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Brazilian Fan Gets Suspended Sentence for Jungkook Stalking

6/23/2026

Summary

Brazilian Fan Sentenced

Seoul court sentenced a Brazilian woman to a jail term, suspended for two years, after she visited singer Jungkook’s Yongsan home 22 times and rang his doorbell 133 times on 12 December 2025.
Police arrested her on 13 December 2025 for a side-gate entry attempt and warned her.
An emergency order barred her within 100 m of the house after she left photographs on 4 January 2026.
The court, after prosecutors charged her in February 2026, warned of deportation.

Summary

Jungkook Demands Penalty

The court issued a suspended sentence rather than immediate imprisonment for the stalking case.
Jungkook asked the court to impose a severe penalty on the defendant.
Judge Park Ji-Won noted the defendant acted to convey feelings and did not intend physical harm.
Authorities said the three-month detention already served contributed to the order for deportation.

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Jungkook Trespass Ruling

Court found defendant entered Jungkook’s residence through an open door used by a food-delivery person.
She returned despite an emergency protective order and left photographs and footprints.
Judges said she never penetrated the interior living space, lowering the trespass’s seriousness.
Multiple detention periods during the investigation were counted as mitigating circumstances.
The ruling permitted authorities to seek her forced removal from South Korea.

History

Historical Context

After a 10-year stalking case against Sanulrim singer Kim Changwan spurred a 2011 amendment adding “persistent harassment” to the Minor Offences Act, South Korea raised the fine to KRW 80,000 in 2013 and proposed a KRW 20 million penalty in 2016. A 2018 coordination meeting cemented tougher measures, enabling the Seoul court’s recent suspended sentence for a Brazilian stalker of BTS’s Jungkook.

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Brazilian Fan Sentenced

Seoul court sentenced a Brazilian woman to a jail term, suspended for two years, after she visited singer Jungkook’s Yongsan home 22 times and rang his doorbell 133 times on 12 December 2025.
Police arrested her on 13 December 2025 for a side-gate entry attempt and warned her.
An emergency order barred her within 100 m of the house after she left photographs on 4 January 2026.
The court, after prosecutors charged her in February 2026, warned of deportation.

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