The singer pleaded guilty to a special quasi-rape charge, which applies when two or more people jointly engage in sexual acts with a victim who is unconscious.

South Korean singer Taeil is facing the music for the sex crime that prompted his departure last year from popular K-Pop group NCT. A Seoul Central District Court on Thursday sentenced the 31-year-old musician,

Taeil, a former member of the popular boy band NCT, and two acquaintances were jailed in a case that has provoked anger in South Korea.