IU sues 180 malicious comments...He's threatening to kill and spreading "deepfake."

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Singer and actress IU reported the current status of criminal complaints against malicious commentators.

According to IU's agency EDAM Entertainment and law firm Shin Won on the 11th, there are a total of 180 defendants so far and additional complaints are still being filed.

Lee Dam Entertainment said, "We have selected serious cases that meet criminal requirements among defamation, death threats and privacy violations due to threats, insults, malicious false information dissemination and baseless plagiarism allegations against artists, sexual harassment, pornography distribution, deepfake (photo and video content using AI), and other illegal information distribution activities (hereinafter referred to as "illegal acts").

So far, six fines (old-fashioned dispositions), three conditional suspensions of prosecution for completing training, and one conditional suspension of prosecution for the lead consignment of probation offices.

Among them, a person who committed defamation, sexual harassment, and death threats in the form of cyberbullying for spreading unfounded false information about IU was very guilty and the prosecutor demanded a fine of 3 million won. The defendant is dissatisfied and is awaiting the results of the formal trial.

In particular, the personal information of some of those who defamed IU by raising suspicions of plagiarism without grounds from April to May last year was specified. Personal information was also obtained for those who used overseas servers to engage in illegal activities and some who are identified as overseas residents.

The agency said, "Some of them are believed to be IU's middle school alumni, and they are responding because they are found to have continued to harass IU even though related cases are ongoing."

In addition, emphasizing the fact that IU continues to take strong legal actions to protect her personal rights, he said, "We are responding quickly and actively to illegal activities such as threats, insults, dissemination of false information, sexual harassment, pornography and distribution of composite videos, in addition to regular quarterly complaints," he said. "If the same person's malicious behavior is repeatedly found in the future, we will take measures to increase punishment based on the data we have secured."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team