Freedom of speech is a human right. It also doesn’t mean freedom from critique. You’re allowed to express…
well i also find what hospital did was wrong and that case some just make it all okay if that rich guy publicly adopted a grown ass woman and make her rich girl and that boy a billionaires grand kid and then doesn't give a fish about them at all, public stunt
Did he cast him to be in the show? Why would he comment on it? Are you a retard? Well not everyone can have experience…
Lee was arrested immediately with the charge of prostitution with a minor aged 17 with the promise of starring the girl in a movie in 2002.[21] Out of three intercourses, only two were found to be for the purpose of prostitution.[22] Lee was found guilty and was ordered 160 hours of social service and 10 months of prison time with two years of probation.[
while I agree that its sad he is no longer around, in the end it was his choice to end his life, that is truth
I think you’re reading intent into my comment that isn’t there. There’s no contradiction in what I’m saying. I’ve explicitly said that what happened to him was wrong and that he deserves justice. Acknowledging that doesn’t require pretending he was 100% innocent or morally pure, and I never claimed empathy should be reduced. My point is simply that recognizing wrongdoing and recognizing disproportionate cruelty can coexist. Saying “he wasn’t completely innocent” isn’t the same as justifying harassment, media trial, or dehumanization. At the same time, rejecting that cruelty doesn’t require turning him into a flawless hero either. Law shouldn’t be used as a shield to excuse abuse, but empathy also shouldn’t be used to rewrite reality. If we can’t hold both ideas at once—that injustice was done and that he wasn’t a saint—then the discussion becomes polarized instead of honest.
Did he cast him to be in the show? Why would he comment on it? Are you a retard? Well not everyone can have experience…
I can’t believe people like you exist — people who spend their time and energy defending a convicted rapist by inventing excuses for him.
If Kim Eui-sung had no right or responsibility to comment on this, then he also has no right to talk about Lee Sun-kyun just to get attention. You don’t get to stay silent when it’s convenient and suddenly speak up when it benefits you.
This case isn’t gossip or opinion — the court convicted him. Trying to twist the story or attack the victim doesn’t change that.
Did he cast him to be in the show? Why would he comment on it? Are you a retard? Well not everyone can have experience…
None of what you wrote changes the only thing that matters here: a court of law convicted him of rape.
Not rumors. Not internet drama. Not “he said, she said.” A criminal court examined evidence, testimony, and due process and found him guilty.
Trying to derail that with “Were you there?”, “What about false accusations?”, or bringing up crimes in other countries is a classic deflection. It’s not an argument — it’s a way to avoid facing reality. You don’t need to witness a crime personally for a conviction to be valid. That’s why courts exist.
Age-of-consent gymnastics also don’t save him. If the law in that country says the victim was a minor or that consent was invalid, then it was rape under that legal system. Full stop. You don’t get to rewrite the law after the fact because you like the celebrity.
Dragging in Muslims, Japan, cartel videos, or Hollywood has nothing to do with this case. Other evils in the world don’t cancel out this one. Saying “bad things happen everywhere” doesn’t make a convicted rapist innocent.
And suggesting the victim “just wanted money” after a conviction is victim-blaming with zero evidence. Courts do not convict people on vibes or conspiracy theories — they convict on proof.
You can enjoy someone’s work. You can even be sad about their downfall. But once someone is convicted of rape, defending them by attacking victims and inventing global conspiracies is not skepticism — it’s denial.
This isn’t about “the world being scary.” It’s about one man who was found guilty of a serious crime.
ridiculous that those involved in production casted lee kyung young for a cameo in a drama where actors believe "social justice to be emblematic of it". such a slap in the face to the actors who truly believe in its cause, viewers who strongly support it, and it destroys everything the show is supposed to stand for. what a joke
do the really believe in social justice or just Money
So Kim Eui-sung says he feels “ashamed” about Lee Sun-kyun and the lack of social change — but somehow he feels no shame at all about working alongside Lee Kyung-young, a convicted rapist of minors?
That’s a pretty selective sense of morality.
He’s using Lee Sun-kyun’s death to talk about “social responsibility” while at the same time being completely comfortable sharing a production with someone who committed one of the worst crimes imaginable. If you can stand next to a proven child rapist on set and still lecture the public about justice, then your words mean nothing.
