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Fallen K-pop star Park Yoo-chun ordered to pay woman in sex assault case
- Park, popularly known as Micky, has been told to pay the woman more than US$80,000
- She is one of four women to have made sexual assault claims against the troubled star
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Fallen South Korean K-pop star Park Yoo-chun has been ordered by a court in Seoul to compensate a woman who claimed the former boy band member sexually assaulted her.
The Mediation Centre of Seoul court recommended that Park, popularly known as Micky, pay 100 million won (US$84,300) to the victim.
The victim is among four women who reported Park for alleged sexual assault in 2016.
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The order, which was first delivered after a mandatory mediation last month, came into effect after a two-week grace period and carries the same weight as a court ruling.
This is not the first of Park’s legal troubles. Earlier this year, through a separate investigation in connection with South Korea’s explosive Burning Sun sex scandal – which involved big names in K-pop including Big Bang singer-songwriter Seungri, former CEO of YG Entertainment Yang Hyun-suk, singers Jung Joon-young, Roy Kim, Choi Jong-hoon and several others – Park and his former fiancée Namyang Dairy Products heiress Hwang Ha-na, were arrested for illegal drug use after testing positive for methamphetamine.
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