Burning Sun: Exposing the secret K-pop chat groups - BBC World Service Documentaries

Warning: This film includes descriptions some viewers may find distressing. A #BBCEye investigation into three K-pop stars who were sharing evidence of sexual crimes in secret chat groups. UPDATE: The BBC has removed a short section of this film on 21/05/24 as it contained a factual inaccuracy: It wrongly attributed legal advice given to victim ‘Kyung-mi’ as from a lawyer from broadcaster KBS, when in reality it was advice from a different lawyer. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 In South Korea, K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But some led a double life, inhabiting a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, assaulted and humiliated were shared. This #BBCEye documentary tells the story of the female journalists who took on the task of investigating the secret chat groups of prominent K-pop stars - and paid a high personal price. ‘Molka’ is the Korean term for secretly taking explicit photos o