Talking about Taxi Driver punishing villains and symbolizing justice sounds nice in interviews, but real justice would mean refusing to normalize and rehabilitate people like Lee Kyung-young just because they’re powerful or useful in the industry.
So spare us the performative shame and the attention-seeking speeches about Lee Sun-kyun. You can’t claim the moral high ground while quietly protecting and benefiting from actual criminals. That’s not social justice — that’s hypocrisy dressed up as virtue.
while I agree that its sad he is no longer around, in the end it was his choice to end his life, that is truth
People here keep calling Lee Sun-kyun’s affair a “private matter,” but they’re conveniently ignoring a very basic fact: it wasn’t just an affair — it was with an escort, and prostitution is illegal in South Korea. You don’t get to wave that away as “just his private life” when it’s literally a criminal offense under Korean law.
So how exactly are people so confidently declaring him “innocent”? Innocent of what? Being framed for drugs? Sure. But innocent in every sense? No — the case involved an illegal transaction, and pretending otherwise just because he was famous or sympathetic is rewriting reality.
That doesn’t mean he deserved to be publicly destroyed, harassed, or driven to death by police and media. Those things were absolutely wrong. But turning prostitution into a harmless “private affair” just to protect a celebrity is another form of hypocrisy.
If people want to talk about justice and the law, then be consistent. You can condemn the system’s abuse without pretending no laws were broken just because you like the person involved.
So Kim Eui-sung says he feels “ashamed” about Lee Sun-kyun and the lack of social change — but somehow he feels no shame at all about working alongside Lee Kyung-young, a convicted rapist of minors?
That’s a pretty selective sense of morality.
He’s using Lee Sun-kyun’s death to talk about “social responsibility” while at the same time being completely comfortable sharing a production with someone who committed one of the worst crimes imaginable. If you can stand next to a proven child rapist on set and still lecture the public about justice, then your words mean nothing.
Talking about Taxi Driver punishing villains and symbolizing justice sounds nice in interviews, but real justice would mean refusing to normalize and rehabilitate people like Lee Kyung-young just because they’re powerful or useful in the industry.
So spare us the performative shame and the attention-seeking speeches about Lee Sun-kyun. You can’t claim the moral high ground while quietly protecting and benefiting from actual criminals. That’s not social justice — that’s hypocrisy dressed up as virtue.
I see so many people here talking about “empathy” and how he didn’t deserve that treatment — and yet in the same breath they say “it was his own choice to commit suicide.” Pick one. Either you believe in empathy or you reduce everything to “personal choice” and absolve society, the media, and law enforcement of any responsibility.
What really annoys me is how this so-called empathy only appears when the victim is rich or famous. Poor and unknown people are harassed, framed, driven into despair by police and the system all the time — they die too — but nobody writes essays for them, nobody trends hashtags, nobody cries about their mental health. That hypocrisy is disgusting.
And let’s not pretend the industry actually cares about justice. The same production that wants to talk about “social justice” had the nerve to cast Lee Kyung-young — a convicted rapist of minors — for a cameo. That alone destroys any moral credibility the show claims to have. It’s a slap in the face to the actors who believe in the message and to viewers who support it.
So yes, people can mourn Lee. But don’t turn this into some fake moral crusade while protecting real predators and ignoring the countless non-famous victims crushed by the same system. That’s not empathy — that’s selective outrage.
and then doesn't give a fish about them at all, public stunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Geung-young
My point is simply that recognizing wrongdoing and recognizing disproportionate cruelty can coexist. Saying “he wasn’t completely innocent” isn’t the same as justifying harassment, media trial, or dehumanization. At the same time, rejecting that cruelty doesn’t require turning him into a flawless hero either. Law shouldn’t be used as a shield to excuse abuse, but empathy also shouldn’t be used to rewrite reality.
If we can’t hold both ideas at once—that injustice was done and that he wasn’t a saint—then the discussion becomes polarized instead of honest.
If Kim Eui-sung had no right or responsibility to comment on this, then he also has no right to talk about Lee Sun-kyun just to get attention. You don’t get to stay silent when it’s convenient and suddenly speak up when it benefits you.
