
Contradictorily, earlier statements from both the private and public sector suggested an investigation into eleven men. The factors of both an investigation into 31 men and the subject of prosecutions were not mentioned at anytime by South Korean law enforcement in previous statements relating to the case. It was then additionally reported that these 31 men were earlier under investigation, with nine prosecuted or all acquitted, again depending on whom one talks to and at what point in the circus that they were speaking. If SBS did ever have them, it is not abundantly clear how they came to be in the possession of the second round of letters. The content of the letters, based around the actress being forced to have sex with “thirty one prominent figures… over one hundred times” have not been independently verified by sources outside of SBS, who initially claimed to be sitting on their copies but have since suggested that they did not in fact possess any copies. The letters were supposedly sent between 20, penned by hand from Jang and discovered by the police, or SBS, or someone working in the prison, again depending on who was speaking and at what point. According to reported facts cited as the truth across the South Korean press, 23 letters, made up of ‘hundreds’ of pages, were found in the inmate’s cell at Gwangju Prison, or Busan Prison, depending on who one talks to. The source of the new found letters, believed to be a ‘Jun’, or ‘Jeon’, male, 31 and ‘childhood friend’ of Jang, is somewhat ironically serving jail time for rape. On March 8, police obtained the rights to re-open the case.Īs is often the way with celebrity news, the facts are hard to come by and as with the former installment of the Jang case, the reports are, or were (the case has now been closed) predictably conflicting.

SBS also appeared to be in possession of new letters, though much like many other aspects of the case, this was never solidly established.


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On March 6, SBS TV ‘News at 8’ had run a special, questioning the thoroughness of the initial investigation. On March 7, 2011, it transpired that the police in South Korea were looking at the possibility of reopening the rape-abuse case of Jang, Ja-yeon.
