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Composer Yoo Jae-hwan Accused of Fraud: Over 100 Victims Seek Justice

Money Today Reporter Jeon Hyeong-ju | 2024.05.08 05:00

There are said to be around 100 victims who did not receive the song even after paying the composition fee to composer Yoo Jae-hwan. /Photo = Money Today DB
There are said to be around 100 victims who did not receive the song even after paying the composition fee to composer Yoo Jae-hwan. Yoo Jae-hwan received a composition fee of 1.3 million won per song, and by simple calculation, the damage is expected to be more than hundreds of millions of won.

On the 7th, reporter YouTuber Jin-ho Lee published an interview with Hendo, victim of Yoo Jae-hwan’s fraud and CEO of an entertainment agency, on YouTube.

Hendo said he paid 1.3 million won in composition fees to Yoo Jae-hwan, but has not received the song yet “About 90 people (including me) have gathered in the chat room of the victims group not in the room chat If you add them all up, there are over 100 people.”

He said, “Yoo Jae-hwan received 1.3 million earned per song he composed. If he wanted to do two songs, he added an extra amount, and if it was a mini-album or a full-length album, he added another amount. He also recruited people to take lessons, so it seems that the damage over 100 million has been won.

/Photo=Entertainment According to President Lee Jin-ho’s YouTube channel capture
Hendo said Yoo Jae-hwan promised to repay the victims in installments.

He said, “We decided to pay off some of the debt first on July 31st and make a lump sum payment of the remaining money in August. “Yoo Jae-hwan told me that he was an incompetent person who had taken psychiatric medication on for panic. disorder and depression for more than 7 years, and that he had filed for bankruptcy with other victims He mentioned, “I think maybe they are trying to get their debts forgiven by filing for bankruptcy in the middle of the process.”

Hendo also said that he received a threat to sue Yoo Jae-hwan on the 4th. He confessed, “Didn’t Yoo Jae-hwan say in his apology, ‘I apologize to all of you and promise to repay you?’ This is not true,” and “When I said I would disclose the content to Get an explanation, I announced legal action.”

The suspicion of Yoo Jae-hwan’s composition fee fraud was first raised on the 26th of last month. Victim A revealed that he paid 1.53 million won, including songwriting fees and food costs, to Yoo Jae-hwan in 2022, but has not been receiving songs for two years.

Mr. A encouraged him to compose the song several times, but Yoo Jae-hwan said that he repeatedly postponed the work each time due to reasons such as his mother’s myocardial infarction.

Mr. A also revealed text messages he had exchanged with Yoo Jae-hwan and said that Yoo Jae-hwan had sexually harassed him. Looking at the text message, Yoo Jae-hwan told Mr. And, “So, are we going to start dating after just sleeping a few times?”, “Because we both like each other. If I do that (if I sleep a few more times), my heart will become stronger.”, “Sex (sexual partner) ),” he said, “I also do sexual talk and dirty talk.”

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