{"id":77100,"date":"2026-04-21T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/21\/south-korea-music-executive-bang-si-hyuk-k-pop-bts-police"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:04:42","slug":"music-executive-behind-k-pop-group-bts-faces-arrest-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77100","title":{"rendered":"Music executive behind K-pop group BTS faces arrest in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police seek warrant for Bang Si-Hyuk over allegations he illegally gained millions in investor fraud scheme<\/p>\n<p>South Korean police are seeking to arrest Bang Si-Hyuk, the chair of the agency behind the K-pop band BTS, as they expand an investigation into allegations that he illegally gained more than $100m (\u00a374m) in an investor fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Seoul metropolitan police agency confirmed it had asked prosecutors to request a court warrant for the arrest of Bang, the founder and chair of HYBE.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/21\/south-korea-music-executive-bang-si-hyuk-k-pop-bts-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police seek warrant for Bang Si-Hyuk over allegations he illegally gained millions in investor fraud schemeSouth Korean police are seeking to arrest Bang Si-Hyuk, the chair of the agency behind the K-pop band BTS, as they expand an investigation into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,955,71,9,425,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bts","category-culture","category-k-pop","category-music","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77101,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77100\/revisions\/77101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}