Kang Ji-hwan, who was probated on semi-rape and quasi-compulsory harassment charges, was sentenced to pay 5.3 billion won to the production company of Drama.
According to the legal circle on the 24th, the 16th Division of the Civil Settlement of the Seoul Central District Court (Judge Lim Ki-hwan) ruled in favor of the plaintiff in the first trial of the return of the unfair gain to pay 6.38 billion won, which is filed by Studio Santa Claus Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as Santa Claus), a production company of Drama, against the former agency of Kang Ji-hwan and Kang Ji-hwan.
The court ruled that Kang Ji-hwan will pay 5.34 billion won to Santa Claus, of which 610 million won will be jointly paid with his former agency. If the ruling is finalized, Kang Ji-hwan should pay at least 4.73 billion won and up to 5.34 billion won to the production company.
He also acknowledged that Kang Ji-hwan is responsible for paying 610 million won, penalty of 3 billion won, and damages of 1.68 billion won, which is equivalent to 8 times of the 1.5 billion won paid by the production company. I decided that I was not obliged to pay the performance fee of 12 times that I had already filmed and the performance fee paid to the alternative actor.
Kang Ji-hwan was accused of sexually assaulting one person and sexually assaulting the other after drinking with female outsourcing staff at his home in Oppo-eup, Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province in 2019. The first trial court found Kang Ji-hwan guilty and sentenced him to two years and six months in prison and three years in Probation. Kang Ji-hwan received the same deviation in the second trial, and new circumstances were found and appealed.
CCTV footage installed at Kang Ji-hwan's home and the contents of the KakaoTalk conversation that Victims shared with his acquaintances were revealed, and public opinion was reversed. It was reported that there was no semen or Cooper liquid of Kang Ji-hwan in the body of semi-rape Victims A. The Katok conversation was also released.
There was also a change in the Victims' statement. Victims first claimed that "(Kang Ji-hwan) touched the vagina, and had similar rape by inserting his hand into the penis of Victims" at the time of the police investigation, but when DNA tests did not show Kang Ji-hwan's DNA, the first court ruled that it was "like a tumbling on the lower abdomen" except this fact, Instead of asserting, he confirmed the original sentence, acknowledging the validity of Victims' testimony.