Seungri is a former member of the K-pop boy band BigBang who was involved in the Burning Sun scandal, a far-reaching sex and drug scandal since 2018. He was indicted in January 2020 and convicted on nine charges, including arranging sex trafficking for foreign investors in 2015 and misappropriating funds from Burning Sun, a nightclub in Gangnam to which he was affiliated. Seungri was sentenced to three years in prison in a military court in August 2021, which was mitigated to 18 months in the higher court and the term was finalized in the Supreme Court in May 2022. He was released from Yeoju Prison in South Koreas Gyeonggi province on February 10, 2023, after completing his 18-month sentence. Seungri was convicted of all nine charges against him, including sexual bribery and embezzlement.