, has also changed from the rich second generation who wanted to wind and rain to the rain, to a depressed boy with a poor family.
Li Shengli's mother, who used to be Mrs. Kuo, had to put down her dignity and run to the baseball stadium to sell water and drinks to make ends meet.
When he had money in the past, Li Shengli never put money in his eyes.
Now that there is no money, the quality of life has plummeted, even the most basic food and clothing are difficult to satisfy, Li Shengli truly feels the importance of money!
After personally experiencing the huge sense of falling from heaven to hell, young Li Shengli had only one thought in his heart.
"I must get ahead!" I want to be a big man! ”
The year after his family plummeted, Li Shengli entered junior high school, and while watching the celebration at the school, he was exposed to dance troupe performances.
The young Li Shengli became extremely interested in dance, and he found the address of the dance company the next day and asked to join.
Relying on hard work and the care of the god of destiny, Li Shengli made rapid progress in dance, and also won the championship in a large dance competition!
As he grew older, Lee Shengli had transformed himself into a well-known figure in his hometown of Gwangju.
Relying on dance performances, Li Shengli, as a junior high school student, earned a lot of performance fees.
In the eyes of outsiders, Li Shengli has such a mind and perseverance at a young age, and he will definitely be famous in the local area in the future.
But Li Shengli's goal is not only to stop here!
02 He vowed not to give up until he reached his goal, and he experienced twists and turns before his debut
In 2005, at the age of 15, Lee Shengli left his hometown of Gwangju and came to Seoul alone to work!
His goal is clear: to become a star! Stars make more money than dancers!
After a failed draft, Lee Shengli was not discouraged and continued to look for opportunities in Seoul.
Eventually, he was fortunate enough to become a trainee under the entertainment company YG.
After entering YG, Li Shengli was one step closer to his goal, but at the same time, he was once again hit by the harsh reality.
In his hometown of Gwangju, Lee Shengli can be regarded as one of the best dancers.
But at the talent-rich Seoul YG Company, his proud dance prowess is not ranked among the trainees.
And in the company at that time, all the trainees were local children in Seoul, and only Li Shengli came from out of town.
His origin and accent were often ridiculed by the capital trainees.
In those days of exclusion, Li Shengli was even more determined, even if he was kicked out of the group before the group, he still gritted his teeth and insisted, vowing to get ahead and prove it to those who looked down on him!
As the only person who was kicked out of the group before his debut.
Li Shengli was not discouraged, and it was clear that the company had issued an order for him to leave.
Li Shengli did not compromise, but took the initiative to find the company's top management and begged the other party to give him a chance.
At the time of this examination, Li Shengli, who was only 17 years old, relied on his own lip service to "sell" himself well.
Li Shengli's words made the high-level people look at him with astonishment, and finally chose to keep him!
Lee Shengli's efforts were not in vain, after the debut of the group BIG BANG, relying on the popularity of the group, Lee Shengli soon became a top idol in South Korea!
Later, as the Hallyu swept through Asia, Li Shengli became a popular K-pop superstar throughout Asia!
However, Li Shengli is not satisfied with the status quo.
For him, superstars are nothing more than a springboard to become big people, and he has greater ambitions.
03 Staring at the dragon for too long will become a dragon itself
Li Shengli knew from the beginning that as a superstar, even if he was popular, he would still be controlled by capital.
Only by becoming capital can we have a stronger and more stable force!
Therefore, when he was still carrying out star activities, Li Shengli had already begun to prepare for his future.
Surprisingly, from the beginning, the ambitious Lee Shengli's vision was not limited to South Korea.
In his spare time, he takes time to study Chinese, English, and Japanese.
After waiting for the four Chinese to use his words fluently, whenever he followed the group to a certain country to do activities.
Li Shengli will rely on his star aura and that mouth that can speak eloquently and cleverly, make friends with high-level celebrities everywhere, and accumulate contacts to pave the way for himself.
Captain Quan Zhilong once revealed on the show that Li Shengli's connections are staggering.
He has more than 4,400 numbers on his phone, 3,200 of which are foreigners.
When Li Shengli's connections accumulated to a certain extent, he began to develop his own side business.
From the catering industry to the nightclub, relying on the help of people from all walks of life, Li Shengli's business empire has become bigger and stronger from the beginning!
Lee's ramen shop quickly expanded in South Korea, opening 44 branches, and then in China, Japan, Malaysia and other places.
His nightclub business is even more brilliant, with 10 large nightclubs in South Korea alone and many branches in China.
Since 2017, Li Shengli has lost sight of his star career, and he has begun to concentrate on running the nightclub business.
At the same time, Li Shengli also began to send out negative news many times, which had a great impact on his star status.
But Li Shengli does not care at all at this time, and he is more concerned about whether he can gain a firm foothold in the capital circle than the identity of a star.
While relying on nightclubs to receive various political and business tycoons, he indulges in dogs and horses in nightclubs every day.
In 2018, at its peak, Li Shengli's business territory expanded rapidly.
Even ready to enter Europe and the United States, opening a large Asian entertainment city in the famous Las Vegas!
However, fate is destined, Li Shengli's entertainment city can not be opened!
04 The sins of money piled up bear fruitful consequences
In 2018, just when Li Shengli was full of ambitions and preparing for the commercial map of Las Vegas.
In the cold late night of November of that year, when Jin was playing in Li Shengli's nightclub, he saw a delirious woman forcibly taken away by a man.
