Burning Sun's Lee Moon-ho and Lee Sung-hyun Charged with Employing Minors... Suspended Sentence in First Trial

[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] The co-representatives of the club 'Burning Sun,' who were prosecuted for hiring minors as club security guards, were sentenced to suspended prison terms in the first trial.

On the 24th, Judge Song Seunghoon of the Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 12 sentenced Lee Moonho and Lee Seonghyun, who were charged with violating the Juvenile Protection Act, to six months in prison with a one-year suspension each.

They were charged with hiring four minors as guards at the club Burning Sun, classified as a youth harmful facility, between March and October 2018 without verifying their ages.

In the trial, Lee Moonho denied the charges, claiming that he outsourced the hiring of guards to an external company and was unaware of the employment of minors, but the court did not accept this. The court pointed out, "This case involves the defendants hiring minors as owners of a youth harmful establishment, and considering the legislative intent of the Juvenile Protection Act, the culpability is serious."

Meanwhile, Han Mo, who was also prosecuted for coercion by forcing minors who frequented the club to give false statements when Burning Sun was subjected to police crackdown, was sentenced to six months in prison with a two-year suspension.

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