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K-Pop Star & Former NCT Member Taeil Sentenced to More Than 3 Years After Pleading Guilty to Rape

NCT's former member Taeil has been sentenced after pleading guilty to raping a Chinese tourist alongside two other men.

Taeil — a K-pop star who found fame as part of SM Entertainment boy band NCT — will spend three and a half years behind bars after pleading guilty to a rape charge. The crime took place last year, with the musician and his cohorts sexually assaulting a heavily intoxicated woman they’d met at a bar in Seoul earlier that night after taking her to one of the defendants’ homes via taxi. The offense — which South Korean law deems “special quasi-rape,” a term reserved for specific cases such as when two or more perpetrators are involved in assaulting an unconscious victim, per the NYT — has a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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