Former member of the SM Entertainment boy band NCT, Taeil, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to quasi-rape.

Taeil, the singer who previously performed in the K-pop group NCT and its sub-units NCT U and NCT 127, has been found guilty of rape in Seoul, South Korea. The 31-year-old has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for sexually assaulting an intoxicated tourist in June 2024 with two other men,

Singer Taeil is facing the music — to the tune of more than three years in prison — for a sex crime that prompted his departure from the K-Pop group NCT.