The woman is suspected of being drugged and has lost most of her consciousness. But in the process of being forced to drag away, she relied on what little sanity she had left to resist death and constantly tried to save herself.
When passing by Jin, the woman grabbed Jin's clothes desperately like a life-saving straw.
Seeing this, Jin wanted to lend a helping hand and try to help the woman.
And when his eyes just looked at the man, the man directly punched him.
Jin was immediately confused by this punch, and before he could react, a group of people suddenly surged around him, dragging him from the nightclub to the road outside the door.
Immediately afterward, the group brutally beat him, deliberately punching and kicking him in the head and chest, hitting him on the spot and breaking 3 ribs.
Many of the group are nightclub security personnel, and the rest are nightclub top management.
After the incident, Jin called the police helplessly.
Who expected, after the South Korean police arrived at the scene, the police, who had long been bought by the nightclub, indiscriminately arrested the victim Kim Mou, saying that he was the criminal suspect who provoked the trouble!
When Jin mou came out of the police station, in the face of this senseless disaster and the deliberate inaction of the police afterwards, he deeply felt the injustice of the world.
In order to seek justice, he exposed the incident online.
Unexpectedly, a stone stirred up thousands of waves, and after Jin posted, there were successive netizens private messages to Jin, exposing many ugly criminal deeds of Li Shengli nightclub.
Because of Li Shengli's influence, the incident quickly attracted the attention of the news media.
On January 28, South Korean television broadcast surveillance video of Kim's beating.
After seeing more intuitive visual evidence, the dissatisfaction of the South Korean people with the nightclub and the police soared to the extreme!
On January 31, more than 240,000 South Koreans jointly petitioned for a thorough investigation of the incident.
Then, in February, the media exposed Li Shengli's chat records with others, and the content was really ruined!
Li Shengli not only recruited prostitutes and prostitutes himself, but also provided sexual services for various high-ranking officials and chaebols to win people's hearts.
05 Relying on his huge network of relationships and banknote ability, he successfully "escaped"
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the evil that happened in Li Shengli's nightclub.
In Li Shengli's nightclub, not only the long-term circulation of D products, but also full of illegal transactions, sexual hospitality, sexual assault, violence, collusion with the police, tax evasion, money laundering and other illegal acts.
With the exposure of the media, the incident caused a storm of public opinion in South Korea, and the South Korean government announced that it would thoroughly investigate the matter.
However, journalists who first came forward to expose the crime continued to face death threats a month after the incident was exposed.
In the early days of the incident, Li Shengli also made various excuses to try to shout unjust exoneration.
After the police announced the investigation, Li Shengli's nightclub involved in the case was still working urgently late at night, preparing to demolish the entire building to eliminate the evidence.
Fortunately, the reporter who followed the report found that the timely alarm was stopped.
As the investigation of the case progressed, the investigation team had more and more evidence of incriminating evidence, and also found evidence of Li Shengli's bribery and collusion with the local police!
Li Shengli, who originally thought that he could retire with his whole body, chose to join the army on the eve of the trial of the case in order to avoid the punishment of imprisonment after receiving the wind.
The next day, the reporter who first broke the news posted an online plea for help, suggesting that his life was threatened.
On March 8, countless netizens petitioned to prevent Li Shengli from enlisting in the military.
However, despite the opposition of so many South Koreans, Lee Seung-sung was successful in enlisting!
Later, as the investigation progressed, in Li Shengli's criminal network, a number of male stars were also involved.
After investigation and evidence collection, Zheng Junying, who was suspected of multiple sexual assaults and secretly filming, was sentenced to five years.
Choi Jong-hoon, who had bought the police to eliminate evidence of his drunk driving crime and was also suspected of sexual assault, was sentenced to two and a half years.
In August 2021, Li Shengli was sentenced to three years in prison.
However, having been sentenced to such a light sentence, Li Shengli was still not satisfied and appealed again.
06 From Lee Shengli personally, it is enough to see the chaos in South Korea
Finally, on May 26, 2022, after the final trial, Li Shengli was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison...
For this result, netizens in China and South Korea were stunned, lamenting that the chaebol force behind Li Shengli was too powerful!
Li Shengli did not hesitate to break the law in his early years, but also had to weave a network of relationships, and finally played a key role at the last moment!
Li Shengli's "victory", as netizens said.
There are so many grasshoppers on a rope that someone will pull him ashore for the sake of Mingzhe's protection!
The existence of the Lee Shengli incident not only exposed the chaos of the Korean entertainment industry, but also truly reflected the chaos of Korean society.
The whole country is almost entirely controlled by the plutocrats, and politicians are mostly puppets of the chaebols.
In such a distorted environment, it is not surprising that a horse boy like Li Shengli, who bows his knees to curry favor with the chaebols, and who violates the law and discipline for the benefit of the stars, is not surprising.
Throughout The life course of Li Shengli, from the second generation of the rich to the down-and-out boy, he has gradually ascended to the top throne of the Korean entertainment industry.
After successfully breaking into the capital circle of the chaebol, Li Shengli climbed up every step, for the sake of profit, almost stepping on his own blood and tears and others.
He did not fall for money after entering the entertainment industry and watching more scenes of dogs and horses.
As early as the fifth grade of primary school, when he experienced family upheavals, the extreme desire for money made the young man distort the three views, and since then, the seed of sin has been deeply buried in his heart...
Resources:
1. "South Korea's "victory event" continues to ferment, implicating the entire entertainment circle" Global Network
2. "Victory Gate" protagonist sentenced to three years and did not show any remorse" Observer Network