According to Osen, at the end of the August 16 broadcast of the news compilation program "Newsroom" on JTBC, male MC Choi Jae-won officially apologized on behalf of the station for providing inaccurate information in the broadcast. news about the drunk driving incident of male idol Suga (member of group BTS ).
Previously, on August 7, just one day after Suga was caught driving an electric scooter while drunk, the program Newsroom exclusively reported on CCTV footage believed to show Suga riding an electric scooter on the street in Yongsan- gu, Seoul.
The spread of Newsroom's CCTV footage has caused great controversy, causing Suga and management company Big Hit Music to be suspected of lying about the distance traveled.
But when DongA Ilbo newspaper released Suga's accurate CCTV video, Newsroom's video was determined to be false. The person in Newsroom's video drove in a different direction from the direction of the Nine One Hannam residence where Suga lived.
As the controversy grew, JTBC deleted the video posted on the official channel and made the video private on YouTube.
The problem is that this CCTV video had spread quickly before, causing Suga to face a series of criticism. Therefore, BTS fans reacted violently to JTBC, demanding that the station apologize.
Finally, Newsroom directly apologized at the end of the news on August 16, MC Choi Jae-won said: "Our Newsroom program reported on the drunk driving incident of BTS member Suga on August 7. At that time, the first part of the news broadcast a CCTV clip of a man driving an electric scooter across the street.
According to the police investigation results, we have confirmed that the man in the video is not Suga. We sincerely apologize for this confusion."
However, the exact CCTV footage posted by DongA also caused Suga to face more obvious violations.
According to Dispatch, Suga committed two violations: exceeding the allowable blood alcohol concentration and driving on the sidewalk.
Suga has a blood alcohol concentration of 0.227%, the highest among Kpop idols who have committed similar violations. Meanwhile, he declared that he "only drank 1 beer".
According to current Korean law, alcohol content above 0.2% will result in imprisonment of 2-5 years or a fine of 10-20 million won.
Suga also made the mistake of driving on the sidewalk, because his electric scooter is not counted as a PM (vehicle traveling at a speed of less than 25km/h), but is classified as a motorized bicycle under the Traffic Act. Roads, and this vehicle cannot travel on sidewalks or bike paths.
