Overview
- The appellate panel affirmed identical prison terms for co-defendants Lee and Hong.
- Each defendant must complete 40 hours of a sex-offender treatment program and faces a five-year employment ban at institutions serving children, adolescents, and people with disabilities.
- The court rejected arguments for mitigation based on an asserted voluntary surrender, upholding the original sentencing rationale.
- Investigators said the incident involved a heavily intoxicated foreign tourist met in Itaewon and taken to an accomplice’s residence.
- Taeil was initially tried without detention but was taken into custody after the first verdict and remains incarcerated following the appeal.