Ex-NCT member Taeil sentenced to 3.5 years of jail for sexual assault
Ex-NCT member Taeil was sentenced to 3.5 years of jail for sexual assault on July 10, 2025.
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PUBLISHED ONJuly 10, 2025 8:44 AMBYYeo Shu HuiTaeil, a former member of K-pop boy group NCT, has been sentenced to 3.5 years of jail for sexual assault.
According to South Korean media reports, the 31-year-old, whose full name is Moon Tae-il, was sentenced by the Seoul Central District Court today (July 10) and was ordered to be detained immediately.
His accomplices, two men identified only as Lee and Hong, were also given the same sentences and detained.
They were also ordered by the court to complete 40 hours of sexual violence treatment programme, with the court adding that the nature of their crime was very bad as the victim was drunk and unable to resist at the time.
Last June, Taeil was investigated by the police for sexually assaulting a woman in Seoul with Lee and Hong. South Korean media reported that the woman, who is Chinese, became heavily intoxicated after drinking with them in a Itaewon bar in the same month.
Taeil escorted the woman into a taxi with Lee and followed them in a separate vehicle with Hong to Lee's residence, where they sexually violated the woman.
News of his investigation only broke last August and his former management company SM Entertainment announced that he had been removed from NCT. His case was sent to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office in September and he was charged the following month.
The prosecutors had previously demanded a seven-year sentence on charges of special quasi-rape. The term describes the use of a weapon in or multiple perpetrators sexually assaulting a person who is incapable of resistance.
Taeil debuted with the sub-unit NCT U in 2016 and later with NCT 127, another sub-unit of the boy group.
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