This case isn’t gossip or opinion — the court convicted him. Trying to twist the story or attack the victim doesn’t change that.
a court of law convicted him of rape.
Not rumors. Not internet drama. Not “he said, she said.”
A criminal court examined evidence, testimony, and due process and found him guilty.
Trying to derail that with “Were you there?”, “What about false accusations?”, or bringing up crimes in other countries is a classic deflection. It’s not an argument — it’s a way to avoid facing reality. You don’t need to witness a crime personally for a conviction to be valid. That’s why courts exist.
Age-of-consent gymnastics also don’t save him.
If the law in that country says the victim was a minor or that consent was invalid, then it was rape under that legal system. Full stop. You don’t get to rewrite the law after the fact because you like the celebrity.
Dragging in Muslims, Japan, cartel videos, or Hollywood has nothing to do with this case. Other evils in the world don’t cancel out this one. Saying “bad things happen everywhere” doesn’t make a convicted rapist innocent.
And suggesting the victim “just wanted money” after a conviction is victim-blaming with zero evidence. Courts do not convict people on vibes or conspiracy theories — they convict on proof.
You can enjoy someone’s work. You can even be sad about their downfall.
But once someone is convicted of rape, defending them by attacking victims and inventing global conspiracies is not skepticism — it’s denial.
This isn’t about “the world being scary.”
It’s about one man who was found guilty of a serious crime.
That’s a pretty selective sense of morality.
He’s using Lee Sun-kyun’s death to talk about “social responsibility” while at the same time being completely comfortable sharing a production with someone who committed one of the worst crimes imaginable. If you can stand next to a proven child rapist on set and still lecture the public about justice, then your words mean nothing.
Talking about Taxi Driver punishing villains and symbolizing justice sounds nice in interviews, but real justice would mean refusing to normalize and rehabilitate people like Lee Kyung-young just because they’re powerful or useful in the industry.
So spare us the performative shame and the attention-seeking speeches about Lee Sun-kyun. You can’t claim the moral high ground while quietly protecting and benefiting from actual criminals. That’s not social justice — that’s hypocrisy dressed up as virtue.
So how exactly are people so confidently declaring him “innocent”? Innocent of what? Being framed for drugs? Sure. But innocent in every sense? No — the case involved an illegal transaction, and pretending otherwise just because he was famous or sympathetic is rewriting reality.
That doesn’t mean he deserved to be publicly destroyed, harassed, or driven to death by police and media. Those things were absolutely wrong. But turning prostitution into a harmless “private affair” just to protect a celebrity is another form of hypocrisy.
If people want to talk about justice and the law, then be consistent. You can condemn the system’s abuse without pretending no laws were broken just because you like the person involved.
That’s a pretty selective sense of morality.
He’s using Lee Sun-kyun’s death to talk about “social responsibility” while at the same time being completely comfortable sharing a production with someone who committed one of the worst crimes imaginable. If you can stand next to a proven child rapist on set and still lecture the public about justice, then your words mean nothing.
Talking about Taxi Driver punishing villains and symbolizing justice sounds nice in interviews, but real justice would mean refusing to normalize and rehabilitate people like Lee Kyung-young just because they’re powerful or useful in the industry.
So spare us the performative shame and the attention-seeking speeches about Lee Sun-kyun. You can’t claim the moral high ground while quietly protecting and benefiting from actual criminals. That’s not social justice — that’s hypocrisy dressed up as virtue.
What really annoys me is how this so-called empathy only appears when the victim is rich or famous. Poor and unknown people are harassed, framed, driven into despair by police and the system all the time — they die too — but nobody writes essays for them, nobody trends hashtags, nobody cries about their mental health. That hypocrisy is disgusting.
And let’s not pretend the industry actually cares about justice. The same production that wants to talk about “social justice” had the nerve to cast Lee Kyung-young — a convicted rapist of minors — for a cameo. That alone destroys any moral credibility the show claims to have. It’s a slap in the face to the actors who believe in the message and to viewers who support it.
So yes, people can mourn Lee. But don’t turn this into some fake moral crusade while protecting real predators and ignoring the countless non-famous victims crushed by the same system. That’s not empathy — that’s selective outrage.