Singer Youngtak's former agency Office CEO sentenced to eight months in prison for ”buying up music”

The former CEO of singer Youngtak's management office and other members of his gang, who were put on trial for "music hoarding," were sentenced to prison. On the 4th, Seoul Central District Court Criminal 5 Exclusive (Judge Park Byung-gon)
The government sentenced Kim, the CEO of Former Management Office, who was indicted on suspicion of computer-based obstruction of business, to two years in prison and has him in custody.
The former CEO of Youngtak's management office, Lee, was also sentenced to eight months in prison and detained in court.
In addition, the brokers who were involved in the music hoarding were given sentences ranging from one year in prison with two years of probation to one year and six months in prison.
The court found the defendants guilty of hoarding music. The court said, "Mr. Lee stated in court that he had not used MelOn or Gen
He admitted to repeatedly buying up music on IE and other sites," the court said, adding, "He must have known, at the very least, that what he did was prohibited by law."
He also said, "There is a serious concern that buying up music will provide distorted information to consumers and undermine the soundness of the music market. I am working hard to make my debut as a singer at this very moment.
The reason given for the sentence was that "this act must be severely punished as it causes great psychological disappointment to the trainees."
They worked on MelOn and genie from December 2018 to December 2019.
He was accused of repeatedly playing 15 songs 1,727,985 times on major Korean music sites such as .
They used over 500 virtual PCs, bulk-purchased Internet addresses (IPs), and 1,627 pieces of illegally obtained personal information to manipulate music rankings through brokers.
An investigation revealed that they recruited users, assigned IP addresses to numerous virtual PCs, and then accessed the music site using numerous accounts, disabling the site's "abusing" (intentional manipulation) system.
Youngtak's "Why are you come out there", "NATURE's "OOPSIE", KCM's "Between Love and
While songs like "Friendship" rose to the top of the music charts in this way, the prosecution decided not to indict Youngtak and others.
"I was in the position of being investigated and it was revealed that there was no suspicion in this matter," the company said.