Former BigBang member Seungri’s Instagram account was eliminated by the platform on Monday (May 30), days after the South Korean Supreme Court rejected the 32-year-old singer’s attraction for a lighter sentence over his involvement within the Burning Sun scandal.
The courtroom upheld the 18-month jail sentence of the former Okay-pop idol, whose actual title is Lee Seung-hyun, on May 27.
The notorious Burning Sun scandal, which concerned sex, medication and police safety at a nightclub of the identical title, shook the leisure business when it was uncovered in 2019.
According to Instagram’s Help Centre, convicted sex offenders should not allowed on the social media platform.
Seungri’s account, @seungriseyo, which had 8 million followers, is now not out there.
Other South Korean stars such as actor Ko Young-wook, singer Jung Joon-young and former FT Island member Choi Jong-hoon have been beforehand faraway from Instagram for related causes.
Seungri left the influential boy band in 2019 within the wake of the scandal and was not a part of their long-awaited comeback in April involving the opposite 4 unique members – G-Dragon, T.O.P, Taeyang and Daesung.
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported that Seungri is at the moment being held at a Military Correctional Institution and will probably be transferred to a correctional facility for the remainder of his sentence.
His jail time period is predicted to finish in February 2023. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
