South Korean police said Friday they are summoning a Japanese woman for questioning over allegedly kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a free hug event last year.

The police have booked the woman, who is in her 50s, on charges of sexual harassment. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Jin held a free-hug event where he hugged 1,000 fans last year after being discharged from the military A Japanese woman who unexpectedly kissed K-pop boy band BTS's Jin at a fan event last year ...

The incident occurred at Jin’s celebratory free hug event in Seoul, which the 32-year-old K-pop star held in June 2024 to mark both his completion of mandatory military service and BTS’s 11 ...

The woman reportedly kissed Jin on the cheek when he leaned in to hug her. The musician looked ... the South Korean state news agency Yonhap. A BTS fan had filed a criminal complaint against ...

Instead of just hugging the star, the woman appeared to have kissed his face, with Jin responding by turning his face away. The kiss angered other BTS fans, one of whom filed a criminal complaint ...

South Korean police said Friday they are summoning a Japanese woman for questioning over allegedly kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a free hug event last year.

a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a free hug event last year. A police officer who answered the phone at Seoul’s Songpa police station said it requested the woman to ...