#372: K-pop Idol Goo Hara Helped Expose the BURNING SUN Sex Scandal In Her Final Days

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

A young man calls the police around 3:30 am to report that he had just been physically assaulted by his ex-girlfriend. Officers are dispatched and the caller greets them with a few red scratches on his face. He had gone over to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment to break up with her—but that’s when she went crazy; scratching his face and twisting his arm. The officers ask the man for her name. Goo Hara. A K-pop idol from the girl group KARA. When the police begin investigating, the man’s story begins to fall apart. If what he’s saying is true, why is there CCTV footage of Goo Hara on her knees—seemingly begging the young man? Why did he email Dispatch, a Korean tabloid, twice during this so-called ‘one sided assault?’ And what does all of this have to do with Burning Sun? A couple of months pass, and Goo Hara helps reporters blow the lid off the Burning Sun case. Not even a year later, she is found dead. This is part two of Burning Sun. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ramble.
0:01.0	Badda Bing, Badda Boom.
0:03.0	September 14th, 2018.
0:05.0	It's the middle of the night, around 3.30 in the morning.
0:09.0	The police get a phone call from a young man.
0:11.0	He's 27 years old, and he says that he'd like to report an
0:14.7	incident of domestic violence. Assault. This is the Kangnam police and
0:19.4	this is happening in Kangnam South Korea. This is like the Beverly Hills, the upper east side of
0:24.4	Seoul. He tells the officers that he just try to break up with his girlfriend and
0:28.7	she beat him up, assaulted him. The Kangnam police show up to investigate and when they get there,
0:34.4	the man is further explaining. I mean I just try to break up with my girlfriend because
0:38.4	her personality, I mean if you know her she's very passionate that's the nicest way to put it
0:45.4	She just has this over-the-top dramatic personality explosive
0:49.9	Her temper is out of this world. She's quite hysterical.
0:53.0	So I just try to break up with her and she loses her mind.
0:56.0	Start scratching him across the face, twisting his arm,
1:00.0	assaulting him, screaming at him,
1:02.0	who are you to break up with me?
1:05.4	The police look at the man and he does have pretty deep scratches on his face.
1:09.1	They're quite bloody, actually.
1:10.4	There's one right above his eye that's bleeding into his eye.
1:12.8	There's one on his forehead.
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