'Gangnam style' sex crime - K-pop scandals uncover dark side of Seoul’s flashiest district


By Joyce LeeJoori Roh
  • World
  • Sunday, 14 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: Seungri, a member of South Korean K-pop band Big Bang, arrives to be questioned over a sex bribery case at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul, South Korea, March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

SEOUL (Reuters) - On a recent weekend night, the dance floor at one of the hottest clubs in Seoul's swanky Gangnam district held only a few dozen people surrounded by mostly empty tables.

A few months ago, the nightclub would have been packed with hundreds of gyrating men and women, and full tables, many costing 650,000 won (438 pounds) or more for a night of drinking and dancing.

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